Victoria—Carleton

Victoria—Carleton

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914
District abolished	1966
First contested	1917
Last contested	1965
Demographics
Census division(s)	Carleton, Victoria

Victoria—Carleton was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968.

This riding was created in 1914 from Carleton and Victoria ridings. It was first used in the Canadian federal election of 1917. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Carleton—Charlotte and Madawaska—Victoria ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Victoria—Carleton Riding created from Carleton and Victoria
13th	1917–1919		Frank Broadstreet Carvell	Government (Unionist)
	1919–1921		Thomas Wakem Caldwell	United Farmers
14th	1921–1925			Progressive
15th	1925–1926		James Kidd Flemming	Conservative
16th	1926–1927
	1927–1930		Albion Roudolph Foster	Liberal
17th	1930–1935		Benjamin Franklin Smith	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		Jack Patterson	Liberal
19th	1940–1945		Heber Harold Hatfield	National Government
20th	1945–1949			Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1952
	1952–1953		Gage Montgomery
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963		Hugh John Flemming
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Carleton—Charlotte and Madawaska—Victoria

Election results

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hugh John Flemming	9,462	57.3	-1.7
	Liberal	Paul Maddox	6,388	38.7	+2.1
	Social Credit	Arnold Slaney	352	2.1	-2.4
	New Democratic	Ernest Hallett	298	1.8	*

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hugh John Flemming	10,572	59.0	+1.7
	Liberal	Michael Francis McCluskey	6,533	36.5	+2.3
	Social Credit	Arnold Slaney	811	4.5	-4.0

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Hugh John Flemming	10,439	57.3	-2.7
	Liberal	Samuel Bishop	6,235	34.2	-2.2
	Social Credit	Alyce Patterson	1,547	8.5	+4.8

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gage Montgomery	10,692	60.0	+1.8
	Liberal	Vernon Briggs	6,483	36.4	+0.2
	Social Credit	Robert Craig	651	3.7	-1.9

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gage Montgomery	9,843	58.2	+9.1
	Liberal	Raymond Jones	6,115	36.2	-9.2
	Social Credit	Ike Jones	944	5.6	+0.2

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gage Montgomery	8,445	49.1	-7.8
	Liberal	Hugh Tait	7,809	45.4	+2.3
	Social Credit	George McLean	931	5.4	*

Canadian federal by-election, May 26, 1952
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gage Montgomery	9,440	56.9	+1.9
	Liberal	Hugh Tait	7,140	43.1	-1.9

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Heber Harold Hatfield	10,429	55.0	+0.5
	Liberal	Daniel Raymond Bishop	8,539	45.0	+3.5

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Heber Harold Hatfield	9,365	54.5	+2.2
	Liberal	Roy Frederick Smith	7,132	41.5	-6.2
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Murray O'Regan	689	4.0	*

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Government	Heber Harold Hatfield	7,974	52.3	+11.5
	Liberal	Michael Francis McCluskey	7,283	47.7	-0.1

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jack Patterson	7,500	47.8	+7.7
	Conservative	Hugh John Flemming	6,405	40.8	-19.1
	Reconstruction	William Earle	1,791	11.4	*

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Benjamin Franklin Smith	8,628	59.9	+6.1
	Liberal	Albion Foster	5,776	40.1	-6.1

By-election on June 16, 1927
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Albion Foster	accl.

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Kidd Flemming	7,865	53.8	-3.8
	Liberal	Albion Foster	6,764	46.2	+4.5

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Kidd Flemming	8,426	57.6	+12.1
	Liberal–Progressive	Thomas Caldwell	6,101	41.7	-12.8
	Independent	Minnie Adney	84	0.7

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas Caldwell	6,413	54.5
	Conservative	Benjamin Franklin Smith	5,361	45.5

Canadian federal by-election, October 17, 1919
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	United Farmers	Thomas Caldwell	6,500	68.7
	Unknown	Weldon Melville	2,956	31.3

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Frank Carvell	acclaimed

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Website of the Parliament of Canada