Scarborough—Agincourt (provincial electoral district)

Scarborough—Agincourt
Ontario electoral district
	Scarborough—Agincourt in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Aris Babikian; Progressive Conservative
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District created	1987
First contested	1987
Last contested	2022
Demographics
Population (2016)	105,540
Electors (2018)	72,558
Area (km²)	21
Pop. density (per km²)	5,025.7
Census division(s)	Toronto
Census subdivision(s)	Toronto

Scarborough—Agincourt is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1987.

The riding covers the northwest of the Scarborough part of Toronto. It is bounded on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by the Toronto city limits (Steeles Avenue East), on the east by Midland Avenue, and on the south by Highway 401. It contains the neighbourhoods of Steeles, L'Amoreaux, Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan, Agincourt (west of Midland Avenue) and Milliken (west of Midland Avenue).

Demographics

Population

Total (2006): 111,867
Growth (2001–2006): +1,197 (+1.1%)
Electors:

Federal (2006): 72,895 (65.2%)

Provincial (2007): 73,876 (66%)

Gender* (2001):

Male: 52,525 (47.5%)

Female: 58,145 (52.5%)

Identifiable Groups** (2001):

Visible Minority: 76,195 (69.3%)

Chinese: 41,135 (37.4%)

South Asian: 14,680 (13.3%)

Black: 7,450 (6.8%)

Filipino: 3,470 (3.2%)

West Asian: 1,830 (1.7%)

Arab: 1,775 (1.6%)

Other Visible Minority: 1,560 (1.4%)

Multiple Visible Minorities: 1,385 (1.3%)

Latin American: 825 (0.8%)

Southeast Asian: 800 (0.7%)

Korean: 670 (0.6%)

Japanese: 625 (0.6%)

Aboriginal: 185 (0.2%)

Immigrant: 70,315 (63.9%)

Non-Permanent Residents: 1,780 (1.6%)

Language

Mother Tongue** (2001):

English: 39,880 (36.3%)

French: 775 (0.7%)

Non-Official Languages: 66,755 (60.7%)

Multiple Responses: 2,590 (2.4%)

Knowledge of Official Languages** (2001):

English only: 92,290 (83.9%)

Neither English nor French: 10,855 (9.9%)

English and French: 6,755 (6.1%)

French only: 105 (0.001%)

Home Language** (2001):

English: 42,110 (38.3%)

Non-official languages: 34,760 (31.6%)

English and non-official language: 31,875 (29%)

English and French: 625 (0.6%)

English, French and non-official language: 430 (0.4%)

French: 110 (0.1%)

French and non-official language: 85 (0.1%)

Education

Education*** (2001):

Less than High School: 29,385 (32.6%)

High School: 22,950 (25%)

Trade School: 5,205 (5.7%)

College: 11,775 (12.8%)

University: 22,530 (24.5%)

Income and work

Labour Force*** (2001):

Participation: 55,510 (60.4%)

Employed: 50,840 (55.4%)

Unemployed: 4,670 (8.4%)

Average Income*** (2001):

Individual: $26,473

Household: $62,836

Family: $60,742

Median Income (2007):

Household: $51,762

Families and dwellings

Persons per Family (2001): 3.1

Occupied Private Dwellings (2001):

Total: 35,615

Owned: 23,670 (66.5%)

Rented: 11,945 (33.5%)

Average Value: $226,053

Religion

Religion** (2001):

Christian: 58,125 (52.8%)

Catholic: 24,660 (22.4%)

Protestant: 19,670 (17.9%)

Christian Orthodox: 7,365 (6.7%)

Christian n.i.e.****: 6,430 (5.8%)

No Religious Affiliation: 31,220 (28.4%)

Hindu: 7,300 (6.6%)

Muslim: 6,740 (6.1%)

Buddhist: 5,515 (5%)

Eastern Religions: 380 (0.3%)

Sikh: 360 (0.3%)

Jewish: 330 (0.3%)

Other Religions: 30 (0.03%)

* Based on a total population of 110,670
** Based on a projected population of 109,995 (20% sample data projected from the total population)
*** Based on a projected population of 91,840 (20% sample data projected from the population 15 years and over)
**** Includes mostly answers of 'Christian,' not otherwise stated.

Sources: Statistics Canada (2001, 2006); Elections Canada (2006); Elections Ontario (2007)

History

The provincial electoral district was created in 1999 when provincial ridings were defined to have the same borders as federal ridings.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Scarborough—Agincourt
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Scarborough North
34th	1987–1990		Gerry Phillips	Liberal
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999
37th	1999–2003
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014		Soo Wong	Liberal
41st	2014–2018		Soo Wong	Liberal
42nd	2018–2022		Aris Babikian	Progressive Conservative
43rd	2022–present		Aris Babikian	Progressive Conservative
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Election results

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Aris Babikian	14,040	49.03	−1.37	$73,607
	Liberal	Soo Wong	10,672	37.27	+8.98	$34,013
	New Democratic	Benjamin Lee Truong	2,512	8.77	−8.68	$5,939
	Green	Jacqueline Scott	628	2.19	+0.47	$0
	Ontario Party	Donny Morgan	492	1.72		$8,379
	New Blue	Rane Vega	292	1.02		$2,200
Total valid votes/Expense limit			28,636	99.45	+0.48	$102,205
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			159	0.55	-0.48
Turnout			28,795	39.43	-11.92
Eligible voters			72,891
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−5.18
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Aris Babikian	18,582	50.40	+15.77
	Liberal	Soo Wong	10,429	28.29	-21.55
	New Democratic	Tasleem Riaz	6,434	17.45	+5.64
	Green	Lydia West	635	1.72	-0.89
	Libertarian	Mark Sinclair	244	0.66
	Independent	Jude Coutinho	189	0.51
	Moderate	Rubina Ansary	148	0.40
	Trillium	Carlos Lacuna	118	0.32
	People's Political Party	Badih Rawdah	92	0.25	-0.86
Total valid votes			36,871	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		-
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

2014 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Soo Wong	17,332	49.84	+2.82
	Progressive Conservative	Liang Chen	12,041	34.63	+2.64
	New Democratic	Alex Wilson	4,105	11.81	-3.94
	Green	Pauline Thompson	907	2.61	+0.34
	People's Political Party	Kevin Clarke	387	1.11
Total valid votes			34,772	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.09
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Soo Wong	14,907	46.85	-11.22
	Progressive Conservative	Liang Chen	10,222	32.13	+6.77
	New Democratic	Paul Choi	5,017	15.77	+5.27
	Green	Pauline Thompson	722	2.27	-2.22
	Libertarian	Doug McLarty	656	2.06
	Paramount Canadians	Priya Ahuja	209	0.66
	Freedom	Sabrina Wall	83	0.26
Total valid votes			31,816	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			246	0.77
Turnout			32,062	43.57
Eligible voters			73,583
	Liberal hold		Swing		-9.00
Source: Elections Ontario^[4]

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry Phillips	19,541	58.08	-3.26
	Progressive Conservative	John Del Grande	8,531	25.36	-5.39
	New Democratic	Yvette Blackburn	3,531	10.49	+5.02
	Green	George Pappas	1,511	4.49	*
	Family Coalition	Max Wang	532	1.58	*
Total valid votes			33,646	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.07

^ Change based on redistributed results

2003 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry Phillips	23,026	61.10	+10.40
	Progressive Conservative	Yolanda Chan	11,337	30.08	-13.07
	New Democratic	Stacy Douglas	2,209	5.86	+2.28
	Green	Lawrence J. Arkilander	566	1.50	+0.28
	Family Coalition	Tony Ieraci	550	1.46
Total valid votes			37,688	100.00

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry Phillips	18,698	50.70	+7.99
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Brown	15,915	43.15	+4.51
	New Democratic	Bob Frankford	1,319	3.58	-10.51
	Green	Gary Carmichael	451	1.22
	Independent	Wayne Cook	371	1.01
	Natural Law	Ken Morgan	129	0.35	-0.72
Total valid votes			36,883	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	19,185	59.8
	Mixed member proportional	12,881	40.2
	Total valid votes	32,066	100.0

Historic election results

1995 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry Phillips	13,472	46.08	-1.63
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Macnab	11,337	38.78	+9.81
	New Democratic	Christine Fel	4,112	14.07	-8.3
	Natural Law	Daphne Quance	313	1.07
Total valid votes			29,234	100.0
Source:The Globe and Mail^[5]

1990 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry Phillips	13,347	44.32	-13.11
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Macnab	8,640	28.69	+9.84
	New Democratic	Ayoub Ali	6,763	22.46	+1.24
	Libertarian	Bill Galster	1,368	4.54	+2.04
Total valid votes			30,118	100.0
Source:The Toronto Daily Star^[6]

1987 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Gerry Phillips	19,101	57.53
	New Democratic	David Kho	7,021	21.15
	Progressive Conservative	Adrienne Johnson	6,284	18.93
	Libertarian	Barry Coyne	794	2.39
Total valid votes			33,200	100.0
Source:The Toronto Daily Star^[7]

References

^
For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Gerry Phillips's Legislative Assembly information see "Gerry Phillips, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
- For Soo Wong's Legislative Assembly information see "Soo Wong, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
^ "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 10. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
^ "Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate - 2014 General Election.pdf" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
^ "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Scarborough—Agincourt" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
^ "Metro Toronto and suburban voter results". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 1995-06-09. p. A11.
^ "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1990-09-07. p. A10.
^ "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1987-09-11. p. A12.

External links

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[1] For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
For Gerry Phillips's Legislative Assembly information see "Gerry Phillips, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-28.

For Soo Wong's Legislative Assembly information see "Soo Wong, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-28.

[2] For Gerry Phillips's Legislative Assembly information see "Gerry Phillips, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-28.

[3] For Soo Wong's Legislative Assembly information see "Soo Wong, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-28.

[2] "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 10. Retrieved 20 January 2019.

[3] "Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate - 2014 General Election.pdf" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

[4] "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Scarborough—Agincourt" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2014.

[5] "Metro Toronto and suburban voter results". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 1995-06-09. p. A11.

[6] "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1990-09-07. p. A10.

[7] "How Metro-Area Voted". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1987-09-11. p. A12.

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