Antigonish—Guysborough

Antigonish—Guysborough
Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914
District abolished	1966
First contested	1917
Last contested	1965

Federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada

Antigonish—Guysborough was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968.

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This riding was created in 1914 and combined the former ridings of Antigonish and Guysborough. Antigonish—Guysborough was abolished under redistribution in 1966 forming parts of Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Central Nova.

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Parliament	Years		Party
Antigonish—Guysborough Riding created from Antigonish and Guysborough
13th	1917–1921	John Howard Sinclair	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925	Colin Francis McIsaac	Liberal
15th	1925–1926	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal
16th	1926–1926	John Carey Douglas	Conservative
16th	1927–1930	William Duff	Liberal
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1936
18th	1936–1940	J. Ralph Kirk
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1948–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958	Angus Ronald Macdonald	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962	Clement O'Leary	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	John Benjamin Stewart	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Central Nova

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	John Howard Sinclair	3,944
	Government (Unionist)	William Alexander Wells	2,506

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Colin Francis McIsaac	6,752
	Progressive Conservative	Walter McNeil	3,356
	Progressive	Daniel McIsaac	1,553

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	6,135
	Conservative	Duncan Stewart Chisholm	5,545

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John Carey Douglas	6,140
	Liberal	Colin Francis McIsaac	6,003

Members of Parliament

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 18 January 1927 On the death of John Carey Douglas, 10 December 1926
	Liberal	William Duff	6,415
	Conservative	Neil Romuald McArthur	5,292

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 16 March 1936 On William Duff being named to the Senate, 28 February 1936
	Liberal	J. Ralph Kirk	acclaimed