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.

Sandwich-Riverside (1967-1975)
Windsor-Riverside (1975-1999)

Ontario electoral district
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

Source:

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

Source:

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

1. 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.