Windsor—Riverside
Windsor—Riverside was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was located in the east end of Windsor. The riding was created in 1975 out of Sandwich-Riverside and merged into Windsor—St. Clair and Windsor West in 1996 before the 1999 election.
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | 
| District created | 1967 | 
| District abolished | 1996 | 
| First contested | 1967 | 
| Last contested | 1995 | 
Members of Provincial Parliament
    
| Sandwich-Riverside | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| 28th | 1967–1971 | Fred Burr | New Democratic | |
| 29th | 1971–1975 | |||
| Riding renamed to Windsor-Riverside | ||||
| 30th | 1975–1977 | Fred Burr | New Democratic | |
| 31st | 1977–1981 | Dave Cooke | ||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
| 33rd | 1985–1987 | |||
| 34th | 1987–1990 | |||
| 35th | 1990–1995 | |||
| 36th | 1995–1997 | |||
| 1997–1999 | Wayne Lessard | |||
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1] | ||||
| Merged into merged into Windsor—St. Clair and Windsor West before the 1999 election | ||||
Election results
    
 
| Ontario provincial by-election, Sept. 4, 1997 Resignation of Dave Cooke | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Wayne Lessard | 9,308 | 43.99 | -1.71 | ||||
| Liberal | Gary McNamara | 8,494 | 40.14 | +5.31 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Fran Funaro | 3,028 | 14.31 | -2.12 | ||||
| Green | Steve Harvey | 329 | 1.70 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 21,159 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Difference | 814 | 3.85 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 159 | 0.75 | ||||||
| Turnout | 21,318 | 42.38 | ||||||
| 1995 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Cooke | 12,347 | 45.70 | -25.33 | ||||
| Liberal | Gary McNamara | 9,412 | 34.83 | +12.53 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Blaine Tyndall | 4,440 | 16.43 | +12.75 | ||||
| Family Coalition | Michel Ozorak | 459 | 1.70 | -1.29 | ||||
| Natural Law | Sherry Lanier | 362 | 1.34 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 27,020 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Difference | 2,935 | 10.86 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 298 | 1.09 | ||||||
| Turnout | 27,318 | 54.02 | ||||||
| 1990 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Cooke | 21,144 | 71.03 | +13.68 | ||||
| Liberal | Doreen Oullette | 6,640 | 22.31 | -15.51 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Vivian Tregunna | 1,096 | 3.68 | +0.85 | ||||
| Family Coalition | Earl Amyotte | 889 | 2.99 | +1.28 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 29,769 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1987 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Cooke | 17,162 | 57.65 | -3.97 | ||||
| Liberal | Rick Limoges | 11,257 | 37.81 | +22.59 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Terry Hrynyk | 842 | 2.83 | -20.32 | ||||
| Family Coalition | Mark Kahabka | 509 | 1.71 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,770 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1985 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Cooke | 17,883 | 61.62 | +12.04 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ron Burgoyne | 6,719 | 23.15 | +7.08 | ||||
| Liberal | Ferguson Jenkins | 4,418 | 15.22 | -17.90 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 29,020 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1981 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Cooke | 13,626 | 49.59 | +3.99 | ||||
| Liberal | Gerry Levesque | 9,102 | 33.12 | -4.11 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sandy Thomson | 4,418 | 16.08 | -1.10 | ||||
| Independents | John H. Snyder | 333 | 1.21 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 27,479 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1977 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Cooke | 12,947 | 45.59 | -2.26 | ||||
| Liberal | Michael MacDougall | 10,572 | 37.23 | -1.68 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Al Santing | 4,878 | 17.18 | +3.94 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,397 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1975 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Fred Burr | 13,273 | 47.85 | |||||
| Liberal | Mike MacDougall | 10,793 | 38.91 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bill Woolson | 3,671 | 13.24 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 27,737 | 100.0 | ||||||
References
    
-  For a listing of each MPP's Queen's Park curriculum vitae see below:
- For Fred Burr's Legislative Assembly information see "Fred Burr, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
- For Dave Cooke's Legislative Assembly information see "Dave Cooke, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
- For Wayne Lessard's Legislative Assembly information see "Wayne Lessard, MPP". Parliamentary History. Toronto: Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 2017.
 
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