Antigonish—Guysborough

Antigonish—Guysborough was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968.

Antigonish—Guysborough

Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914
District abolished	1966
First contested	1917
Last contested	1965

This riding was created in 1914 and combined the former ridings of Antigonish and Guysborough. Antigonish—Guysborough was abolished under redistribution in 1966 forming parts of Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Central Nova.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Antigonish—Guysborough Riding created from Antigonish and Guysborough
13th	1917–1921		John Howard Sinclair	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925		Colin Francis McIsaac	Liberal
15th	1925–1926		Edward Mortimer Macdonald
16th	1926–1926		John Carey Douglas	Conservative
	1927–1930		William Duff	Liberal
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1936
	1936–1940		J. Ralph Kirk
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1948–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Angus Ronald Macdonald	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962		Clement O'Leary
25th	1962–1963		John Benjamin Stewart	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Central Nova

Election results

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	John Howard Sinclair	3,944
	Government (Unionist)	William Alexander Wells	2,506

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Colin Francis McIsaac	6,752
	Progressive Conservative	Walter McNeil	3,356
	Progressive	Daniel McIsaac	1,553

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	6,135
	Conservative	Duncan Stewart Chisholm	5,545

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Carey Douglas	6,140
	Liberal	Colin Francis McIsaac	6,003

By-election on 18 January 1927 On the death of John Carey Douglas, 10 December 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Duff	6,415
	Conservative	Neil Romuald McArthur	5,292

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Carey Douglas	6,140
	Liberal	Colin Francis McIsaac	6,003
Source: lop.parl.ca

v t e 1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Duff	7,779
	Reconstruction	John Howard MacKichan	3,783

By-election on 16 March 1936 On William Duff being named to the Senate, 28 February 1936
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	acclaimed

v t e 1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	7,281
	National Government	William Edward Landry	4,610

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	6,379
	Progressive Conservative	John Douglas Macdonald	3,483
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Cyrus MacLellan	791

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	7,586
	Progressive Conservative	John Archibald Walker	4,385

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	6,884
	Progressive Conservative	Grant McDonald	3,395

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Angus Ronald MacDonald	6,053
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	5,856

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Clement O'Leary	6,758
	Liberal	Alasdair Graham	5,827

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John B. Stewart	6,296
	Progressive Conservative	Clement O'Leary	6,183
	New Democratic	John Hugh Campbell	208
	Social Credit	Alexander James Malloy	104

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John B. Stewart	6,947
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Forbes	5,835

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John B. Stewart	6,210
	Progressive Conservative	D. Hugh Gillis	6,163
	New Democratic	Leslie Myers	228

See also

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