Pictou (electoral district)

Pictou
Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1966
First contested	1867
Last contested	1965
Demographics
Census divisions	Pictou

Pictou was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968. It was created in the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the County of Pictou. It was abolished in 1966 when it was merged into the riding of Central Nova. It returned two members from 1872 to 1903.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party	Member		Party
Pictou
1st	1867 – 1869	James William Carmichael	Anti-Confederation
1st	1869 – 1872	James William Carmichael	Liberal
2nd	1872 – 1874	Robert Doull	Liberal–Conservative		James McDonald	Conservative
3rd	1874 – 1878	James William Carmichael	Liberal		John A. Dawson	Liberal
4th	1878	James McDonald	Conservative		Robert Doull	Liberal–Conservative
	1878 – 1881	James McDonald	Conservative
	1881 – 1882	John McDougald	Liberal–Conservative
5th	1882 – 1887			Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative
6th	1887 – 1888
6th	1888 – 1891
7th	1891 – 1896
8th	1896 – 1900	Adam Carr Bell	Conservative
9th	1900 – 1904	Adam Carr Bell	Conservative
10th	1904 – 1908	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal
11th	1908 – 1911
12th	1911 – 1917
13th	1917 – 1921	Alexander McGregor	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921 – 1923	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal
14th	1923 – 1925	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal
15th	1925 – 1926	Thomas Cantley	Conservative
16th	1926 – 1930
17th	1930 – 1935
18th	1935 – 1940	Henry Byron McCulloch	Liberal
19th	1940 – 1945
20th	1945 – 1949
21st	1949 – 1953
22nd	1953 – 1957
23rd	1957 – 1958	Russell MacEwan	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958 – 1962
25th	1962 – 1963
26th	1963 – 1965
27th	1965 – 1968
Riding dissolved into Central Nova

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 4 November 1878 On Mr. McDonald being appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 17 October 1878
	Conservative	James McDonald	acclaimed

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 18 June 1881 On Mr. McDonald being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 20 May 1881
	Liberal–Conservative	John McDougald	acclaimed

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 18 June 1888 On Mr. Tupper being appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 30 June 1888
	Conservative	Charles Hibbert Tupper	acclaimed

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Alexander McGregor	6,800
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Robert Hugh Mackay	6,043

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 6 September 1923 On Mr. MacDonald's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 15 August 1923
	Liberal	Edward Mortimer MacDonald	acclaimed

Federal ridings in Nova Scotia
Liberal	Cape Breton—Canso Central Nova Cumberland—Colchester Dartmouth—Cole Harbour Halifax Halifax West Kings—Hants Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook South Shore—St. Margarets Sydney—Victoria West Nova

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