Rainy River (electoral district)

Rainy River was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario, which returned one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1999.

The district was created in 1908 from part of the former district of Port Arthur and Rainy River, and comprised much of the Rainy River District. It remained in service until 1999, when it was merged into Kenora—Rainy River as part of the Mike Harris government's reforms of the provincial legislature, which reduced the number of electoral districts in the province from 130 to 103. For much of its history, it was the smallest electoral district in the entire province by population.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Rainy River
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Port Arthur and Rainy River
12th	1908–1911		William Alfred Preston	Conservative
13th	1911–1914		James Arthur Mathieu	Liberal–Conservative
14th	1914–1919			Conservative
15th	1919–1923
16th	1923–1926		John Fullarton Callan	Labour
17th	1926–1929		James Arthur Mathieu	Conservative
18th	1929–1934		William Herbert Elliott	Independent Conservative
19th	1934–1937		Randolph George Croome	Liberal
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945		George Edward Lockhart	Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1945–1948		James Newman	Liberal–Labour
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1955		Bill Noden	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1963
27th	1963–1967
28th	1967–1971		Pat Reid	Liberal
29th	1971–1975
30th	1975–1977
31st	1977–1981
32nd	1981–1984
33rd	1985–1987		Jack Pierce	Progressive Conservative
34th	1987–1990		Howard Hampton	New Democratic
35th	1990–1995
36th	1995–1999