Bonavista—Twillingate
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Bonavista—Twillingate was a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1949 to 1968.
This riding was created in 1949 when Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation.
It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, Burin—Burgeo, Gander—Twillingate and Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador ridings.
It initially consisted of the Districts of Twillingate, Fogo, Bonavista North, and Bonavista South excluding any part of the territory within a radius of five miles from the railway station at Gander.
In 1952, it was expanded to include the unorganized territory bounded on the North and West by the District of Grand Falls, on the South by the Districts of Burgeo and LaPoile and Fortune Bay-Hermitage, on the East by the Districts of Trinity North, Bonavista South and Bonavista North.
[edit] Election results
| Canadian federal election, 1949 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | BRADLEY, Hon. F. Gordon | 9,744 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | DAWE, Kenneth S.G. | 1,415 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1953 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | PICKERSGILL, Hon. John Whitney | 10,072 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | RUSSELL, Edward | 2,564 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1957 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | PICKERSGILL, John W. | 9,158 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | PINSENT, John Charles | 1,347 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1958 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | PICKERSGILL, John Whitney | 13,670 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | WINTER, Gerald M. | 4,323 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1962 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | PICKERSGILL, John W. | 11,530 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | BANNISTER, Whitfield | 3,846 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1963 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | PICKERSGILL, John W. | 11,748 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | EVELEIGH, Guy H. | 2,448 | |||
| Independent Liberal | DAVIS, Walter Herbert | 1,943 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1965 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Liberal | PICKERSGILL, John W. | 10,113 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | MOSS, William Q. | 3,687 | |||
By-election: On Mr. Pickersgill's, resignation, 19 September 1967
| By-election on 6 November 1967 | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | GRANGER, Charles Ronald | 8,112 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | FRENCH, Wilfred Nathan | 6,356 | |||
| Independent | DROVER, Samuel | 370 | |||
