Kamloops (provincial electoral district)

Kamloops was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 1903 to 2009. The provincial constituency should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Kamloops, which encompassed a much larger area.

For other ridings named Kamloops or in the Kamloops-Shuswap-Thompson area, please see Kamloops (electoral districts).

Kamloops voted for the winning party in every election it was contested, from the riding's creation in 1903 up until its final election in 2005.

Demographics

Population, 2001	48,959
Population Change, 1996–2001	1.3%
Area (km²)	2,695.61
Pop. Density (people per km²)	18

Electoral history

10th British Columbia election, 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Frederick John Fulton	517	51.14%	unknown
	Liberal	John Francis Deane	494	48.86%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,011	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

11th British Columbia election, 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Frederick John Fulton	534	54.88%	unknown
	Liberal	John Donald Swanson	439	45.12%	unknown
Total valid votes			973	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

12th British Columbia election, 1909
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	James Pearson Shaw	872	64.40%	unknown
	Liberal	Henry Maxwell Vasey	482	35.60%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,354	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

13th British Columbia election, 1912
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	James Pearson Shaw	931	70.11%	unknown
	Liberal	Raymond Findlay Leighton	397	29.89%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,328	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Frederick William Anderson	1,519	61.27%		unknown
	Socialist	James Pearson Shaw	960	38.73%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			2,479	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

British Columbia general election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Frederick Wilhelm Anderson	1,617	37.43
	Conservative	Matthew Fulton Crawford	1,295	29.98
	United Farmers	John Owen Stevens	1,408	32.59
Total valid votes			4,320	100.00

16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	James Reginald Colley	1,212	41.38%		unknown
	Conservative	Edwin Arthur Meighen	997	34.04%		unknown
	Provincial	William Frederick Palmer	720	24.58%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			2,929	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	John Ralph Michell	1,531	50.25%	unknown
	Liberal	James Reginald Colley	1,516	49.75%	unknown
Total valid votes			3,047	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			66
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Robert Henry Carson ¹	1,836	44.76%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Richmond Williams	1,360	33.15%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	David Brown Johnstone	906	22.09%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			4,102	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			85
Turnout			%
¹ Brother of Ernest Crawford Carson, Conservative MLA for Lillooet. Both became cabinet ministers in their respective governments. Their father, Virginian Robert Carson, came west via the Sierra Nevada passes to California and, coming north for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, homesteaded on Pavilion Mountain on one of BC's earliest ranches.

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Robert Henry Carson	1,786	38.89%	unknown
	Conservative	Alfred Hugh Bayne	1,461	31.82%	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Faulds Stirling	1,345	29.29%	unknown
Total valid votes			4,592	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			47
Turnout			%

British Columbia general election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert Henry Carson	1,933	40.14
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Charles Edward Scanlan	1,712	35.55
	Conservative	Nathaniel Nye	1,138	23.63
	Socialist Labour	John Marshall	19	0.39
	Independent	Walter Unnett Homfray	14	0.29
Total valid votes			4,816	100.00
Total rejected ballots			100

21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Robert Henry Carson	2,804	57.78%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Richmond Williams	1,893	39.01%		unknown
	Labour Progressive	Charles Herbert Cook	156	3.21%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,853	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			54
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Sydney John Smith	4,992	64.47%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Charles Archibald Smith	2,751	35.53%		unknown
Total valid votes			7,743	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			105
Turnout			%

British Columbia general election, 1952
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Social Credit League	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	3,108	38.44	4,002	54.32
	Liberal	Sydney John Smith	2,708	33.49	3,366	45.68
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ralph Wilbur Emery	1,311	16.21
	Progressive Conservative	George Henry Greer	959	11.86
Total valid votes			8,086	100.00	7,368	100.00
Total rejected ballots			231
Note: Preferential ballot. First and final of three counts only shown.

British Columbia general election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	4,037	49.33	4,171	51.44
	Liberal	Robert Gordon Carson⁵	2,272	27.75	2,503	30.87
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Pete Wright	1,368	16.72	1,434	17.69
	Progressive Conservative	Gilbert Smith	427	5.22
	Labor–Progressive	Robert Gordon Carson⁵	80	0.98
Total valid votes			8,184	100.00	8,108	100.00
Total rejected ballots			356
Note: Preferential ballot. First and second of two counts only shown.
⁵ Son of Robert Henry Carson, previous Liberal MLA for this riding.

25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	4,948	61.02%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Thomas Palmer Wilson	2,017	24.87%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Victor Mauro	1,144	14.11%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,109	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			53
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	4,777	45.86%	–	unknown
	CCF	Ronald Edmund Green	2,828	27.15%		unknown
	Liberal	Thomas Palmer Wilson	1,437	13.80%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Peter John Millward	1,374	13.19%		unknown
Total valid votes			10,416	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			531
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	5,669	47.17%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund Davie Fulton	4,473	37.22%		unknown
	New Democratic	Lance Randle	1,297	10.79%		unknown
	Liberal	Henry Maxwell Smith	580	4.83%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,019	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			71
Turnout			%

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	5,753	52.35%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Lance Randle	3,237	29.45%		unknown
	Liberal	Nicholas Harvey Kalyk	2,000	18.20%		unknown
Total valid votes			10,990	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			63
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	7,572	45.12%	–
	Liberal	Malcolm Bates (Mack) Bryson	4,860	28.96%		unknown
	New Democratic	James Andrew Jacobs	4,351	25.93		unknown
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gerald Hamilton Anderson	7,497	32.19%		unknown
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	6,812	29.25%	–	unknown
	Liberal	George William Mercer	5,691	24.43%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	John Archibald Willoughby	3,243	13.92%		unknown
	Independent	Terrence Andrew Shaw	48	0.21%		unknown
Total valid votes			23,291	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			154
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Rafe Mair	14,639	48.67%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Gerald Hamilton Anderson	10,975	36.49%		unknown
	Liberal	Donald Norman Carter	4,464	14.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			30,078	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			236
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Rafe Mair	15,430	51.74%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Andrew Lapa	12,121	40.64%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Regis Pratt	2,273	7.62%		unknown
Total valid votes			29,824	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			545
Turnout			%

British Columbia provincial by-election, May 14, 1981: Kamloops
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Claude Richmond	10,833	45.13%	–
	New Democratic	Howard Donald Dack	10,058	41.91	–
	Progressive Conservative	James Thomas Walsh	2,298	9.57	–
	Liberal	David Brian Kendall	704	2.93	–
	Independent	John Ernest Currie	145	1.87	–
Total valid votes			24,002	100.00
Total rejected ballots			179
Turnout
Eligible voters
	Social Credit hold		Swing		Social Credit

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Claude Richmond	21,114	57.11%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	David Phillip Reiter	14,627	39.56%		unknown
	Independent	Andrew Lapa	972	2.63%		unknown
	Independent	Christopher Keith Sumner	259	0.70%		unknown
Total valid votes			36,972	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			356
Turnout			%

34th British Columbia election, 1986 ⁶
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Claude Richmond	17,478	25.64%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	Bud Smith	16,869	24.74%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	David Phillip Reiter	16,442	24.12%		unknown
	New Democratic	Peter Rolston ⁷	15,131	22.20%		unknown
	Liberal	Norman A. Morrison	1,277	1.87%		unknown
	Green	Trudy M. Frisk	695	1.02%	–	unknown
	Independent	Leon Mikulin	282	0.41%		unknown
Total valid votes			68,174	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			1,148
Turnout			%
⁶ Seat increased to two members from one..
⁷ Later elected in the riding of Dewdney and grandson of Social Credit figure Tilly Rolston..

B.C. General Election 1991: Kamloops
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Arthur Charbonneau	8,926	43.67%		$26,908
	Liberal	Kimball B. Kastelen	6,033	29.52%	–	$12,595
	Social Credit	Patricia A. Wallace	5,481	26.81%	–	$72,408
Total Valid Votes			20,440	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			247	1.19%
Turnout			20,687	71.65%

B.C. General Election 1996: Kamloops
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Cathy McGregor	10,135	44.30	+0.63	$29,790
	Liberal	Gur Singh	9,273	40.53	+11.01	$45,486
	Reform	Joe Leong	1,721	7.52	–	$7,280
	Progressive Democrat	Deborah J. Fisher	1,241	5.42	–	$4,471
	Social Credit	Ken Endean	508	2.22	-24.59	$6,538
Total Valid Votes			22,878	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			172	0.75%
Turnout			23,050	69.56%

British Columbia general election, 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Claude Richmond	12,258	60.21	19.68	$43,147
	New Democratic	Cathy McGregor	4,592	22.55	-21.75	$26,572
	Marijuana	Julian Gushulak	707	3.47	–	$410
	Unity	Ruth Watson	430	2.11	–	$1,224
	Independent	Ernie Schmidt	193	0.95	–	$491
Total Valid Votes			20,360	100.00
Total Rejected Ballots			174	0.85
Turnout			20,534	72.46

British Columbia general election, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Claude Richmond	11,261	47.58	-12.63
	New Democratic	Doug Brown	9,886	41.77	+19.22
	Green	Frank Stewart	1,723	7.28	–
	Conservative	Terry Frank Bojarski	797	3.37	–
Total			23,667	100.00

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British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2001–2009)
North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena
Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke East Kootenay Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Westside Okanagan-Vernon Penticton-Okanagan Valley Shuswap West Kootenay-Boundary Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Clayburn Abbotsford-Mount Lehman Chilliwack-Kent Chilliwack-Sumas Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Ridge Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Burquitlam Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Moody-Westwood Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Qualicum Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-Parksville North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside
See also:	1999 electoral redistribution 2001 general election 2005 general election 2008 electoral redistribution Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1991–2001)
North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena
Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Boundary Okanagan East Okanagan-Penticton Okanagan-Vernon Okanagan West Shuswap Rossland-Trail Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford Chilliwack Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Matsqui Mission-Kent Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Little Mountain Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1991 general election 1996 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo ‡ North Peace River Omineca Prince George North Prince George South Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ Columbia River Kamloops ‡ Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan North Okanagan South ‡ Rossland-Trail Shuswap-Revelstoke Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ Chilliwack Delta ‡ Dewdney ‡ Langley ‡ Richmond ‡ Surrey (2) †
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Moody Maillardville-Coquitlam New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt-Port Renfrew Mackenzie Nanaimo ‡ North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands ‡ Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1979 general election 1983 general election 1986 general election Defunct districts
‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies Surrey-Guildford-Whalley Surrey-Newton Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River Kamloops Kootenay Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke-Slocan Rossland-Trail South Okanagan Shuswap Yale-Lillooet
Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Dewdney Langley New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Richmond Surrey Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1966 general election 1969 general election 1972 general election 1975 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1956–1966)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby (2) Chilliwack Delta (2) Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver (2) Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (3)
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City (3)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1956 general election 1960 general election 1963 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1941–1956)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George Omineca Peace River Prince Rupert Skeena
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby Chilliwack Delta Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (3)
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City (3)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1941 general election 1945 general election 1949 general election 1952 general election 1953 general election Defunct districts