Timmins—Chapleau 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 1979 to 1997. It was located in the northeast part of the province

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 of Ontario

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. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Cochrane

Cochrane (electoral district)

Cochrane was a federal and provincial electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada...

, Nipissing

Nipissing (electoral district)

Nipissing was a federal electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 2004. It was located in the northeastern part of Ontario, Canada....

, Timiskaming

Timiskaming (electoral district)

Timiskaming was a federal electoral district in the northeastern part of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1925, and from 1935 to 1997....

 and Timmins

Timmins (electoral district)

Timmins was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1949 to 1979. It was located around the city of Timmins in the northeastern part of the province of Ontario...

 ridings.

It initially consisted of the northern part of the Territorial District of Sudbury, the eastern part of the Territorial District of Algoma, the Township of Teefy, the City of Timmins and the Town of Iroquois Falls in the Territorial District of Cochrane, and the western part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming.

After 1987, it consisted of parts of the Territorial Districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Sudbury and Timiskaming.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Nickel Belt

Nickel Belt

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, Timiskaming—Cochrane

Timiskaming—Cochrane

Timiskaming—Cochrane was a federal electoral district in Ontario that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003. It was located in the northeast part of Ontario...

, and Timmins—James Bay

Timmins—James Bay

Timmins—James Bay is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Its population in 2001 was 84,001....

 ridings.

Electoral history

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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...

|Ray Chénier

Ray Chénier

Jacques Raymond Chénier is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1984...

|align="right"|13,577

|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...

|Dennis Welin

Dennis Welin

Dennis Welin was a Canadian politician who served on Timmins City Council, including a term as mayor of the city from 1988 to 1991. He defeated incumbent mayor Vic Power in the 1988 municipal election, but was in turn defeated by Power in 1991....

|align="right"|10,160

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Ernie R. White
|align="right"| 7,819
|}
|-

|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...

|Ray Chénier

Ray Chénier

Jacques Raymond Chénier is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1984...

|align="right"|15,628

|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...

|Bill Ferrier

Bill Ferrier

William Herman Ferrier was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cochrane South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1977 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.-Background:...

|align="right"| 10,745

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Kent Davis
|align="right"|3,663

|Marxist-Leninist

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)

The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

|Garnet Olson
|align="right"|57
|}
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Aurèle Gervais

Aurèle Gervais

Aurèle Gervais is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

|align="right"| 11,944

|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...

|Marcel Chartrand
|align="right"|10,273

|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...

|Cid Samson

Cid Samson

Cyril Samson is a former Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993.Samson was a member of the New Democratic Party....

|align="right"| 9,543

|No affiliation
|Peter Nastasiuk Bruce
|align="right"| 127
|}
|-

|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...

|Cid Samson

Cid Samson

Cyril Samson is a former Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993.Samson was a member of the New Democratic Party....

|align="right"| 11,622

|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...

|Peter Thalheimer

Peter Thalheimer

Peter Thalheimer was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. He was a lawyer by career, joining the Ontario bar in 1964 after studying at the University of Ottawa....

|align="right"| 10,347

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Aurèle Gervais

Aurèle Gervais

Aurèle Gervais is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

|align="right"| 9,782
|}
|-

|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...

|Peter Thalheimer

Peter Thalheimer

Peter Thalheimer was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. He was a lawyer by career, joining the Ontario bar in 1964 after studying at the University of Ottawa....

|align="right"| 17,085

|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...

|Cid Samson

Cid Samson

Cyril Samson is a former Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993.Samson was a member of the New Democratic Party....

|align="right"| 8,224

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|John Murphy
|align="right"| 4,369

|National

National Party of Canada

The National Party of Canada was a short-lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 federal election. The party should not be confused by an earlier and unrelated National Party that was founded in 1979.-Formation:...

|Ronald Locas
|align="right"| 443

|Natural Law

Natural Law Party of Canada

The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation....

|Ben Lefebvre
|align="right"| 394

|Independent
|Tilton Beaumont
|align="right"| 290
|}

See also

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