Grey East (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Grey East.

Grey East was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1875 for eastern portions of Grey North and Grey South. It was renamed and redistributed in 1886 as the riding of Grey Centre before being abolished in 1925 before the 1926 election.

Grey East

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1874
District abolished	1925
First contested	1875
Last contested	1923

Members of Provincial Parliament

Grey East
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
3rd	1875–1879		Abram William Lauder	Conservative
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1884
	1884–1886		Neil McColman	Conservative
Riding renamed to Grey Centre in 1886
6th	1886–1890		Joseph Rorke	Conservative
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898		Thomas Gamey	Patron-PPA
9th	1898–1919		Isaac Benson Lucas	Conservative
10th	1902–1905
11th	1905–1908
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1923		Dougall Carmichael	United Farmers
16th	1923–1926
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly
Merged into Grey North and Grey South ridings after 1925

Election results

1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Abram William Lauder	1,297	67.55
	Liberal	W. Brown	623	32.45
Turnout			1,920	53.42
Eligible voters			3,594
	Conservative pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario

1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Abram William Lauder	1,294	55.70	−11.85
	Independent	Mr. Myles	728	31.34
	Conservative	Joseph Rorke	301	12.96
Total valid votes			2,323	49.64	−3.79
Eligible voters			4,680
	Conservative hold		Swing		−11.85
Source: Elections Ontario