Brantford City

Federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada

Brantford City
Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1924
District abolished	1947
First contested	1925
Last contested	1945

Brantford City was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1949. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Brantford riding.

It consisted initially of the City of Brantford (according to its 1914 boundaries) and the township of Oakland and the part of the township of Brantford lying south and west of the Grand River, in the county of Brant.

The electoral district was abolished in 1947 when it was merged into Brantford riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Brantford
15th	1925–1926	Robert Edwy Ryerson	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	William Ross Macdonald	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
Riding dissolved into Brantford

Election results

1925 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert Edwy Ryerson	7,395
	Liberal	William Gawtress Raymond	4,952

1926 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert Edwy Ryerson	7,070
	Liberal	William Ross Macdonald	5,993

1930 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert Edwy Ryerson	9,154
	Liberal	William Ross Macdonald	6,072

1935 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Ross Macdonald	7,383
	Conservative	Robert Edwy Ryerson	6,511
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William John Cowherd	1,618
	Reconstruction	Allan Kneale	1,202

1940 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Ross Macdonald	8,013
	National Government	Charles Eardley Wilmot	6,312
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Henry Matthews	1,315

1945 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Ross Macdonald	8,670
	Progressive Conservative	Walter James Dowden	6,988
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Nelson Cox	2,437

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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Halton,
Hamilton
and Niagara

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