Riding profile

Beaches--East York

Federal riding — ON · Urban · toronto core

The question

Beaches--East York: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Beaches--East York, an urban riding in Ontario, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 44-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 64% vote share, against 17% for the Conservative Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 1% francophone, 86% anglophone.

Sitting member

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
47.1
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 64.5%
  • Conservative 17.3%
  • NDP 7.0%
  • Green 1.8%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereBeaches--East York 64.5%17.3%7.0%1.8%
Provincial averageOntario 45.6% +18.8 37.5% −20.1 6.4% +0.6 1.6% +0.1
National averageCanada 41.9% +22.6 34.8% −17.5 14.2% −7.2 2.1% −0.4

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Liberal
Margin
44.0 pts
Turnout
71.9%
Margin shift vs current projection
+3.2 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Nate Erskine-Smith Elected Liberal 39,804 67.7 Parliamentarian
Jocelyne Poirier Conservative 13,830 23.5 Director of Finance
Shannon Devine NDP 4,027 6.9 Communications Director
Jack Pennings Green 748 1.3 Software Developer
Diane Joseph Independent 161 0.3 Social Service Worker
Elizabeth Rowley Other 146 0.2 Federal Political Party Leader
Steve Rutchinski Other 39 0.1 Post-Secondary Education Administrator

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.9%
  • Anglophone 85.5%
  • Non-francophone (other) 13.6%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
fed_46