Durham—Northumberland is a former federal 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...

 represented in the Canadian

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 House of Commons

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 from 1979 to 1988. It was located in the province

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 of Ontario

Ontario

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. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Northumberland—Durham

Northumberland—Durham

Northumberland—Durham was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 and Ontario

Ontario (electoral district)

Ontario was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1997. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1924 from Ontario South riding....

 ridings.

It consisted of:

• in the Regional Municipality of Durham: the Township of Scugog and the Town of Newcastle;
• in the County of Northumberland: the Township of Hope, the Town of Cobourg, and the part of the Township of Hamilton lying west of the Town of Cobourg and south of Highway 401;
• in the County of Peterborough: the Township of Cavan; and
• in the County of Victoria: the Township of Manvers.

The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed between Durham

Durham (electoral district)

Durham is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1968, and since 1988....

 and Victoria—Haliburton ridings.

Election results

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|LAWRENCE, Allan 
|align="right"|21,502
|-

|WILSON, Ian
|align="right"|10,748
|-

|MCLAUGHLIN, Fred
|align="right"|8,393
|-

|MARTTILA, Robert
|align="right"| 367
|-

|PLATT, Robert C.
|align="right"| 29
|}
|-

|LAWRENCE, Allan 
|align="right"|17,587
|-

|SCHAMERHORN, Ed
|align="right"|11,587
|-

|MCLAUGHLIN, Fred
|align="right"| 9,453
|-

|MARTTILA, Bob
|align="right"| 374
|-

|PLATT, Robert C.
|align="right"| 16
|}
|-

|LAWRENCE, Allan 
|align="right"| 24,968
|-

|CAMPBELL, Darce
|align="right"|8,740
|-

|GRIERSON, Roy
|align="right"|7,805
|-

|FLYNN, Brian
|align="right"|353
|-

|PAGE, Gordon W.
|align="right"|211
|}

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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