New Westminster (provincial electoral district)
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
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New Westminster is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It is the only electoral district in British Columbia to have existed for every general election.
The riding is notable for a couple of reasons. It never voted for a Social Credit candidate during the Socred's era of dominance between 1952 and 1991. It was also represented by Byron Ingemar Johnson, the 24th Premier of British Columbia.
During the 1990s, the riding was represented by Anita Hagen, who served as Deputy Premier of British Columbia and Minister of Education from 1991 to 1993 during the premiership of Mike Harcourt. Hagen was replaced by Graeme Bowbrick in 1996, who served as Minister of Advanced Education in 2000, and Attorney General from 2000 to 2001.
Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Its MLA is Judy Darcy. She was first elected in 2013. She is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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14th | 1916-1920 | David Whiteside | Liberal | |
15th | 1920-1924 | |||
16th | 1924-1928 | Edwin James Rothwell | Liberal | |
17th | 1928-1933 | Arthur Wellesley Gray | Liberal | |
18th | 1933-1937 | |||
19th | 1937-1941 | |||
20th | 1941-1945 | |||
21st | 1945-1949 | Byron Ingemar Johnson | Coalition | |
22nd | 1949-1952 | |||
23rd | 1952-1953 | Rae Eddie | CCF | |
24th | 1953-1956 | |||
25th | 1956-1960 | |||
26th | 1960-1963 | |||
27th | 1963-1966 | NDP | ||
28th | 1966-1969 | |||
29th | 1969-1972 | Dennis Cocke | NDP | |
30th | 1972-1975 | |||
31st | 1975-1979 | |||
32nd | 1979-1983 | |||
33rd | 1983-1986 | |||
34th | 1986-1991 | Anita Hagen | NDP | |
35th | 1991–1996 | |||
36th | 1996–2001 | Graeme Bowbrick | NDP | |
37th | 2001–2005 | Joyce Murray | Liberal | |
38th | 2005–2009 | Chuck Puchmayr | NDP | |
39th | 2009–2013 | Dawn Black | NDP | |
40th | 2013–2017 | Judy Darcy | NDP | |
41st | 2017–present |
Election results
British Columbia general election, 2017 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
New Democratic | Judy Darcy | 12,923 | 51.55 | |||||
Green | Jonina Campbell | 6,358 | 25.36 | |||||
Liberal | Lorraine Brett | 5,333 | 21.27 | |||||
Social Credit | James Crosty | 280 | 1.12 | |||||
Libertarian | Rex Brocki | 174 | 0.69 | |||||
Total valid votes | 25,068 | 100.00 | ||||||
Source: Elections BC[1] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democratic | Judy Darcy | 13,170 | 48.84% | $126,704 | ||
Liberal | Hector Bremner | 8,997 | 33.37% | $56,036 | ||
Green | Terry Teather | 2,252 | 8.35% | $1,417 | ||
Conservative | Paul Forseth | 1,318 | 4.89% | $1,450 | ||
Independent | James Crosty | 1,038 | 3.85% | #3,530 | ||
Libertarian | Lewis Dahlby | 190 | 0.70% | $250 | ||
Total Valid Votes | 26,965 | 100% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 132 | 0.49% | ||||
Turnout | 27,097 | 57.81% |
British Columbia general election, 2009 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
New Democratic | Dawn Black | 13,418 | 56.36 | +5.04 | $80,256 | |||
Liberal | Carole Millar | 8,240 | 34.61 | −2.81 | $24,880 | |||
Green | Matthew Laird | 2,151 | 9.03 | −0.34 | $5,214 | |||
Total Valid Votes | 23,809 | 100 | ||||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 137 | 0.57 | ||||||
Turnout | 23,946 | 55.99 |
British Columbia general election, 2005 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
New Democratic | Chuck Puchmayr | 13,226 | 51.32 | +20.30 | $61,892 | |||
Liberal | Joyce Murray | 9,645 | 37.42 | -11.78 | $135,015 | |||
Green | Robert Broughton | 2,416 | 9.37 | -3.90 | $1,417 | |||
Marijuana | Christina Racki | 293 | 1.14 | -2.68 | $100 | |||
Democratic Reform | John Robinson Warren | 152 | 0.59 | – | $410 | |||
Platinum | Greg Calcutta | 42 | 0.16 | – | $100 | |||
Total Valid Votes | 25,774 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 166 | 0.64 | +0.14 | |||||
Turnout | 25,940 | 63.91 | -6.5 | |||||
New Democratic gain from Liberal | Swing | +16.04 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Joyce Murray | 11,059 | 49.20% | $47,701 | ||
NDP | Graeme Bowbrick | 6,971 | 31.02% | $26,704 | ||
Green | Robert Broughton | 2,982 | 13.27% | – | $3,401 | |
Marijuana | Marlene P. Campbell | 859 | 3.82% | $394 | ||
Unity | Howard Vernon Irving | 604 | 2.69% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 22,475 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 113 | 0.50% | ||||
Turnout | 22,588 | 71.07% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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NDP | Graeme Bowbrick | 10,418 | 46.69% | $29,591 | ||
Liberal | Helen Sparkes | 8,591 | 38.50% | $34,673 | ||
Reform | Brian Stromgren | 1,446 | 6.48% | |||
Progressive Democrat | Craig Sahlin | 1,121 | 5.02% | – | ||
Green | Michael G. Horn | 488 | 2.19% | – | $145 | |
Independent | Arthur Crossman | 142 | 0.64% | |||
Natural Law | George Bauch | 107 | 0.48% | $224 | ||
Total Valid Votes | 22,313 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 133 | 0.59% | ||||
Turnout | 22,446 | 70.41% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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NDP | Anita Hagen | 10,384 | 49.89% | $24,062 | ||
Liberal | Lori MacDonald | 7,117 | 34.20% | $2,534 | ||
Social Credit | Tom Baker | 3,311 | 15.91% | $26,509 | ||
Total Valid Votes | 20,812 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 395 | 1.86% | ||||
Turnout | 21,207 | 72.32% |
British Columbia general election, 1986 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
New Democratic | Anita Hagen | 13,562 | 66.67 | |||||
Social Credit | Dwight Maxwell Ross | 8,949 | 43.99 | |||||
Liberal | Timothy E. Courtney | 1,200 | 5.90 | |||||
Communist | Roderick Doran | 73 | 0.36 | |||||
Total valid votes | 20,342 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 245 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Dennis Geoffrey Cocke | 11,455 | 56.52% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Barry David Butler | 8,224 | 40.57% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | John Ian Paterson | 590 | 2.91% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 20,269 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 233 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Dennis Geoffrey Cocke | 11,343 | 59.30% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Malvern James Hughes | 7,786 | 40.70% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 19,129 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 292 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Dennis Geoffrey Cocke | 10,357 | 55.63% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Alexander John Seigo | 8,473 | 44.35% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Karl Franke | 923 | 4.83% | unknown | ||
Communist | Roderick Doran | 60 | 0.31% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 19,106 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 166 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Dennis Geoffrey Cocke | 10,357 | 55.63% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | John Earl Edmondson | 5,306 | 28.50% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Carl L. Miller | 2,953 | 15.86% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 18,616 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 287 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Dennis Geoffrey Cocke | 7,280 | 40.75% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | John Earl Edmondson | 7,161 | 40.08% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Dennis Douglas George Milne | 3,368 | 18.85% | unknown | ||
Communist | Harry Harris | 57 | 0.32% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 17,866 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 221 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Rae Eddie | 5,751 | 44.65% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Edith Maud Corrigan | 5,552 | 43.11% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Robert James Cooper | 1,577 | 12.24% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 12,880 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 160 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democrat | Rae Eddie | 5,035 | 37.57% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Edith Maud Corrigan | 4,717 | 35.19% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | George Herbert Barrett | 2,335 | 17.42% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | G. Basil Raikes | 1,316 | 9.82% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 13,403 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 98 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Rae Eddie | 6,496 | 41.25% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Stanley Desmond Kermeen | 5,041 | 32.01% | |||
Liberal | Samuel Thomas Dare | 2,519 | 16.00% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Frederick Craig Munroe | 1,691 | 10.74% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 15,747 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 127 | |||||
Turnout | % |
British Columbia general election, 1956 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Rae Eddie | 4,469 | 38.83 | |||||
Social Credit | Stanley Desmond Kermeen | 4,176 | 36.28 | |||||
Liberal | Stewart Alsbury | 2,220 | 19.29 | |||||
Independent Social Credit | J. Lewis Sangster | 645 | 5.60 | |||||
Total valid votes | 11,510 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 82 |
British Columbia general election, 1953 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Rae Eddie | 4,903 | 37.02 | 5,970 | 51.34 | |||
Liberal | Fred H. Jackson | 4,309 | 32.53 | 5,658 | 48.66 | |||
Social Credit League | Malvin A. Olsen | 3,787 | 28.59 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Alfred Dewhurst | 157 | 1.19 | |||||
Christian Democratic | Mervin Casper | 89 | 0.67 | |||||
Total valid votes | 13,245 | 100.00 | 11,628 | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 486 | |||||||
Turnout | 77.94 | |||||||
Note: Preferential ballot: 1st and 4th counts of four shown only |
British Columbia general election, 1952 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Rae Eddie | 4,262 | 29.68 | 6,475 | 52.89 | |||
Liberal | Byron Ingemar Johnson | 4,317 | 30.07 | 5,768 | 47.11 | |||
Social Credit League | Wilbur Watson Lyle | 3,616 | 25.18 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Elizabeth C. Wood | 2,163 | 15.06 | |||||
Total valid votes | 14,358 | 100.00 | 12,243 | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 437 | |||||||
Turnout | 77.94 | |||||||
Note: Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only |
British Columbia general election, 1949 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Coalition | Byron Ingemar Johnson | 7,969 | 61.57 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | George Henry Mitchell | 4,509 | 34.84 | |||||
Social Credit | Wilbur Watson Lyle | 328 | 2.53 | |||||
People's | Edward Charles Mills | 137 | 1.06 | |||||
Total valid votes | 12,943 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 125 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Coalition | Byron Ingemar Johnson 8 | 4,900 | 57.91% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Clifford Augustine Greer | 2,967 | 35.06% | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Charles Stewart | 595 | 7.03% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 8,462 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 94 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Arthur Wellesley Gray | 3,694 | 41.74% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stanley Blake | 2,387 | 26.97% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Mary Dorothea McBride | 1,923 | 21.73% | unknown | ||
Labour (Party) | Edward Charles Mills | 845 | 9.55% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 8,849 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 178 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Arthur Wellesley Gray | 4,055 | 52.02% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Thomas Robert Selkirk | 1,766 | 22.66% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stanley Blake | 1,321 | 16.95% | unknown | ||
Communist | Edwin Henry Baker | 567 | 7.27% | unknown | ||
Labour (Party) | Edward Charles Mills | 86 | 1.10% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 7,795 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 116 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Arthur Wellesley Gray | 2,694 | 46.98% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Daniel McGrath | 1,476 | 25.74% | unknown | ||
Independent | David Whiteside 1 | 1,439 | 25.10% | unknown | ||
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Douglas Thomas | 125 | 2.18% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 5,734 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 67 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
1 Endorsed by the Independent CCF. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Arthur Wellesley Gray 6 | 3.262 | 56.16% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Albert Morris Sanford | 2,546 | 43.84% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 5,808 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 205 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
6 "Wells Gray", namesake and instigator of the provincial park of that name in the Cariboo Mountains. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Edwin James Rothwell | 1,564 | 37.61% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Albert Morris Sanford | 1,310 | 31.51% | unknown | ||
Canadian Labour Party | Richard Carter Higgins | 693 | 16.67% | unknown | ||
Provincial | George Livingstone Cassady | 591 | 14.21% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 4,158 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
British Columbia general election, 1920 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | David Whiteside | 1,980 | 43.07 | |||||
Soldier–Labour | William James Sloan 5 | 1,611 | 35.04 | |||||
Conservative | Thomas Gifford | 1,006 | 21.88 | |||||
Total valid votes | 4,597 | 100.00 | ||||||
5 Also referred to as an Independent. Nominated by delegates representing the Great War Veterans Association, the GAUV, the B.C. Fisherman's Protective Association, the Army and Navy Veterans, and organized labour. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | David Whiteside | 1,369 | 53.59% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Thomas Gifford | 1,186 | 46.42% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,555 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
References
- ↑ "2017 Provincial General Election Preliminary Voting Results". Elections BC. Retrieved 11 May 2017.