Thunder Bay was a federal electoral district

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 in the northwestern part of the province

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 of Ontario

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, Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1968 to 1979.

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Fort William

Fort William (electoral district)

Fort William was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario...

, Kenora—Rainy River

Kenora—Rainy River

Kenora—Rainy River was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 2004. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 and Port Arthur

Port Arthur (electoral district)

Port Arthur was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 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

Cochrane (electoral district)

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, Kenora—Rainy River

Kenora—Rainy River

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, Thunder Bay—Atikokan

Thunder Bay—Atikokan

For the current provincial electoral district, see Thunder Bay—Atikokan Thunder Bay—Atikokan was a federal electoral district in northwestern Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 2003 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

 and Thunder Bay—Nipigon ridings.

Electoral history

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|Liberal

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|B. Keith PENNER

Keith Penner

B. Keith Penner is a Canadian public official and former politician. He is best known for having chaired a House of Commons committee on Indian self-government in the early 1980s, and for the report of the committee known as the Penner Report.-Early life:Raised in Alberta, Penner later moved to...

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|New Democratic Party

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|Douglas M. SLY
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|Progressive Conservative

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|George C. WARDROPE

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|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|Keith PENNER

Keith Penner

B. Keith Penner is a Canadian public official and former politician. He is best known for having chaired a House of Commons committee on Indian self-government in the early 1980s, and for the report of the committee known as the Penner Report.-Early life:Raised in Alberta, Penner later moved to...

|align="right"|11,048

|New Democratic Party

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|Ike MUTCH
|align="right"| 6,309

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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|Harvey SMITH
|align="right"| 5,095
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|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|Keith PENNER

Keith Penner

B. Keith Penner is a Canadian public official and former politician. He is best known for having chaired a House of Commons committee on Indian self-government in the early 1980s, and for the report of the committee known as the Penner Report.-Early life:Raised in Alberta, Penner later moved to...

|align="right"| 11,435

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

| Carson HOY
|align="right"| 5,475

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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|Berek KADIKOFF
|align="right"| 4,021

See also

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