Simcoe West
Provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada
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Simcoe West was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1875 from Simcoe North. It was abolished in 1925 before the 1926 election. It was re-established in 1987 and finally abolished in 1999.
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Ontario
District created1875
District abolished1999[note 1]
First contested1875
 Ontario electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
| District created | 1875 |
| District abolished | 1999[note 1] |
| First contested | 1875 |
| Last contested | 1995 |
Members of Provincial Parliament
| Simcoe West | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| 3rd | 1875–1879 | Thomas Long | Conservative | |
| 4th | 1879–1883 | |||
| 5th | 1883–1886 | Orson James Phelps | Liberal | |
| 6th | 1886–1890 | Thomas Wylie | Conservative | |
| 7th | 1890–1894 | |||
| 8th | 1894–1898 | Archibald Currie | Patron-Liberal | |
| 9th | 1898–1902 | James Stoddart Duff | Conservative | |
| 10th | 1902–1904 | |||
| 11th | 1905–1908 | |||
| 12th | 1908–1911 | |||
| 13th | 1911–1914 | |||
| 14th | 1914–1916 | |||
| 1916–1919 | William Torrance Allen | |||
| 15th | 1919–1923 | |||
| 16th | 1923–1926 | James Edgar Jamieson | ||
| Abolished in 1925; re-established in 1987 | ||||
| 34th | 1987–1990 | George McCague | Progressive Conservative | |
| 35th | 1990–1995 | Jim Wilson | Progressive Conservative | |
| 36th | 1995–1999 | |||
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[1] | ||||
| Merged into Simcoe—Grey before the 1999 election | ||||
Election results
| 1875 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Thomas Long | 1,353 | 51.15 | |||||
| Liberal | T.D. McConkey | 1,292 | 48.85 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,645 | 67.63 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 3,911 | |||||||
| Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[2] | ||||||||
| 1879 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Thomas Long | 1,483 | 51.10 | −0.05 | ||||
| Liberal | Orson Phelps | 1,419 | 48.90 | +0.05 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,902 | 55.06 | −12.57 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 5,271 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −0.05 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[3] | ||||||||