Assiniboia West was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

 in the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

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, Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1896 to 1908.

This riding was created in 1886. When the provinces of Alberta

Alberta

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 and Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

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 were created in 1905, this district, with territory in both new provinces, continued to represent them until it was abolished in 1907. It was redistributed into Battleford

Battleford (electoral district)

Battleford was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1925. This riding was created in 1907 following the admission of Saskatchewan into the Canadian Confederation in 1905 from parts of the Northwest Territories...

, Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw

Moose Jaw (electoral district)

Moose Jaw was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1953 and from 1968 to 1988.This riding was created in 1907 from parts of Assiniboia West and Calgary ridings...

, Regina

Regina (electoral district)

Regina was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1935.This riding was created in 1907 from parts of the former Northwest Territories ridings Assiniboia West and Qu'Appelle ridings...

 and Saskatoon

Saskatoon (electoral district)

Saskatoon was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1935 and from 1949 to 1968.This riding was created in 1907 from parts of Assiniboia West, Humboldt and Saskatchewan ridings....

 ridings.

Election results

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|DAVIN, N.F. ||align=right|726
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|ROSS, J.H. ||align=right| 423
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|DAVIN, Nicholas F. ||align=right|1,011
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|TWEED, Thomas ||align=right|684
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|DAVIN, Nicholas Flood ||align=right|1,502
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|MCINNIS, John K. ||align=right|1,502

N.B. Mr. Davin elected by the casting vote of the Returning Officer
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|SCOTT, Walter ||align=right|2,093
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|DAVIN, Nicholas Flood ||align=right|1,861
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|SCOTT, W. ||align=right|3,647
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|ANNABLE, G.M. ||align=right|2,865
By-election: On Mr. Scott's resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan, 29 August 1905.
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|KNOWLES, William Erskine ||align=right|acclaimed

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

Successor districts

• Battleford
  Battleford (electoral district)
  Battleford was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1925. This riding was created in 1907 following the admission of Saskatchewan into the Canadian Confederation in 1905 from parts of the Northwest Territories...
  
  
• Medicine Hat
• Moose Jaw
  Moose Jaw (electoral district)
  Moose Jaw was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1953 and from 1968 to 1988.This riding was created in 1907 from parts of Assiniboia West and Calgary ridings...
  
  
• Regina
  Regina (electoral district)
  Regina was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1935.This riding was created in 1907 from parts of the former Northwest Territories ridings Assiniboia West and Qu'Appelle ridings...
  
  
• Saskatoon
  Saskatoon (electoral district)
  Saskatoon was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1935 and from 1949 to 1968.This riding was created in 1907 from parts of Assiniboia West, Humboldt and Saskatchewan ridings....
  
  

External links

• Riding history for Assiniboia West (1886–1905) from the Library of Parliament
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• Riding history for Assiniboia West, Alberta (1905–1907) from the Library of Parliament
  Library of Parliament
  The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada...
  
  

• Riding history for Assiniboia West, Saskatchewan (1905–1907) from the Library of Parliament
  Library of Parliament
  The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada...