Summary: One of the many GTA ridings the Liberals lost in 2011, this riding is shaping up as one of the many NDP-Liberal battles in south Toronto.
Boundaries: This diverse riding on Toronto’s western waterfront is bordered by the Humber River to the west, the CP rail line to the north, and Dufferin to the east.
Last Election: The NDP’s Peggy Nash took this riding back from Liberal MP and former Ontario cabinet minister Gerard Kennedy, defeating him by 14.3 per cent.
History: Nash held this riding from 2006 to 2008 for the NDP before she was defeated by Kennedy. Prior to that, this riding had elected Liberal MPs in almost every election since its creation in 1979, with the exception being 1984, when PC candidate Andrew Witer was victorious.
Demographics: 46 per cent of households only had one person in the 2011 census, the most in Ontario outside of Toronto Centre. 8.4 per cent of residents had Polish heritage as of the 2011 National Household Survey, the fifth highest percentage in Ontario.
Candidates
Conservative: Ian Allen
NDP: Peggy Nash, industry critic and MP since 2011
Liberal: Arif Virani, Counsel in the Constitutional Law Branch for Ontario’s Attorney General
Green: Adam Phipps
Independent: Carol Royer
Libertarian: Mark Jeftovic
Marijuana Party: Terry Parker
Marxist-Leninst: Lorne Gershuny
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