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{{Infobox Canada electoral district

| province = Ontario

| image =

| caption = Bracondale in relation to the other Toronto ridings in 1945 election.

| prov-status = defunct

| prov-created = 1926

| prov-abolished = 1967

| prov-election-first = 1926

| prov-election-last = 1965

}}

Bracondale was a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that had been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1967. It's most notable achievement, was electing one of two women Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) to share the title "first-woman MPP" in 1943. In 1965, Bracondale's MPP, Joseph Gould, died in office sparking the final election held in the constituency. George Ben won the by-election, and became the constituency's last MPP. The constituency was then dissolved for the 1967 Ontario provincial election, and redistributed into the Dovercourt and Bellwoods electoral districts.

History

The constituency was first contested during Ontario's 17th general election on 1 December 1926.{{cite web|title=All Members serving in Parliament: 17 -- December 01, 1926 - September 17, 1929|url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_list.do?locale=en&ord=Riding_Name&dir=ASC&parlID=17|work=Past and Present MPPs|publisher=Ontario Legislative Assembly|accessdate=2011-08-29|location=Toronto|year=2011}} Arthur Russell Nesbitt, was elected its first Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA).{{cite web|title=Arthur Russell Nesbitt, MPP|url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1649|work=Past and Present MPPs|publisher=Ontario Legislative Assembly|accessdate=2011-08-29|location=Toronto|year=2011}} He was a member of Ontario Conservative Party. The first Ontario Liberal MLA was Lionel Conacher, a famous Canadian athlete that retired from the NHL hockey league to start a career in politics. He was elected on 6 October 1937. Soon after he was elected as an MLA, the legislature changed the designation for its members to Member of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) in 1938.

Bracondale's biggest claim to fame came in 1943. Its residents elected Rae Luckock, one of two Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) female MPPs to share the title "first-female MPP"; the other was Agnes Macphail in York East.

Geography

It is in the west-end of Toronto. The riding has a largely working class and immigrant population. The riding is made up largely of the old City of York, a southwestern portion of the old city of North York, and parts of the old city of Toronto north ofHigh Park.

It consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded by a line drawn from Humber River east along Highway 401, south along the Canadian National Railway situated west of Caledonia Road, west along Rogers Road, southeast along Old Weston Road, west along Lavender Road, south along Keele Street, southeast along the Canadian National/Canadian Pacific Railway, west along the Canadian Pacific Railway, and north along the Humber River to Highway 401.

Members of Provincial Parliament

class="wikitable"

! Parliament

! Years

! colspan="2" | Member

! Party

17th

| 1926–1929

| rowspan="3" {{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative|background}} |

| rowspan="3" |Arthur Nesbitt

| rowspan="3" |Conservative

18th

| 1929–1934

19th

| 1934-1937

20th

| 1937-1943

| {{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}} |

| Lionel Conacher

| Liberal

21st

| 1943-1945

| {{Canadian party colour|CA|CCF|background}} |

| Rae Luckock

| CCF

22nd

| 1945-1948

| {{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative|background}} |

| Harry Hyndman

| Conservative

23rd

| 1948-1951

| {{Canadian party colour|CA|CCF|background}} |

| Harry Walters

| CCF

Election results

{{CANelec/top|ON|25 September 1965}|percent=yes|change=yes|by=yes}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| |100.0 | | }}

{{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Karen McMillan-Aver| 3,249| 10.1| -0.2}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 32,225|100.0 | | }}

{{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Pina Martino| 1,941| 10.3| -4.9}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 18,897|100.0 | | }}

{{CANelec|ON|Progressive Conservatives|Stephen Halicki| 4,930| 15.2| -6.7}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 32,378|100.0 | | }}