Toronto East (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal riding. For the provincial riding, see Toronto East (provincial electoral district).

For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Toronto (Province of Canada electoral district).

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 1867.

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

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

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
East Toronto
1st	1867–1872		James Beaty Sr.	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1875		John O'Donohoe	Liberal–Conservative
	1875–1878		Samuel Platt	Independent
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887		John Small	Conservative
6th	1887–1891
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
	1916–1917
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

East Toronto

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
Source: Canadian Elections Database[3]

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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Langton Church	13,227
	Liberal	Harold Proctor Snelgrove	10,721
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Graham Spry	4,649

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada