Victoria (Ontario electoral district)

For other electoral districts with a similar name, see Victoria#Canadian electoral districts.

Victoria was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was first created in 1903 from parts of Peterborough East, Victoria North and Victoria South ridings.

Victoria

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1903
District abolished	1966
First contested	1904
Last contested	1965

It was initially defined as consisting of the county of Victoria, and the provisional county of Haliburton. In 1947, it was expanded to include the townships of Rama, Mara, Thorah and Brock in the county of Ontario.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it became part of Victoria—Haliburton riding.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Victoria North, Victoria South and Peterborough East
10th	1904–1908		Sam Hughes	Liberal–Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1911
	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921			Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		John Jabez Thurston	Independent
15th	1925–1926		Thomas Hubert Stinson	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940		Bruce McNevin	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Clayton Hodgson	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965		Charles Lamb
27th	1965–1968		William C. Scott
Riding dissolved into Victoria—Haliburton

Election history

1904 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	Sam Hughes	4,085
	Unknown	R. J. McLaughlin	3,782

1908 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	Sam Hughes	4,315
	Unknown	Archibald Wilson	3,277

1911 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	Sam Hughes	4,001
	Unknown	James Burnett Begg	2,707

By-election: On Mr. Hughes being appointed Minister of the Militia and Defence, 27 October 1911: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	Sam Hughes	acclaimed

1917 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government (Unionist)	Sam Hughes	6,338
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	George Dunkley Isaac	3,079

1921 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Jabez Thurston	8,019
	Conservative	Thomas Hubert Stinson	7,816

1925 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Hubert Stinson	8,632
	Progressive	Bruce McNiven	6,285

1926 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Hubert Stinson	9,070
	Progressive	John Jabez Thurston	6,004

1930 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Hubert Stinson	8,999
	Liberal	Thomas John Carley	6,269

1935 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce McNevin	8,234
	Conservative	Thomas Hubert Stinson	8,174
	Reconstruction	John R. Falconer	558

1940 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce McNevin	8,499
	National Government	C. D. H. MacAlpine	7,422

1945 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Clayton Hodgson	8,207
	Liberal	Bruce McNevin	7,388
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Allan Wilson Botting	601

1949 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Clayton Hodgson	11,061
	Liberal	Bruce McNevin	10,105
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gordon Balfour Milling	625

1953 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Clayton Hodgson	12,634
	Liberal	Foster M. Graham	9,041

1957 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Clayton Hodgson	14,153
	Liberal	Frank Welch	5,835
	Social Credit	Albert G. McPhail	917
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Albert Constable	860

1958 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Clayton Hodgson	16,080
	Liberal	Joseph A. Hutton	5,190
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Constable	1,112

1962 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Clayton Hodgson	12,555
	Liberal	Frank Welch	6,653
	New Democratic	Allan Gordon McPhail	3,029
	Social Credit	A. E. Hancock	742

1963 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Lamb	10,538
	Liberal	S. Clifton Benson	9,572
	New Democratic	Allan Gordon McPhail	2,994

1965 Canadian federal election: Victoria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	William C. Scott	11,282
	Liberal	Hugh David Petrie Logan	8,828
	New Democratic	Allan Gordon McPhail	3,230

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
• Monarchy in Ontario

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada