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.

Election results

1926 boundaries

1926 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	W.R. Flett	4,537	44.0
Template:Canadian party colour |	Independent-Conservative	Louis M. Singer	3,380	32.8
Template:Canadian party colour |	Prohibitionist	Oliver Hezzelwood	2,099	20.4
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	A.G. McIntyre	297	0.9
		Total	10,313

1929 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	E. Frederick Singer	3,177	63.6
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	J.J. Glass	1,816	36.4
		Total	4,993

1934 boundaries

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Toronto riding boundaries after 1934 redistribution

1934 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	J.J. Glass	5,841	42.4
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	E. Frederick Singer	4,441	32.3
Template:Canadian party colour |	Independent-Liberal	Claude Pierce	1,338	9.7
Template:Canadian party colour |	Independent-Conservative	J.N. Day	186	1.4
		Total	13,765

1937 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	J.J. Glass	6,481	38.6
Template:Canadian party colour |	Labour	Joseph B. Salsberg	6,302	37.6
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	Nathan Phillips	3,097	18.5
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harry Simon	890	5.3
		Total	16,770

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1943 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	John Grudeff	2,452	17.7
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	J.J. Glass	2,284	16.5
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	Murray Cotterill	1,689	12.2
		Total	13,859

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1945 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	E.A Goodman	3,870	21.5
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	Percy Easser	2,373	13.2
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	Thomas Harcourt	2,186	12.1
		Total	18,009

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1948 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	Nathan Phillips	4,903	24.7
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	J. Friedman	3,340	16.8
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	Frank R. Mills	1,770	8.9
		Total	19,864

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1951 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	Louis Herman	3,854	29.5
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	Alfred Green	2,183	16.7
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	Sam Resnick	1,854	14.2
		Total	13,055

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1955 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	Allan Grossman	5,060	41.2
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	Boris Mather	1,446	11.8
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	L.S. Lockhart	1,231	10.0
Template:Canadian party colour |	Independent	Elizabeth Langfield	150	1.2
		Total	12,267

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1959 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	Allan Grossman	3,773	42.1
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	Samuel Kelner	2,996	33.4
Template:Canadian party colour |	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Robertson	1,664	18.6
		Total	8,967

1963 Ontario general election

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	Allan Grossman	4,309	43.9
		Total	9,822