# Oakwood (provincial electoral district)

Oakwood was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 1975 provincial election, and was retained until redistribution in 1999. It was abolished into Davenport, Eglinton—Lawrence, York South—Weston and St. Paul's. Oakwood was located in York, which was previously part of Metropolitan Toronto and is now part of the City of Toronto.
Oakwood was a fairly safe seat for the New Democratic Party for most of its existence, although the Liberals won in 1987 and 1995. Both Liberal MPPs, Chaviva Hošek and Mike Colle, served in the Ontario cabinet at one time or another.
The longest-serving member for Oakwood was Tony Grande, who held the seat from 1975 to 1987. Tony Rizzo, elected in 1990, was forced to sit as an Independent MP for twenty months after it was disclosed that his construction firm had been charged with violating Ontario's labour code in 1989. He returned to caucus in 1992.
The riding had large Italian and Portuguese communities, and there was a significant increase in Caribbean immigrants during the 1980s.

## Members of Provincial Parliament

Oakwood :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| Created from parts of York South and York-Forest Hill ridings in 1975 |||||
| 30th | 1975–1977 | Tony Grande | New Democratic |
| 31st | 1977–1981 | Tony Grande | New Democratic |
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | Tony Grande | New Democratic |
| 33rd | 1985–1987 | Tony Grande | New Democratic |
| 34th | 1987–1990 | Chaviva Hosek | Liberal |
| 35th | 1990–1995 | Tony Rizzo | New Democratic |
| 36th | 1995–1999 | Michael Colle | Liberal |
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly |||||
| Merged into Davenport, Eglinton—Lawrence, York South—Weston and St. Paul's (1999) |||||

## Electoral results
### 1975 boundaries

1975 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 7,302 | 40.3 |
| Liberal | Richard Meagher | 5,939 | 32.8 |
| Conservative | J.A. Marrese | 4,619 | 25.5 |
| Communist | Val Bjarnason | 267 | 1.5 |
| | Total | 18,127 | |
1977 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 9,390 | 43.3 |
| Conservative | Fergy Brown | 6,550 | 30.2 |
| Liberal | Richard Meagher | 5,128 | 23.6 |
| Independent | Willis Cummins | 238 | 1.7 |
| Communist | Val Bjarnason | 232 | 1.7 |
| Libertarian | Alex Eaglesham | 153 | 0.7 |
| | Total | 21,691 | |
1981 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 9,235 | 45.0 |
| Conservative | Harriet Wolman | 6,241 | 30.4 |
| Liberal | Jean Gammage | 4,401 | 21.4 |
| Communist | Nan McDonald | 654 | 3.2 |
| | Total | 20,531 | |
1985 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 11,076 | 42.3 |
| Liberal | Joe Ricciuti | 10,093 | 38.5 |
| Conservative | Harriet Wolman | 4,663 | 17.8 |
| Communist | Mike Sterling | 366 | 1.4 |
| | Total | 26,198 | |

### 1987 boundaries

1987 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Liberal | Chaviva Hošek | 12,586 | 48.5 |
| New Democrat | Tony Grande | 10,938 | 42.1 |
| Conservative | Irene Paparo-Stein | 1,741 | 6.7 |
| Communist | Geoff da Silva | 689 | 2.7 |
| | Total | 25,954 | |
vte1990 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | New Democratic | Tony Rizzo | 10,572 | 48.9 |
| | Liberal | Chaviva Hošek | 8,196 | 37.9 |
| | Conservative | Claudio Lewis | 1,712 | 7.9 |
| | Green | Steven Peck | 589 | 2.7 |
| | Libertarian | John Primerano | 359 | 1.7 |
| | Communist | Elizabeth Rowley | 206 | 1.0 |
| Total | Total | Total | 21,634 |
| 123 out of 134 polls reporting. |||||||
| "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1990-09-07. p. A10. |||||||
vte1995 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Mike Colle | 8,599 | 42.3 |
| | New Democratic | Tony Rizzo | 7,624 | 37.5 |
| | Conservative | Courtney Doldron | 3,298 | 16.2 |
| | Independent | Joseph Flexer | 301 | 1.7 |
| | Green | Constantine Kritsonis | 269 | 1.3 |
| | Natural Law | Doug Storey | 136 | 0.7 |
| | Libertarian | Nunzio Venuto | 100 | 0.5 |
| Total | Total | Total | 20,327 |
| "Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate". Elections Ontario. 1995-06-08. Retrieved 2012-09-04. |||||||