Don Mills (electoral district)

Don Mills

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1963
District abolished	1996
First contested	1963
Last contested	1999
Demographics
Census divisions	Toronto
Census subdivisions	Toronto

Don Mills was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 1963 provincial election, and lasted until the provincial redistribution on 1996. The riding was formally retired with the 1999 provincial election. At its abolishment, the riding consisted of the neighbourhoods of Woodbine Gardens and Parkview Hill in the borough of East York plus the neighbourhoods of Flemingdon Park and the southern part of Don Mills in North York (all of North York south of Lawrence Avenue). It was abolished into Don Valley East, Don Valley West and Beaches—East York.

The riding was a bastion of strength for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario for most of its history, and was represented by moderate Tory cabinet ministers Dennis Timbrell and David Johnson at different times. The Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party both represented the riding between 1987 and 1993.

Boundaries

The riding was created in 1963, one of several new ridings in Metro. The initial boundaries were the North York city limits on the south and east and west and Lawrence Avenue East formed the northern boundary.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Don Mills
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Created from part of York East riding in 1963
27th	1963–1967		Stanley Randall	Progressive Conservative
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975		Dennis Timbrell	Progressive Conservative
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990		Murad Velshi	Liberal
35th	1990–1993		Margery Ward	New Democratic
	1993–1995		David Johnson	Progressive Conservative
36th	1995–1999
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly
Merged into Don Valley East, Don Valley West and Beaches—East York after 1999

Electoral results

Ontario general election, 1963

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Stanley Randall	9,711	51.7
	New Democrat	James Renwick	5,252	28.0
	Liberal	David Stewart	3,825	20.4
		Total	18,788

Ontario general election, 1967

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Stanley Randall	9,645	41.5
	New Democrat	Chris Smith	8,739	37.6
	Liberal	Gordon Ryan	4,660	20.0
	Social Credit	Rae Becaock	222	1.0
		Total	23,266

Ontario general election, 1971

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Dennis Timbrell	15,182	49.3
	New Democrat	Jim Norton	10,123	32.9
	Liberal	Michael Kuster	5,481	17.8
		Total	30,786

Ontario general election, 1975

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Dennis Timbrell	13,873	46.3
	New Democrat	Bob Sherwood	8,216	27.4
	Liberal	Donald Wright	7,845	26.2
		Total	29,934

Ontario general election, 1977

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Dennis Timbrell	16,872	55.1
	New Democrat	Steve Thomas	8,014	26.2
	Liberal	Andrew Meles	4,919	16.1
	Libertarian	Michael Martin	797	2.6
		Total	30,602

Ontario general election, 1981

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Dennis Timbrell	17,661	63.8
	Liberal	Murad Velshi	5,491	19.8
	New Democrat	Michael Lee	4,547	16.4
		Total	27,699

Ontario general election, 1985

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Dennis Timbrell	15,535	50.7
	Liberal	John Atkin	7,557	24.6
	New Democrat	Michael Wyatt	6,222	20.3
	Independent	Gary Watson	1,344	4.4
		Total	30,658

Ontario general election, 1987
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Murad Velshi	10,573	39.9
	Conservative	David Lindsay	8,666	32.7
	New Democratic	Margery Ward	6,368	24.0
	Independent	David Smith	588	2.2
	Freedom	David Pengally	330	1.2
Total			26,525
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Ontario general election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Margery Ward	9,740	34.2
	Liberal	Murad Velshi	8,994	31.6
	Conservative	Nola Crewe	7,385	25.9
	Libertarian	David Miller	744	2.6
	Green	Katherine Mathewson	624	2.2
	Independent	Colin McKay	562	2.0
	Freedom	David Pengally	413	1.5
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By-election, April 1, 1993

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
	Conservative	Dave Johnson	9,008	56.3
	Liberal	Murad Velshi	5,524	34.5
	New Democrat	Chandran Myvaganam	1,479	9.2
		Total

Ontario general election, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dave Johnson	14,897	53.4
	Liberal	Richard Gosling	7,607	27.2
	New Democratic	Janaki Bala-Krishnan	4,569	16.4
	Freedom	David Pengelly	253	0.9
	Independent	Mario M. Ribiero	243	0.9
	Natural Law	Lawrence Corp	231	0.8
	Independent	Lee Wildgen	119	0.4
27,919
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