Bothwell County, Ontario

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Bothwell County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario, and was a federal electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904. It was not a county in the political sense, although it is frequently mistaken for one as it was listed in some post-Confederation census records as a county of residence.

Bothwell consisted of the Kent County townships of Bothwell, Camden, Dresden, Howard, Orford, Ridgetown, Thamesville and Zone, and the Lambton County townships of Dawn, Euphemia and Sombra.

In 1882, the Townships of Euphemia, Orford and Howard were excluded from the riding, and the township of Chatham, the villages of Wallaceburg, Dresden and Thamesville, and the town of Bothwell were added to the riding.

The electoral district was abolished in 1903 when it was redistributed between Kent East, Kent West, Simcoe East and Simcoe South ridings.

[edit] Members of Parliament

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

1. David Mills, Liberal - 1867-1896
2. James Clancy, Conservative - 1896-1903

[edit] Election results

Canadian federal election, 1867
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, David	1,333
	Conservative	GLASS,	1,224

Canadian federal election, 1872
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, David	1,727
	Unknown	ATKINSON, C.R.	1,135

Canadian federal election, 1874
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, David	1,600
	Unknown	DOBBYN,	1,137

Mr. David Mills was appointed Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, 24 October 1876:

By-election on 15 November 1876
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, David	1,650
	Unknown	DAWSON, James	1,142

Canadian federal election, 1878
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, Hon. David	1,852
	Liberal-Conservative	HAWKINS,

Canadian federal election, 1882
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal-Conservative	HAWKINS, John Joseph	1,520
	Liberal	MILLS, Hon. David	1,504

Election declared void Mr. J.J. Hawkins was declared not duly elected and was unseated by judgement of Supreme Court. The seat was awarded to his opponent, 25 February 1884:

By-election on 25 February 1884
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, David

Canadian federal election, 1887
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, Hon. David	2,182
	Conservative	MITCHELL, Geo. M.D.	2,161

Canadian federal election, 1891
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	MILLS, Hon. D.	2,006
	Conservative	LANGFORD, G.R.	1,456
	Unknown	MCLARTEY, A.	1,088

Canadian federal election, 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	CLANCY, James	2,587
	Liberal	MILLS, Hon. D.	2,528

Canadian federal election, 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	CLANCY, James	2,547
	Liberal	GORDON, David A.	2,430

[edit] External link

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament