Scarborough—Rouge Park (provincial electoral district)
Provincial electoral district in Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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Scarborough—Rouge Park is a provincial electoral district in the district of Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. This riding was created in 2015.[1]
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 Ontario electoral district | |||
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Scarborough-Rouge Park in relation to the other Toronto ridings (2015 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
| MPP |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 2015 | ||
| First contested | 2018 | ||
| Last contested | 2025 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016) | 102,275 | ||
| Electors (2018) | 76,313 | ||
| Area (km²) | 55 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 1,859.5 | ||
| Census division | Toronto | ||
| Census subdivision | Toronto | ||
Boundaries
On August 14, 2018, the province redrew municipal boundaries via the Better Local Government Act, 2018, S.O. 2018, c. 11 - Bill 5.[2] This means that the 25 Provincial districts and the 25 municipal wards in Toronto currently share the same geographic borders.
Defined in legislation as: "Consisting of that part of the City of Toronto described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the Rouge River with the northerly limit of said city; thence easterly, generally southerly and generally southwesterly along the northerly, easterly and southerly limits of said city to the southerly production of Morningside Avenue; thence northerly along said production and Morningside Avenue to Highway No. 401; thence westerly along said highway to Neilson Road; thence generally northerly along said road to Morningside Avenue; thence northerly along said avenue to the electric power transmission line; thence easterly along said transmission line to the Rouge River; thence generally northerly along said river to the point of commencement."[3]
Members of Provincial Parliament
| Scarborough—Rouge Park | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Pickering—Scarborough East, Scarborough—Guildwood and Scarborough—Rouge River |
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| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Vijay Thanigasalam | Progressive Conservative | |
| 43rd | 2022–present | |||
Election results
| 2025 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Vijay Thanigasalam | 16,357 | 49.17 | +3.89 | ||||
| Liberal | Morris Beckford | 13,385 | 40.23 | +12.52 | ||||
| New Democratic | Hibah Sidat | 2,360 | 7.09 | –14.83 | ||||
| Green | Victoria Jewt | 727 | 2.19 | –0.22 | ||||
| None of the Above | Tim James | 326 | 0.98 | N/A | ||||
| Communist | Wai Kiat Tang | 114 | 0.34 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 33,269 | 99.48 | –0.14 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 174 | 0.52 | +0.14 | |||||
| Turnout | 33,444 | 42.64 | –2.48 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 78,437 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | –4.32 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[4] | ||||||||
| 2022 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Vijay Thanigasalam | 15,989 | 45.28 | +6.66 | $51,906 | |||
| Liberal | Manal Abdullahi | 9,784 | 27.71 | +6.80 | $64,073 | |||
| New Democratic | Felicia Samuel | 7,742 | 21.92 | −14.40 | $82,981 | |||
| Green | Priyan De Silva | 850 | 2.41 | −0.01 | $806 | |||
| Ontario Party | Gordon Kerr | 523 | 1.48 | $7,952 | ||||
| New Blue | Christopher Bressi | 285 | 0.81 | $0 | ||||
| Freedom | Matthew Oliver | 139 | 0.39 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 35,312 | 99.62 | +0.50 | $109,994 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 135 | 0.38 | -0.50 | |||||
| Turnout | 35,447 | 45.12 | -10.42 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 77,916 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | −0.07 | ||||||
Source(s)
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| 2018 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Vijay Thanigasalam | 16,224 | 38.61 | +14.04 | ||||
| New Democratic | Felicia Samuel | 15,261 | 36.32 | +12.42 | ||||
| Liberal | Sumi Shan | 8,785 | 20.91 | –27.07 | ||||
| Green | Priyan De Silva | 1,014 | 2.41 | +0.15 | ||||
| Libertarian | Todd Byers | 582 | 1.39 | N/A | ||||
| Trillium | Amit Mahendra Pitamber | 149 | 0.35 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes | 42,015 | 99.12 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 372 | 0.88 | ||||||
| Turnout | 42,387 | 55.54 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 76,313 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative notional gain from Liberal | Swing | +0.81 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[5] | ||||||||
| 2014 general election redistributed results[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 18,140 | 47.98 | |
| Progressive Conservative | 9,290 | 24.57 | |
| New Democratic | 9,035 | 23.90 | |
| Green | 856 | 2.26 | |
| Others | 488 | 1.29 | |