 Ontario electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
| District created | 1875 |
| District abolished | 1996 |
| First contested | 1875 |
| Last contested | 1995 |
Essex South was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1875 when the riding of Essex was split into Essex North and Essex South. It was abolished in 1996 before the 1999 election.
| Essex South | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Essex in 1875 | ||||
| 3rd | 1875–1879 | Lewis Wigle | Conservative | |
| 4th | 1879–1882 | |||
| 1882–1883 | William Balfour | Liberal | ||
| 5th | 1883–1886 | |||
| 6th | 1886–1890 | |||
| 7th | 1890–1894 | |||
| 8th | 1894–1896 | |||
| 1896–1898 | John Allan Auld | Liberal | ||
| 9th | 1898–1902 | |||
| 10th | 1902–1905 | |||
| 11th | 1905–1908 | |||
| 12th | 1908–1911 | Charles Anderson | Conservative | |
| 13th | 1911–1914 | |||
| 14th | 1914–1919 | Lambert Peter Wigle | Liberal | |
| 15th | 1919–1923 | Milton C. Fox | United Farmers | |
| 16th | 1923–1926 | Adolphus T. Armstrong | Conservative | |
| 17th | 1926–1929 | Charles George Fletcher | Liberal | |
| 18th | 1929–1934 | Austin Burton Smith | Conservative | |
| 19th | 1934–1937 | Lambert Peter Wigle | Liberal | |
| 20th | 1937–1943 | Charles George Fletcher | Liberal | |
| 21st | 1943–1945 | William Murdoch | Progressive Conservative | |
| 22nd | 1945–1948 | |||
| 23rd | 1948–1951 | |||
| 24th | 1951–1955 | |||
| 25th | 1955–1959 | |||
| 26th | 1959–1963 | |||
| 27th | 1963–1967 | Donald Paterson | Liberal | |
| 28th | 1967–1971 | |||
| 29th | 1971–1975 | |||
| 30th | 1975–1977 | Remo Mancini | Liberal | |
| 31st | 1977–1981 | |||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | |||
| 33rd | 1985–1987 | |||
| 34th | 1987–1990 | |||
| 35th | 1990–1993 | |||
| 1993–1995 | Bruce Crozier | Liberal | ||
| 36th | 1995–1999 | |||
| Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly [1] | ||||
| Merged into Essex riding before the 1999 election | ||||
| 1875 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Lewis Wigle | 1,014 | 51.19 | |||||
| Liberal | J.C. Iler | 967 | 48.81 | |||||
| Turnout | 1,981 | 69.61 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 2,846 | |||||||
| Election voided | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario [2] | ||||||||
| Ontario provincial by-election, September 1875 Previous election voided | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Lewis Wigle | 1,310 | 58.53 | |||||
| Liberal | J.C. Iler | 928 | 41.47 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,238 | |||||||
| Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source: History of the Electoral Districts, Legislatures and Ministries of the Province of Ontario [3] : 81 | ||||||||
| 1879 Ontario general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Lewis Wigle | 1,418 | 52.93 | −5.60 | ||||
| Liberal | William Balfour | 1,261 | 47.07 | +5.60 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,679 | 74.29 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 3,606 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −5.60 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario [4] | ||||||||
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