Grey—Bruce

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

Grey—Bruce was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Bruce South and Grey Southeast ridings.

Grey—Bruce

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1933
District abolished	1966
First contested	1935
Last contested	1965

It consisted of the townships of Artemesia, Bentinck, Egremont, Glenelg, Normanby, Proton and Sullivan in the county of Grey; and the townships of Brant, Carrick and Elderslie in the county of Bruce.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Bruce, Grey—Simcoe and Wellington—Grey ridings.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Bruce South and Grey Southeast
18th	1935–1940		Agnes Macphail	United Farmers of Ontario–Labour
19th	1940–1945		Walter Edward Harris	Liberal
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Eric Winkler	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Bruce, Grey—Simcoe and Wellington—Grey

Election results

v t e 1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	United Farmers of Ontario–Labour	Agnes Macphail	7,210
	Liberal	Walter Allan Hall	5,727
	Conservative	Lewis G. Campbell	5,100

v t e 1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Edward Harris	6,389
	National Government	Karl Daniel Knechtel	4,944
	United Farmers of Ontario–Labour	Agnes Macphail	4,761

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Edward Harris	8,912
	Progressive Conservative	John Grierson	7,582
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alfred Sachs	1,127

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Edward Harris	10,528
	Progressive Conservative	Frank D. Sawyer	6,051
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rudolph Baltruweit	1,137

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Edward Harris	9,236
	Progressive Conservative	Rankin Lorne Carefoot	6,279

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Winkler	10,707
	Liberal	Walter Edward Harris	7,606

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Winkler	11,878
	Liberal	Thomas Stevenson	6,248

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Winkler	10,514
	Liberal	William P. Oswald	7,009
	New Democratic	Elzard J. McAsey	763

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Winkler	10,535
	Liberal	Duncan Melvin McCallum	6,981
	Social Credit	George D. Watson	566
	New Democratic	Elzard Joseph McAsey	399

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Winkler	10,138
	Liberal	William R. Mathseon	5,639
	New Democratic	Melvin L. Tebbutt	1,706

See also

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