Thunder Bay (electoral district)

Thunder Bay was an electoral district in the northwestern part of the province of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979, and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until 1975.

Thunder Bay

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1976
First contested	1968
Last contested	1974

Federal district

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Fort William, Kenora—Rainy River and Port Arthur ridings.

It consisted of the eastern part of the territorial district of Rainy River; (b) the territorial district of Thunder Bay excluding the Cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and the Townships of Aldina, Blake, Crooks, Devon, Fraleigh, Gillies, Hartington, Lismore, Lybster, Marks, Neebing, O'Connor, Paipoonge, Pardee, Pearson, Scoble, Strange, Adrian, Blackwell, Conmee, Forbes, Fowler, Goldie, Gorham, Horne, Jacques, Laurie, MacGregor, McIntyre, McTavish, Oliver, Sackville, Sibley and Ware; the southeastern part of the territorial district of Kenora; part of the Patricia Portion of the territorial district of Kenora; and the western part of the territorial district of Algoma.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Cochrane North, Kenora—Rainy River, Thunder Bay—Atikokan and Thunder Bay—Nipigon ridings.

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Fort William, Kenora—Rainy River and Port Arthur
28th	1968–1972		Keith Penner	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Cochrane North, Kenora—Rainy River, Thunder Bay—Atikokan and Thunder Bay—Nipigon

Provincial district

The district was abolished in 1975 and became Lake Nipigon.

Electoral history

1968 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	B. Keith Penner	9,540
	New Democratic	Douglas M. Sly	6,081
	Progressive Conservative	George C. Wardrope	4,904

1972 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Keith Penner	11,048
	New Democratic	Ike Mutch	6,309
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Smith	5,095

1974 Canadian federal election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Keith Penner	11,435
	New Democratic	Carson Hoy	5,475
	Progressive Conservative	Berek Kadikoff	4,021

See also

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

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada