Riding profile

Toronto--St. Paul's

Federal riding — ON · Urban · toronto core

The question

Toronto--St. Paul's: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Toronto--St. Paul's, an urban riding in Ontario, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 29-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 59% vote share, against 27% for the Conservative Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Leslie Church

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
31.8
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 58.6%
  • Conservative 26.9%
  • NDP 6.2%
  • Green 1.3%
  • PPC 0.8%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereToronto--St. Paul's 58.6%26.9%6.2%1.3%
Provincial averageOntario 45.6% +13.0 37.5% −10.6 6.4% −0.2 1.6% −0.4
National averageCanada 41.9% +16.8 34.8% −7.9 14.2% −8.0 2.1% −0.9

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
28.6 pts
Turnout
73.7%
Margin shift vs current projection
+3.2 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Leslie Church Elected Liberal 44,313 61.9 Business Consultant
Don Stewart Conservative 23,700 33.1 Parliamentarian
Bruce Levy NDP 2,496 3.5 Retired
Shane Philips Green 552 0.8 Singer-Songwriter
Joseph Frasca PPC 329 0.5 Location Coordinator
David Gershuny Other 133 0.2 Shipper-Receiver
Cynthia Valdron Other 58 0.1 Engineer

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Anglophone 84.8%
  • Non-francophone (other) 15.2%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
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