George Russell Boucher

George Russell Boucher
George Russell Boucher
Member of the Canadian Parliament; for Carleton
	In office; 1940–1948
Preceded by	Alonzo Hyndman
Succeeded by	George A. Drew
Personal details
Born	December 13, 1899; Dunrobin, Ontario, Canada
Died	November 8, 1970, (aged 70); Unknown
Political party	Conservative Party of Canada (Until 1945); Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (From 1945)
Occupation	barrister

George Russell Boucher (December 13, 1899 – November 8, 1970) was a Canadian politician and barrister.

Born in Dunrobin, Ontario, Boucher (pronounced like voucher, not as in the French) was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in an August 1940 by-election as a Member of the Conservative Party to represent the riding of Carleton. He succeeded Alonzo Hyndman who died shortly after his re-election in the March 1940 federal election. He was a member of the Joint Committee on Location of the Seat of Government in the City of Ottawa. Boucher was re-elected in 1945 as a Progressive Conservative. He resigned his seat in 1948 in order to allow new party leader George A. Drew, who did not have a seat in the House of Commons, to contest Carleton in a by-election.^[1]

Electoral record

1945 Canadian federal election: Carleton
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	G. Russell Boucher	10,916	62.26	–18.04
	Liberal	Leonard Anthony Davis	5,309	30.28
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Douglas D. Irwin	1,309	7.47
Total valid votes			17,534	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–24.16

Canadian federal by-election, 19 August 1940 On the death of Alonzo Hyndman, 9 April 1940
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Russell Boucher	6,045	80.30	+26.40
	New Democracy	John Nelson McCracken	1,483	19.70
Total valid votes			7,528	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

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