 Northwest Territories electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct territorial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories |
| District created | 1902 |
| District abolished | 1905 |
| First contested | 1902 |
| Last contested | 1902 |
Innisfail was a territoral 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
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
| 1902 Northwest 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
- Innisfail electoral district an Alberta provincial electoral district from 1905 to 1940 and again from 1971 to 1993
- Innisfail a town in central Alberta
References
- ^ "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives.