Cornwall and Stormont 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...

 represented in the Canadian

Canada

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 House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1882 to 1904. It was located in the province

Provinces and territories of Canada

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 of Ontario

Ontario

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. This riding was created in 1882 from parts of Cornwall

Cornwall (electoral district)

Cornwall was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867...

 and Stormont

Stormont (electoral district)

Stormont was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882, 1904 to 1917, and 1925 to 1968. It was located in the eastern part of the province of Ontario....

 ridings.

It consisted of the town of Cornwall

Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St...

 and the townships of Cornwall, Osnabruck, Finch and Roxborough.

The electoral district was abolished in 1903 when it was merged into Stormont riding.

Election results

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|BERGIN, Darby

Darby Bergin

Darby Bergin was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Cornwall from 1872 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1882 and then Cornwall and Stormont from 1882 to 1896 in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal-Conservative member.He was born in York , Upper Canada in 1826, the son of...

|align="right"| 1,819
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|BETHUNE, James
|align="right"|1,370
|}
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|BERGIN, Darby, M.D.
|align="right"|2,077
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|MCLENNAN, Donald B.
|align="right"| 1,906
|}
|-

|BERGIN, Darby
|align="right"|2,152
|-

|SNETSINGER, J.G.
|align="right"|1,934
|}
|-

|BERGIN, Darby
|align="right"| 1,838
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|ADAMS, John G.
|align="right"| 1,513
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|SNETSINGER, John G.
|align="right"| 1,456
|}

On Mr. Bergin's death, 22 October 1896:

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|SNETSINGER, J.G.

John Goodall Snetsinger

John Goodall Snetsinger was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Cornwall in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1872 to 1879 and Cornwall and Stormont in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 1896 to 1900.He was born in Cornwall Township in Upper Canada in 1833...

|align="right"|2,617
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|LEITCH, James
|align="right"| 2,025
|}
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|PRINGLE, Robert A.
|align="right"| 2,562
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|MULHERN, Ambrose F.
|align="right"| 2,411
|}

See also

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

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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