Jessica Bell is a Canadian politician who has represented University—Rosedale in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2018, as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).
Jessica Bell | |
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| Critic, Housing | |
| Assumed office July 13, 2022 | |
| Leader | Marit Stiles |
| Critic, Transit | |
| In office August 23, 2018 – June 2, 2022 | |
| Leader | Andrea Horwath |
| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for University—Rosedale | |
| Assumed office June 7, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | New Democratic |
| Residence(s) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Politician, community organizer |
Bell is the Opposition Transit Critic in the legislature. Prior to being elected, she was the founding executive director of TTCriders, an advocacy group campaigning for improvements to the Toronto Transit Commission. She has a long history of community organizing and grassroots activism.
Bell has also been a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, and director of the California Food & Justice Coalition.[1]
Politics
In 2018, Bell was named the Ontario NDP's critic for transit. After the 2022 Ontario general election her critic portfolio changed to housing.[2]
Electoral record
| 2022 Ontario general election: University—Rosedale | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Jessica Bell | 13,961 | 37.55 | −12.11 | $96,148 | |||
| Liberal | Andrea Barrack | 10,172 | 27.36 | +5.30 | $120,103 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Carl Qiu | 6,535 | 17.58 | −3.53 | $43,740 | |||
| Green | Dianne Saxe | 5,904 | 15.88 | +10.51 | $118,893 | |||
| New Blue | James Leventakis | 469 | 1.26 | $47 | ||||
| Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda | John Kanary | 140 | 0.38 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 37,181 | 99.49 | +0.45 | $121,100 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 189 | 0.51 | −0.45 | |||||
| Turnout | 37,370 | 43.20 | −13.43 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 86,192 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | −8.71 | ||||||
Source(s)
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| 2018 Ontario general election: University—Rosedale | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Jessica Bell | 24,537 | 49.66 | +25.39 | ||||
| Liberal | Jo-Ann Davis | 10,898 | 22.06 | -26.04 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gillian Smith | 10,431 | 21.11 | +2.98 | ||||
| Green | Tim Grant | 2,652 | 5.37 | -1.69 | ||||
| New People's Choice | Daryl Christoff | 284 | 0.57 | |||||
| Independent | Doug MacLeod | 220 | 0.45 | |||||
| Libertarian | Ryan Swim | 206 | 0.42 | |||||
| Go Vegan | Paulo Figueiras | 106 | 0.21 | |||||
| Special Needs | Hilton Milan | 78 | 0.16 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 49,412 | 99.04 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 480 | 0.96 | ||||||
| Turnout | 49,892 | 56.63 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 88,097 | |||||||
| New Democratic pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[3] | ||||||||