# St. Andrew (provincial electoral district)

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

St. Andrew :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| Created from parts of Toronto Southwest and Toronto Northwest in 1926 |||||
| 17th | 1926–1929 | William Robertson Flett | Conservative |
| 18th | 1929–1934 | Ephraim Frederick Singer | Conservative |
| 19th | 1934–1937 | J.J. Glass | Liberal |
| 20th | 1937–1943 | J.J. Glass | Liberal |
| 21st | 1943–1945 | J.B. Salsberg | Labor–Progressive |
| 22nd | 1945–1948 | J.B. Salsberg | Labor–Progressive |
| 23rd | 1948–1951 | J.B. Salsberg | Labor–Progressive |
| 24th | 1951–1955 | J.B. Salsberg | Labor–Progressive |
| 25th | 1955–1959 | Allan Grossman | Progressive Conservative |
| 26th | 1959–1963 | Allan Grossman | Progressive Conservative |
| 27th | 1963–1967 | Allan Grossman | Progressive Conservative |
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly |||||
| Merged into St. Andrew—St. Patrick after 1967 |||||

## Election results
### 1926 boundaries

1926 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | 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 election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | E. Frederick Singer | 3,177 | 63.6 |
| Liberal | J.J. Glass | 1,816 | 36.4 |
| | Total | 4,993 | |

### 1934 boundaries

1934 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Liberal | J.J. Glass | 5,841 | 42.4 |
| Conservative | E. Frederick Singer | 4,441 | 32.3 |
| Communist | Meyer Klig | 1,959 | 14.2 |
| Independent-Liberal | Claude Pierce | 1,338 | 9.7 |
| Independent-Conservative | J.N. Day | 186 | 1.4 |
| | Total | 13,765 | |
1937 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | 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 | 5.3 |
| | Total | 16,770 | |
1943 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Labor–Progressive | Joseph B. Salsberg | 7,434 | 53.6 |
| Conservative | John Grudeff | 2,452 | 17.7 |
| Liberal | J.J. Glass | 2,284 | 16.5 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Murray Cotterill | 1,689 | 12.2 |
| | Total | 13,859 | |
1945 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Labor–Progressive | Joseph B. Salsberg | 9,580 | 53.2 |
| Conservative | E.A Goodman | 3,870 | 21.5 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Percy Easser | 2,373 | 13.2 |
| Liberal | Thomas Harcourt | 2,186 | 12.1 |
| | Total | 18,009 | |
1948 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Labor–Progressive | J. B. Salsberg | 9,851 | 49.6 |
| Conservative | Nathan Phillips | 4,903 | 24.7 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | J. Friedman | 3,340 | 16.8 |
| Liberal | Frank R. Mills | 1,770 | 8.9 |
| | Total | 19,864 | |
1951 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Labor–Progressive | J. B. Salsberg | 5,164 | 39.6 |
| Conservative | Louis Herman | 3,854 | 29.5 |
| Liberal | Alfred Green | 2,183 | 16.7 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Sam Resnick | 1,854 | 14.2 |
| | Total | 13,055 | |
1955 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | Allan Grossman | 5,060 | 41.2 |
| Labor–Progressive | J. B. Salsberg | 4,380 | 35.7 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Boris Mather | 1,446 | 11.8 |
| Liberal | L.S. Lockhart | 1,231 | 10.0 |
| Independent | Elizabeth Langfield | 150 | 1.2 |
| | Total | 12,267 | |
1959 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | Allan Grossman | 3,773 | 42.1 |
| Liberal | Samuel Kelner | 2,996 | 33.4 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | James Robertson | 1,664 | 18.6 |
| Labor–Progressive | Bruce Magnuson | 402 | 4.5 |
| Social Credit | Dorothy Cureatz | 132 | 1.5 |
| | Total | 8,967 | |
1963 Ontario general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
| Conservative | Allan Grossman | 4,309 | 43.9 |
| Liberal | Donald Catalano | 3,476 | 35.4 |
| New Democratic | Ellen Adams | 1,638 | 16.7 |
| Independent | Sam Sherman | 194 | 2.0 |
| Independent | Dorothy Cureatz | 103 | 1.0 |
| Social Credit (National Order) | Ross Taylor | 102 | 1.0 |
| | Total | 9,822 | |