Bruce South (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Bruce South (provincial electoral district).

Bruce South was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1882 and from 1903 to 1935.

Bruce South

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867, 1903
District abolished	1882, 1933
First contested	1867
Last contested	1930

The original district was created by the British North America Act 1867. It consisted of the Townships of Kincardine (including the Village of Kincardine), Greenock Brant, Huron, Kinloss, Culross, and Carrick. It was abolished in 1882 when it was redistributed between Bruce East and Bruce West ridings.

It was recreated in 1903 from those two ridings. The second incarnation of the south riding consisted of the townships of Brant, Carrick, Culross, Elderslie, Greenock, Huron, and Kinloss, the town of Walkerton, and the villages of Chelsey, Lucknow, Paisley and Teeswater in the county of Bruce.

In 1924, it was redefined to consist of the part of the county of Bruce lying south of and including the townships of Huron, Kinloss, Greenock and Elderslie.

The electoral district was abolished in 1933 when it was merged into Bruce riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1872		Francis Hurdon	Conservative
2nd	1872–1873		Edward Blake	Liberal
	1873–1874
3rd	1874–1875
	1875–1878
4th	1878–1882		Alexander Shaw	Liberal–Conservative
Riding dissolved into Bruce East and Bruce West
Riding re-created from Bruce East and Bruce West
10th	1904–1908		Peter H. McKenzie	Liberal
11th	1908–1911		James J. Donnelly	Conservative
12th	1911–1913
	1913–1917		Reuben Eldridge Truax	Liberal
13th	1917–1921			Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925		John Walter Findlay	Progressive
15th	1925–1926		Walter Allan Hall	Liberal
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
Riding dissolved into Bruce

Election results

1867-1882

1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Francis Hurdon	1,777
	Unknown	W. Rastall	1,624
	Unknown	Mr. Hall	5
Eligible voters			4,066
Source: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1871[1]

1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Blake	1,878
	Conservative	Francis Hurdon	190
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

On Mr. Blake's appointment as Minister without Portfolio, 7 November 1873:

By-election on 14 December 1873
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Blake	acclaimed

1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Blake	2,312
	Unknown	R. Baird	1,991

By-Election: On Mr. Blake's appointment as Minister of Justice, 19 May 1875:

By-election on 2 June 1875
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Blake	acclaimed

1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Alexander Shaw	2,673
	Liberal	Edward Blake	2,598
Source: Canadian Elections Database[3]

1904-1935

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Peter H. McKenzie	3,082
	Conservative	James J. Donnelly	2,938

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James J. Donnelly	3,005
	Liberal	Peter H. McKenzie	2,812

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James J. Donnelly	2,878
	Liberal	R. E. Truax	2,775

Mr. J.J. Donnelly summoned to the Senate, 26 May 1913:

By-election on 30 October 1913
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	R. E. Truax	2,948
	Conservative	W. D. Cargill	2,833

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Reuben Eldridge Truax	3,628
	Government (Unionist)	Alexander Eugene McNab	3,456

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	John Walter Findlay	4,762
	Liberal	Reuben Eldridge Truax	3,849
	Conservative	John Purvis	2,232

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Allan Hall	3,965
	Conservative	Frederick William Lippert	3,362
	Progressive	John Walter Findlay	2,128

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Allan Hall	5,050
	Conservative	George S. Fowler	3,504
	Progressive	John Weigel	1,791

v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Allan Hall	5,738
	Conservative	Foster Graham Moffat	4,837

See also

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