Politics

Federal MPs and Constituencies of Hastings County

Under the British North America Act of 1867, Ontario was divided into electoral districts or ridings, with each district to return one member to the House of Commons. The County of Hastings was divided into three ridings, to be called the West, East and North ridings.

Hastings East 1867-1924

The East Riding consisted of the townships of Thurlow, Tyendinaga and Hungerford.

Election of 1867: Robert Read, Conservative, distiller and tanner

Elections of 1871, 1872, 1874, 1878, 1879 by-election, 1882: John White, Conservative, machinist

Elections of 1887, 1891: S.B. Burdett, Liberal, lawyer, died in office 1892

1892 by-election: William Barton Northrup, Conservative, lawyer

Election of 1896: J.M. Hurley, Liberal, farmer

Election of 1900: William Barton Northrup, Conservative, lawyer

 

Hastings North 1867-1903

The North Riding consisted of the townships of Rawdon, Huntingdon, Madoc, Elzevir, Tudor, Marmora and Lake, and the Village of Stirling, and any other surveyed townships lying to the north of the North Riding.

Elections of 1867, 1872, 1874, 1878, 1882, 1887, 1891: Mackenzie Bowell, Conservative

Election of 1892 (by-election), 1896, 1900: Alexander W. Carscallen, Conservative

Hastings North was abolished in 1903. The County of Hastings was divided into two ridings, called respectively the East and West ridings of Hastings. The East riding consisted of the townships of Thurlow, Tyendinaga, Hungerford, Madoc, Elzevir and Grimsthorpe, Tudor, Cashel, Limerick, Dungannon, Mayo, Monteagle and Carlow, the Town of Deseronto, and the villages of Madoc and Tweed.

Hastings East 1903-1924

Elections of 1904, 1908, 1911: William Barton Northrup, Conservative, lawyer

Elections of 1917, 1921: Thomas Henry Thompson, Conservative, merchant

Hastings West 1867-1924

The West Riding consisted of the Town of Belleville, the Township of Sidney, and the Village of Trenton.

Elections of 1867, 1872, 1874, 1878: James Brown, Conservative, businessman

Elections of 1882, 1887: Alexander Robertson, Conservative, lawyer

By-election of 1888, 1891, by-election of 1894, 1896, 1900: Henry Corby, Conservative, distiller

By-election of 1902, elections of 1904, 1908, 1911, 1917, 1921: E. Guss Porter, Conservative, lawyer

By-election of 1924: Charles Hanna, Liberal, hardware merchant

Hastings East and West were abolished in 1924. Hastings South was created in 1924, consisting of the townships of Hungerford, Tyendinaga, Thurlow and Sidney, and including the City of Belleville and towns of Trenton and Deseronto.

Elections of 1925, 1926, 1930: William Ernest Tummon, Conservative, contractor

Election of 1935: Charles Alexander Cameron, Liberal, lawyer

Elections of 1940, 1945: George Henry Stokes, National Government, valuator

Elections of 1947, 1953: Frank S. Folwell, Liberal, merchant

Elections of 1957, 1958, 1962: Lee Grills, Progressive Conservative, dairyman

Election of 1963: Robert Temple, Liberal, lawyer

Election of 1965: Lee Grills, Progressive Conservative, dairyman

Hastings South was abolished in 1966.

Hastings-Peterborough was created in 1924, and took in the townships of Rawdon, Huntingdon, Madoc and Elzevir and everything northward in Hastings.

Elections of 1925, 1926, 1930: Alexander Thomas Embury, Conservative, physician

Election of 1935: Rork Scott Ferguson, Liberal, farmer

Elections of 1940, 1945, 1949: George Stanley White, Progressive Conservative, lawyer

Hastings-Peterborough was abolished in 1952.

Hastings-Frontenac riding was created in 1952, and took in the townships of Rawdon, Huntingdon, Madoc and Elzevir and everything northward in Hastings.

Elections of 1953, 1957: George Stanley White, Progressive Conservative

By-election of 1957, 1958: Sidney Earle Smith, Progressive Conservative

By-election of 1959, elections of 1962, 1963, 1965: Rod Webb, Progressive Conservative

Hastings-Frontenac was abolished in 1966.

Hastings was created in 1966, and took in all of Hastings except Rawdon and Sidney townships.

Election of 1968: Lee Grills, Progressive Conservative

Elections of 1972, 1974: Jack Ellis, Progressive Conservative

Hastings was abolished in 1976.

Prince Edward-Hastings, created in 1966, included the townships of Rawdon and Sidney.

Elections of 1968, 1972, 1974: George Hees, Progressive Conservative, businessman

Prince Edward-Hastings was abolished in 1976.

The riding of Hastings-Frontenac was created in 1976, and included from Hastings that part of the county including and lying northerly of the townships of Marmora, Madoc and Elzevir.

Elections of 1979, 1980: Bill Vankoughnet, Progressive Conservative, property assessor

The name of the riding was changed in 1981 to Hastings-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington.

Election of 1984: Bill Vankoughnet, Progressive Conservative, property assessor

In 1987 the townships of Huntingdon, Hungerford, Rawdon and the Village of Stirling were added.

Election of 1988: Bill Vankoughnet, Progressive Conservative, property assessor

Elections of 1993, 1997, 2001: Larry McCormick, Liberal, consultant

The riding was abolished in 2003.

 

Prince Edward-Hastings riding was created in 1976 and included the townships of Hungerford, Huntingdon, Tyendinaga, Thurlow, the City of Belleville and the Town of Deseronto. In 2003 Prince Edward-Hastings was amended to include all of Hastings County, except Quinte West.

Elections of 1979, 1980, 1984: Jack Ellis, Progressive Conservative, entrepreneur

Elections of 1988, 1993, 1997: Lyle Vanclief, Liberal, agrologist

Elections of 2004, 2006: Daryl Kramp, Conservative, businessman

Northumberland-Quinte West

2004: Paul Macklin, Liberal

2006: Rick Norlock, Conservative

Provincial MPPs and Constituencies of Hastings County

Upper Canada - Canada West - Ontario

Upper Canada

 

The riding of Lennox, Hastings and Northumberland was represented in the first legislature of Upper Canada by Hazelton Spencer and in the second by Timothy Thompson. The riding of Hastings and Northumberland was defined in legislation in 1798, with Hastings containing Sidney, Thurlow, Hungerford, Huntington and Rawdon townships, and the land occupied by the Mohawks (Tyendinaga).

David McGregor Rogers represented the riding in the third legislature of Upper Canada. Elzevir, Madoc and Marmora townships were added to

Hastings riding in the 1820s. Representing the riding:

8th legislature: Reuben White (elected July 1820)

9th legislature: Reuben White, Thomas Coleman (elected July 1824)

10th legislature: Joseph N. Lockwood, James Hunter Samson (elected July 1828)

11th legislature: James Hunter Samson, Reuben White (elected October 1830)

12th legislature: James Hunter Samson, Henry W. Yager (elected October 1834) Samson died in 1836.

13th legislature: Anthony Manahan, Edmund Murney (elected July 1836)

Canada West

1st legislature: Robert Baldwin (elected March 1841) Baldwin had been elected in both Hastings and York, and chose Hastings. A by-election was called to fill the York riding.

Baldwin resigned when he was appointed attorney general in 1842 and ran in a by-election, a common practice of the day. The by-election was "declared void as a collision took place between the two parties causing consideration to be unsafe to poll all the votes of the county within the time prescribed by law. " Should the word have been "collusion"?

In a new election, Edmund Murney was elected.

2nd legislature: Edmund Murney (elected October 1844)

In 1844 Hastings riding included Elzevir, Grimsthorpe, Hungerford, Huntington, Lake, Marmora, Madoc, Sidney, Tudor, Thurlow and Tyendinaga townships.

3rd legislature: Billa Flint (elected December 1847)

4th legislature: Edmund Murney (elected December 1851)

In 1853, the ridings of Hastings North and Hastings South were created.

Hastings North consisted of Lake, Tudor, Grimsthorpe, Marmora, Madoc, Elzevir, Rawdon, Huntingdon and Hungerford townships.

Hastings South consisted of Sidney, Thurlow, Tyendinaga, the Village of Trenton and the Town of Belleville.

5th legislature: Edmund Murney, Hastings North; Billa Flint,

 

Hastings South (elected August 1854)

6th legislature: Hastings North, George Benjamin; Hastings South, Lewis Wallbridge (elected December 1857 -January 1858)

In 1858, the riding expanded northward again, adding the townships of McClure, Herschel, Faraday, Wollaston, Wicklow, Monteagle, Dungannon, Limerick, Bangor, Carlow, Mayo and Cashel.

7th legislature: Hastings North, George Benjamin; Hastings South, Lewis Wallbridge (elected June-July 1861)

8th legislature: Hastings North, Thomas Campbell Wallbridge; Hastings South, Lewis Wallbridge acclaimed (elected June-July 1863). Lewis Wallbridge named speaker 1863.

Confederation and the creation of Ontario

1867: Hastings was divided into three ridings: East, North and West.

Hastings East consisted of Thurlow, Tyendinaga and Hungerford townships.

Hastings North consisted of the townships of Rawdon, Huntingdon, Madoc, Elzevir, Tudor, Marmora, Lake, the Village of Stirling "and all other surveyed townships to the north" within Hastings County.

Hastings West consisted of the Town of Belleville, Sidney Township and the Village of Trenton.

1st legislature: Hastings East, Henry Corby, Conservative; Hastings North, George Henry Boulter, Conservative; Hastings West, Ketchum Graham, Conservative (elected 1867)

2nd legislature: Hastings East, Henry Corby, Conservative; Hastings North, George Henry Boulter, Conservative; Hastings West, Ketchum Graham, Conservative, acclaimed, (elected 1871)

3rd legislature: Hastings East, Nathaniel Stephen Appleby, Independent-Conservative; Hastings North, George Henry Boulter, Conservative; Hastings West, Thomas Wills, Conservative (elected January 18, 1875 )

4th legislature: Hastings East, Nathaniel Stephen Appleby, Independent-Conservative; Hastings North, George Henry Boulter, Conservative; Hastings West, Alexander Robinson, Conservative (elected June 5, 1879 ). Robinson resigned to run for the House of Commons. In a by-election in 1882, Baltis Rose (Conservative) was elected.

5th legislature: Hastings East, William Parker Hudson, Conservative; Hastings North, Alpheus Field Wood, Conservative; Hastings West, Ephraim George Sills, Liberal (elected February 27, 1883 )

6th legislature: Hastings East, William Parker Hudson, Conservative; Hastings North, Alpheus Field Wood, Conservative; Hastings West, Gilbert Wellington Ostrom, Conservative (elected December 28, 1886 )