Ahsanul Hafiz
Ontario Liberal Candidate — Scarborough Southwest
"Let's Lead Together"
Scarborough Southwest is a provincial electoral district in eastern Toronto. It is one of the most diverse ridings in Ontario, with large South Asian, Bangladeshi, Tamil, and Chinese communities. The riding includes Kennedy Park, Woburn, Cliffcrest, and the Golden Mile corridor.
123,232
Population (2021)
81,880
Registered Electors (2025)
33,937
Valid Ballots (2025)
098
Provincial District #
NDP
Doly Begum
42.89%
14,557 votes
PC
Addie Daramola
30.64%
10,400 votes
OLP
Qadira Jackson
22.94%
7,786 votes
GRN
Mark Bekkering
3.52%
1,194 votes
Verified baseline: the OLP finished 19.95 points behind the NDP in the official 2025 provincial result. Any 2026 path on this page should be read as planning, not as a published election outcome.
Schematic neighbourhood map for field planning, based on the historical baselines already shown on this page. This is not an official GIS boundary map.
Birchcliffe / Cliffside
BaseStronger historical Liberal baseline
Cliffcrest
BaseLower field risk on historical federal data
Golden Mile
WatchMixed vote base, persuasion territory
Kennedy Park
PriorityDense outreach and multilingual canvass focus
Ionview / Warden Woods
PriorityHistorically tougher ground for Liberals
Scarborough Junction
PriorityHigh-priority turnout and persuasion zone
Source basis: Elections Canada 2021 poll-by-poll table, Elections Ontario 2025 riding-wide result, and the existing briefing's historical priority model.
69.60%
Doly Begum (Liberal)
18.80%
Conservative
5.90%
NDP
28,998
Validated Votes
Source check: added from the Scarborough Southwest 35096 validated federal result dataset you supplied, showing Doly Begum as the 2026 Liberal winner.
61.50%
Bill Blair (Liberal)
30.60%
Conservative
5.00%
NDP
54,740
Valid Ballots
Source check: this replaces the earlier unsupported 2026 by-election card with the official Elections Canada 45th general election result for Scarborough Southwest.
Ethnic Communities
Scarborough Southwest includes large Bangladeshi, broader South Asian, Tamil, Chinese, Filipino, and Caribbean communities. These labels are retained as outreach context rather than as newly source-cited percentage claims.
Housing
Mix of single-family homes in Cliffcrest/Birchcliffe, high-rise apartments in Kennedy Park, and condo developments along Golden Mile. Affordability remains a key briefing theme.
Economy
Working-class and middle-class families. Many small business owners, healthcare workers, and service industry employees.
Bangladeshi Community
Core outreach
Mosque networks, community events, direct relationship organizing
South Asian Families
Broad persuasion
Education, healthcare, and small-business messages
New Canadians
Service-first
Settlement support, credentials, transit access
Working Families
Cost pressure
Cost of living, childcare, and commute concerns