Results, Ridings and Candidates

Don Valley East

2008 Results

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This ethnically diverse Toronto riding has one of the largest immigrant populations in Canada. According to the 2006 census, 61 per cent of residents are immigrants, with 20 per cent Chinese and more than nine per cent Indian. Only 39 per cent listed English as their mother tongue.

The riding runs from Sunrise Avenue in the south to Finch Avenue, Highway 404 and the hydro transmission lines in the north, and between Leslie Street, the CN Rail line and the Don River in the west and Victoria Park Avenue in the east.

Renters make up 53 per cent of the population, with large clusters of high-rise buildings throughout the riding. The average family income is $76,150, and the unemployment rate is 8.8 per cent. The service sector and manufacturing are the main industries.

Don Valley East lost five per cent of its territory in the 2004 redistribution, with the southern boundary moving north to Sunrise Avenue. The riding was established in 1976, from parts of York-Scarborough and York North. In 1996, it was substantially changed in a merger with Don Valley North.

Population: 109,640 (2006 census; a decrease of 1.4% since 2001)

Political History

Liberal Yasmin Ratansi is serving her second term in the riding after winning over Conservative candidate Eugene McDermott in the 2006 election by more than 10,000 votes.

In 2004, Ratansi defeated Conservative David Johnson by more than 10,000 votes. Ratansi ran for the first time in 1988 and lost.

Liberal David Collenette held the riding from 1993 until his resignation in 2004. He was minister of transportation, minister of national defence and minister of veterans affairs in the Jean Chrétien cabinet. Collenette first won the riding in 1974, but was defeated in 1979 and won again in 1980. In 1984, he lost to Progressive Conservative Alan Redway.

Redway was minister of state for housing in Brian Mulroney's government. In 1988, he defeated Ratansi for the Liberals. Redway resigned in 1991 after being arrested for making a joke at an airport about a friend having a weapon.