Humber River—Black Creek (provincial electoral district)

For the federal and municipal electoral divisions, see Humber River—Black Creek and Ward 7 Humber River—Black Creek. Provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada

Humber River—Black Creek

Ontario electoral district

Humber River-Black Creek in relation to the other Toronto ridings

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

MPP

Tom Rakocevic
New Democratic

District created

1999

First contested

1999

Last contested

2022

Demographics

Population (2016)

108,035

Electors (2018)

66,289

Area (km²)

Pop. density (per km²)

3,485

Census division(s)

Toronto

Census subdivision(s)

Toronto

Humber River—Black Creek is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Prior to the 2018 election, the riding was known as York West.

Its population was 110,384 in 2001. The district includes the northwest corner of the former city of North York, including the extreme western part of the Downsview neighbourhood.

It consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north by the northern city limit, and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the city limit south along Keele Street, west along Grandravine Drive, southeast along Black Creek, west along Sheppard Avenue West, south along Jane Street, west along Highway 401, and northwest along the Humber River to the northern city limit.

The riding is represented by Tom Rakocevic in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

History

The riding was founded at the time of Confederation in 1867. It consisted of the area of York Township west of the Humber River, an area now known as Etobicoke. This riding lasted unchanged until 1963 when the area was split into four ridings, York West, Etobicoke, Lakeshore and Humber. The riding was reduced to an area south of Richview Road (later Eglinton Avenue West) and north of Bloor Street West. The boundaries changed again in 1975, with Kipling Avenue becoming its eastern boundary and Highway 401 the northern boundary, while the eastern portion of the riding became part of the new Etobicoke-Humber riding. The riding was dissolved in 1987, with parts of it joining the ridings of Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber.

The riding was reestablished in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings. It consists of parts of the old North York ridings of Yorkview and Downsview.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Assembly	Years		Party
York West
1st	1867–1871	Thomas Grahame	Conservative
2nd	1871–1875	Peter Patterson	Liberal
3rd	1875–1879
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1886	John Gray	Conservative
6th	1886–1890	John Gilmour	Liberal
7th	1890–1894	John Gilmour	Liberal
8th	1894–1898	Joseph St. John	Conservative
9th	1898–1902	William Hill	Liberal
10th	1902–1905	Joseph St. John †	Conservative
11th	1905–1907	Joseph St. John †
11th	1907–1908	Forbes Godfrey †
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1926
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1932
18th	1932–1934	Henry Isaac Price
19th	1934–1937	William Gardhouse	Liberal
20th	1937–1943	William Gardhouse	Liberal
21st	1943–1945	Charles Millard	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948	John Allan	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951	Charles Millard	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955	Elmer Brandon †	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1956	Elmer Brandon †
25th	1956–1959	Leslie Rowntree
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975	John MacBeth
30th	1975–1977	Nick Leluk
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1987
Riding dissolved into Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber
*York West re-created from* Yorkview and Downsview**
37th	1999–2003	Mario Sergio	Liberal
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018
Humber River—Black Creek
42nd	2018–2022	Tom Rakocevic	New Democratic
43rd	2022–present	Tom Rakocevic	New Democratic
† denotes that the member died in office.
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly

Election results

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	7,959	34.49	−2.93	$92,545
	Liberal	Ida Li Preti	7,076	30.66	+2.72	$64,439
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Nguyen	6,865	29.75	−0.54	$63,667
	Green	Keith Berry	430	1.86	+0.30	$1,068
	Ontario Party	Lee Miguel Gonzalez	357	1.55		$4,264
	New Blue	Iulian Caunei	281	1.22		$1,023
	Independent	Knia Singh	110	0.48		$1,296
Total valid votes/expense limit			23,078	98.56	−0.17	$98,948
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			337	1.44	+0.17
Turnout			23,415	33.15	−14.11
Eligible voters			70,673
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−2.83
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	11,573	37.41	-1.80
	Progressive Conservative	Cyma Musarat	9,367	30.29	+19.33
	Liberal	Deanna Sgro	8,642	27.94	-18.76
	Green	Kirsten J. Bennett	485	1.57	-0.07
	Libertarian	Jennifer Ochoa	344	1.11
	Consensus Ontario	Scott Aitchison	320	1.03
	Trillium	Lucy Guerrero	198	0.64
Total valid votes			30,929	98.73
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			397	1.27
Turnout			47.26
Eligible voters			66,289
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.48
Source: Elections Ontario

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	11,907	46.71	-3.78
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	9,997	39.21	+4.39
	Progressive Conservative	Karlene Nation	2,794	10.96	-1.09
	Green	Keith Jarrett	418	1.64	+0.38
	Freedom	Kayla Baptiste	267	1.05	+0.58
	Independent	Wally Schwauss	111	0.44
Total valid votes			25,494	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.18
Source: Elections Ontario

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	11,455	50.49	-4.54
	New Democratic	Tom Rakocevic	7,901	34.82	+7.17
	Progressive Conservative	Karlene Nation	2,735	12.05	+1.78
	Green	Joseph Rini	287	1.26	-3.68
	Independent	Leland W. Cornell	114	0.50
	Freedom	Kayla Baptiste	107	0.47
	Independent	Scott Aitchison	89	0.39
Total valid votes			22,688	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			170	0.74
Turnout			22,858	39.24
Eligible voters			58,255
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.86
Source: Elections Ontario

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	13,180	55.03	-14.28
	New Democratic	Antoni Shelton	6,622	27.65	+10.63
	Progressive Conservative	Shane O'Toole	2,459	10.27	+0.24
	Green	Sergio Pagnotta	1,184	4.94	+3.06
	Family Coalition	Julia Carvalho	277	1.16
	Independent	Ram Narula	229	0.96
Total valid votes			23,951	100.00

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	16,102	69.31	+5.99
	New Democratic	Garth Bobb	3,954	17.02	+4.03
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Aver	2,330	10.03	-9.54
	Green	Richard von Fuchs	437	1.88	+0.24
	Communist	Christopher Black	408	1.76
Total valid votes			16,177	100.00

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Mario Sergio	16,457	63.32
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Collier	5,086	19.57
	New Democratic	Stephnie Payne	3,377	12.99
	Green	Anthony Davison	427	1.64
	Natural Law	Mark Scrafford	299	1.15
	Independent	S. Nicholas C. Lin	194	0.75
	Independent	Rosemary Ann Ray	149	0.57
Total valid votes			25,989	100.00

v t e 1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Peter Patterson	1,268	51.21
	Conservative	W. Tyrrell	1,208	48.79
Total valid votes			2,476	63.16
Eligible voters			3,920
	Liberal hold		Swing		–
Source: Elections Ontario

v t e 1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Peter Patterson	Acclaimed
Source: Elections Ontario

v t e 1871 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Patterson	865	56.32	+15.65
	Conservative	Thomas Grahame	671	43.68	−2.76
Turnout			1,536	62.54	+5.83
Eligible voters			2,456
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+9.20
Source: Elections Ontario

v t e 1867 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Thomas Grahame	587	46.44
	Liberal	Dr. Bull	514	40.66
	Independent	W. Tyrrell	163	12.90
Total valid votes			1,264	56.71
Eligible voters			2,229
	Conservative pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	12,010	54.4
	Mixed member proportional	10,054	45.6
	Total valid votes	22,064	100.0

References

Notes

Citations

For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Thomas Grahame's Legislative Assembly information see "Thomas Grahame, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Peter Patterson's Legislative Assembly information see "Peter Patterson, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For John Gray's Legislative Assembly information see "John Gray, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For John Gilmour's Legislative Assembly information see "John Taylor Gilmour, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Joseph St. John's Legislative Assembly information see "Joseph Wesley St. John, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For William Hill's Legislative Assembly information see "James William Hill, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Forbes Godfrey's Legislative Assembly information see "Forbes Elliott Godfrey, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Henry Price's Legislative Assembly information see "Henry Isaac Price, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For William Gardhouse's Legislative Assembly information see "William James Gardhouse, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Charles Millard's Legislative Assembly information see "Charles Hibbert Millard, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For John Allan's Legislative Assembly information see "John Pearman Allan, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For William Brandon's Legislative Assembly information see "William Elmer Brandon, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Leslie Rowntree's Legislative Assembly information see "Henry Leslie Rowntree, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For John MacBeth's Legislative Assembly information see "John Palmer MacBeth, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Nick Leluk's Legislative Assembly information see "Nicholas Georges Leluk, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
- For Mario Sergio's Legislative Assembly information see "Mario Sergio, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
"Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
"Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate (2014)" (PDF). Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
"Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - York West" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
"Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. 1879. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
"Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. 1875. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
"Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. 1871. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
"Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. 1867. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

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