Middlesex West (federal electoral district)

{{Short description|Former federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada}} {{About|the former federal electoral district|the former provincial electoral district|Middlesex West (provincial electoral district)|the pre-Confederation electoral district|Middlesex (Province of Canada electoral district)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=December 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox Canada electoral district | province = Ontario | image = | caption = | fed-status = defunct | fed-district-number = | fed-created = 1867 | fed-abolished = 1966 | fed-election-first = 1867 | fed-election-last = 1965 }}

'''Middlesex West''' was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act 1867 which divided the County of Middlesex into three ridings: Middlesex North (federal electoral district), Middlesex West and Middlesex East.

The West Riding initially consisted of the Townships of Delaware, Caradoc, Metcalfe, Mosa and Ekfrid, and the Village of Strathroy.

In 1882, it was redefined to include the townships of Adelaide, Euphemia, the villages of Glencoe, Newbury and Wardsville, and to exclude the township of Carradoc.

In 1903, it was redefined to consist of the townships of Caradoc, Delaware, Ekfrid, Metcalfe and Mosa, the town of Strathroy, and the villages of Glencoe, Newbury and Wardsville.

In 1914, it was redefined to consist of the townships of Adelaide, Lobo, Delaware, Caradoc, Metcalfe, Mosa, Ekfrid, McGillivray, Williams East and Williams West, the towns of Park Hill and Strathroy, and the villages of Ailsa Craig, Glencoe, Newbury and Wardsville.

In 1924, it was defined as consisting of the part of the county of Middlesex lying west of and including the townships of McGillivray, Williams East, Lobo and Delaware.

In 1947, it was redefined to consist of the county of Middlesex, excluding the townships of North Dorchester, London, West Nissouri and Westminster.

In 1952, it was redefined to consist of the county of Middlesex excluding the townships of North Dorchester, London, West Nissouri, Westminster, and the eastern part of the township of London.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Huron, London West and Middlesex ridings.

==Members of Parliament==

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

{{CanMP}} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1867 | ToYr = 1872 | Assembly# = 1 | CanParty = Conservative (historical) | RepName = Angus Peter McDonald }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1872 | ToYr = 1874 | Assembly# = 2 | CanParty = Liberal | PartyTerms# = 5 | RepName = George William Ross | RepTerms# = 4 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1874 | ToYr = 1878 | Assembly# = 3 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1878 | ToYr = 1882 | Assembly# = 4 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1882 | ToYr = 1883 | Assembly# = 5 | #ByElections = 1 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1883 | ToYr = 1887 | RepName = Donald Mackenzie Cameron }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1887 | ToYr = 1888 | Assembly# = 6 | #ByElections = 1 | CanParty = Conservative (historical) | PartyTerms# = 3 | RepName = William Frederick Roome | RepTerms# = 3 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1888 | ToYr = 1891 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1891 | ToYr = 1896 | Assembly# = 7 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1896 | ToYr = 1900 | Assembly# = 8 | CanParty = Liberal | PartyTerms# = 6 | RepName = William Samuel Calvert | RepTerms# = 4 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1900 | ToYr = 1904 | Assembly# = 9 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1904 | ToYr = 1908 | Assembly# = 10 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1908 | ToYr = 1909 | Assembly# = 11 | #ByElections = 1 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1909 | ToYr = 1911 | RepName = Duncan Campbell Ross | RepTerms# = 3 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1911 | ToYr = 1917 | Assembly# = 12 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1917 | ToYr = 1921 | Assembly# = 13 | CanParty = Laurier Liberals }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1921 | ToYr = 1925 | Assembly# = 14 | CanParty = Progressive | RepName = John Douglas Fraser Drummond }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1925 | ToYr = 1926 | Assembly# = 15 | #ByElections = 1 | CanParty = Liberal | PartyTerms# = 10 | RepName = John Campbell Elliott | RepTerms# = 6 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1926 | ToYr = 1926 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1926 | ToYr = 1926 | Assembly# = 16 | #ByElections = 1 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1926 | ToYr = 1930 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1930 | ToYr = 1935 | Assembly# = 17 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1935 | ToYr = 1940 | Assembly# = 18 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1940 | ToYr = 1945 | Assembly# = 19 | RepName = Robert McCubbin | RepTerms# = 4 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1945 | ToYr = 1949 | Assembly# = 20 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1949 | ToYr = 1953 | Assembly# = 21 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1953 | ToYr = 1957 | Assembly# = 22 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1957 | ToYr = 1958 | Assembly# = 23 | CanParty = PC | PartyTerms# = 5 | RepName = William Howell Arthur Thomas | RepTerms# = 5 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1958 | ToYr = 1962 | Assembly# = 24 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1962 | ToYr = 1963 | Assembly# = 25 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1963 | ToYr = 1965 | Assembly# = 26 }} {{CanMP row | FromYr = 1965 | ToYr = 1968 | Assembly# = 27 }} {{CanMP nodata|''Riding dissolved into'' Huron, London West ''and'' Middlesex}} {{CanMP end}}

==Election results==

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1867}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Angus Peter McDonald |1,063 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unknown|G. Billington |1,044 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1872}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|George William Ross | 1,322 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Angus Peter McDonald | 1,266 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unknown|G. Billington | 7 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1874}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|George William Ross | acclaimed }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1878}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|George William Ross |1,635 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unknown|N. Currie |1,587 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1882}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|George William Ross | 1,651 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unknown|A. Currie |1,597 }} |}

On election being declared void, October 1883: {{CanElec1-by| 14 December 1883}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Donald Mackenzie Cameron |1,771 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|William Frederick Roome |1,739 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1887}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|William Frederick Roome |2,110 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Donald Mackenzie Cameron|2,005 }} |}

On Mr. Roome being unseated on petition: {{CanElec1-by| 10 March 1888}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|William Frederick Roome | 1,940 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unknown|? Elliott |1,828 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1891}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|William Frederick Roome |1,529 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Hector McFarlane|1,119 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|William Brock|1,110 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1896}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|William Samuel Calvert |2,274 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|William Frederick Roome |1,933 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1900}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|William Samuel Calvert |1,989 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Richard Dunlop|1,813 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1904}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|William Samuel Calvert |1,996 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|George A. Stewart |1,790 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1908}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|William Samuel Calvert |1,856 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Robert McLauchlin |1,844 }} |}

On Mr. Calvert being appointed member of the National Transcontinental Railway Commission, 21 October 1909: {{CanElec1-by| 10 November 1909}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Duncan Campbell Ross |1,934 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Robert McLauchlin | 1,778 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1911}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Duncan Campbell Ross |1,883 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|James Cobban | 1,752 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1917}} {{CANelec|CA|Laurier Liberals|Duncan Campbell Ross |3,930 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unionist|George Adam Elliot |3,531 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1921}} {{CANelec|CA|Progressive|John Douglas Fraser Drummond |5,543 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Duncan Campbell Ross | 4,004 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|George Adam Elliot |2,445 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1925}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|John Campbell Elliott |4,926 }} {{CANelec|CA|Progressive|Allan L. McDougall |3,548 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Thomas Elliott |2,816 }} |}

On Mr. Elliott being appointed Minister of Labour, 8 March 1926: {{CanElec1-by| 29 March 1926}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|John Campbell Elliott |6,443 }} {{CANelec|CA|Unknown|Thomas Elliot |3,783 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1926}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|John Campbell Elliott |6,187 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Alfred Edwin Aldred |4,086 }} |}

On Mr. Elliott being appointed Minister of Public Works, 25 October 1926: {{CanElec1-by| 2 November 1926}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|John Campbell Elliott |acclaimed }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1930}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|John Campbell Elliott |6,329 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Peter Henry Campbell |4,839 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1935}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|John Campbell Elliott |6,369 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Lloyd W. M. Freele |3,382 }} {{CANelec|CA|Reconstruction|John Edward Campbell |1,920 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1940}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Robert McCubbin |6,024 }} {{CANelec|CA|National Government|Lloyd William M. Freele |3,886 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1945}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Robert McCubbin |6,690 }} {{CANelec|CA|PC|Archibald Pedden |4,303 }} {{CANelec|CA|CCF|Allen Coghill |458 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1949}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Robert McCubbin |7,938 }} {{CANelec|CA|PC|James George Little |5,239 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1953}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Robert McCubbin |8,645 }} {{CANelec|CA|PC|Cameron Hugh McTaggart |5,760 }} {{CANelec|CA|CCF|Ross McEwen Pope |432 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1957}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|William Howell Arthur Thomas |9,075 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Robert McCubbin |7,368 }} {{CANelec|CA|CCF|Jack McLachlen |631 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1958}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|William Howell Arthur Thomas |11,974 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Harvey Wales |5,883 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1962}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|William Howell Arthur Thomas |10,178 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|David McDonald |7,914 }} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Arthur B. Stewart |1,658 }} {{CANelec|CA|Social Credit|Lloyd H. Alford |327 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1963}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|William Howell Arthur Thomas |10,247 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|George A. McKenzie |9,320 }} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Arthur B. Stewart |1,327 }} {{CANelec|CA|Social Credit|James A. Watson |232 }} |}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1965}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|William Howell Arthur Thomas |9,768 }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Norman W. Hodgins |9,405 }} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Pat Chefurka |2,067 }} |}

== See also == * List of Canadian electoral districts * Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&rid=443&Include= Parliamentary website]

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