Algoma West

Algoma West
Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1903
District abolished	1966
First contested	1904
Last contested	1965

Algoma West was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968. It was created in 1903 from parts of Algoma riding.

The west riding of Algoma was defined to consist of the portion of the territorial district of Algoma lying west of Algoma East riding.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Cochrane, Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins—Chapleau ridings. Algoma West was created in 1903 from Algoma, and was abolished in 1966 into Algoma and Sault Ste. Marie.

Members of Parliament[]

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Algoma
10th	1904–1908	Arthur Cyril Boyce	Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921	Thomas Edward Simpson	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	Henry Sidney Hamilton	Liberal
19th	1940–1945	George E. Nixon
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Algoma and Sault Ste. Marie

Election results[]

1904 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arthur Cyril Boyce	1,675
	Liberal	J. J. Kehoe	1,580

1908 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arthur Cyril Boyce	2,079
	Liberal	Robert James Gibson	1,870

1911 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arthur Cyril Boyce	2,738
	Liberal	Charles Napier Smith	2,180

1917 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Thomas Edward Simpson	4,780
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Charles Napier Smith	2,510
	Labour	James Lockwood	658

1921 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	4,279
	Liberal	Henry Sidney Hamilton	3,565
	Progressive	Thomas Farquhar	2,822

1925 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	6,767
	Liberal	Thomas John McCauley	3,574

1926 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	7,171
	Liberal–Labour	Albert Ernest Whytall	4,187

1930 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	7,531
	Liberal	Albert Ernest Whytall	6,108

1935 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Henry Sidney Hamilton	6,788
	Conservative	Ernest Victor McMillan	4,844
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Albert Edward Headrick	1,669
	Liberal	Albert Reid Wood	1,180
	Reconstruction	Vincent Hector Prewer	252

1940 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	8,632
	National Government	John L. Lang	5,612
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harry P. Waite	2,196

1945 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	7,476
	Progressive Conservative	Harold Scott Trefry	5,619
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd George Shepherd	4,281

1949 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	10,127
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur Allison Wishart	5,056
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Richard Wellington Johns	4,716

1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	10,461
	Progressive Conservative	James Sydney Foulds	5,571
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John G. Barker	4,428

1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	10,166
	Progressive Conservative	Henry M. Lang	8,345
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harvey Claude Willoughby	5,027

1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	12,390
	Progressive Conservative	Henry Lang	11,355
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lorne D. Callahan	4,801

1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	13,832
	Progressive Conservative	Henry Lang	9,681
	New Democratic	Morris Wernick	8,274

1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	14,023
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Eaid	10,119
	New Democratic	Morris Wernick	9,351
	Social Credit	Ronald James Ash	355

1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	12,034
	Progressive Conservative	Russ Ramsay	11,914
	New Democratic	Erhart Regier	9,564

External links[]

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

v t Historical federal ridings in Ontario
Until 2015	Ajax—Pickering Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale Barrie Bramalea—Gore—Malton Brampton—Springdale Brant Carleton—Mississippi Mills Chatham-Kent—Essex Halton Kitchener—Waterloo Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Leeds—Grenville Mississauga—Brampton South Mississauga—Erindale Mississauga South Nepean—Carleton Niagara West—Glanbrook Northumberland—Quinte West Oak Ridges—Markham Ottawa—Orléans Peterborough Pickering—Scarborough East Prince Edward—Hastings St. Paul's Scarborough—Rouge River Trinity—Spadina Vaughan Welland Whitby—Oshawa York West
Until 2006	Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge Grey—Bruce—Owen Sound Middlesex—Kent—Lambton
Until 2004	Algoma—Manitoulin Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale Brampton Centre Brampton West—Mississauga Bruce—Grey Carleton—Lanark Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey Durham Erie—Lincoln Guelph—Wellington Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant Haliburton—Victoria—Brock Hamilton East Hamilton West Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Kenora—Rainy River Lambton—Kent—Middlesex Markham Mississauga Centre Mississauga East Mississauga West Niagara Centre Nipissing Northumberland Oak Ridges Perth—Middlesex Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge Scarborough East Stoney Creek Stormont—Dundas—Charlotenburgh Thunder Bay—Atikokan Timiskaming—Cochrane Toronto Centre—Rosedale Vaughan—King—Aurora Waterloo—Wellington Whitby—Ajax Windsor—St. Clair York North
Until 2000	Bramalea—Gore—Malton Broadview—Greenwood Carleton—Gloucester Kent—Essex London—Adelaide Stormont—Dundas Victoria—Haliburton Wentworth—Burlington
Until 1997	Algoma Beaches—Woodbine Brampton Cochrane—Superior Don Valley North Elgin—Norfolk Erie Essex—Kent Essex—Windsor Haldimand—Norfolk Halton—Peel Hamilton—Wentworth Kent Kitchener Lambton—Middlesex Lincoln London East London—Middlesex Markham—Whitchurch-Stouffville Nepean Oakville—Milton Ontario Ottawa West Perth—Wellington—Waterloo Rosedale Scarborough West Simcoe Centre Thunder Bay—Nipigon Timiskaming—French River Timmins—Chapleau Waterloo Welland—St. Catharines—Thorold Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe York—Simcoe
Until 1993	Brampton—Malton Elgin Markham Renfrew Timiskaming Windsor—Lake St. Clair
Until 1988	Beaches Brampton—Georgetown Durham—Northumberland Grey—Simcoe Guelph Halton Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton Mississauga North Nepean—Carleton Ottawa—Carleton Perth Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Simcoe South Spadina Trinity Welland Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe Windsor—Walkerville York East York—Peel York—Scarborough
Until 1984	Cochrane Hastings—Frontenac Sarnia
Until 1979	Broadview Bruce Don Valley Eglinton Etobicoke Fort William Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Greenwood Grenville—Carleton Halton—Wentworth Hastings High Park—Humber Valley Huron—Middlesex Kent—Essex Lambton—Kent Leeds Middlesex—London—Lambton Mississauga Norfolk—Haldimand Northumberland—Durham Oshawa—Whitby Parkdale Peel—Dufferin—Simcoe Perth—Wilmot Port Arthur Renfrew North—Nipissing East Sarnia—Lambton Thunder Bay Timmins Toronto—Lakeshore Waterloo—Cambridge Wellington Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Waterloo York—Simcoe York South
Until 1974	Huron Middlesex Ottawa East Peel South Waterloo
Until 1972	Essex Glengarry—Prescott High Park Lakeshore Lanark and Renfrew Perth Renfrew North Sarnia Wellington—Grey
Until 1968	Algoma East Algoma West Brant—Haldimand Brantford Carleton Danforth Dufferin—Simcoe Durham Essex East Essex South Essex West Grenville—Dundas Grey—Bruce Grey North Hamilton South Hastings—Frontenac Hastings South Kent Kingston Lambton West Lanark London Middlesex East Middlesex West Norfolk Northumberland Peel Prince Edward—Lennox Renfrew South Russell Simcoe East Stormont Victoria Waterloo North Waterloo South Wellington—Huron Wellington South Wentworth York—Humber
Until 1953	Brant—Wentworth Frontenac—Addington Glengarry Haldimand Hastings—Peterborough Huron North Huron—Perth Kingston City Peterborough West Prescott Wellington North
Until 1949	Brant Brantford City Muskoka—Ontario Parry Sound
Until 1935	Bruce North Bruce South Elgin West Grey Southeast Huron South Lambton East Norfolk—Elgin City of Ottawa Oxford North Oxford South Perth North Perth South Port Arthur—Thunder Bay Timiskaming North Timiskaming South Toronto East Toronto East Centre Toronto—High Park Toronto Northeast Toronto Northwest Toronto—Scarborough Toronto South Toronto West Centre
Until 1925	Brantford Dufferin Dundas Elgin East Essex North Fort William and Rainy River Frontenac Glengarry and Stormont Grenville Hastings East Hastings West Kingston Lennox and Addington Muskoka Norfolk North Oxford Ontario North Ontario South Peterborough East Port Arthur and Kenora Prince Edward Simcoe South South Oxford Timiskaming Toronto Centre Toronto North Toronto West York East
Until 1917	Brockville Glengarry Grey East Grey South Huron East Huron West Kent East Kent West Lanark North Lanark South Middlesex North Northumberland East Northumberland West Stormont Thunder Bay and Rainy River York Centre
Until 1904	Addington Algoma Bothwell Brant South Bruce East Bruce West Cardwell Centre Toronto Cornwall and Stormont Durham East Durham West East York Grenville South Haldimand and Monck Hamilton Hastings North Kent Leeds North and Grenville North Leeds South Lennox Lincoln and Niagara Middlesex South Muskoka and Parry Sound Norfolk North Norfolk South Ontario West Victoria North Victoria South Wellington Centre Wentworth North and Brant Wentworth South West Toronto York West
Until 1896	Brant North Haldimand Monck Wentworth North
Until 1882	Bruce South Cornwall Essex Huron Centre Huron North Lambton Lincoln Muskoka Niagara Stormont