List of Canadian electoral districts (1914–1924)
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This is a list of electoral districts or ridings in Canada for the Canadian federal elections of 1917 and 1921.
Electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons.
Nova Scotia – 16 seats
Antigonish—Guysborough
Cape Breton South and Richmond*
Colchester
Cumberland
Digby and Annapolis
Halifax*
Hants
Inverness
Kings
Lunenburg
North Cape Breton and Victoria
Pictou
Shelburne and Queen's
Yarmouth and Clare
Prince Edward Island – 4 seats
King's
Prince
Queen's*
When the new arrangement was devised in 1914, it gave PEI only three seats. After public complaints, a rule that a province could not have fewer MPs than Senators was introduced giving PEI back a fourth seat in 1915. The arrangement with only three PEI seats was never used in an election.
New Brunswick – 11 seats
Charlotte
Gloucester
Kent
Northumberland
Restigouche—Madawaska
Royal
St. John—Albert*
Victoria—Carleton
Westmorland
York—Sunbury
Quebec – 65 seats
Argenteuil
Bagot
Beauce
Beauharnois
Bellechasse
Berthier
Bonaventure
Brome
Chambly—Verchères
Champlain
Charlevoix—Montmorency
Châteauguay—Huntingdon
Chicoutimi—Saguenay
Compton
Dorchester
Drummond—Arthabaska
Gaspé
George-Étienne Cartier
Hochelaga
Hull
Jacques Cartier
Joliette
Kamouraska
L'Assomption—Montcalm
L'Islet
Labelle
Laprairie—Napierville
Laurier—Outremont
Laval—Two Mountains
Lévis
Lotbinière
Maisonneuve
Maskinongé
Matane
Mégantic
Missisquoi
Montmagny
Nicolet
Pontiac
Portneuf
Quebec County
Quebec East
Quebec South
Quebec West
Richelieu
Richmond—Wolfe
Rimouski
Shefford
Town of Sherbrooke
St. Ann
St. Antoine
St. Denis
St.
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