Lanark (electoral district)

Lanark
Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914
District abolished	1966
First contested	1917
Last contested	1965

Lanark was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was first created in 1914 from Lanark North and Lanark South ridings.

It consisted of the county of Lanark.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Frontenac—Lennox and Addington and Lanark and Renfrew ridings.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Lanark North and Lanark South
13th	1917–1918†	Adelbert Edward Hanna	Government (Unionist)
13th	1918–1921	John Alexander Stewart	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1922†	John Alexander Stewart	Conservative
14th	1922–1925	Richard Franklin Preston
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1929†
16th	1929–1930	William Samuel Murphy	Independent Conservative
17th	1930–1935	Thomas Alfred Thompson	Conservative
18th	1935–1940	Thomas Alfred Thompson	Conservative
19th	1940–1945	Bert Soper	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	William Gourlay Blair	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1957†
23rd	1957–1958	George Doucett
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968	Desmond Code
Riding dissolved into Lanark and Renfrew and Frontenac—Lennox and Addington

Electoral history

1917 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Adelbert Edward Hanna	5,816
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Boyd Alexander Conyn Caldwell	2,609
	Unknown	George Arthur Burgess	661

On Mr. Hanna's death, 27 February 1918:

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 2 May 1918
	Government (Unionist)	John Alexander Stewart	acclaimed

1921 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Alexander Stewart	9,250
	Progressive	Robert Matheson Anderson	6,615
	Labour	William George Ferguson	158

On Mr. Stewart's death, 7 October 1922:

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 4 December 1922
	Conservative	Richard Franklin Preston	8,497
	Liberal	David Findlay	7,048

1925 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Richard Franklin Preston	7,620
	Independent	Duncan Herbert Gemmell	4,416

1926 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Richard Franklin Preston	8,122
	Liberal–Progressive	George W. Buchanan	4,908

On Mr. Preston's death, 8 February 1929:

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 29 July 1929
	Independent Conservative	William Samuel Murphy	7,174
	Conservative	Thomas Alfred Thompson	5,682

1930 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Alfred Thompson	7,064
	Liberal	Bert Soper	5,699
	Independent Conservative	William Samuel Murphy	3,937
	Independent Conservative	Mildred Amelia Low	75

1935 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Alfred Thompson	8,043
	Liberal	Bert Soper	7,381
	Reconstruction	George L. Comba	2,252

1940 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bert Soper	8,821
	National Government	Thomas Alfred Thompson	7,180

1945 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	William Gourlay Blair	10,350
	Liberal	Bert Soper	6,053
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lauri A. Hetanen	753

1949 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	William Gourlay Blair	10,921
	Liberal	Frederick Sylvester Doyle	6,682
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Henry Powell	632

1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	William Gourlay Blair	10,029
	Liberal	H. Burnett Montgomery	5,316
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Henry Powell	451

1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	William Gourlay Blair	11,629
	Liberal	W. Peter Burchell	4,504

On Mr. Blair's death, 16 June 1957:

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 26 August 1957
	Progressive Conservative	George Doucett	acclaimed

1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	George Doucett	12,116
	Liberal	William Y. Wood	4,315

1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	George Doucett	10,462
	Liberal	Vincent Kelly	6,823
	Social Credit	R. H. James	660
	New Democratic	Charles Ogilvie	410

1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	George Doucett	10,475
	Liberal	R. Arthur Stewart	7,043
	New Democratic	James O. W. Griffith	601
	Social Credit	Oscar Wilmot Ventress	312

1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Desmond Code	9,784
	Liberal	John Steele Kirkland	6,826
	New Democratic	Stanley Livingstone	775
	Social Credit	William Hunter	335

External links

Parliamentary website

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Until 1949	Brant Brantford City Muskoka—Ontario Parry Sound
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Until 1904	Addington Algoma Bothwell Brant South Bruce East Bruce West Cardwell Centre Toronto Cornwall and Stormont Durham East Durham West East York Grenville South Haldimand and Monck Hamilton Hastings North Kent Leeds North and Grenville North Leeds South Lennox Lincoln and Niagara Middlesex South Muskoka and Parry Sound Norfolk North Norfolk South Ontario West Victoria North Victoria South Wellington Centre Wentworth North and Brant Wentworth South West Toronto York West
Until 1896	Brant North Haldimand Monck Wentworth North
Until 1882	Bruce South Cornwall Essex Huron Centre Huron North Lambton Lincoln Muskoka Niagara Stormont

Lanark (electoral district)

Members of Parliament

Electoral history

See also

External links