Timiskaming—Cochrane (federal electoral district)

For the current provincial electoral district, see Timiskaming—Cochrane (provincial electoral district).

Timiskaming—Cochrane was a federal electoral district in Ontario that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2003. It was located in the northeast part of Ontario. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Cochrane—Superior, Nipissing, Timiskaming—French River and Timmins—Chapleau ridings.

Timiskaming—Cochrane

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1996
District abolished	2003
First contested	1997
Last contested	2000

Timiskaming—Cochrane consisted of the Territorial District of Timiskaming excluding a portion including and to the west of the townships of Douglas and Geikie; the southeast part of the Territorial District of Cochrane; the eastern part of the Territorial District of Sudbury; and the northwest part of the Territorial District of Nipissing.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Nickel Belt, Nipissing—Timiskaming and Timmins-James Bay ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Timiskaming—French River, Cochrane—Superior, Nipissing and Timmins—Chapleau
36th	1997–2000		Benoît Serré	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
Riding dissolved into Nipissing—Timiskaming, Nickel Belt and Timmins-James Bay

Electoral history

1997 Canadian federal election: Timiskaming—Cochrane

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Benoît Serré	20,580
	Progressive Conservative	John Hodgson	4,886
	New Democratic	Marie-Jeanne Lacroix	4,623
	Reform	Norm Stewart	4,541

2000 Canadian federal election: Timiskaming—Cochrane

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Benoît Serré	19,403
	Alliance	Dan Louie	5,840
	Progressive Conservative	William J. Stairs	2,603
	New Democratic	Ambrose Raftis	2,461
	Green	Joseph Gold	790

See also

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