Windsor—Riverside

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

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.

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: [1]

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: [2] [3]

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.