Hants—Kings was a 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...

 in the province

Provinces and territories of Canada

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 of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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, Canada

Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1925 to 1935.

This riding was created in 1924 from Hants

Hants (electoral district)

Hants was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1925. It was created in the British North America Act of 1867, and abolished in 1924 when it was merged into Hants—Kings riding...

 and Kings

Kings (electoral district)

Kings was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1925.It was created in the British North America Act of 1867. The riding was abolished in 1924 when it was merged into Hants—Kings riding...

 ridings. It consisted of the Counties of Hants and Kings. It was abolished in 1933 when it was redistributed into Colchester—Hants

Colchester—Hants

Colchester—Hants was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968....

 and Digby—Annapolis—Kings

Digby—Annapolis—Kings

Digby—Annapolis—Kings was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1949, and from 1953 to 1968....

 ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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:

1. Arthur de Witt Foster
   Arthur de Witt Foster
   Arthur DeWitt Foster was an educator, broker and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Kings from 1911 to 1915 and Hants—Kings from 1925 to 1926 in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative....
   
   , 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...
   
    (1925-1926)
2. James Lorimer Ilsley
   James Lorimer Ilsley
   James Lorimer Ilsley, PC, KC was a Canadian politician and jurist.He was born in Somerset, Nova Scotia, the son of Randel Ilsley and Catherine Caldwell. Ilsley was educated at Acadia University and Dalhousie University and was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1916. In 1919, he married Evelyn Smith...
   
   , 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...
   
    (1926-1935)

Election results

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|FOSTER, Arthur de Witt ||align=right|10,168
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|ROBINSON, Ernest William ||align=right|9,110
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|ILSLEY, James Lorimer ||align=right|10,261
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|FOSTER, Arthur de Witt ||align=right|10,181
|-

|ILSLEY, James Lorimer ||align=right|11,059
|-

|FOSTER, Arthur de Witt ||align=right|9,947

See also

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

External links

• Riding history for Hants—Kings (1924–1933) from the Library of Parliament
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