London (electoral district)

London
Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1966
First contested	1867
Last contested	1965

London was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario.

It consisted initially of the City of London, Ontario.

In 1914, it was redefined to exclude parts of the former township of London, which was now a part of the city.

In 1924, it was redefined as consisting of that part of the city of London lying west of and south of a line following (from the north) Adelaide Street and Oxford Street, the east side of Wolsley Barracks area, Middleton Avenue, Glasgow Street, Lorne Avenue, Burbrook Place, Dundas Street, Swinyard Street, Pine Street, Elm Street, Trafalgar Street, Adelaide Street, the south branch of the River Thames, Beverly Street, and Wellington Street south to the south boundary of the city.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years		Party
1st	1867–1872	John Carling	Liberal–Conservative
2nd	1872–1874	John Carling	Liberal–Conservative
3rd	1874–1874	John Walker	Liberal
3rd	1875–1878	James Harshaw Fraser	Liberal–Conservative
4th	1878–1882	John Carling
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1892	C. S. Hyman	Liberal
7th	1892–1896	John Carling	Liberal–Conservative
8th	1896–1900	Thomas Beattie	Conservative
9th	1900–1904	C. S. Hyman	Liberal
10th	1904–1905
	1905–1907
	1907–1908	Thomas Beattie	Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1914†
12th	1915–1917	William Gray
13th	1917–1921	Hume Cronyn	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925	John Franklin White	Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1938†	Frederick Cronyn Betts
18th	1938–1940	Robert James Manion
19th	1940–1945	Allan Johnston	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	Park Manross	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953	Alex Jeffery	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957	Robert Weld Mitchell	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1957–1958	Ernest Halpenny
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965	Jack Irvine
27th	1965–1968	Jack Irvine
Riding dissolved into London West and London East

Electoral history

1867 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	1,114
	Unknown	James[1] Peacock	266

1872 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	1,101
	Unknown	MacMahon	797

1874 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Walker	1,269
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	1,208

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 18 February 1875 Walker unseated, 9 September 1874
	Liberal–Conservative	James Harshaw Fraser	1,228
	Unknown	Samuel Peters	1,100

1878 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	1,407
	Liberal	John Walker	1,343

1882 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	1,485
	Unknown	John Campbell	1,238

1887 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	2,013
	Liberal	Charles S. Hyman	1,974

1891 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. S. Hyman	2,037
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling	1,854

Party		Candidate
By-election on 26 February 1892 Election annulled
	Liberal–Conservative	John Carling
	Liberal	C. S. Hyman

1896 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Beattie	2,325
	Liberal	C. S. Hyman	2,284

1900 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. S. Hyman	2,812
	Conservative	Thomas Beattie	2,265
	Independent	Robert Roadhouse	236

1904 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. S. Hyman	4,302
	Conservative	William Gray	4,278

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 13 June 1905 Hyman appointed Minister of Public Works, 22 May 1905
	Liberal	C. S. Hyman	4,581
	Conservative	William Gray	4,251

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 29 October 1907 Hyman resigned 11 April 1907
	Conservative	Thomas Beattie	3,209
	Liberal	J. D. Jacobs	2,174

1908 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Beattie	4,121
	Unknown	John Wiley McCandless	2,987

1911 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Beattie	5,263
	Unknown	John Millar McEvoy	3,352

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 1 February 1915 Beattie died 2 December 1914
	Conservative	William Gray	acclaimed

1917 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Hume Cronyn	11,136
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	George Sutton Gibbons	6,783

1921 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Franklin White	9,730
	Liberal	Charles Ross Somerville	7,974
	Progressive	Arthur Mould	4,252

1925 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Franklin White	12,260
	Liberal	Edgar Sydney Little	7,777
	Labour	John Colert	2,405

1926 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Franklin White	12,249
	Liberal	William John Stevenson	11,404

1930 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Franklin White	13,981
	Liberal	Jared Vining	9,698

1935 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Frederick Cronyn Betts	10,911
	Liberal	George Arthur Porte Brickenden	8,628
	Reconstruction	John Franklin White	3,814
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Everett Orlan Hall	3,041
	Independent	George Albert Wenige	2,101
	Independent Liberal	Clifford Hamilton Reason	1,203
	Independent	Hugh Allan Stevenson	406

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 14 November 1938 Betts died 7 May 1938
	Conservative	Robert James Manion	11,364
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Everett Orlan Hall	8,166

1940 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Allan Johnston	15,824
	National Government	Thomas Kingsmill	12,534
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Everett Orlan Hall	3,762

1945 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Park Manross	16,766
	Liberal	Allan Johnston	13,421
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Everett Orlan Hall	4,901
	Labor–Progressive	Arthur Mould	225

1949 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alex Jeffery	16,427
	Progressive Conservative	Park Manross	14,988
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Everett O. Hall	4,532

1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Weld Mitchell	15,254
	Liberal	S. Floyd Maine	12,869
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gwen Pemberton	2,748
	Labor–Progressive	Allison Grant Campbell	662

1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Halpenny	19,804
	Liberal	Hugh Mackenzie	11,110
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gwen Pemberton	2,714

1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Halpenny	24,276
	Liberal	Hugh Alexander Mackenzie	9,107
	Co-operative Commonwealth	E.O. Hall	2,598

1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Halpenny	16,096
	Liberal	Harry Quigley	11,084
	New Democratic	John Gelleta	3,679
	Social Credit	Larry Wilcocks	447

1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Irvine	15,700
	Liberal	Clarence M. Peterson	14,262
	New Democratic	Paddy O'Brien	3,335
	Social Credit	Lloyd H. Alford	599

1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Irvine	13,763
	Liberal	Margaret Fullerton	11,164
	New Democratic	Clayton Fee	4,412
	Independent	Albert W. Plumb	422
	Communist	Thomas Morris	271

References

Ottawa Citizen, September 6, 1867, pg 1

External links

Parliamentary website

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[1] Ottawa Citizen, September 6, 1867, pg 1

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London (electoral district)

Members of Parliament

Electoral history

See also

References

External links