Hamilton East has been the city's political star factory, producing
such memorable figures as Sam Lawrence, John Munro, Quinto Martini,
Sheila Copps, Dominic Agostino, Bob Mackenzie and, almost, Lincoln Alexander.
Hamilton East was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 2004. It consisted of the eastern part of the city and is considered a working class district.
Liberal warhorse John Munro carried the riding in 1962 and held it until 1984, when Sheila Copps took up the torch and held it to 2003.
Dominic Agostino, the fiery but media-friendly Sheila Copps protege who
graduated from Hamilton city council to take the seat for the Liberals, served nine years before his untimely death.
After more than 100 years, Hamilton East's storied and decidedly left- leaning political history began its final chapter when the plates of the electoral earth shifted, first federally and now provincially.
Boundary realignment has split Hamilton East in two, giving part to Stoney Creek, where the name lives on -- if a little weakly -- as Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. The rest of the riding has been hived off and grafted to
the amorphous Hamilton Centre. Source.
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