Bonavista—Twillingate

Bonavista—Twillingate was a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 1968. This riding was created in 1949 when Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation.

Bonavista—Twillingate

Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1949
District abolished	1966
First contested	1949
Last contested	1967 by-election

The riding was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, Burin—Burgeo, Gander—Twillingate and Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador ridings. It initially consisted of the Districts of Twillingate, Fogo, Bonavista North, and Bonavista South excluding any part of the territory within a radius of five miles from the railway station at Gander.

In 1952, it was expanded to include the unorganized territory bounded on the North and West by the District of Grand Falls, on the South by the Districts of Burgeo and LaPoile and Fortune Bay-Hermitage, on the East by the Districts of Trinity North, Bonavista South and Bonavista North.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Bonavista—Twillingate
21st	1949–1953		Frederick Gordon Bradley	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957		Jack Pickersgill
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1967
	1967–1968		Charles Granger
Riding dissolved into Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, Burin—Burgeo, Gander—Twillingate and Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador

Election results

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Frederick Gordon Bradley	9,744
	Progressive Conservative	Kenneth S.G. Dawe	1,415

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jack Pickersgill	10,072
	Progressive Conservative	Edward Russell	2,564

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jack Pickersgill	9,158
	Progressive Conservative	John Charles Pinsent	1,347

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jack Pickersgill	13,670
	Progressive Conservative	Gerald M. Winter	4,323

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jack Pickersgill	11,530
	Progressive Conservative	Whitfield Bannister	3,846

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jack Pickersgill	11,748
	Progressive Conservative	Guy H. Eveleigh	2,448
	Independent Liberal	Walter Herbert Davis	1,943

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Jack Pickersgill	10,113
	Progressive Conservative	William Q. Moss	3,687

By-election on 6 November 1967 On Mr. Pickersgill's, resignation, 19 September 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Granger	8,112
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred Nathan French	6,356
	Independent	Samuel Drover	370

See also

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