Algoma East

Algoma East was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968.^[1] It was created in 1903 from parts of Algoma riding.

Algoma East

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

It initially consisted of the territorial district of Manitoulin and the part of the territorial district of Algoma lying east of a line drawn from south to north along the limit between the townships of Lefroy and Plummer Additional and due north to the northern limit of Algoma.

In 1904, the territorial district of Manitoulin was transferred out of the riding.

In 1914, it was redefined to consist of the eastern part of the territorial district of Algoma, excluding those parts included in Timiskaming, the western part of the territorial district of Sudbury, and the territorial district of Manitoulin

In 1933, it was redefined to consist of the territorial district of Manitoulin, and the parts of the territorial districts of Algoma and Sudbury.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Nickel Belt and Timmins—Chapleau ridings.

Its last, longest-serving, and highest-profile MP was Lester Pearson of the Liberal Party, who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Algoma
10th	1904–1908		Albert Dyment	Liberal
11th	1908–1911		William Ross Smyth	Conservative
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921		George Nicholson	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		John Carruthers	Liberal
15th	1925–1926		George Nicholson	Conservative
16th	1926–1930		Beniah Bowman	United Farmers of Ontario
17th	1930–1935		George Nicholson	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		Thomas Farquhar	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1948
	1948–1949		Lester B. Pearson
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, Nickel Belt and Timmins—Chapleau

Election results

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Albert Dyment	2,698
	Conservative	Byron H. Turner	2,120

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	William Ross Smyth	2,849
	Liberal	Albert Dyment	2,808

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	William Ross Smyth	3,898
	Liberal	John Lionel Regan	3,716

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	George Nicholson	4,742
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Lawrence O'Connor	3,596

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Carruthers	5,007
	Conservative	George Nicholson	4,194
	Progressive	John Egerton Wright	3,095

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Nicholson	6,209
	Liberal	John Carruthers	5,665

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	United Farmers of Ontario	Beniah Bowman	6,909
	Conservative	George Nicholson	6,143

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Nicholson	7,231
	Liberal	Beniah Bowman	6,934

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Thomas Farquhar	5,816
	Conservative	William James Card	2,541
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Kenneth James Webb Bromley	1,362
	Reconstruction	Isadore Ernest Provencher	833

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Thomas Farquhar	5,565
	National Government	John Lorne Campbell	3,126
	Co-operative Commonwealth	J. W. McVey	1,635

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Thomas Farquhar	4,855
	Progressive Conservative	Allan McNiece Austin	3,610
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Luke Strain	1,468

Canadian federal by-election, 25 October 1948 On Thomas Farquhar being called to the Senate, 10 September 1948
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	4,685
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lorne D. Callaghan	2,382
	Social Credit	John J. Fitzgerald	1,236

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	6,184
	Progressive Conservative	Grant H. Turner	2,908
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Thornton	2,202

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	7,494
	Progressive Conservative	George H. Bishop	3,877

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	8,574
	Progressive Conservative	H. Merton Mulligan	5,757
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Martin S. Reid	2,156

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	11,240
	Progressive Conservative	Basil Scully	8,208
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Walter James Corbett	2,309

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	11,934
	Progressive Conservative	Alex Berthelot	5,631
	New Democratic	Cam Cork	3,168

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	10,817
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Jewell	6,146
	Social Credit	Irénée John Quenneville	2,016
	New Democratic	Bennett Donahue	1,751

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lester B. Pearson	9,268
	Progressive Conservative	Joel Aldred	5,793
	New Democratic	Walter Stuart	2,053

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada