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Innisfail (territorial electoral district)

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Innisfail
Northwest Territories electoral district
Defunct territorial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
District created1902
District abolished1905
First contested1902
Last contested1902

Innisfail was a territorial electoral district in Northwest Territories, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1902 to 1905.|[1]

History

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The district was named after the Town of Innisfail.

Innisfail would continue as the Innisfail electoral district, one of the 25 original electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta joining Confederation in September 1905.

Election results 1902

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1902 North-West Territories general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal–Conservative John A. Simpson 227 52.42
Liberal John D. Lauder 206 47.58
Total valid votes 433 100.00

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2020-09-30.