Nelson-Creston
Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding.
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| First contested | 1933 | ||
| Last contested | 2017 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2001) | 44,131 | ||
| Area (km²) | 21,795 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2 | ||
| Census divisions | Regional District of Central Kootenay | ||
| Census subdivisions | Ainsworth Hot Springs, Creston, Kaslo, Nelson | ||
Historically, the riding was consistently held by the "free enterprise" party of the era. Until 1952, this alternated between the Liberals and the Coalition, while after 1952, Social Credit won every election until the NDP victory in 1972.
Since 1972, the NDP has won all but two elections: in 1986, Social Credit won the riding along with many others in the Interior and in 2001, prominent NDP Cabinet minister, Corky Evans, was defeated in an election that saw all but two NDP MLAs suffer defeat. Since 2005, the NDP has won the riding by wide margins.
Demographics
| Population, 2001 | 44,131 |
| Population Change, 1996–2001 | -2.2% |
| Area (km²) | 21,795 |
| Pop. Density (people per km²) | 2.0 |
Geography
History
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18th | 1933–1937 | Frank Putnam | Liberal | |
| 19th | 1937–1941 | |||
| 20th | 1941–1945 | |||
| 21st | 1945–1949 | Coalition | ||
| 22nd | 1949–1952 | Walter Hendricks | ||
| 23rd | 1952–1953 | Wesley Drewett Black | Social Credit | |
| 24th | 1953–1956 | |||
| 25th | 1956–1960 | |||
| 26th | 1960–1963 | |||
| 27th | 1963–1966 | |||
| 28th | 1966–1969 | |||
| 29th | 1969–1972 | |||
| 30th | 1972–1975 | Lorne Nicolson | New Democratic | |
| 31st | 1975–1979 | |||
| 32nd | 1979–1983 | |||
| 33rd | 1983–1986 | |||
| 34th | 1986–1991 | Howard Dirks | Social Credit | |
| 35th | 1991–1996 | Corky Evans | New Democratic | |
| 36th | 1996–2001 | |||
| 37th | 2001–2005 | Blair Suffredine | Liberal | |
| 38th | 2005–2009 | Corky Evans | New Democratic | |
| 39th | 2009–2013 | Michelle Mungall | ||
| 40th | 2013–2017 | |||
| 41st | 2017–present | |||
Election results
| 2017 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| New Democratic | Michelle Mungall | 7,685 | 42.19 | $26,935 | ||||
| Green | Kim Charlesworth | 5,130 | 28.16 | $7,119 | ||||
| Liberal | Tanya Rae Wall | 5,087 | 27.93 | $51,781 | ||||
| Independent | Jesse O'Leary | 164 | 0.90 | $1,332 | ||||
| Independent | Tom Prior | 149 | 0.82 | $402 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 18,215 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 67 | 0.37 | ||||||
| Turnout | 18,282 | 64.20 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[1] | ||||||||
| 2013 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Michelle Mungall | 8,200 | 50.73 | -4.68 | $58,838 | |||
| Liberal | Greg Garbula | 4,577 | 28.32 | -2.12 | $47,428 | |||
| Green | Sjeng Derkx | 3,387 | 20.95 | +13.81 | $18,928 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,164 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 122 | 0.75 | ||||||
| Turnout | 16,286 | 57.63 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[2] | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDP | Michelle Mungall | 9,060 | 55.83% | -3.97 | $52,366 | |
| Liberal | Josh Smienk | 5,191 | 31.42% | +4.69 | $77,586 | |
| Green | Sean Kubara | 1,189 | 7.20% | -5.22 | $3,800 | |
| Conservative | David Duncan | 1,083 | 6.55% | +6.55 | $2,676 | |
| Total Valid Votes | 16,523 | 100% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 98 | 0.6% | ||||
| Turnout | 16,621 | 60% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDP | Corky Evans | 12,896 | 58.80% | +26.98 | $59,942 | |
| Liberal | Blair Suffredine | 5,862 | 26.73% | -12.27 | $52,434 | |
| Green | Luke Crawford | 2,724 | 12.42% | -9.11 | $10,212 | |
| Marijuana | Philip McMillan | 276 | 1.26% | - | $100 | |
| Bloc | Brian Taylor | 173 | - | 0.79% | $215 | |
| Total Valid Votes | 21,931 | |||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 137 | 0.62% | ||||
| Turnout | 22,068 | 67.88% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Blair Suffredine | 8,558 | 39.00% | +7.53 | $53,478 | |
| NDP | Corky Evans | 6,981 | 31.82% | -13.08 | $46,070 | |
| Green | Colleen McCrory | 4,723 | 21.53% | +10.37 | $33,223 | |
| Unity | Stephen Cox | 1,108 | 5.05% | $3,216 | ||
| Marijuana | Dan Loehndorf | 570 | 2.60% | $1,400 | ||
| Total Valid Votes | 21,940 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 79 | 0.36% | ||||
| Turnout | 22,019 | 75.32% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDP | Corky Evans | 9,179 | 44.90% | -2.01 | $42,880 | |
| Liberal | Howard Dirks | 6,434 | 31.47% | +12.29 | $41,078 | |
| Green | Andy Shadrack | 2,282 | 11.16% | +8.61 | $18,611 | |
| Reform | Brian Dale Gaschnitz | 2,114 | 10.34% | |||
| Family Coalition | Brian John Zacharias | 360 | 1.76% | – | $4,489 | |
| Natural Law | Ruth Anne Taves | 73 | 0.36% | $398 | ||
| Total Valid Votes | 20,442 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 82 | 0.40% | ||||
| Turnout | 20,524 | 75.20% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDP | Corky Evans | 8,583 | 46.91% | $33,620 | ||
| Social Credit | Howard Dirks | 5,739 | 31.36% | – | $52,253 | |
| Liberal | Barry L. Neufeld | 3,510 | 19.18% | $863 | ||
| Green | Andrea Wright | 467 | 2.55% | – | $1,082 | |
| Total Valid Votes | 18,299 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 428 | 2.29% | ||||
| Turnout | 18,727 | 80.60% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4683 | 59.3% | – | ||
| NDP | Munro | 2324 | 29.4% | |||
| Liberal | A. M. M. Vogel | 892 | 11.3% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 7899 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 91 | 1.1% | ||||
| Turnout | 7990 | 69.2% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4047 | 44.6% | – | ||
| NDP | Askevold | 1943 | 21.4% | |||
| Liberal | A. M. M. Vogel | 1600 | 17.7% | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Shorthouse | 1474 | 16.3% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 9064 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 53 | 0.6% | ||||
| Turnout | 9117 | 75.2% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4501 | 49.4% | – | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | McNevin | 2664 | 29.2% | |||
| Liberal | Oliver | 1222 | 13.4% | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Taylor | 730 | 8.0% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 9117 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 106 | 1.1% | ||||
| Turnout | 9223 | 76.0% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4190 | 51.0% | – | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Affleck | 2331 | 28.4% | |||
| Liberal | White | 1622 | 19.7% | |||
| Labour Progressive | Mountford | 70 | 0.9% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 8213 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 86 | 1.0% | ||||
| Turnout | 8299? | 71.0% | ||||
| 1953 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | |||
| Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 3,450 | 39.4 | 4,199 | 55.2 | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Simms | 2,636 | 30.1 | 3,404 | 44.8 | |||
| Liberal | Tees | 1,803 | 20.6 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Shorthouse | 772 | 8.8 | |||||
| Labor–Progressive | Mountford | 99 | 1.1 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 8,760 | 100.00 | 7,603 | 100 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 455 | |||||||
| Turnout | 88.1 | |||||||
| Note: Preferential ballot. First and last counts only shown. | ||||||||
| 1952 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | |||
| Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 2,975 | 33.8 | 4,265 | 56.0 | |||
| Liberal | Walter Hendricks | 2,572 | 29.2 | 3,351 | 44.0 | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Simms | 2,473 | 28.1 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Stibbs | 774 | 8.8 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 8,794 | 100.00 | 7,616 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 413 | 4.5 | ||||||
| Turnout | 75.2 | |||||||
| Note: Preferential ballot. First and last counts only shown. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalition | Walter Hendricks | 4783 | 60.0% | – | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Drew | 2675 | 33.6% | |||
| Social Credit | Horne | 508 | 6.4% | – | ||
| Total Valid Votes | 7966 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 151 | 1.9% | ||||
| Turnout | 8117 | 79.6% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalition | Frank Putnam | 3055 | 58.6% | – | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Phillips | 1249 | 24.0% | |||
| People's Co-operative Commonwealth | Peter Stuart Beatt | 726 | 13.9% | |||
| Independent | Frisby | 184 | 3.5% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 5214 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 39 | 0.7% | ||||
| Turnout | 5253 | 65.0% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Frank Putnam | 2144 | 33.5% | |||
| Conservative | Donaldson | 2140 | 33.4% | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frisby | 2124 | 33.1% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 6408 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 89 | 1.4% | ||||
| Turnout | 6497 | 76.9% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Frank Putnam | 2149 | 39.2% | |||
| Conservative | Horswill | 1901 | 34.6% | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Bayliss | 1121 | 20.4% | |||
| Social Credit | Howe | 177 | 3.2% | – | ||
| Independent | Mulholland | 139 | 2.5% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 5487 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 61 | 1.1% | ||||
| Turnout | 5548 | 74.5% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Frank Putnam | 2489 | 49.2% | |||
| Non-Partisan Independent Group | Fred W. Lister | 1302 | 25.7% | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Walley | 1161 | 22.9% | |||
| United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Mountford | 108 | 2.1% | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 5060 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 102 | 2.0% | ||||
| Turnout | 5162 | 74.0% | ||||
Sources:
1. SUMMARIES OF PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND BY-ELECTIONS, BRITISH COLUMBIA 1928 TO 1969.By: BRITISH COLUMBIA. CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, Published: 1969, McMaster University Government Publications.
External links
- BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)
- Results of 2001 election (pdf)
- 2001 Expenditures
- Results of 1996 election
- 1996 Expenditures
- Results of 1991 election
- 1991 Expenditures
- Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- "Statement of Votes – 41st Provincial General Election – May 9, 2017" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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