Cape Breton South (federal electoral district)

Cape Breton South
Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1924
District abolished	1966
First contested	1925
Last contested	1965

Cape Breton South (French: Cap-Breton-Sud) was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1911 and from 1925 to 1968.

History

This riding was created in 1903 from Cape Breton riding. It consisted of the southern part of the county of Cape Breton, i.e., the districts of Balls Creek Bateston, Big Pond, Bridgeport, Catalone, Dominion No. 1 and Reverse Mines, Fast Bay (South), Gabarus, Grand Mira, Hillside, Loch Lomond, Louisbourg, Main-à-Dieu, Port Morien, Sydney Forks, Trout Creek, Victoria Mines and Lingan, and the towns of Glace Bay, Louisbourg and Sydney.

It was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into Cape Breton South and Richmond.

It was created again in 1924 from Cape Breton South and Richmond. The new riding consisted of the part of the County of Cape Breton not included in the electoral district of Cape Breton North-Victoria and lying north of a line described as commencing in Mira Bay and following the Mira River and Mira Lake to Marion Bridge, the Mira Road to the Morley Road, the Morley Road to the main road between St. Peters and Sydney, that road to the road leading to East Bay and Gillisville, and that road to the waters of East Bay.

It 1933, it was redefined to consist of the part of the county of Cape Breton contained in the municipal districts of Dominion No. 6 (No. 11), Hillside (No. 3), Lingan (No. 20), Port-Morien (No. 12), Reserve Mines (No. 1) and South Forks (No. 18), and including the city of Sydney and the towns of Glace Bay, New Waterford and Dominion. In 1947, it was redefined to exclude Hillside and South Forks.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton—The Sydneys ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Cape Breton South Riding created from Cape Breton
10th	1904–1908	Alexander Johnston	Liberal
11th	1908–1911	James William Maddin	Liberal–Conservative
12th	1911–1917	William F. Carroll	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Cape Breton South and Richmond
Riding re-created from Cape Breton South and Richmond
15th	1925–1926	Finlay MacDonald	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	David James Hartigan	Liberal
19th	1940–1945	Clarence Gillis	Co-operative Commonwealth
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Malcolm MacInnis	New Democratic
26th	1963–1965	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
27th	1965–1968	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton—The Sydneys

Election results

Cape Breton South, 1904–1917

Canadian federal election, 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alexander Johnston	3,459
	Conservative	William McKay	3,154
	Labour	S.B. McNeil	869

Canadian federal election, 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	James William Maddin	5,048
	Liberal	Alexander Johnston	4,823

Canadian federal election, 1911
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William F. Carroll	5,069
	Liberal	James William Maddin	4,965
	Independent	Alexander McKinnon	223

Cape Breton South, 1925–1968

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	9,551
	Liberal	Laughlin Daniel Currie	4,510
	Labour	James Bryson MacLachlan	3,617

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	8,924
	Labour	Daniel W. Morrison	6,412

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	15,886
	Liberal	Daniel Alexander Cameron	9,268

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David James Hartigan	10,409
	Conservative	Finlay MacDonald	7,355
	Communist	James Bryson McLachlan	5,365
	Reconstruction	Dan William Morrison	5,008

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	11,582
	Liberal	David James Hartigan	11,364
	National Government	Joseph Clyde Nunn	9,719

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	16,575
	Liberal	David James Hartigan	10,529
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Joseph Buckley	7,343
	Labor–Progressive	James Madden	917

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	15,057
	Liberal	George Benjamin Slaven	12,608
	Progressive Conservative	Perry Lewis Cadegan	5,618

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	14,971
	Liberal	Leo McIntyre	10,151
	Progressive Conservative	Layton Fergusson	4,726
	Labor–Progressive	Ronald George MacEachern	794

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacInnis	14,894
	Liberal	Leo McIntyre	11,539
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	10,447

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacInnis	17,636
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence Gillis	13,044
	Liberal	J. Louis Dubinsky	7,754

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Malcolm Vic MacInnis	17,409
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacInnis	13,602
	Liberal	Earl V. MacInnis	7,774

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacInnis	14,307
	New Democratic	Malcolm Vic MacInnis	13,327
	Liberal	Joe MacEachern	9,184

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacInnis	13,670
	Liberal	Joseph E. MacEachern	12,455
	New Democratic	Ed Johnston	10,846

External links

Federal ridings in Nova Scotia

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Historical federal ridings in Nova Scotia

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