Elgin (federal electoral district)

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

Elgin (also known as Elgin—Norfolk) was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1997. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Elgin West and Norfolk—Elgin ridings.

Elgin

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1933
District abolished	1996
First contested	1935
Last contested	1993

It initially consisted of the county of Elgin, including the city of St. Thomas. In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the County of Elgin and the Village of Belmont in the County of Middlesex. In 1987, it was redefined to consist of the County of Elgin and the Township of Norfolk in the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk.

The name of electoral district was changed in 1990 to Elgin—Norfolk.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Elgin—Middlesex—London and Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Elgin Riding created from Elgin West and Norfolk—Elgin
18th	1935–1940		Wilson Mills	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Charles Delmer Coyle	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1954†
	1954–1957		James Alexander McBain
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968		Harold Stafford	Liberal
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974		John Wise	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993		Ken Monteith
Elgin—Norfolk
35th	1993–1997		Gar Knutson	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Elgin—Middlesex—London and Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant

Election results

Elgin

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Wilson Mills	11,295
	Conservative	Herbert James Davis	9,508
	Reconstruction	John Lawrence Stansell	1,793

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Wilson Mills	11,867
	National Government	Norman Roy Martin	8,905

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Delmer Coyle	11,652
	Liberal	Gordon Newell	7,484
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Peter Laing	2,397

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Delmer Coyle	10,265
	Liberal	Gordon Newell	9,085
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colin Charles Stafford	1,783

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Delmer Coyle	12,482
	Liberal	John Frederick Peterson	10,743

On Mr. Coyle's death, 19 January 1954:

By-election on 22 March 1954
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McBain	11,821
	Liberal	Harold Scott Rodney	10,680

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McBain	14,822
	Liberal	James Carman Hindley	7,280
	Social Credit	Frank H. Whatmore	1,407
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd George Allen	1,233

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McBain	17,146
	Liberal	Peter Laing	6,656
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd Allen	1,008
	Social Credit	Harold G. Youcke	252

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McBain	12,569
	Liberal	Harold Edwin Stafford	12,491
	New Democratic	Stuart Henry Phoenix	1,936
	Social Credit	Richard Orval Tustian	622

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McBain	13,957
	Liberal	Harold Stafford	12,910
	New Democratic	Harold Nathaniel Brooks	1,127
	Social Credit	Kenneth E. Shackleton	757

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Harold Stafford	13,343
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McBain	12,309
	New Democratic	Eric Dennis Hargreaves	1,530
	Social Credit	Clare Inger	520

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Harold Stafford	12,856
	Progressive Conservative	John S. Ker	11,799
	New Democratic	Barry P. Whittaker	4,227

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Wise	17,281
	Liberal	Harold Stafford	13,289
	New Democratic	Leroy B. Wright	3,345

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Wise	15,851
	Liberal	Marietta Roberts	13,349
	New Democratic	Bob McNaughton	4,373
	Social Credit	William Triska	126

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Wise	21,181
	Liberal	Joe Tokar	9,273
	New Democratic	Mary Lou Weitzel	4,293

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Wise	16,845
	Liberal	Gary Johnson	12,410
	New Democratic	Mary Lou Weitzel	4,508
	Marxist–Leninist	Roger Beland	57

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Wise	23,302
	Liberal	Gary Johnson	6,797
	New Democratic	Bob Habkirk	4,646

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Monteith	15,694
	Liberal	Tony Csinos	13,953
	New Democratic	Bob Habkirk	8,447
	Christian Heritage	Will Wymenga	2,529

Elgin—Norfolk

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gar Knutson	17,438
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Monteith	11,118
	Reform	John Van der Veen	8,236
	New Democratic	Bob Habkirk	2,168
	Christian Heritage	Bob A. Dekraker	1,263
	Natural Law	Rod Falk	242
	Abolitionist	Mai Ly	51

See also

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