Scarborough Southwest (provincial electoral district)

Scarborough Southwest
Ontario electoral district
	Scarborough Southwest in relation to the other Toronto ridings
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
MPP	Fatima Shaban; New Democratic
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District created	1996
First contested	1999
Last contested	2026
Demographics
Population (2016)	110,280
Electors (2018)	78,329
Area (km²)	32
Pop. density (per km²)	3,446.3
Census division	Toronto
Census subdivision	Toronto

Scarborough Southwest is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

District created1996

First contested1999

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Scarborough Southwest
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Scarborough Centre, Scarborough West and Scarborough East
37th	1999–2003		Dan Newman	Progressive Conservative
38th	2003–2007		Lorenzo Berardinetti	Liberal
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022		Doly Begum	New Democratic
43rd	2022–2025
44th	2025–2026
44th	2026–present		Fatima Shaban
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly^[1]

v t e Ontario provincial by-election, September 3, 2026
The by-election will be held on September 3, 2026.
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Fatima Shaban	8,914	40.47	–2.42
	Liberal	Ahsanul Hafiz	6,674	30.30	+7.36
	Progressive Conservative	Noor Tarun	5,148	23.37	–7.28
	Green	Mark Bekkering	745	3.38	–0.14
	Ontario Party	Gord Elliott	237	1.08
	New Blue	Chris Rees	178	0.81
	Independent	Michael Perdelwitz	129	0.59
Total valid votes			22,025
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters			83,115
Source: Elections Ontario

v t e 2025 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Doly Begum	14,557	42.89	–4.78	$120,161
	Progressive Conservative	Addie Dramola	10,400	30.65	+3.04	$45,342
	Liberal	Qadira Jackson	7,786	22.94	+4.38	$39,544
	Green	Mark Bekkering	1,194	3.52	–0.02	$3,247
Total valid votes/expense limit			33,937	99.31		$131,827
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			235	0.69	–0.01
Turnout			34,172	41.73	–2.61
Eligible voters			81,880
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–3.91
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

v t e 2022 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Doly Begum	16,842	47.68	+2.02	$103,194
	Progressive Conservative	Bret Snider	9,750	27.60	−3.62	$67,267
	Liberal	Lisa Patel	6,556	18.56	−0.38	$65,227
	Green	Cara Brideau	1,251	3.54	+0.84	$2,506
	New Blue	Peter Naus	383	1.08		$609
	Ontario Party	Barbara Everatt	320	0.91		$0
	None of the Above	James McNair	114	0.32	−0.19	$0
	Independent	Michelle Parsons	110	0.31		$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			35,326	99.31		$112,311
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			247	0.69	−0.33
Turnout			35,573	44.34	−11.69
Eligible voters			80,222
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+2.82
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on May 18, 2023. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on May 21, 2023.

v t e 2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Doly Begum	19,835	45.66	+22.09
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Ellis	13,565	31.22	+10.25
	Liberal	Lorenzo Berardinetti	8,228	18.94	–30.99
	Green	David Del Grande	1,174	2.70	–1.36
	None of the Above	Allen Atkinson	222	0.51	N/A
	Libertarian	James Speirs	195	0.45	N/A
	Special Needs	Willie Little	160	0.37	N/A
	Trillium	Bobby Turley	64	0.15	N/A
Total valid votes			43,443	98.97
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			451	1.03
Turnout			43,894	56.04
Eligible voters			78,329
	New Democratic notional gain from Liberal		Swing		+26.54
Source: Elections Ontario^[3]

Geography

2014 general election redistributed results^[4]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	18,123	49.93
	New Democratic	8,555	23.57
	Progressive Conservative	7,611	20.97
	Green	1,476	4.07
	Others	530	1.46

2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	18,860	59.2
	Mixed member proportional	12,890	40.8
	Total valid votes	31,750	100.0
Sourced from Elections Ontario.^[11]

2011 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorenzo Berardinetti	14,585	44.09	-2.06
	New Democratic	Bruce Budd	10,404	31.45	+13.35
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Chopowick	7,061	21.35	-4.18
	Green	Robin McKim	777	2.35	-5.74
	Freedom	Caroline Blanco-Ruibal	250	0.76
Total valid votes			33,077	99.53
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			155	0.47	-0.64
Turnout			33,232	47.78	-1.92
Eligible voters			69,553
	Liberal hold		Swing		-7.70
Source: Elections Ontario^[6]

2007 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorenzo Berardinetti	15,114	46.15	+0.94
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Crawford	8,359	25.53	-6.05
	New Democratic	Jay Sarkar	5,930	18.11	+0.20
	Green	Stefan Dixon	2,649	8.11
	Family Coalition	Wiktor Pawel Borkowski	399	1.22
	Libertarian	George Dance	296	0.90
Total valid votes			32,747	98.90
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			365	1.10
Turnout			33,112	49.70
Eligible voters			66,624
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.49
Elections Ontario.^[7]

1999 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Dan Newman	15,349	39.76
	Liberal	Adrian Heaps	12,992	33.66
	New Democratic	Michael Yorke	8,962	23.22
	Family Coalition	Wiktor Pawel Borkowski	495	1.28
	Green	Barbara Schaefer	466	1.21
	Natural Law	Laurence Corp	339	0.88
Total valid votes			38,603	98.85
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			450	1.15
Turnout			39,053	58.16
Eligible voters			67,148
Elections Ontario.^[10]