# Toronto Southwest

Toronto Southwest was an Ontario provincial electoral district in the old City of Toronto's west-end. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 until 1926, when it was abolished and redistributed into the Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick districts. It had two seats in the Legislature: Seat A and Seat B. They were each elected in separate first-past-the-post election contests.

## Boundaries

Toronto Southwest's boundaries remained the same for the three elections that it was contested; and gaining a significant boost in eligible voters in 1919, when women and underage soldiers were given the right to vote for the first time. The northern boundary was College Street, starting at Lansdowne Avenue, across. It then went southwards along its eastern border on the western edge of University Avenue to Simcoe Street and then to Lake Ontario. It also included the Toronto Islands. The western border picked up on land on Dunn Avenue and then jogged west on the north side of Queen Street West to the east side of Lansdowne Avenue. It continued north on Lansdowne to the south side of College Street.

## Members of Provincial Parliament

| Parliament | Years | Member | Party |
| prior to 1914 part of Toronto South and Toronto West ridings |||||
| Seat A |||||
| 14th | 1914–1916 | J.J. Foy | Conservative |
| 14th | 1916–1919 | Hartley Dewart | Liberal |
| 15th | 1919–1923 | Hartley Dewart | Liberal |
| 16th | 1923–1926 | James Arthur McCausland | Conservative |
| Seat B |||||
| 14th | 1914–1919 | George Horace Gooderham | Conservative |
| 15th | 1919–1923 | John Carman Ramsden | Liberal |
| 16th | 1923–1926 | Frederick George McBrien | Conservative |
| | | Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly | |
| merged into Brockton, Dovercourt, Bracondale, Bellwoods, St. Andrew, St. Patrick after 1926 |||||

## Election results

Elections were run as separate races for Seat A and Seat B rather than a combined race.

### Seat A

1914 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | J.J. Foy | 3,631 | 58.1 |
| Liberal | Maybee | 2,228 | 35.7 |
| Independent | Columbo | 389 | 6.2 |
| | Total | 6,248 | |
By-election 21 August 1916 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Liberal | Hubert Hartley Dewart | 2,705 | 50.6 |
| Conservative | J.A. Norris | 2,062 | 38.6 |
| Socialist | J.M. Conner | 445 | 8.3 |
| Independent-Liberal | Gordon Waldron | 131 | 2.5 |
| | Total | 5,343 | |
1919 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Liberal | Hubert Hartley Dewart | 15,471 | 63.8 |
| Conservative | George Horace Gooderham | 8,760 | 36.2 |
| | Total | 24,231 | |
1923 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | James Arthur McCausland | 7,967 | 58.0 |
| Liberal | Hubert Hartley Dewart | 3,211 | 23.4 |
| Labour | Malcolm L. Bruce | 2,562 | 18.6 |
| | Total | 13,740 | |

### Seat B

1914 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | George Horace Gooderham | 5,695 | 71.2 |
| Liberal | William Raney | 2,301 | 28.8 |
| | Total | | |
1919 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Liberal | John Carman Ramsden | 11,645 | 46.9 |
| Conservative | William C. McBrien | 7,228 | 29.1 |
| Labour | John McDonald | 5,960 | 24.0 |
| | Total | 24,833 | |
1923 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | Frederick George McBrien | 7,415 | 52.8 |
| Independent-Liberal | Joseph Singer | 2,306 | 16.4 |
| Liberal | John MacDonald | 2,209 | 15.7 |
| Liberal | John Carman Ramsden | 2,115 | 15.1 |
| Total | 14,045 | |