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Assiniboia West was a federal electoral district in the Northwest Territories, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1908.

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This riding was created in 1886. When the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, this district, with territory in both new provinces, continued to represent them until it was abolished in 1907. It was redistributed into Battleford, Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, Regina and Saskatoon ridings.

Election results

1887 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin 726
Liberal James Hamilton Ross 423
1891 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin 1,011
Conservative Thomas Tweed 684
1896 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin 1,502
Independent John K. McInnis 1,502
1900 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Walter Scott 2,093
Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin 1,861
1904 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Walter Scott 3,647
Conservative ANNABLE, G.M.2,865

By-election: On Mr. Scott's resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan, 29 August 1905.

By-election on 6 February 1906
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal William Erskine Knowles acclaimed

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