Grenville—Dundas (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Grenville—Dundas (provincial electoral district).

Grenville—Dundas was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1925 from parts of Dundas and Grenville ridings.

Grenville—Dundas

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1925
District abolished	1966
First contested	1925
Last contested	1965

It consisted of the counties of Grenville and Dundas.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Grenville—Carleton and Stormont—Dundas ridings.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Dundas and Grenville
15th	1925–1926		Arza Clair Casselman	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945			National Government
20th	1945–1949			Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1958†
	1958–1962		Jean Casselman (Wadds)
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Grenville—Carleton and Stormont—Dundas

Election results

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	8,175
	Liberal	William Garnet Anderson	5,221

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	8,100
	Progressive	Preston Elliott	4,744

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	9,498
	Liberal	William John Taugher	5,078

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	8,936
	Liberal	Preston Elliott	6,581
	Reconstruction	Claude Allison Patterson	1,615

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	National Government	Arza Clair Casselman	7,225
	Liberal	William John Taugher	5,642

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	9,306
	Liberal	James Franklin Casselman	4,634
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Shortt	685

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	8,450
	Liberal	James Franklin Casselman	5,102
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arthur Nelson Orr	496

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	8,875
	Liberal	Arthur Clark Casselman	4,933

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	8,967
	Liberal	Arthur C. Casselman	4,402
	Social Credit	R. H. James	1,072

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Arza Clair Casselman	10,793
	Liberal	Arthur Clark Casselman	4,340
	Social Credit	R. H. James	473

On Mr. Casselman's death, 11 May 1958:

By-election on 29 September 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Casselman	10,309
	Liberal	Mark Salmon	5,379

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Casselman	10,159
	Liberal	Robert Watters	6,410
	New Democratic	Reginald S. Libby	299
	Social Credit	Grace Catherine A. Gough	258

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Casselman	10,434
	New Democratic	Reginald S. Libby	7,207
	Liberal	John Palmer	7,207

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Casselman Wadds	9,845
	Liberal	John Palmer	6,930
	New Democratic	René Benoit	595

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament