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Cape Breton South
Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1924
District abolished	1966
First contested	1925
Last contested	1965

Cape Breton South (French: Cap-Breton-Sud) was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1911 and from 1925 to 1968.

History

This riding was created in 1903 from Cape Breton riding. It consisted of the southern part of the county of Cape Breton, i.e., the districts of Balls Creek Bateston, Big Pond, Bridgeport, Catalone, Dominion No. 1 and Reserve Mines, Fast Bay (South), Gabarus, Grand Mira, Hillside, Loch Lomond, Louisbourg, Main-à-Dieu, Port Morien, Sydney Forks, Trout Creek, Victoria Mines and Lingan, and the towns of Glace Bay, Louisbourg and Sydney.

It was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into Cape Breton South and Richmond.

It was created again in 1924 from Cape Breton South and Richmond. The new riding consisted of the part of the County of Cape Breton not included in the electoral district of Cape Breton North-Victoria and lying north of a line described as commencing in Mira Bay and following the Mira River and Mira Lake to Marion Bridge, the Mira Road to the Morley Road, the Morley Road to the main road between St. Peters and Sydney, that road to the road leading to East Bay and Gillisville, and that road to the waters of East Bay.

It 1933, it was redefined to consist of the part of the county of Cape Breton contained in the municipal districts of Dominion No. 6 (No. 11), Hillside (No. 3), Lingan (No. 20), Port-Morien (No. 12), Reserve Mines (No. 1) and South Forks (No. 18), and including the city of Sydney and the towns of Glace Bay, New Waterford and Dominion. In 1947, it was redefined to exclude Hillside and South Forks.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton—The Sydneys ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Cape Breton South Riding created from Cape Breton
10th	1904–1908	Alexander Johnston	Liberal
11th	1908–1911	James William Maddin	Liberal–Conservative
12th	1911–1917	William F. Carroll	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Cape Breton South and Richmond
Riding re-created from Cape Breton South and Richmond
15th	1925–1926	Finlay MacDonald	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	David James Hartigan	Liberal
19th	1940–1945	Clarence Gillis	Co-operative Commonwealth
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Malcolm MacInnis	New Democratic
26th	1963–1965	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
27th	1965–1968	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton—The Sydneys

Election results

Cape Breton South, 1904–1917

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alexander Johnston	3,459
	Conservative	William McKay	3,154
	Labour	S.B. McNeil	869

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	James William Maddin	5,048
	Liberal	Alexander Johnston	4,823

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William F. Carroll	5,069
	Liberal	James William Maddin	4,965
	Independent	Alexander McKinnon	223

Cape Breton South, 1925–1968

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	9,551
	Liberal	Laughlin Daniel Currie	4,510
	Labour	J. B. McLachlan	3,617

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	8,924
	Labour	Daniel W. Morrison	6,412

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	15,886
	Liberal	Daniel Alexander Cameron	9,268

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David James Hartigan	10,409
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	7,355
	Communist	J. B. McLachlan	5,365
	Reconstruction	Dan William Morrison	5,008

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	11,582
	Liberal	David James Hartigan	11,364
	National Government	Joseph Clyde Nunn	9,719

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	16,575
	Liberal	David James Hartigan	10,529
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Joseph Buckley	7,343
	Labor–Progressive	James Madden	917

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	15,057
	Liberal	George Benjamin Slaven	12,608
	Progressive Conservative	Perry Lewis Cadegan	5,618

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	14,971
	Liberal	Leo McIntyre	10,151
	Progressive Conservative	Layton Fergusson	4,726
	Labor–Progressive	Ronald George MacEachern	794