St. Andrew (provincial electoral district)

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.

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

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

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

1926 boundaries

1926 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes^[2]^[3]	Vote %
	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 %
	Conservative	E. Frederick Singer	3,177	63.6
	Liberal	J.J. Glass	1,816	36.4
		Total	4,993

1934 boundaries

 

Toronto riding boundaries after 1934 redistribution

1934 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes^[5]	Vote %
	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 %
	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 %
	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 %
	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 %
	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 %
	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 %
	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 %
	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 %
	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

Notes

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

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.