Port Arthur (electoral district)

Port Arthur
Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1933
District abolished	1976
First contested	1935
Last contested	1974

Port Arthur was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Port Arthur—Thunder Bay riding.

It consisted initially of the parts of the territorial districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, and Thunder Bay not included in the electoral districts of Algoma West, Cochrane, Fort William, and Kenora-Rainy River herein defined, and including the city of Port Arthur, together with that part of the district of Patricia not included in the electoral districts of Kenora—Rainy River and Cochrane.

In 1966, it was defined as consisting of the part of the territorial district of Thunder Bay contained in the City of Port Arthur and the Townships of Adrian, Blackwell, Conmee, Forbes, Fowler, Goldie, Gorham, Horne, Jacques, Laurie, MacGregor, McIntyre, McTavish, Oliver, Sackville, Sibley and Ware.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was merged into Thunder Bay—Nipigon riding.

Members of Parliament[]

Port Arthur has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Port Arthur—Thunder Bay
18th	1935–1940	C. D. Howe	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958	Doug Fisher	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1958–1962		Co-operative Commonwealth
25th	1962–1963		New Democratic
26th	1963–1965		New Democratic
27th	1965–1968	Bob Andras	Liberal
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Thunder Bay—Nipigon

Election results[]

1935 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	6,591
	Conservative	George Wardrope	2,807
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alex Gibson	1,357
	Communist	Albert Edward Smith	1,161
	Reconstruction	Peter Allan Legrow	519

1940 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	10,327
	National Government	Alan A. Barton	5,213
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alex Gibson	3,128

1945 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C.D. Howe	10,045
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Arthur Thompson	5,504
	Progressive Conservative	George Wardrope	3,516
	Labor–Progressive	Robert Melbourne Aylward	1,004

1949 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	12,646
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Thomas Cawley	6,401
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Ainslie Robinson	5,068
	Social Credit	John Emil Dagsvik	627

1953 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	12,272
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ronald Vincent Wilmot	5,865
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Robinson	5,415
	Labor–Progressive	Bruce Magnuson	923

1957 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Doug Fisher	12,228
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	10,813
	Progressive Conservative	Ina M. Vigars	5,261

1958 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Doug Fisher	12,217
	Progressive Conservative	Norman R. Wilson	10,215
	Liberal	Edward V. Anten	9,043

1962 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Doug Fisher	13,437
	Liberal	David W. Morgan	11,502
	Progressive Conservative	Norman R. Wilson	9,226
	Communist	Osmo R. Lahti	418
	Social Credit	Gilbert Heath	352

1963 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Doug Fisher	16,141
	Liberal	Saul Laskin	13,132
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey W. Smith	6,316

1965 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	14,706
	New Democratic	Gordon Oliver Rothney	12,275
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Smith	8,075

1968 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	11,079
	New Democratic	Gordon Oliver Rothney	7,306
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Rogers	4,179
	Communist	Norman Freed	233

1972 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	14,351
	New Democratic	Chris Ferguson	6,756
	Progressive Conservative	John Erickson	6,027
	No affiliation	Clifford Wahl	274

1974 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	14,523
	New Democratic	Dusty Miller	8,591
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Wright	3,322
	Communist	Clifford Wahl	164
	Marxist–Leninist	Janina Klee	54

External links[]

Website of the Parliament of Canada

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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

Port Arthur (electoral district)

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Members of Parliament[]

Election results[]

See also[]

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