Algoma West

Algoma West

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

Algoma West was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968. It was created in 1903 from parts of Algoma riding.

The west riding of Algoma was defined to consist of the portion of the territorial district of Algoma lying west of Algoma East riding.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Cochrane, Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins—Chapleau ridings. Algoma West was created in 1903 from Algoma, and was abolished in 1966 into Algoma and Sault Ste. Marie.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Algoma
10th	1904–1908		Arthur Cyril Boyce	Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921		Thomas Edward Simpson	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925			Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940		Henry Sidney Hamilton	Liberal
19th	1940–1945		George E. Nixon
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Algoma and Sault Ste. Marie

Election results

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arthur Cyril Boyce	1,675
	Liberal	J. J. Kehoe	1,580

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arthur Cyril Boyce	2,079
	Liberal	Robert James Gibson	1,870

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arthur Cyril Boyce	2,738
	Liberal	Charles Napier Smith	2,180

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Thomas Edward Simpson	4,780
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Charles Napier Smith	2,510
	Labour	James Lockwood	658

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	4,279
	Liberal	Henry Sidney Hamilton	3,565
	Progressive	Thomas Farquhar	2,822

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	6,767
	Liberal	Thomas John McCauley	3,574

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	7,171
	Liberal–Labour	Albert Ernest Whytall	4,187

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Simpson	7,531
	Liberal	Albert Ernest Whytall	6,108

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Henry Sidney Hamilton	6,788
	Conservative	Ernest Victor McMillan	4,844
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Albert Edward Headrick	1,669
	Liberal	Albert Reid Wood	1,180
	Reconstruction	Vincent Hector Prewer	252

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	8,632
	National Government	John L. Lang	5,612
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harry P. Waite	2,196

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	7,476
	Progressive Conservative	Harold Scott Trefry	5,619
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd George Shepherd	4,281

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	10,127
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur Allison Wishart	5,056
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Richard Wellington Johns	4,716

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	10,461
	Progressive Conservative	James Sydney Foulds	5,571
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John G. Barker	4,428

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	10,166
	Progressive Conservative	Henry M. Lang	8,345
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harvey Claude Willoughby	5,027

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	12,390
	Progressive Conservative	Henry Lang	11,355
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lorne D. Callahan	4,801

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	13,832
	Progressive Conservative	Henry Lang	9,681
	New Democratic	Morris Wernick	8,274

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	14,023
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Eaid	10,119
	New Democratic	Morris Wernick	9,351
	Social Credit	Ronald James Ash	355

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George E. Nixon	12,034
	Progressive Conservative	Russ Ramsay	11,914
	New Democratic	Erhart Regier	9,564

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament