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Beaches—East York (Ontario)

Today we have our first Toronto riding, Beaches—East York!

Beaches-East York was first used with similar boundaries in 1988 and adopted the current name in 1993. The riding is entirely encompassed in Toronto, and contains the neighbourhoods of The Beaches, Upper Beaches, O'Connor-Parkview, as well as portions of East Danforth and Old East York. This riding will start a trend of small and dense Toronto riding, Beaches-East York has an area of 17 square kilometers.

Politically, the riding has been held by the Liberals for the majority of the past 25 years. The only election in the past 25 years that the Liberals didn't win was in 2011, a historically bad election for the Liberals, when the riding swung almost 10 points to the NDP. However, the Liberals came back in full force in 2015, swinging the seat almost 20 points. The riding is currently represented by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.

Since the 1988 election, the Conservative Party at the time has only won 20% of the vote in 5 out of the 10 elections, and 3 of those were from a combined total from the Progressive Conservatives and Alliance/Reform Parties. Another factor in this could be the 6 term MP Maria Minna, who had been Minister of International Cooperation until she was dropped from cabinet after some local controversy, but stayed in office until she was defeated in 2011. In 2019 the riding was 114/121 in Ontario and 280/338 in Canada by margin.

Rating:

Name: 8.4/10 - Good name, wish there was a more concise way to call it, but it's not that awful.

Shape: 7.6/10 - It follows the streets on the west and east, and the lake on the south, and the northern suburbs aren't awful, but it's just a little too messy for me.

Individuality: 4.6/10 - The swing back and forth between the NDP is really cool to me, but that's not that too uncommon in Toronto/population centers in 2011/2015.

Total: 20.6/30 (68.7%)

See you tomorrow in Quebec with Beauce!