Canada election results: Beaches—East York

Global News is projecting Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith has been re-elected for another term in the riding of Beaches—East York.

The riding of Beaches—East York is east of Toronto’s downtown and its boundaries are Coxwell Avenue on the west, the Don River and Sunrise Avenue on the north, Victoria Park Avenue on the east, and Lake Ontario on the south. The riding consists of several beaches and parks.

The Danforth Village and the Beaches International Jazz Festival can be found in this riding.

Immigrants make up close to 32 per cent of this area’s population, with large groups from Bangladesh, the Philippines, and the U.K. Bengali, Greek, and Cantonese are a few of the most popular non-official mother tongues in the region.

Close to 62 per cent of the population has some form of post-secondary education.

Voters re-elected Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine to represent them in Beaches-East York in 2019. Erskine, who was first elected in 2015, garnered 57.2 per cent of the vote, beating NDP candidate Mae J. Nam by 20,451 votes.

The NDP held this seat from 2011 to 2015.

During 2011’s orange wave, NDP candidate Matthew Kellway defeated long-time incumbent Liberal MP Maria Minna by 5,298 votes, a margin of nearly 11 per cent.

This riding was a Liberal stronghold from 1993 to 2011.

Liberal Party: Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (incumbent)

Conservative Party: Lisa Robinson

Green Party: Reuben DeBoer

NDP: Alejandra Ruiz Vargas

People’s Party of Canada: Radu Rautescu

Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada: Philip Fernandez

Communist Party of Canada: Jennifer Moxon

Independent: Karen Lee Wilde