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 York Centre.
Candidates
Liberals: Monte Kwinter*
Progressive Conservatives: Avi Yufest
NDP: John Fagan
Green: Josh Borenstein
Geography
History
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83-year-old Monte Kwinter has held a riding in the North York area since 1985. Last election he defeated PC candidate Michael Mostyn by just over 3,000 votes.
By the numbers
Russian is the second most common first language here, with 10.58% of people declaring it as their mother tongue in the 2011 census. Only 11% of people said they were third generation Canadians or older.
Riding in a tweet
Home of the oldest MPP in Ontario’s history, York Centre is one of the many GTA suburb seats on the Tories’ wish list, but slightly favoured to stay Liberal.
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