Timiskaming (provincial electoral district)

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Timiskaming
Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created1908
District abolished1999
First contested 1908
Last contested 1995
Demographics
Census division(s) Timiskaming District
Census subdivision(s) Cobalt, Haileybury, Kirkland Lake, New Liskeard

Timiskaming was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1999. It encompassed most of the Timiskaming District.

For the 1999 election, in which all electoral districts in the province were realigned to match their federal counterparts, Timiskaming was merged with part of Cochrane South into the new district of Timiskaming—Cochrane.

Representation

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
12th 1908-1911   Robert Taylor Shillington Conservative
13th 1911-1914
14th 1914-1919   Thomas Magladery Conservative
15th 1919-1923
16th 1923-1926   Angus John Kennedy Conservative
17th 1926-1929
18th 1929-1934
19th 1934-1937   William Glennie Nixon Liberal
20th 1937-1943
21st 1943-1945   Calvin Howard Taylor CCF
22nd 1945-1948
23rd 1948-1951
24th 1951-1955   Alexander Robert Herbert Progressive Conservative
25th 1955-1959
26th 1959-1960
1960-1963   Phillip Hoffman Progressive Conservative
27th 1963-1967   Richard Allan Hugh Taylor Liberal
28th 1967-1971   Donald Jackson New Democrat
29th 1971-1975   Ed Havrot Progressive Conservative
30th 1975-1977   Robert Bain New Democrat
31st 1977-1981   Ed Havrot Progressive Conservative
32nd 1981-1985
33rd 1985-1986   David Ramsay New Democrat
1986-1987   Liberal
34th 1987-1990
35th 1990-1995
36th 1995-1999

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