Beaches (provincial electoral district)

Beaches
Ontario electoral district
	Beaches in relation to adjacent ridings in Toronto
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1925
District abolished	1966
First contested	1926
Last contested	1967
Demographics
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

Beaches was a provincial riding in Toronto, Ontario represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1967. It was carved completely out of the existing riding of York East. Its boundaries remained the same until 1967 when it was merged with the neighbouring riding of Woodbine to become Beaches—Woodbine. Other than a single session in the 1940s, the riding was steadfastly Conservative in its voting preference.

Boundaries

The riding was created out of the East York riding just before the 1926 election. Its western boundary consisted of Woodbine Avenue from Lake Ontario north to the city limits. Its eastern boundary followed Victoria Park Avenue from the lake to the city limits. The northern boundary was the city limits and the southern boundary was Lake Ontario.^[1] The boundaries remained unchanged until it was abolished in 1967.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Beaches
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
*Prior to 1926 part of York East*
17th	1926–1929		Thomas Alexander Murphy^{[nb 1]}^{[nb 2]}	Conservative
18th	1929–1934
19th	1934–1937
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945			Progressive Conservative
22nd	1945–1948			Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951		Reid Scott	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955		William Collings	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1961
26th	1961–1963		Jack Harris
27th	1963–1967		Jack Harris
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly^[2]
*Merged into the Beaches—Woodbine after 1966*

Election results

**1926 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[3]^[4]^{[nb 3]}	Vote %
Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	9,606	73.5
Better Citizenship (Prohibitionist)	Arthur Hawkes	3,467	26.5
	Total	13,073

**1929 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[5]	Vote %
Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	7,985	75.2
Liberal	William A. Ford	2,639	24.8
	Total	10,624

Toronto riding boundaries after 1934 redistribution

**1934 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[6]	Vote %
Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	7,928	44.0
Liberal	Norman Wilkes	5,047	28.0
Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley Elliot (Reverend)	5,042	28.0
	Total	18,017

**1937 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[7]	Vote %
Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	7,777	42.0
Liberal	Fred Sturgeon	7,105	38.4
Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley Elliott	3,629	19.6
	Total	18,511

**1943 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[8]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	6,719	43.9
Co-operative Commonwealth	Gordon Ferguson	6,639	43.4
Liberal	Ernest Bray	1,947	12.7
	Total	15,305

**1945 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[9]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	10,907	53.6
Co-operative Commonwealth	Robert Garden	6,087	29.9
Liberal	W.E.J. Ryan	3,366	16.5
	Total	20,360

**1948 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[10]	Vote %
Co-operative Commonwealth	Reid Scott	9,910	44.0
Progressive Conservative	Thomas Alexander Murphy	9,471	42.1
Liberal	W. Earl Upper	3,125	13.9
	Total	22,506

**1951 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[11]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	William Henry Collings	9,573	49.4
Co-operative Commonwealth	Reid Scott	6,958	35.9
Liberal	W. Earl Upper	2,864	14.8
	Total	19,395

**1955 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[12]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	William Henry Collings	7,835	48.1
Co-operative Commonwealth	Reid Scott	5,887	36.1
Liberal	E.R. Hoolans	2,566	15.8
	Total	16,288

**1959 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[13]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	William Henry Collings	7,310	46.1
Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley T. Bullock	4,396	27.7
Liberal	Ronald Pickering	4,157	26.2
	Total	15,863

**By-election January 18, 1962**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[14]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	Jack Harris	5,199	40.5
New Democrat	Stanley Bullock	4,795	36.2
Liberal	Donald MacGregor	4,943	23.3
	Total	25,114

**1963 Ontario general election**
Party	Candidate	Votes^[15]	Vote %
Progressive Conservative	Jack Harris	7,221	40.5
New Democrat	Stanley Bullock	6,444	36.2
Liberal	Donald Deacon	4,158	23.3
	Total	17,823

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