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.
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
Election results
1926 boundaries + 1926 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes 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 electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative E. Frederick Singer 3,177 63.6 Liberal J.J. Glass 1,816 36.4Total 4,993
1934 boundaries
+ 1934 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Liberal J.J. Glass 5,841 42.4 Conservative E. Frederick Singer 4,441 32.3 Independent-Liberal Claude Pierce 1,338 9.7 Independent-Conservative J.N. Day 186 1.4Total 13,765
+ 1937 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes 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 5.3Total 16,770
+ 1943 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative John Grudeff 2,452 17.7 Liberal J.J. Glass 2,284 16.5 Co-operative Commonwealth Murray Cotterill 1,689 12.2Total 13,859
+ 1945 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes179 out of 200 polls. Vote % Conservative E.A Goodman 3,870 21.5 Co-operative Commonwealth Percy Easser 2,373 13.2 Liberal Thomas Harcourt 2,186 12.1Total 18,009
+ 1948 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative Nathan Phillips 4,903 24.7 Co-operative Commonwealth J. Friedman 3,340 16.8 Liberal Frank R. Mills 1,770 8.9Total 19,864
+ 1951 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative Louis Herman 3,854 29.5 Liberal Alfred Green 2,183 16.7 Co-operative Commonwealth Sam Resnick 1,854 14.2Total 13,055
+ 1955 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative Allan Grossman 5,060 41.2 Co-operative Commonwealth Boris Mather 1,446 11.8 Liberal L.S. Lockhart 1,231 10.0 Independent Elizabeth Langfield 150 1.2Total 12,267
+ 1959 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative Allan Grossman 3,773 42.1 Liberal Samuel Kelner 2,996 33.4 Co-operative Commonwealth James Robertson 1,664 18.6Total 8,967
+ 1963 Ontario general electionPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Conservative Allan Grossman 4,309 43.9Total 9,822
See also List of Ontario provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
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