Don Valley North (Ontario) 84/338

 Don Valley North (Ontario)

Today we're one riding north with Don Valley North!

Don Valley North existed as a riding from 1988-1997 and was recreated in the 2012 redistribution. The population of the riding was 110,076 in 2016. The riding contains the neighbourhoods of Don Valley Village, Bayview Village, and Hillcrest Village. This riding is one of three in Toronto where Chinese is the most frequent ethnic origin (32.4%) and the most common ethnic group (31.3%).

Politically, this seat is basically the same as Don Valley East (using Willowdale as reference from 1997-2011. It had only voted in Liberals from 1993-2011 when the Conservatives took the seat by just 932 votes over Liberal Martha Hall Findlay, who, on a side note, finished in a distant third in the 2013 Liberal Leadership election, behind Joyce Murray and Justin Trudeau. The riding is currently represented by Liberal MP Han Dong. 

Han Dong, while first elected federally in 2019, had been a Member of Provincial Parliament in Trinity—Spadina from 2014, defeating longtime NDP MPP Rosario Marchese, to his defeat in 2018. Han Dong replaced retiring MP Geng Tan in 2019, who was the first MP of Mandarin-speaking heritage elected. In 2019, this seat was 57/121 in Ontario and 139/338 in Canada by margin.

Rating:

Name: 9.7/10 - Again, basically perfect. I'd like something a bit more specific than "north", maybe Bayview or Hillcrest.

Shape: 10/10 - I love it so much. Look at those major roads!!!

Individuality: 3.2/10 - The MP's are interesting, but I have to knock this riding down quite a bit for being very Toronto.

Total: 22.9/30 (76.3%)

Tomorrow we're rounding out our Don Valley excursion with Don Valley West!