Cape Breton South (federal electoral district)

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Cape Breton South was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1911 and from 1925 to 1968.

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[edit] 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 Reverse 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 cosist 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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

1904-1911

  1. Alexander Johnston, Liberal (1904-1908)
  2. James William Maddin, Liberal-Conservative (1908-1911)
  3. William F. Carroll, Liberal (1908-1911)

1925-1968

  1. Finlay MacDonald, Conservative (1925-1935)
  2. David James Hartigan, Liberal (1935-1940)
  3. Clarence Gillis, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1940-1957)
  4. Donald MacInnis, Progressive Conservative (1957-1962)
  5. Malcolm Vic MacInnis, New Democratic Party (1962-1963)
  6. Donald MacInnis, Progressive Conservative (1963-1968)

[edit] Election results

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


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


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


Canadian federal election, 1925
Party Candidate Votes
     Conservative Finlay MacDonald 9,551
     Liberal Laughlin Daniel Currie 4,510
     Labour James Bryson MacLachlan 3,617


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Canadian federal election, 1957
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative Donald MacInnis 14,894
     Liberal Leo McIntyre 11,539
     Co-operative Commonwealth Clarence Gillis 10,447


Canadian federal election, 1958
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative Donald MacInnis 17,636
     Co-operative Commonwealth Clarence Gillis 13,044
     Liberal J. Louis Dubinsky 7,754


Canadian federal election, 1962
Party Candidate Votes
     New Democrat Malcolm Vic MacInnis 17,409
     Progressive Conservative Donald MacInnis 13,602
     Liberal Earl V. MacInnis 7,774


Canadian federal election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative Donald MacInnis 14,307
     New Democrat Malcolm Vic MacInnis 13,327
     Liberal Joe MacEachern 9,184


Canadian federal election, 1965
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative Donald MacInnis 13,670
     Liberal Joseph E. MacEachern 12,455
     New Democrat Ed Johnston 10,846

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