Dewdney (electoral district)
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Article ImagesDewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney, which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding, which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster riding, which was one of the province's first twelve.
Population, 1901 | |
Population change, 1901–1986 | |
Area (km²) | |
Population density (people per km²) |
This riding was composed of the municipalities of Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Mission, plus all the rural areas to the east of Mission as far as the Harrison River.
- Richard McBride, 16th Premier of British Columbia
- John Oliver, 19th Premier of British Columbia
- Dave Barrett, 26th Premier of British Columbia
- George Mussallem
- Lyle Wicks
- Peter Rolston
Note: Winners in each election are in bold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard McBride 1 | 427 | 66.10% | unknown | ||
Liberal | William Waugh Forrester | 219 | 33.90% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 646 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % | |||||
1 16th Premier of British Columbia. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Jardine | 241 | 38.56% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Richard McBride 2 | 384 | 61.44% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 625 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % | |||||
2 Simultaneously MLA for Victoria City |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William J. Manson | 625 | 67.42% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Alister Thompson | 302 | 32.58% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 927 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Conservative | John Higginson McNeice | 194 | 19.46% | |||
Conservative | William J. Manson | 803 | 80.54% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 997 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William J. Manson | 787 | 45.92% | unknown | ||
Liberal | John Oliver 3 | 927 | 54.08% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,714 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % | |||||
3 19th Premier of British Columbia as of 1918. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Alexander Catherwood | 1,535 | 45.45% | unknown | ||
Federated Labour Party | William Jamieson Curry | 473 | 14.01% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Donald Bruce Martyn | 1,369 | 40.54% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 3,377 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Alexander Catherwood 4 | 1,259 | 36.60% | unknown | ||
Provincial | Harold Reginald Smith | 935 | 27.18% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | William Maxwell Smith | 1,246 | 36.22% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 3,440 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % | |||||
4 A judicial recount on 29 July 1924 gave Maxwell Smith four extra votes, reducing Catherwood's majority to nine (34 British Columbia Reports 246). A further recount appears to have taken place as a Supreme Court decision of 9 February 1925 which voided the election refers to Catherwood's majority as five. Catherwood was unseated but reinstated 8 June 1925. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Nelson Seymour Lougheed | 2,751 | 58.57% | unknown | ||
Liberal | David Whiteside | 1,946 | 41.43% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 4,697 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 159 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Charles George Evans | 85 | 2.09% | unknown | ||
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Charles James McKendrick | 127 | 3.12% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | George Albert Miller | 967 | 23.75% | unknown | ||
Non-Partisan Independent Group | David Garnet Morse | 1,069 | 26.26% | – | unknown | |
Independent | Solomon Mussallem | 588 | 14.44% | unknown | ||
Liberal | David William Strachan | 1,235 | 30.34% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 4,071 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 43 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | James Miller Cameron | 1,274 | 26.75% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Frank Porter Patterson | 1,870 | 39.27% | unknown | ||
Liberal | David William Strachan | 1,618 | 33.98% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 4,762 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 84 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Roderick Charles MacDonald | 2,995 | 37.13% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Thomas Greer MacKenzie | 2,539 | 31.48% | unknown | ||
Liberal | David William Strachan | 2,532 | 31.39% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 8,066 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 117 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William Leonard Hartley | 3,953 | 46.29% | unknown | ||
Coalition | Roderick Charles MacDonald | 4,586 | 53.71% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 8,539 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 96 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit League | (Mrs.) Lyle Campbell | 829 | 5.01% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William Leonard Hartley | 7,604 | 45.92% | unknown | ||
Coalition | Roderick Charles MacDonald | 8,127 | 49.08% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 16,560 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 343 | |||||
Turnout | % |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 5 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Harry Dean Ainlay | 6,024 | 30.91% | 7,248 | 42.48% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Reginald Clarence Cox | 3,631 | 18.63% | – | – % | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Roderick Charles MacDonald | 2,233 | 11.46% | - | -% | unknown | ||
Social Credit League | Lyle Wicks | 7,600 | 39.00% | 9,813 | 57.52% | |||
Total valid votes | 19,488 | 100.00% | 17,061 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 800 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
5(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only) |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 6 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Liberal | Arthur Albyn Emery | 3,715 | 19.65% | – | – % | unknown | ||
Labor-Progressive | Amy Frances Gilstead | 250 | 1.32% | - | – % | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Kenneth William Pattern | 7,003 | 37.04% | 8,310 | 47.82% | unknown | ||
Christian Democrat | George Frampton Pedlar | 72 | 0.38% | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Murray Lorne Watkins | 559 | 2.96% | - | -% | unknown | ||
Social Credit League | Lyle Wicks | 7,307 | 38.65% | 9,066 | 52.18% | |||
Total valid votes | 18,906 | 100.00% | 17,376 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 953 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
6(Preferential ballot: 1st and 5th counts of five shown only) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Michale Joseph Butler | 4,141 | 19.15% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Naranjan Singh Grewall | 7,211 | 33.35% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Lyle Wicks | 10,267 | 47.49% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 21,619 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 293 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Dave Barrett 7 | 12,637 | 43.73% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | James Ross Gulloch | 803 | 2.78% | unknown | ||
Communist | Carl Christian Hilland | 233 | 0.81% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Walter Raymond Thompson | 4,512 | 15.61% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Lyle Wicks | 10,713 | 37.07% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 28,898 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 406 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
7 26th Premier of British Columbia 1972–1975. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Democratic | Dave Barrett | 11,625 | 41.95% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Wilfred Robert Jack | 4,051 | 14.62% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Richard Egerton Lester | 10,506 | 37.91% | – | unknown | |
Progressive Conservative | Lyn Morrow | 1,532 | 5.53% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 27,714 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 251 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas H. Davison | 1,146 | 9.41% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | William R. Franklin | 4,528 | 37.17% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | George Mussallem | 6,507 | 53.42% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 12,181 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 88 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Democratic | Stuart Malcolm Leggatt | 5,980 | 36.89% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Peter Macaulay McDonald | 1,987 | 12.26% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | George Mussallem | 8,243 | 50.85% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 16,210 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 158 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | George Mussallem | 7,548 | 38.30% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Peter Rolston | 9,228 | 46.83% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Edward Arthur Watson | 1,717 | 8.71% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Theodore John Worthington | 1,214 | 6.16% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 19,707 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 164 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive Conservative | John Willison Green | 1,249 | 5.19% | unknown | ||
Independents | Douglas Wilbur Maddin | 188 | 0.78% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | George Mussallem | 13,024 | 54.10% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Peter Rolston | 9,613 | 39.93% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 24,074 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 247 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | George Mussallem | 12,643 | 51.31% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Joan Mary Norris | 11,998 | 48.69% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 24,641 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 467 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Western Canada Concept | Wally Altwasser | 566 | 1.76% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Robert L. Moore | 410 | 1.28% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Forbes Charles Austin Pelton | 15,820 | 49.34% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Sophie Weremchuk | 15,269 | 47.62% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 32,065 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 366 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Bruce Bingham | 2,203 | 3.48% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | William James (Bill) Hartley | 14,923 | 23.56% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Johann Alvin Norman Jacobsen | 15,328 | 24.19% | – | unknown | |
Social Credit | Forbes Charles Austin Pelton | 15,614 | 24.65% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Sophie Weremchuk | 15,279 | 24.12% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 63,347 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 766 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
7 Seat increased to two members from one. |
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
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Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Premier of British Columbia 1903–1909 1918–1920 |
Succeeded by Victoria City |