Simcoe East (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Simcoe East.

Simcoe East

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1875
District abolished	1999
First contested	1875
Last contested	1995

Simcoe East was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1875 and was abolished in 1996 before the 1999 election.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Simcoe East
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
3rd	1875–1879		John Kean	Conservative
4th	1879–1882		Herman Henry Cook	Liberal
	1882–1883		Charles Alfred Drury
5th	1883–1886
6th	1886–1890
7th	1890–1894		Andrew Miscampbell	Conservative
8th	1894–1898
9th	1898–1902
10th	1902–1904		James Brockett Tudhope	Liberal
11th	1905–1908
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914		James Irwin Hartt	Conservative
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923		John Benjamin Johnston	United Farmers
16th	1923–1926		William Finlayson	Conservative
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1934
19th	1934–1937		Garnet Edward Tanner	Liberal
20th	1937–1939		William Finlayson	Conservative
	1939–1943		George Alexander Drew
21st	1943–1945		John Duncan McPhee	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1945–1948
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1953
	1954–1955		Lloyd Averall Letherby
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971		Gordon Elsworth Smith
29th	1971–1975
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1985		Al McLean
33rd	1985–1987
34th	1987–1990
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly
Merged into Simcoe—Grey before the 1999 election

Election results

1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Kean	1,133	54.00
	Liberal	H.M. Sutherland	965	46.00
Total valid votes			2,098	73.90
Eligible voters			2,839
	Conservative pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario

1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hermon Henry Cook	1,324	56.82	+10.83
	Conservative	H. Steele	1,006	43.18	−10.83
Total valid votes			2,330	61.72	−12.18
Eligible voters			3,775
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+10.83
Source: Elections Ontario