Hamilton (electoral district)

Hamilton was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904 and a provincial riding in the Ontario Legislature from 1867 to 1894. It was located in the province of Ontario and consisted of the city of Hamilton.

It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. In 1872, it was assigned a second seat in the House of Commons so that it elected two Members of Parliament at each election.

The electoral district was abolished in 1903 when it was divided into Hamilton West and Hamilton East ridings. A similar split was created in 1894 at the provincial level to create the ridings of Hamilton West and Hamilton East.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1867
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Magill	acclaimed

Canadian federal election, 1874
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Andrew Trew Wood	2,086	x
	Liberal	Aemilius Irving	2,083	x
	Unknown	Mr. O'Reilly	1,518
	Conservative Labour	Henry Buckingham Witton	1,515

On the election being declared void in each case:

20 May 1875 by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Aemilius Irving	1,977	x
	Liberal	Andrew Trew Wood	1,952	x
	Conservative Labour	Henry Buckingham Witton	1,691
	Unknown	Michael Wilson Browne	1,568

Canadian federal election, 1878
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	Francis Edwin Kilvert	2,252	x
	Liberal	Thomas Robertson	2,214	x
	Liberal	Aemilius Irving	2,005
	Liberal	Andrew Trew Wood	1,981

Canadian federal election, 1882
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	KILVERT, Francis E.	2,666	x
	Conservative	ROBERTSON, Thomas	2,612	x
	Liberal	MOORE, Dennis	2,194
	Liberal	IRVING, E.	2,146

Canadian federal election, 1887
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	BROWN, Adam	3,574	x
	Conservative	MCKAY, Alex	3,571	x
	Liberal	WALTER, Frederic	3,410
	Liberal	BURNS, Alex	3,402

Canadian federal election, 1891
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	MCKAY, Alex	4,186	x
	Conservative	RYCKMAN, Samuel S.	4,156	x
	Liberal	DORAN, Wm.	3,532
	Liberal	LAIDLAW, Adam	3,474

Canadian federal election, 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	WOOD, A.T.	3,837	x
	Liberal	MACPHERSON, T.H.	3,797	x
	Conservative	BOVILLE, R.G.	3,773
	Conservative	BARKER, Samuel	3,546
	Independent	BUCHANNAN, W.W.	928
	Independent	WATKINS, F.W.	806

Canadian federal election, 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	BARKER, Samuel	5,466	x
	Conservative	BRUCE, Francis C.	5,462	x
	Liberal	TEETZEL, James V.	4,783
	Liberal	WOOD, Andrew T.	4,667

Pronvincial Riding

Hamilton was also a provincial riding from 1867 to 1894 and late split to form Hamilton East and Hamilton West.

List of members of provincial parliament for Hamilton:

• James Miller Williams 1867-1879 - Liberal
  • elected in 1867, 1871, 1875
• John Morison Gibson 1879-1894 - Liberal
  • elected in 1879, 1883, 1886, 1890

See also

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

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament