Bonavista—Twillingate

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Bonavista—Twillingate
Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created 1949
District abolished 1966
First contested 1949
Last contested 1965


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 Frederick Gordon Bradley 9,744
     Progressive Conservative Kenneth S.G. Dawe 1,415


Canadian federal election, 1953
Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Jack Pickersgill 10,072
     Progressive Conservative Edward Russell 2,564


Canadian federal election, 1957
Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Jack Pickersgill 9,158
     Progressive Conservative John Charles Pinsent 1,347


Canadian federal election, 1958
Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Jack Pickersgill 13,670
     Progressive Conservative Gerald M. Winter 4,323


Canadian federal election, 1962
Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Jack Pickersgill 11,530
     Progressive Conservative Whitfield Bannister 3,846


Canadian federal election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Jack Pickersgill 11,748
     Progressive Conservative Guy H. Eveleigh 2,448
     Independent Liberal Walter Herbert Davis 1,943


Canadian federal election, 1965
Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Jack Pickersgill 10,113
     Progressive Conservative William Q. Moss 3,687


By-election on 6 November 1967

On Mr. Pickersgill's, resignation, 19 September 1967

Party Candidate Votes
     Liberal Charles Granger 8,112
     Progressive Conservative Wilfred Nathan French 6,356
     Independent Samuel Drover 370

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