Bonavista—Twillingate
 Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district |
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| Defunct federal electoral district | |
| Legislature | House of Commons |
| District created | 1949 |
| District abolished | 1966 |
| First contested | 1949 |
| Last contested | 1965 |
Bonavista—Twillingate was a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1949 to 1968.
This riding was created in 1949 when Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation.
It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, Burin—Burgeo, Gander—Twillingate and Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador ridings.
It initially consisted of the Districts of Twillingate, Fogo, Bonavista North, and Bonavista South excluding any part of the territory within a radius of five miles from the railway station at Gander.
In 1952, it was expanded to include the unorganized territory bounded on the North and West by the District of Grand Falls, on the South by the Districts of Burgeo and LaPoile and Fortune Bay-Hermitage, on the East by the Districts of Trinity North, Bonavista South and Bonavista North.
Election results
| Canadian federal election, 1949 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Frederick Gordon Bradley | 9,744 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Kenneth S.G. Dawe | 1,415 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1953 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Jack Pickersgill | 10,072 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Edward Russell | 2,564 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1957 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Jack Pickersgill | 9,158 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | John Charles Pinsent | 1,347 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1958 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Jack Pickersgill | 13,670 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gerald M. Winter | 4,323 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1962 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Jack Pickersgill | 11,530 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Whitfield Bannister | 3,846 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1963 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Jack Pickersgill | 11,748 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Guy H. Eveleigh | 2,448 | ||||||
| Independent Liberal | Walter Herbert Davis | 1,943 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1965 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Jack Pickersgill | 10,113 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | William Q. Moss | 3,687 | ||||||
| By-election on 6 November 1967
On Mr. Pickersgill's, resignation, 19 September 1967 |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Charles Granger | 8,112 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Wilfred Nathan French | 6,356 | |||
| Independent | Samuel Drover | 370 | |||
