St. Andrew (provincial electoral district)

Provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada

St. Andrew Ontario electoral district

St. Andrew, in relation to the other Toronto ridings, after the 1926 redistribution.

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature| Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created| 1925
District abolished| 1967
First contested| 1926
Last contested| 1963

St. Andrew was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was established to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and then Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

It was located in downtown Toronto, and was made up of the area to the east of Bathurst Street and west of Yonge Street, including Spadina Avenue and Kensington Market. The population of St. Andrew was largely immigrant, working class and Jewish. For many years it was one of the few electoral districts in North America to elect a Communist. J.B. Salsberg of the Labor-Progressive Party represented the riding from the 1943 election until his defeat in the 1955 election.

The riding was created in 1926, and existed until the 1967, when redistribution resulted in St. Andrew being merged with a neighbouring riding to form St. Andrew—St. Patrick.

St. Andrew riding took its name from the former "St. Andrew's ward" of the City of Toronto.

## Members of Provincial Parliament

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St. Andrew

Assembly | Years | Member | Party
Created from parts of Toronto Southwest and Toronto Northwest in 1926
17th |  1926–1929 |  | William Robertson Flett | Conservative
18th |  1929–1934 |  | Ephraim Frederick Singer | Conservative
19th |  1934–1937 |  | J.J. Glass[nb 1] | Liberal
20th |  1937–1943
21st |  1943–1945 |  | J.B. Salsberg | Labor–Progressive
22nd |  1945–1948
23rd |  1948–1951
24th |  1951–1955
25th |  1955–1959 |  | Allan Grossman | Progressive Conservative
26th |  1959–1963
27th |  1963–1967
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1]
Merged into St. Andrew—St. Patrick after 1967

## Election results

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### 1926 boundaries

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1926 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[2][3] | Vote %

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| Conservative  | W.R. Flett | 4,537  | 44.0
| Independent-Conservative  | Louis M. Singer | 3,380  | 32.8
| Prohibitionist  | Oliver Hezzelwood  | 2,099  | 20.4
| Liberal  | A.G. McIntyre  | 297  | 0.9
|  | Total  | 10,313  |
1929 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[4] | Vote %

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| Conservative  | E. Frederick Singer | 3,177  | 63.6
| Liberal  | J.J. Glass  | 1,816  | 36.4
|  | Total  | 4,993  |

### 1934 boundaries

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Toronto riding boundaries after 1934 redistribution 1934 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[5] | Vote %

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| Liberal  | J.J. Glass | 5,841  | 42.4
| Conservative  | E. Frederick Singer  | 4,441  | 32.3
| Communist | Meyer Klig | 1,959 | 14.2
| Independent-Liberal  | Claude Pierce  | 1,338  | 9.7
| Independent-Conservative  | J.N. Day  | 186  | 1.4
|  | Total  | 13,765  |
1937 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[6] | Vote %

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| Liberal  | J.J. Glass | 6,481  | 38.6
| Labour  | Joseph B. Salsberg | 6,302  | 37.6
| Conservative  | Nathan Phillips | 3,097  | 18.5
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | Harry Simon  | 890  | 5.3
|  | Total  | 16,770  |
1943 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[7] | Vote %

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| Labor–Progressive | Joseph B. Salsberg | 7,434 | 53.6
| Conservative  | John Grudeff  | 2,452  | 17.7
| Liberal  | J.J. Glass  | 2,284  | 16.5
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | Murray Cotterill | 1,689  | 12.2
|  | Total  | 13,859  |
1945 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[8][nb 2] | Vote %

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| Labor–Progressive | Joseph B. Salsberg | 9,580 | 53.2
| Conservative  | E.A Goodman | 3,870  | 21.5
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | Percy Easser  | 2,373  | 13.2
| Liberal  | Thomas Harcourt  | 2,186  | 12.1
|  | Total  | 18,009  |
1948 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[9] | Vote %

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| Labor–Progressive | J. B. Salsberg | 9,851 | 49.6
| Conservative  | Nathan Phillips | 4,903  | 24.7
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | J. Friedman  | 3,340  | 16.8
| Liberal  | Frank R. Mills  | 1,770  | 8.9
|  | Total  | 19,864  |
1951 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[10] | Vote %

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| Labor–Progressive | J. B. Salsberg | 5,164 | 39.6
| Conservative  | Louis Herman  | 3,854  | 29.5
| Liberal  | Alfred Green  | 2,183  | 16.7
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | Sam Resnick  | 1,854  | 14.2
|  | Total  | 13,055  |
1955 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[11] | Vote %

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| Conservative  | Allan Grossman | 5,060  | 41.2
| Labor–Progressive | J. B. Salsberg | 4,380 | 35.7
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | Boris Mather  | 1,446  | 11.8
| Liberal  | L.S. Lockhart  | 1,231  | 10.0
| Independent  | Elizabeth Langfield  | 150  | 1.2
|  | Total  | 12,267  |
1959 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[12] | Vote %

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| Conservative  | Allan Grossman | 3,773  | 42.1
| Liberal  | Samuel Kelner  | 2,996  | 33.4
| Co-operative Commonwealth  | James Robertson  | 1,664  | 18.6
| Labor–Progressive | Bruce Magnuson | 402 | 4.5
| Social Credit | Dorothy Cureatz | 132 | 1.5
|  | Total  | 8,967  |
1963 Ontario general election | Party  | Candidate  | Votes[13] | Vote %

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| Conservative  | Allan Grossman | 4,309  | 43.9
| Liberal | Donald Catalano | 3,476 | 35.4
| New Democratic | Ellen Adams | 1,638 | 16.7
| Independent | Sam Sherman | 194 | 2.0
| Independent | Dorothy Cureatz | 103 | 1.0
| Social Credit (National Order) | Ross Taylor | 102 | 1.0
|  | Total  | 9,822  |

## References

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### Notes

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1. ^ In 1938, the title of Member of the Legislative Assembly was officially changed to Member of Provincial Parliament. Previously, it was unofficially used in the media and in the Legislature.
2. ^ 179 out of 200 polls.

### Citations

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1. ^ For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
* For William Robertson Flett's Legislative Assembly information see "William Robertson Flett, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* For Ephraim Frederick Singer's Legislative Assembly information see "Ephraim Frederick Singer, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* For John Judah Glass's Legislative Assembly information see "John Judah Glass, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* For J.B. Salsberg's Legislative Assembly information see "J.B. Salsberg, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* For Allan Grossman's Legislative Assembly information see "Allan Grossman, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
2. ^ Canadian Press (1926-12-02). "Ontario General Elections and By-elections, 1923-1926". The Globe. Toronto. p. 7.
3. ^ "Sweep by Tories Returns 15 Wets in Toronto Seats". The Toronto Daily Star (Last Extra edition). Toronto. 1926-12-01. p. 1.
4. ^ "Vote Cast and Personnel of the New Ontario Legislature". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1929-10-31. p. 43.
5. ^ "Detailed Election Results". The Globe. Toronto. 1934-06-21. p. 3.
6. ^ "Ontario Voted By Ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1937-10-07. p. 5.
7. ^ Canadian Press (1943-08-05). "Ontario Election Results". The Gazette. Montreal. p. 12.
8. ^ Canadian Press (1945-06-05). "How Ontario Electors Voted in all 90 Ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. p. 5. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
9. ^ Canadian Press (1948-06-08). "How Ontario Electors Voted in all 90 Ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. p. 24.
10. ^ Canadian Press (1951-11-22). "Complete Ontario Vote". The Montreal Gazette. Montreal. p. 4. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
11. ^ Canadian Press (1955-06-10). "Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa. p. 4. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
12. ^ Canadian Press (1959-06-12). "Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa. p. 26. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
13. ^ Canadian Press (1963-09-26). "78 in Tory Blue Wave -- 23 Is All Grits Saved". The Windsor Star. Windsor, Ontario. p. 25. Retrieved 2012-04-24.