Brantford (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Brantford was a federal and provincial electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1904 to 1925 and from 1949 to 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

from 1986 to 1999.

Federal electoral district

The riding was first created in 1903 from parts of Brant South

Brant South

Brant South was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1923....

riding. It consisted initially of the city of Brantford, the township of Oakland, and the part of the township of Brantford south and west of the Grand River. The electoral district was abolished in 1924 when it was merged into Brantford City

Brantford City

Brantford City was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1949. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Brantford riding....

riding.

It was recreated in 1947 from parts of Brant

Brant (electoral district)

Brant is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1949 and since 1968.The federal riding was created in 1903. It consisted of Brant County excluding Brantford....

and Brantford City ridings. The second incarnation consisted initially of the city of Brantford, the townships of Burford and Oakland and the part of the township of Brantford lying south and west of the left bank of Grand River, in the county of Brant. In 1952, it was redefined to include a part of the township of Brantford lying to the east of the city Brantford.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was merged into Brant riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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William F. Cockshutt, Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

(1904-1908)
Lloyd Harris
Lloyd Harris
Lloyd Harris was a businessman and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Brantford in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1911 as a Liberal....

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

(1908-1911)
William F. Cockshutt, Conservative (1908-1921)
William Gawtress Raymond
William Gawtress Raymond
William Gawtress Raymond was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in London, England and became a merchant and postmaster....

, Liberal (1921-1925)

W. Ross Macdonald, Liberal (1949-1953)
James E. Brown, Liberal (1953-1957)
Jack Wratten
Jack Wratten
Jack Wratten was a Progressive Conservative partymember of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in England and became a contractor by career....

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

(1957-1962)
James E. Brown, Liberal (1962-1968)

Provincial electoral district

The Brantford provincial riding existed from 1926 to 1999. It included the city of Brantford

Brantford, Ontario

Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in Southern Ontario, Canada. While geographically surrounded by the County of Brant, the city is politically independent...

Members of the Legislative Assembly/Members of Provincial Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

William George Martin
William Martin (Manitoba politician)
William George Martin was a Canadian clergyman and politician. Martin represented Brantford in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1934 as a Conservative member and St...

, Conservative (1926-1934)
Morrison McBride, Independent/Independent-Liberal (1934-1938)
Henry Louis Hagey
Henry Hagey
Henry Louis "Lou" Hagey, was a lawyer and Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for a single term from his 1937 election until 1943....

, Liberal (1938-1943)
Charles Strenge, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

(1943-1945)
Stanley Dye, Progressive Conservative (1945-1948)
George Gordon, Liberal (1948-1967)
Mitro Markachuk, New Democratic Party
Ontario New Democratic Party
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(1967-1981)
Philip Gillies, Progressive Conservative (1981-1987)
David Neumann, Liberal (1987-1990)
Bradley Ward, New Democratic Party (1990-1995)
Ron Johnson, Progressive Conservative (1995-1999)

Federal election results

|-

|COCKSHUTT, William F.
|align="right"| 2,383
|-

|HEYD, Charles B.
|align="right"| 2,368
|}
|-

|HARRIS, Lloyd
|align="right"| 2,832
|-

|COCKSHUTT, William F.
|align="right"| 2,627
|}
|-

|COCKSHUTT, William F.
|align="right"| 3,159
|-

|PRESTON, Thomas Hiram
|align="right"| 2,440
|}
|-

|COCKSHUTT, William F.
|align="right"| 5,925
|-

|BOWLBY, John Wedgewood
|align="right"| 2,233
|-

|MACBRIDE, Morrisson Mann
|align="right"| 1,726
|}
|-

|RAYMOND, William Gawtress
|align="right"| 6,879
|-

|COCKSHUT, William Foster
|align="right"| 4,892
|-

|BURT, Arthur William
|align="right"| 1,244
|}
|-

|MACDONALD, W. Ross
|align="right"| 12,565
|-

|SHILLINGTON, John Tozeland
|align="right"| 6,747
|-

|COOPER, Reginald
|align="right"| 4,160
|}
|-

|BROWN, James Elisha
|align="right"|9,576
|-

|SHILLINGTON, John Tozeland
|align="right"| 7,912
|-

|GILLIES, John Houison
|align="right"| 3,839
|-

|NIELSEN, Dorise Winifred

Dorise Nielsen

Dorise Winifred Webber Nielsen was a Canadian politician and teacher.Born in England, Nielsen arrived in Canada and settled in Saskatchewan in 1927 to work as a teacher and married a homesteader the same year. She joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1934 and was a CCF campaign...

|align="right"| 216
|}
|-

|WRATTEN, Jack Winifred
|align="right"| 9,902
|-

|MCCORMACK, W. John
|align="right"| 8,095
|-

|MCLELLAN, Margaret
|align="right"| 5,927
|}
|-

|WRATTEN, Jack
|align="right"| 14,059
|-

|LESLIE, James Gray
|align="right"| 7,694
|-

|MAYCOCK, John
|align="right"| 3,726
|}
|-

|BROWN, James E.
|align="right"| 11,475
|-

|WRATTEN, Jack Winifred
|align="right"| 8,549
|-

|GOOD, Robert G.
|align="right"| 4,085
|-

|STYLES, Geoffrey E.W.
|align="right"| 1,193
|}
|-

|BROWN, James E.
|align="right"| 10,804
|-

|ANDREASEN, Andy
|align="right"| 9,680
|-

|HUMBLE, Bill
|align="right"|3,706
|-

|MOTZ, Herb
|align="right"| 766
|}
|-

|BROWN, James E.
|align="right"| 9,948
|-

|HODGE, Ken
|align="right"| 7,825
|-

|MAKARCHUK, Mac
|align="right"|6,176
|-

|SEDDON, Paul
|align="right"| 208
|}

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Library of Parliament
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Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Library of Parliament
The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada...