Lambton East (provincial electoral district)

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

Lambton East was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1875 from the eastern portion of Lambton and was abolished in 1966 before the 1967 election.

Lambton East

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1875
District abolished	1966
First contested	1875
Last contested	1963

Members of Provincial Parliament

Lambton East
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Created from a split of Lambton riding into Lambton East and Lambton West
3rd	1875–1879		Peter Graham	Liberal
4th	1879–1883
5th	1883–1886
6th	1886–1890
7th	1890–1893		Hugh McKenzie	Liberal
	1893–1894		Peter Duncan McCallum	Protestant Protective Association
8th	1894–1898
9th	1898–1902		Henry John Pettypiece	Liberal
10th	1902–1904
11th	1905–1908		Hugh Montgomery	Conservative
12th	1908–1911		Robert John McCormick	Liberal
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919		John Burton Martyn	Conservative
15th	1919–1923		Leslie Warner Oke	United Farmers
16th	1923–1926
17th	1926–1929
18th	1929–1934		Thomas Howard Fraleigh	Conservative
19th	1934–1937		Milton Duncan McVicar	Liberal
20th	1937–1938
	1938–1943		Charles Oliver Fairbank	Liberal
21st	1943–1945		Robert Roy Downie	Liberal
22nd	1945–1948		Charles Janes	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1955
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967		Lorne Henderson	Progressive Conservative
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly
Redistributed into Lambton and Sarnia before the 1967 election

Election results

1875 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Peter Graham	1,443	53.35
	Conservative	G. Shirley	1,262	46.65
Turnout			2,705	70.74
Eligible voters			3,824
	Liberal pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario

1879 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Graham	1,840	50.88	−2.46
	Conservative	G. Sherley	1,776	49.12	+2.46
Total valid votes			3,616	73.23	+2.49
Eligible voters			4,938
	Liberal hold		Swing		−2.46
Source: Elections Ontario