Toronto East (federal electoral district)

Toronto East
Ontario electoral district
	Toronto East riding, in 1904
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1933
First contested	1867
Last contested	1934

Toronto East (called East Toronto until 1903) was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1935. It was located in the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867.

East Toronto initially consisted of St. Lawrence, St. Davids and St. James Wards of the city of Toronto. In 1872, St. James Ward was excluded from the riding. After 1903, the boundaries varied, but generally included the part of the city east of Sherbourne Street.

The electoral district was abolished in 1933 when it was redistributed between Broadview and Greenwood ridings.

Members of Parliament[edit]

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
East Toronto
1st	1867–1872	James Beaty Sr.	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874	James Beaty Sr.	Conservative
3rd	1874–1875	John O'Donohoe	Liberal–Conservative
3rd	1875–1878	Samuel Platt	Independent
4th	1878–1882	Samuel Platt	Independent
5th	1882–1887	John Small	Conservative
6th	1887–1891	John Small
7th	1891–1896	Emerson Coatsworth
8th	1896–1900	John Ross Robertson	Independent Conservative
9th	1900–1904	Albert Edward Kemp	Conservative
Toronto East
10th	1904–1908	Albert Edward Kemp	Conservative
11th	1908–1911	Joseph Russell	Independent
12th	1911–1916	Albert Edward Kemp	Conservative
12th	1916–1917		Conservative
13th	1917–1921		Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925	Edmond Baird Ryckman	Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1930
	1930–1934†
	1934–1935	Thomas Langton Church
Riding dissolved into Broadview and Greenwood

Election history[edit]

East Toronto[edit]

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Beaty	1,113
	Reformer	William Thomas Aikins^[1]	980
	Unknown	Mr. Allen	1

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Beaty, Sr.	872
	Liberal	John O'Donohoe	775
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	John O'Donohoe	1,289
	Unknown	E. Coatsworth	1,152

By-election: On Election being declared void, 18 January 1875: East Toronto
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Samuel Platt	1,396
	Unknown	John O'Donohoe	982

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Samuel Platt	1,743
	Unknown	Ed Galley	1,052

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Small	1,922
	Unknown	Thomas Thompson	1,496

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Small	2,858
	Liberal	Alfred Young	1,603
	Independent	Ernest A. Macdonald	164

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Emerson Coatsworth	3,520
	Liberal	Alex E. Wheeler	2,056

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Conservative	John Ross Robertson	4,631
	Conservative	Emerson Coatsworth	3,012

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert E. Kemp	4,074
	Liberal	George Anderson	2,830
	Labour	Andrew McFarren	93

Toronto East[edit]

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Edward Kemp	4,125
	Liberal	John Knox Leslie	1,993

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Joseph Russell	4,039
	Conservative	Albert Edward Kemp	3,246

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Edward Kemp	7,082
	Independent	Joseph Russell	2,281
	Liberal	James Pearson	1,878
	Labour	James Richards	463

By-election: On Mr. Kemp being appointed Minister of Militia and Defence, 14 December 1916: Toronto East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Edward Kemp	acclaimed

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government	Albert Edward Kemp	15,894
	Opposition	John Tristam Vick	4,399

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmond Baird Ryckman	5,392
	Progressive	Walter Leigh Rayfield	3,984
	Independent	Thomas Foster	3,680
	Labour	John William Bruce	1,822
	Liberal	Elizabeth Bethune Kiely	52

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmond Baird Ryckman	17,663
	Liberal	Gerald Farrell	4,036

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmond Baird Ryckman	13,789
	Liberal	Kathleen Bennett	3,299

v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmond Baird Ryckman	13,423
	Liberal	Robert A. Allen	6,348

By-election: On Mr. Ryckman being appointed Minister of National Revenue, 25 August 1930: Toronto East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmond Baird Ryckman	acclaimed

By-election: On Mr. Ryckman's death, 24 September 1934: Toronto East
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Thomas Langton Church	13,227
Liberal	Harold Proctor Snelgrove	10,721
Co-operative Commonwealth	Graham Spry	4,649

References[edit]

^ "Biography – AIKINS, WILLIAM THOMAS – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
^ Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.

External links[edit]

Parliament of Canada: History of Federal Ridings since 1867: Toronto East

[1] "Biography – AIKINS, WILLIAM THOMAS – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".

[2] Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.

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