Timmins—Chapleau

Timmins—Chapleau

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
District abolished	1996; 28 years ago (1996)
First contested	1979
Last contested	1993

Timmins—Chapleau was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1997. It was located in the northeast part of the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Cochrane, Nipissing, Timiskaming and Timmins ridings.

It initially consisted of the northern part of the Territorial District of Sudbury, the eastern part of the Territorial District of Algoma, the Township of Teefy, the City of Timmins and the Town of Iroquois Falls in the Territorial District of Cochrane, and the western part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming.

After 1987, it consisted of parts of the Territorial Districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Sudbury and Timiskaming.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Nickel Belt, Timiskaming—Cochrane, and Timmins-James Bay ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Timmins, Cochrane, Nipissing and Timiskaming
31st	1979–1980		Ray Chénier	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Aurèle Gervais	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993		Cid Samson	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997		Peter Thalheimer	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Timmins-James Bay, Algoma, Nickel Belt and Timiskaming—Cochrane

Election results

1979 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ray Chénier	13,577
	New Democratic Party	Dennis Welin	10,160
	Progressive Conservative	Ernie R. White	7,819

1980 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ray Chénier	15,628
	New Democratic Party	Bill Ferrier	10,745
	Progressive Conservative	Kent Davis	3,663
	Marxist–Leninist	Garnet Olson	57

1984 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Aurèle Gervais	11,944
	Liberal	Marcel Chartrand	10,273
	New Democratic Party	Cid Samson	9,543
	No affiliation	Peter Nastasiuk Bruce	127

1988 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Cid Samson	11,622
	Liberal	Peter Thalheimer	10,347
	Progressive Conservative	Aurèle Gervais	9,782

1993 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Thalheimer	17,085
	New Democratic Party	Cid Samson	8,224
	Progressive Conservative	John Murphy	4,369
	National	Ronald Locas	443
	Natural Law	Ben Lefebvre	394
	Independent	Tilton Beaumont	290

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada