Oakwood was a provincial
electoral district
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in
Ontario,
Canada. It was created for the
1975 provincial election, and was retained until redistribution in 1999. It was abolished into
Davenport
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,
Eglinton—Lawrence,
York South—Weston
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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
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for most of its existence, although the
Liberals won in 1987 and 1995. Both Liberal MPPs,
Chaviva Hošek
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and
Mike Colle
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, served in the
Ontario cabinet
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at one time or another.
The longest-serving member for Oakwood was
Tony Grande
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, 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
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immigrants during the 1980s.
[John Ferri, "Oakwood issues are sewers, roads not the leaders", ''Toronto Star'', 9 August 1987, A6.]
Members of Provincial Parliament
Electoral results
1975 boundaries
1987 boundaries
References
Notes
Citations
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Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario
Provincial electoral districts of Toronto