Scarborough North

Scarborough North covers the northeastern quadrant of Scarborough, running from Steeles Avenue along the Markham border in the north to Highway 401 in the south, and from Midland Avenue in the west to the Rouge River in the east. The riding takes in the neighbourhoods of Agincourt East, Milliken East, Morningside Heights, and Malvern—communities that together represent one of the most culturally diverse populations in the country.

Candidates

Shaun Chen (Liberal) — Born in Toronto to parents of Hakka Chinese descent from India, Chen grew up in Scarborough and attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute before studying at the University of Toronto. He was elected to the Toronto District School Board as a trustee in 2006 and became the first Chinese-Canadian elected as chair of the TDSB in 2014. He resigned the position in August 2015 to run for Parliament and was first elected that year. He was seeking his second term.

David Kong (Conservative) — Kong was the Conservative Party's candidate in Scarborough North for the 2019 election.

Yan Chen (NDP) — A community legal worker at the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic who served low-income, non-English-speaking clients from Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian communities across Ontario, Chen had spent a decade working on housing, immigration, and refugee issues on behalf of vulnerable newcomers.

Avery Velez ran for the Green Party, Jude Guerrier for the People's Party of Canada, and Janet Robinson for the UPC.

About the Riding

Scarborough North was created through the 2012 federal redistribution and first contested in 2015. Its neighbourhoods reflect decades of successive immigration waves that have reshaped northeastern Scarborough. Milliken is home to one of the highest concentrations of visible minorities of any neighbourhood in Toronto, with a commercial landscape of Chinese and South Asian shopping plazas. Malvern, in the riding's eastern half, is home to more than sixty cultural communities and has historically faced higher-than-average rates of poverty and youth unemployment alongside deep community resilience.

The riding is overwhelmingly residential, with large tracts of townhouse complexes, apartment buildings, and postwar suburban homes. Transit access is a defining concern: residents rely heavily on bus routes feeding into the Scarborough Town Centre station and the Kennedy and Finch transit hubs, and commute times to downtown Toronto are among the longest in the city. The Tamil-speaking community—one of the largest concentrations outside Sri Lanka—has established cultural organizations, temples, and businesses that are integral to the riding's identity. Community safety, youth programming, affordable housing, and settlement services for newcomers were central to the riding's political life heading into 2019.