Erie 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

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1979 to 1997. It was located in the province

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

 of Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Lincoln

Lincoln (electoral district)

Lincoln was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1883 and from 1904 to 1997. It was on the Niagara Peninsula in the Canadian province of Ontario...

 and Welland

Welland (electoral district)

Welland is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988, and since 2004. Its population in 2006 was 112,875....

 ridings.

It initially consisted of the Townships of Wainfleet and West Lincoln, the City of Port Colborne and the Towns of Fort Erie and Pelham.

In 1987, it was redefined to include the part of the City of Welland lying south of a line drawn from west to east along the Welland River, east along Broadway Avenue, north along Regional Road No. 68, east along Ontario Road, and east in a straight line to Ridge Road.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Erie—Lincoln

Erie—Lincoln

Erie—Lincoln was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004, and was a provincial electoral district represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

, Niagara Centre

Niagara Centre

Niagara Centre was a federal and provincial electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007.-Federal riding:...

 and Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls (electoral district)

Niagara Falls is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.It consists of the city of Niagara Falls and the towns of Niagara-on-the-Lake and Fort Erie....

 ridings.

Election results

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|FRETZ, Girve

Girve Fretz

Claude Girven Fretz was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Erie in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada....

|align="right"| 15,500
|-

|LAFONTAINE, Pierre
|align="right"| 11,175
|-

|GIBSON, Clarence
|align="right"| 6,985
|-

|KUBIAS, Jerry
|align="right"| 180
|}
|-

|FRETZ, Girve
|align="right"| 12,861
|-

|PLYLEY, John M.
|align="right"| 12,334
|-

|GIBSON, Clarence
|align="right"| 6,848
|-

|BLASHILL, Betty
|align="right"| 105
|}
|-

|FRETZ, Girve
|align="right"| 19,197
|-

|LAFONTAINE, Pierre
|align="right"| 9,316
|-

|HAVLIN, Elaine
|align="right"| 5,868
|}
|-

|FRETZ, Girve
|align="right"| 15,063
|-

|COLYN, Allard
|align="right"| 14,278
|-

|O'FLYNN, Sean
|align="right"| 8,168
|-

|GRITTER, Cope
|align="right"| 1,607
|}
|-

|MALONEY, John 
|align="right"| 19,799
|-

|LUND, Bob
|align="right"| 11,753
|-

|WILSON, Bradd
|align="right"| 5,894
|-

|PENWARDEN, Lesley
|align="right"| 4,842
|-

|KIERS, Alfred
|align="right"| 591
|-

|ROBBINS, Bill
|align="right"| 586
|-

|DREBEN, Jeffrey Ian
|align="right"| 197
|}

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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