Guysborough (federal electoral district)

Guysborough was an electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917.

Guysborough

Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1914
First contested	1867
Last contested	1911
Demographics
Census division(s)	Guysborough

It was created in the British North America Act, 1867, and was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into Antigonish—Guysborough. It consisted of Guysborough County.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Guysborough
1st	1867–1868		Stewart Campbell	Anti-Confederation
	1868–1872			Liberal–Conservative
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878		John Angus Kirk	Liberal
4th	1878–1882		Alfred Ogden	Conservative
5th	1882–1887		John Angus Kirk	Liberal
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1896		Duncan Cameron Fraser
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1904
	1904–1904		John Howard Sinclair
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
Riding dissolved into Antigonish—Guysborough

Election results

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Anti-Confederation	Stewart Campbell	acclaimed

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Stewart Campbell	acclaimed

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Angus Kirk	759
	Liberal–Conservative	Stewart Campbell	544

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Alfred Ogden	936
	Liberal	John Angus Kirk	772

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Angus Kirk	818
	Conservative	Alfred Ogden	628

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Angus Kirk	1,136
	Conservative	Alex. F. Falconer	784

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	D.C. Fraser	1,145
	Conservative	Alfred Ogden	1,059

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Duncan C. Fraser	1,533
	Conservative	C. Ernest Gregory	1,455

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Duncan C. Fraser	1,928
	Conservative	C. Ernest Gregory	1,589

By-election: On Mr. Fraser's nomination as Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 10 February 1904

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Howard Sinclair	2,040
	Conservative	John S. Wells	1,492

By-election on 16 March 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Howard Sinclair	2,004
	Conservative	S.O. Griffin	1,643

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Howard Sinclair	2,001
	Conservative	George Anderson Rowe Rowlings	1,796

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Howard Sinclair	2,043
	Conservative	George Anderson Rowe Rowlings	1,700

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Riding history for Guysborough (1867–1914) from the Library of Parliament