Ontario (provincial electoral district)

Ontario
Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1867
District abolished	1975
First contested	1867
Last contested	1971
Demographics
Census divisions	Ontario County
Census subdivisions	Ajax (until 1954), Oshawa (until 1954), Pickering (until 1967), Reach Township (from 1886), Scugog Township (from 1886). Whitby (until 1967)

Ontario was a provincial riding in the Canadian province of Ontario. Called Ontario South until 1933, it was active from 1867 to 1975. For its entire existence, the riding contained parts of or all of Ontario County, a now-defunct county which comprised most, but not all, of the contemporary Regional Municipality of Durham, including the municipalities of Ajax, Oshawa, Pickering and Whitby. After 1955, however, a separate riding called Oshawa was created to serve the city of Oshawa, Ajax and parts of Pickering and Whitby, while the Ontario riding continued to serve the more rural areas in the county. In 1966 a new Ontario South was created to represent Ajax, Pickering and Whitby. The remainder of the riding was divided into the new ridings of Durham West, Durham East and Durham—York in 1975.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Ontario South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1871		William McGill	Liberal
2nd	1871–1875		Abram Farewell	Liberal
3rd	1875–1879		Nicholas W. Brown	Conservative
4th	1879–1883		John Dryden	Liberal
5th	1883–1886
6th	1886–1890
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898
9th	1898–1898		Charles Calder	Conservative
9th	1898–1902		John Dryden	Liberal
10th	1902–1905		John Dryden	Liberal
11th	1905–1908		Charles Calder	Conservative
12th	1908–1911		Charles Calder	Conservative
13th	1911–1914		W. E. N. Sinclair	Liberal
14th	1914–1919		Charles Calder	Conservative
15th	1919–1923		W. E. N. Sinclair	Liberal
16th	1923–1926
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1934

Ontario
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
19th	1934–1937		W. E. N. Sinclair	Liberal
20th	1937–1943		Gordon Daniel Conant	Liberal
21st	1943–1945		Arthur Henry Williams	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		Thomas Kelso Creighton	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951		T.D. Thomas	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1951–1955		T.D. Thomas	Co-operative Commonwealth
25th	1955–1959		Matthew Dymond	Progressive Conservative
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971
29th	1971–1975
Merged into Durham West, Durham East and Durham North after 1975

Election results (1934-1963)

Ontario general election, 1934
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	W. E. N. Sinclair	11,409	56.63
	Conservative	Ernest L. Marks	6,363	31.58
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Andrew Glen	2,375	11.79

Ontario general election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Gordon Daniel Conant	9,834	44.13
	Conservative	Grant L. Bird	7,775	34.89
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Finley M. Dafoe	4,598	20.63
	Socialist Labour	E. G. Forest	79	0.35

Ontario general election, 1943
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arthur Henry Williams	8,745	44.07
	Liberal	Jacob C. Anderson	5,575	28.09
	Progressive Conservative	George Hart	5,525	27.84

Ontario general election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Kelso Creighton	9,130	35.49
	Liberal	W. H. Gifford	8,051	31.30
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arthur Henry Williams	7,693	29.90
	Labour	W. R. Cambers	852	3.31

Ontario general election, 1948
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Tommy Thomas	11,758	42.23
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Kelso Creighton	9,027	32.42
	Liberal	Wilfred E. Dunn	7,058	25.35

Ontario general election, 1951
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Tommy Thomas	12,054	40.17
	Progressive Conservative	Michael Starr	9,876	32.92
	Liberal	Walter C. Thomson	7,806	26.02
	Independent	Evelyn M. Bateman	268	0.89

Ontario general election, 1955
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Matthew Dymond	7,248	49.97
	Liberal	Thomas Harris	5,366	36.99
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Roy Scott	1,892	13.04

Ontario general election, 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Matthew Dymond	9,018	59.67
	Liberal	Thomas Harris	4,196	27.76
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Thomas Edwards	1,900	12.57

Ontario general election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Matthew Dymond	9,903	60.29
	Liberal	Samuel Hollingsworth	4,298	26.17
	New Democratic	Thomas Edwards	2,224	13.54

References

Centennial Edition of a History of the Electoral Districts, Legislatures and Ministries of the Province of Ontario 1867-1967

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