Durham (electoral district)

Durham (formerly known as Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1968, and since 1988.

It was created in 1903 from Durham East and Durham West ridings. It consisted of the county of Durham.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was merged into Northumberland—Durham ridings.

It was recreated in 1987 from parts of Northumberland—Durham and Ontario ridings.

The second incarnation of the riding was initially defined to consist of the Town of Newcastle, the townships of Scugog and Uxbridge, Scugog Indian Reserve No. 34, the part of the City of Oshawa lying north of Rossland Road and the allowance for road in front of lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, Concession 3, and the part of the Town of Whitby lying north of Taunton Road.

In 1996, it was redefined to consist of the Township of Scugog, Scugog Indian Reserve No. 34, the Town of Clarington, and the part of the City of Oshawa lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Taunton Road, south along Ritson Road North, east along Rossland Road East, south along Harmony Road North, and east along King Street East.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge, Oshawa and Whitby—Oshawa ridings.

Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge was defined to consist of the townships of Uxbridge and Scugog, the Municipality of Clarington, and the Mississaugas of Scugog Island Indian reserve.

In 2004, "Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge" was renamed "Durham" riding.

1 Members of Parliament
2 Election results
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Durham East and Durham West prior to 1903
10th	1904–1908	Henry Alfred Ward	Conservative
11th	1908–1911	Charles Jonas Thornton	Conservative
12th	1911–1917	Charles Jonas Thornton	Conservative
13th	1917–1921	Newton Rowell	Unionist
14th	1921–1925	Fred Wellington Bowen	Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	Frank Rickard	Liberal
19th	1940–1945	Frank Rickard	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	Charles Elwood Stephenson	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953	John James	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957	Percy Vivian	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963	Russell Honey	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Northumberland—Durham and Ontario from 1966-1987
34th	1988–1993	K. Ross Stevenson	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Alex Shepherd	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006	Bev Oda	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Durham, 2004-present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Bev Oda	31,737	54.55	+0.50
	New Democrat	Tammy Schoep	12,277	21.10	+10.72
	Liberal	Grant Humes	10,387	17.85	-5.18
	Green	Stephen Leahy	3,134	5.39	-6.04
	Christian Heritage	Andrew Moriarty	462	0.79	-0.30
	Libertarian	Blaize Barnicoat	187	0.32	-
Total valid votes			58,184	100.00
Total rejected ballots			267	0.46	+0.12
Turnout			58,451	64.12
Eligible voters			91,165

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Bev Oda	28,551	54.05	+7.1	$69,054
	Liberal	Bryan Ransom	12,167	23.03	-7.0	$34,901
	Green	Stephen Leahy	6,041	11.43	+6.8	$4,147
	New Democrat	Andrew McKeever (withdrawn)^[1]	5,485	10.38	-6.9	$1,896
	Christian Heritage	Henry Zekveld	577	1.09	0.0	$2,529
Total valid votes			52,821	100.00	$90,063
Total rejected ballots			177	0.33
Turnout			52,998	60.48

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bev Oda	27,087	47.0
	Liberal	Doug Moffatt	17,290	30.0
	New Democrat	Bruce Rogers	9,948	17.3
	Green	Virginia Ervin	2,676	4.6
	Christian Heritage	Henry Zekveld	612	1.1
Total valid votes			57,613

Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge 2003-2004

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Bev Oda	20,813
	Liberal	Tim Lang	19,548
	New Democrat	Bruce Rogers	7,721
	Green	Virginia Ervin	2,085
	Christian Heritage	Durk Bruinsma	915

Durham, 1988-2003

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alex Shepherd	20,602
	Canadian Alliance	Gerry Skipwith	13,743
	Progressive Conservative	Sam Cureatz	8,367
	New Democrat	Ken Ranney	2,545
	Not affiliated	Durk Bruinsma	326

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alex Shepherd	19,878
	Reform	Ian Smyth	13,059
	Progressive Conservative	Sam Cureatz	8,995
	New Democrat	Colin Argyle	3,250
	Christian Heritage	Durk Bruinsma	682

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alex Shepherd	22,334
	Reform	Ian Smyth	18,500
	Progressive Conservative	Ross Stevenson	15,014
	New Democrat	Lucy Rybka-Becker	2,519
	National	W.H. Harry Pope	1,220
	Christian Heritage	Durk T. Bruinsma	705
	Green	Judy Hurvid	349
	Natural Law	Micheal Paul Larmand	270

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Ross Stevenson	24,065
	Liberal	Doug Moffatt	15,083
	New Democrat	Margaret Wilbur	10,334
	Christian Heritage	John Kuipers	1,666
	Libertarian	Rolf Posma	323
	Green	Harold Tausch	316

Durham, 1904-1968

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Russell Clayton Honey	8,017
	Progressive Conservative	Garnet Rickard	6,725
	New Democrat	John Anthony Cheyne Ketchum	3,948
	Social Credit	Wilbur N. Grandall	177

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Russell C. Honey	8,720
	Progressive Conservative	Garnet Rickard	8,084
	New Democrat	Eileen Ethel Coutts	1,901
	Social Credit	Wilbur N. Crandall	161

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Russell C. Honey	7,971
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Vivian	7,704
	New Democrat	Eileen Coutts	2,217
	Social Credit	Kenneth C. Toms	158

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Vivian	9,732
	Liberal	Russell C. Honey	6,178
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ernest Dent	1,480

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Vivian	7,331
	Liberal	John Mason James	6,829
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ernest Dent	1,918
	Social Credit	Kenneth Toms	399

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Mason James	6,684
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Elwood Stephenson	6,504
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Merdith Roy Armstrong	1,273

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Mason James	6,907
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Elwood Stephenson	6,476
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James David Kenny	1,419

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Elwood Stephenson	6,479
	Liberal	W. Frank Rickard	6,003
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wilfrd George Bowles	926

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Wilbert Franklin Rickard	6,743
	National Government	William Ross Strike	5,435

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Wilbert Frank Rickard	6,649
	Conservative	Fred Wellington Bowen	6,176
	Reconstruction	R. Rufus Choate Macknight	531
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ralph Sharpe Staples	497

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Fred Wellington Bowen	6,827
	Liberal	Montague John Holman	5,221

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Fred Wellington Bowen	6,508
	Liberal-Progressive	Melville Howden Staples	5,024

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Fred Wellington Bowen	7,020
	Liberal	Charles Vicent Massey	6,074

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Fred Wellington Bowen	5,106
	Progressive	Thomas Albert Victor Reid	3,936
	Liberal	William Thomas Roche Preston	3,441

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government	Newton Wesley Rowell	5,923
	Opposition	George William Jones	1,404

Canadian federal election, 1911
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Charles Jonas Thornton	3,291
	Liberal	Thomas Alexander Kelly	2,567

Canadian federal election, 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Charles Jonas Thornton	3,387
	Liberal	David Burke Simpson	2,764

Canadian federal election, 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Henry Alfred Ward	3,322
	Liberal	Allen B. Aylesworth	3,173

External links

References

^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/04/ndp-durham.html

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