Port Arthur (federal electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district, see Port Arthur (provincial electoral district).

Port Arthur

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1933
District abolished	1976
First contested	1935
Last contested	1974

Port Arthur was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Port Arthur—Thunder Bay riding.

It consisted initially of the parts of the territorial districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, and Thunder Bay not included in the electoral districts of Algoma West, Cochrane, Fort William, and Kenora-Rainy River herein defined, and including the city of Port Arthur, together with that part of the district of Patricia not included in the electoral districts of Kenora—Rainy River and Cochrane.

In 1966, it was defined as consisting of the part of the territorial district of Thunder Bay contained in the City of Port Arthur and the Townships of Adrian, Blackwell, Conmee, Forbes, Fowler, Goldie, Gorham, Horne, Jacques, Laurie, MacGregor, McIntyre, McTavish, Oliver, Sackville, Sibley and Ware.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was merged into Thunder Bay—Nipigon riding.

Members of Parliament

Port Arthur has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Port Arthur—Thunder Bay
18th	1935–1940		C. D. Howe	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Doug Fisher	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963			New Democratic
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968		Bob Andras	Liberal
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Thunder Bay—Nipigon

Election results

1935 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	6,591
	Conservative	George Wardrope	2,807
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alex Gibson	1,357
	Communist	Albert Edward Smith	1,161
	Reconstruction	Peter Allan Legrow	519

1940 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	10,327	National Government	Alan A. Barton	5,213
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alex Gibson	3,128

1945 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C.D. Howe	10,045
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Arthur Thompson	5,504
	Progressive Conservative	George Wardrope	3,516
	Labor–Progressive	Robert Melbourne Aylward	1,004

1949 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	12,646
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Thomas Cawley	6,401
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Ainslie Robinson	5,068
	Social Credit	John Emil Dagsvik	627

1953 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	12,272
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ronald Vincent Wilmot	5,865
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Robinson	5,415
	Labor–Progressive	Bruce Magnuson	923

1957 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Doug Fisher	12,228
	Liberal	C. D. Howe	10,813
	Progressive Conservative	Ina M. Vigars	5,261

1958 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Doug Fisher	12,217
	Progressive Conservative	Norman R. Wilson	10,215
	Liberal	Edward V. Anten	9,043

1962 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Doug Fisher	13,437
	Liberal	David W. Morgan	11,502
	Progressive Conservative	Norman R. Wilson	9,226
	Communist	Osmo R. Lahti	418
	Social Credit	Gilbert Heath	352

1963 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Doug Fisher	16,141
	Liberal	Saul Laskin	13,132
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey W. Smith	6,316

1965 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	14,706
	New Democratic	Gordon Oliver Rothney	12,275
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Smith	8,075

1968 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	11,079
	New Democratic	Gordon Oliver Rothney	7,306
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Rogers	4,179
	Communist	Norman Freed	233

1972 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	14,351
	New Democratic	Chris Ferguson	6,756
	Progressive Conservative	John Erickson	6,027
	No affiliation	Clifford Wahl	274

1974 Canadian federal election: Port Arthur
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bob Andras	14,523
	New Democratic	Dusty Miller	8,591
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Wright	3,322
	Communist	Clifford Wahl	164
	Marxist–Leninist	Janina Klee	54

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada