Parkdale—High Park, ON — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Parkdale—High Park — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Parkdale—High Park was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Arif Virani, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 24,623 votes (42.0% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Peggy Nash (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 23,566 votes (40.2%), defeated by a margin of 1,057 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Ian Allen (Conservative, 13%).
Riding information
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Parkdale—High Park sits along Toronto's western lakefront, centred on the 161-hectare High Park and the distinct neighbourhoods that surround it. The riding takes in the walkable commercial strips of Roncesvalles and Bloor West Village, the Victorian row houses and rooming houses of Parkdale to the south, and the residential streets of Swansea and Junction Triangle to the north and west, bounded by the Humber River and Lake Ontario.
Candidates
Arif Virani (Liberal) — A constitutional and human rights lawyer, Virani arrived in Canada as a child with his family from Uganda. He studied law and went on to article at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin before spending twelve years practising constitutional law, including work with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General's constitutional law branch. He also served as a war crimes prosecutor with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and worked on human rights cases with the Canadian and Quebec Human Rights Commissions.
Peggy Nash (NDP) — A longtime labour leader at the Canadian Auto Workers union, Nash made history as the first woman to serve as lead negotiator on a major contract with one of the Detroit-based automakers. She first won Parkdale—High Park in 2006, lost to Liberal Gerard Kennedy in 2008, then recaptured the seat in 2011 when she defeated Kennedy by a wide margin. She ran for the federal NDP leadership in 2012, finishing fourth.
Ian Allen (Conservative) — Allen carried the Conservative banner in the riding.
Adam Phipps (Green Party) — Phipps represented the Green Party in Parkdale—High Park.
About the Riding
Few Toronto ridings contain as wide a socioeconomic spectrum as Parkdale—High Park. Parkdale's dense apartment buildings house many recent immigrants and lower-income residents, while Roncesvalles, Bloor West Village, and Swansea are home to established middle-class families. High Park itself—with its zoo, swimming pool, and extensive trail network—functions as the neighbourhood's shared public space. The Roncesvalles strip retains a strong Polish-Canadian identity, and the broader riding includes significant Tibetan, South Asian, and Latin American communities. Heading into 2015, local issues included the pace of condo development along the lakefront, the maintenance of affordable rental housing in Parkdale, and transit improvements along the Queen Street and King Street corridors. The race was widely watched as one of the tightest Liberal–NDP contests in the country.
