Thursday, October 15, 2026
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Scarborough Centre

Provincial riding · Ontario · City of Toronto

Forecast of October 15, 2026

Our forecast gives the Ontario Liberals a 99% chance of winning, with an average lead of 5.9 points.

Safe seat. Chance of a final gap under 5 points: 32%.

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • OLP 46.8%
  • PC 41.0%
  • NDP 9.7%
  • OTH 1.5%
  • GP 1.1%

Thin vertical mark: 2025 result.

Compared with the average

OLP PC NDP OTH
Scarborough Centre 46.8%41.0%9.7%1.5%
Provincial averageOntario 32.5%+14.3 41.6%−0.7 20.3%−10.6 3.0%−1.5

Simple average of the 124 ridings, not weighted by population.

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Current member

David Smith · PC

44th Parliament.

Previous election (2025)

The PC Party won by 1.7 points, with 38.7% turnout.

Our current projection: the Ontario Liberals ahead by 5.9 points.

Candidates and votes in 2025

Candidate Party Votes %
David Smith Elected PC 13,363 44.1
Mazhar Shafiq OLP 12,839 42.3
Sonali Chakraborti NDP 2,628 8.7
Dean Boulding GP 918 3.0
Gus Prokos OTH 379 1.3
Haseeb Qureshi OTH 211 0.7

Nearby ridings

Party ahead and how sure the projection is.

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The tightest races

The smallest projected gaps between the top two.

  1. Hamilton MountainOLP52%1.6-point gap
  2. Mississauga CentrePC58%1.6-point gap
  3. Newmarket—AuroraPC63%1.7-point gap
Forecast updated