York—Simcoe (federal electoral district)

York—Simcoe is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979, from 1988 to 1997 and since 2004.

It covers part of the region north of Toronto by Lake Simcoe.

It has existed on three occasions. Its first incarnation was created in 1966 from parts of Dufferin—Simcoe and York North. It existed until 1976 when it was split between York North, Simcoe South, and York—Peel.

It was reformed in 1987 from parts of Simcoe South, York—Peel, Victoria—Haliburton, and Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe. It was again broken up in 1996 with a split between Barrie—Simcoe, Simcoe—Grey, and York North.

Its current incarnation came into being in 2003 made up of parts of Simcoe—Grey, York North, and Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford.

Its previous member of Parliament was Peter Van Loan, the former Government House Leader. A by-election took place on February 25, 2019.

Boundaries

The riding consists of:

(a) that part of the Regional Municipality of York comprising

(i) the town of Georgina; and

(ii) the Town of East Gwillimbury, excepting that part lying southerly of Green Lane West and Green Lane East and westerly of Highway No. 404;

(iii) that part of the Township of King lying north of Highway No. 9 and Davis Drive West;

(b) Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation Indian Reserve; and

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnic groups: 74.1% White, 5.1% South Asian, 4.9% Chinese, 3.0% West Asian, 2.7% Indigenous, 2.5% Black, 2.0% Latin American, 1.5% Southeast Asian, 1.4% Filipino

Languages: 72.7% English, 2.1% Portuguese, 2.0% Russian, 1.9% Mandarin, 1.7% Cantonese, 1.6% Italian, 1.5% Spanish, 1.1% Persian

Religions: 53.2% Christian (26.6% Catholic, 4.2% United Church, 4.0% Anglican, 3.0% Christian Orthodox, 1.3% Presbyterian, 1.2% Baptist), 4.0% Muslim, 2.0% Hindu, 1.3% Buddhist, 1.1% Jewish, 37.2% none

Median income: $43,200 (2020)

Average income: $55,200 (2020)

Riding associations

Riding associations are the local branches of the national political parties:

Party		Association name	CEO	HQ address	HQ city
	Christian Heritage Party of Canada	York—Simcoe CHP	Vicki Gunn	6 Morton Avenue	Sharon
	Conservative Party of Canada	York—Simcoe Conservative Association	Kenneth H. Simpson	RR1 1733 2nd Line	Churchill
	Liberal Party of Canada	York—Simcoe Federal Liberal Association	Monika Dogra	20822 Hwy 48, Mount Albert	East Gwillimbury
	New Democratic Party	York—Simcoe Federal NDP Riding Association	None	PO Box 1255	Sutton
	Green
	People's Party of Canada	Barrie-Simcoe PPC Association	Stephen Makk	PO Box 543	Victoria Harbour
	Progressive Canadian	York—Simcoe PC Party Association	Ronald Anderson	730 Davis Drive, Suite 200	Newmarket

History

It was originally created in 1966 from parts of Dufferin—Simcoe and York North ridings. It consisted of:

in the County of Simcoe, the townships of West Gwillimbury, Innisfil and Tecumseth excluding the City of Barrie and the Town of Alliston;
the Village of Cookstown; and
in the County of York, the Police Village of Maple, the Village of Stouffville, the Townships of East Gwillimbury, King, Whitchurch and the northern part of the Township of Vaughan lying north of a line drawn from Highway 11 west along Concession 1, south along the road between Concessions 1 and 2, west along County Suburban Road 25, south, west and north along the limit of the Police Village of Maple, west along County Suburban Road 25 to the township boundary.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Simcoe South, York North and York—Peel ridings.

It was recreated in 1987 from parts of Simcoe South, Victoria—Haliburton, Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe and York—Peel ridings. The second incarnation of the riding consisted of:

in the County of Simcoe; the Town of Bradford, the villages of Beeton and Tottenham, and the townships of Adjala, Tecumseth and West Gwillimbury;
in the Regional Municipality of York: the towns of East Gwillimbury and Newmarket, Georgina Island Indian Reserve No. 33, the Township of Georgina, and the northern part of the Township of King.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Barrie—Simcoe, Simcoe—Grey and York North ridings.

It was recreated a second time in 2003 from parts of Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, Simcoe—Grey and York North ridings with the current boundaries as described above.

This riding lost territory to Barrie—Innisfil and Newmarket—Aurora during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

A by-election in the riding took place on February 25, 2019, to replace Peter Van Loan, who retired. The by-election was won by another Conservative, Scot Davidson.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
York—Simcoe Riding created from Dufferin—Simcoe and York North
28th	1968–1972	John Roberts	Liberal
29th	1972–1974	Sinclair Stevens	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979	Sinclair Stevens	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Simcoe South, York North, York—Peel and Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe
Riding re-created from Simcoe South, Victoria—Haliburton, Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe and York—Peel
34th	1988–1993	John Cole	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Karen Kraft Sloan	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Barrie—Simcoe, Simcoe—Grey and York North
Riding re-created from Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, Simcoe—Grey and York North
38th	2004–2006	Peter Van Loan	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2018
42nd	2019–2019	Scot Davidson
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present
Riding dissolved into King—Vaughan, New Tecumseth—Gwillimbury, and York—Durham

Election results

2004–present

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Graph of election results in York—Simcoe (parties that never received 2% of the vote are omitted)

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Scot Davidson	24,900	50.0	+3.7	$63,978.57
	Liberal	Daniella Johnson	14,469	29.0	+2.2	$27,041.24
	New Democratic	Benjamin Jenkins	6,800	13.6	-0.6	$1,894.25
	People's	Michael Lotter	3,662	7.3	+5.7	$2,355.74
Total valid votes/expense limit			49,831	–	–	$121,464.27
Total rejected ballots			466
Turnout			50,297	53.74
Eligible voters			93,596
Source: Elections Canada

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Scot Davidson	24,918	46.3	7.61	$56,801.81
	Liberal	Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux	14,407	26.8	2.24	none listed
	New Democratic	Jessa McLean	7,620	14.2	6.69	none listed
	Green	Jonathan Arnold	4,650	8.6	5.58	$6,288.49
	Libertarian	Keith Komar	1,311	2.4	1.83	none listed
	People's	Michael Lotter	875	1.6	0.30	$223.47
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,781	100.0
Total rejected ballots			497
Turnout			54,278	60.7
Eligible voters			89,360
	Conservative hold		Swing		2.68
Source: Elections Canada

v t e Canadian federal by-election, February 25, 2019 Resignation of Peter Van Loan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Scot Davidson	8,929	53.91	3.66
	Liberal	Shaun Tanaka	4,811	29.04	8.72
	New Democratic	Jessa McLean	1,244	7.51	1.38
	Progressive Canadian	Dorian Baxter	634	3.83	--
	Green	Mathew Lund	451	2.72	0.37
	People's	Robert Geurts	314	1.90	--
	Libertarian	Keith Dean Komar	95	0.57	--
	Independent	John The Engineer Turmel	64	0.39	--
	National Citizens Alliance	Adam Suhr	22	0.13	--
Total valid votes/expense limit			16,564	99.43
Total rejected ballots			95	0.57	+0.09
Turnout			16,659	20.03	-43.23
Eligible voters			83,179
	Conservative hold		Swing		+6.19
Source: Elections Canada

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Peter Van Loan	24,058	50.25	13.42	$138,801.13
	Liberal	Shaun Tanaka	18,083	37.77	26.43	$62,296.23
	New Democratic	Sylvia Gerl	4,255	8.89	9.69	$12,736.48
	Green	Mark Viitala	1,483	3.1	2.26	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,879	100.0		$208,120.39
Total rejected ballots			232	0.48	0.08
Turnout			48,111	63.66	5.06
Eligible voters			75,570
Source: Elections Canada

2011 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	24,624	63.67
	New Democratic	7,187	18.58
	Liberal	4,385	11.34
	Green	2,073	5.36
	Others	408	1.05

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Peter Van Loan	33,614	63.6	+6.9
	New Democratic	Sylvia Gerl	10,190	19.3	+7.1
	Liberal	Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux	5,702	10.8	-7.9
	Green	John Dewar	2,851	5.4	-4.7
	Christian Heritage	Vicki Gunn	352	0.7	-0.2
	United	Paul Pisani	157	0.3	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,866	100.0
Total rejected ballots			201	0.4	–
Turnout			53,067	58.6	–
Eligible voters			90,552	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Peter Van Loan	27,412	56.7	+8.8	$89,302
	Liberal	Judith Moses	9,044	18.7	-12.0	$63,431
	New Democratic	Sylvia Gerl	5,882	12.2	-1.1	$7,414
	Green	John Dewar	4,887	10.1	+3.2	$10,646
	Progressive Canadian	Paul Pisani	676	1.4	–	$5,640
	Christian Heritage	Vicki Gunn	444	0.9	-0.2	$7,287
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,345	100.0	$89,500

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Van Loan	25,685	47.9	+2.7
	Liberal	Kate Wilson	16,456	30.7	-4.8
	New Democratic	Sylvia Gerl	7,139	13.3	+2.1
	Green	John Dewar	3,719	6.9	+1.5
	Christian Heritage	Vicki Gunn	595	1.1	-0.1
Total valid votes			53,594	100.0

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Van Loan	21,343	45.2
	Liberal	Kate Wilson	16,763	35.5
	New Democratic	Sylvia Gerl	5,314	11.2
	Green	Bob Burrows	2,576	5.5
	Progressive Canadian	Stephen Sircelj	670	1.4
	Christian Heritage	Vicki Gunn	588	1.2
Total valid votes			47,254	100.0

1988–1997

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Karen Kraft Sloan	26,972	38.9	+3.8
	Reform	Paul Pivato	22,325	32.2
	Progressive Conservative	John E. Cole	16,139	23.3	-23.9
	New Democratic	Steve Pliakes	1,768	2.5	-10.7
	Christian Heritage	Ian Knight	958	1.4	-2.5
	National	Ronald Fletcher	673	1.0
	Natural Law	Ian Roberts	416	0.6
	Abolitionist	Gary George Brewer	95	0.1
Total valid votes			69,346	100.0

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	John E. Cole	26,732	47.2
	Liberal	Frank Stronach	19,906	35.1
	New Democratic	Judy Darcy	7,489	13.2
	Christian Heritage	Klass Stel	2,203	3.9
	Libertarian	Maureen E. McAleese	335	0.6
Total valid votes			56,665	100.0

1968–1979

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Sinclair Stevens	23,591	47.0	+1.3
	Liberal	Mike Willinsky	18,927	37.7	-0.5
	New Democratic	Wally Gustar	7,630	15.2	-0.8
Total valid votes			50,148	100.0

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Sinclair Stevens	22,957	45.7	+8.4
	Liberal	John Roberts	19,178	38.2	-7.1
	New Democratic	Wally Gustar	8,046	16.0	-1.3
Total valid votes			50,181	100.0

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Roberts	15,906	45.3
	Progressive Conservative	Wallace McCutcheon	13,100	37.3
	New Democratic	Don McFadyen	6,095	17.4
Total valid votes			35,101	100.0

References

"York—Simcoe (federal electoral district) (Code 35104) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
(1966 - 1979) Riding history from the Library of Parliament
(1988 - 1997) Riding history from the Library of Parliament
(2004 - present) Riding history from the Library of Parliament
2011 results from Elections Canada
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

^ Statistics Canada: 2012
Zangouei, Aileen. "York-Simcoe byelection scheduled for Feb. 25". Georgina Advocate. Metroland News. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
"York-Simcoe". Elections Canada. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - York--Simcoe [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Ontario". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
Ballingall, Alex (January 9, 2019). "Trudeau calls byelections for Burnaby South, York—Simcoe and Outremont for Feb. 25". The Toronto Star. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
"Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
"Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
"February 25, 2019 By-elections Election Results". Elections Canada. February 28, 2019. Archived from the original on May 1, 2019.
Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for York—Simcoe, 30 September 2015
Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections

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Liberal	Newmarket—Aurora

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Central
Ontario

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Ontario

S Durham
& York

SW Durham	Ajax Oshawa Pickering—Uxbridge Whitby
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