On June 12, voters head to the polls in the 2014 Ontario election. Learn more about the candidates and political history of the riding of Scarborough-Agincourt.
Candidates
Liberals: Soo Wong Progressive Conservatives: Liang Chen NDP: Alex Wilson Green: Pauline Thompson
The northwest Scarborough riding is bordered by Highway 401 to the south, and Brimley Road to the east until Finch Avenue when the border becomes Midland Avenue.
History
Liberal candidate Soo Wong was elected for the first time in Scarborough-Agincourt in 2011, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Liang Chen by over 4,500 votes. Prior to that, the riding was held by longtime Liberal cabinet minister Gerry Phillips from 1987 to 2011, with comfortable margins of victory in every election but 1995 and 1999, when the PCs came within 3,000 votes.
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By the numbers
Full of recent immigrant families, English is the first language of only 30 per cent of people, the lowest number in the province. Seventy-seven per cent of people identified as first generation Canadians in the 2011 census. Fifty-five per cent of people over 15 were married in 2011, the most of any Toronto riding.
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