Timmins—Chapleau

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Timmins—Chapleau
Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created1976;47 years ago (1976)
District abolished1996;27 years ago (1996)
First contested 1979
Last contested 1993

Timmins—Chapleau was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1997. It was located in the northeast part of the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Cochrane, Nipissing, Timiskaming and Timmins ridings.

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It initially consisted of the northern part of the Territorial District of Sudbury, the eastern part of the Territorial District of Algoma, the Township of Teefy, the City of Timmins and the Town of Iroquois Falls in the Territorial District of Cochrane, and the western part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming.

After 1987, it consisted of parts of the Territorial Districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Sudbury and Timiskaming.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Nickel Belt, Timiskaming—Cochrane, and Timmins—James Bay ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Timmins, Cochrane, Nipissing and Timiskaming
31st  1979–1980   Ray Chénier Liberal
32nd  1980–1984
33rd  1984–1988   Aurèle Gervais Progressive Conservative
34th  1988–1993   Cid Samson New Democratic
35th  1993–1997   Peter Thalheimer Liberal
Riding dissolved into Timmins—James Bay, Algoma, Nickel Belt
and Timiskaming—Cochrane

Election results

1979 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Liberal Ray Chénier 13,577
  New Democratic Party Dennis Welin10,160
  Progressive Conservative Ernie R. White7,819
1980 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Liberal Ray Chénier 15,628
  New Democratic Party Bill Ferrier 10,745
  Progressive Conservative Kent Davis3,663
Marxist–Leninist Garnet Olson57
1984 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Progressive Conservative Aurèle Gervais 11,944
  Liberal Marcel Chartrand10,273
  New Democratic Party Cid Samson 9,543
 No affiliationPeter Nastasiuk Bruce127
1988 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  New Democratic Party Cid Samson 11,622
  Liberal Peter Thalheimer 10,347
  Progressive Conservative Aurèle Gervais 9,782
1993 Canadian federal election: Timmins—Chapleau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
  Liberal Peter Thalheimer 17,085
  New Democratic Party Cid Samson 8,224
  Progressive Conservative John Murphy4,369
National Ronald Locas443
  Natural Law Ben Lefebvre394
 IndependentTilton Beaumont290

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