York Centre () is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1917 and since 1953. As per the 2016 Census, 17.0% of York Centre residents are of Filipino ethnic origin and 16.0% belong to the Filipino visible minority, which are the highest such figures among all City of Toronto ridings. At the same time, the York Centre riding has the highest percentage of residents of Russian (9.5%) and Jewish (5.6%) ethnic origins (in the 2011 National Household Survey, 13.6% of York Centre residents had entered a Jewish ethnic origin). The riding was previously considered one of the safest Liberal Party seats in Canada; however, this changed as the Conservative Party gained ground in the 2000s, and its candidate Mark Adler won the seat in 2011. However, the Liberal Party regained the seat in 2015 with its candidate Michael Levitt. Levitt was re-elected in 2019, and resigned as of September 1, 2020, to become the CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. A by-election to fill the vacancy took place on October 26, 2020, which was won by Liberal Ya'ara Saks. Demographics According to the Canada 2016 Census Ethnic groups: 53.1% White, 16.5% Filipino, 7.9% Black, 5.1% Latin American, 3.5% South Asian, 3.1% Chinese, 2.9% Southeast Asian, 2.0% West Asian, 1.6% Korean Languages: 67.7% English, 6.5% Russian, 5.5% Tagalog, 3.4% Italian, 3.2% Spanish, 1.5% Vietnamese, 1.2% Korean Religions (2011): 58.7% Christian (35.5% Catholic, 5.8% Christian Orthodox, 1.7% Anglican, 1.6% Pentecostal, 1.4% Baptist, 12.7% Other), 19.0% Jewish, 4.1% Muslim, 2.9% Buddhist, 2.2% Hindu, 12.7% None. Median income: $26,937 (2015) Average income: $41,225 (2015) Geography York Centre consists of the part of the City of Toronto bounded on the north by the northern city limit, and on the east, south and west by a line drawn from the city limit south along Bathurst Street, southeast along the Don River West Branch, southwest and west along Highway 401, north along Jane Street, east along Sheppard Avenue West, northwest along Black Creek, east along Grandravine Drive, and north along Keele Street to the city limit. It contains the neighbourhoods of Westminster–Branson, Bathurst Manor, Wilson Heights, Downsview, and York University Heights (a small section south of Grandravine Drive, east of Black Creek). At the approximate centre of the district is Downsview Park, an urban park controlled by the