Chilliwack (electoral district)

Chilliwack has been a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia since 1916. Incorporating slightly different boundaries, it was the successor riding to the Chilliwhack riding the name of which was based on the older spelling of the name.

For the defunct electoral district prior to 1916, see Chilliwhack (electoral district).

Chilliwack

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	John Martin Liberal
District created	2008
First contested	2009
Last contested	2013
Demographics
Population (2006)	49,338
Area (km²)	146.05
Pop. density (per km²)	337.8
Census divisions	Fraser Valley Regional District
Census subdivisions	Chilliwack

Political geography and history

Chilliwack was the successor riding to Westminster-Chilliwhack, which was one of four subdivisions of the old rural Westminster riding, the others being the ridings that became, after similar name-changes, Delta, Dewdney and Richmond, which are the parent ridings of all current Fraser Valley electoral districts. Chilliwack riding lasted until the 1996 election. In 2001 the area became represented by Chilliwack-Kent and Chilliwack-Sumas. The latter takes in part of the City of Chilliwack and Sumas Prairie (part of the City of Abbotsford), while the other includes Agassiz, the municipality of Kent, and the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, as well as a certain amount of lands along the banks of the Fraser towards Hope. Following the 2008 redistribution, Chilliwack was reconstituted, primarily out of Chilliwack-Sumas, while much of Chilliwack-Kent will be joined with parts of the Fraser Canyon previously in Yale-Lillooet to form Chilliwack-Hope.[1]

History

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Chilliwack
37th	2001–2005		Barry Penner	Liberal
Chilliwack-Sumas
37th	2001–2005		John Les	Liberal
38th	2005–2009
Chilliwack
39th	2009–2013		John Les	Liberal
40th	2013–2017		John Martin
41st	2017–present

Member of Legislative Assembly

On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term. John Les, British Columbia Liberal Party was initially elected during the 2005 election to the Chilliwack-Sumas riding. He successful ran for re-election in the newly created Chilliwack riding.

Electoral history

Post 2008

2017 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Martin	9,280	48.42	$43,462
	New Democratic	Tracey Lorrean O'Hara	6,207	32.38	$7,077
	Green	Wayne Froese	3,277	17.10	$855
	Independent	Ryan McKinnon	402	2.10
Total valid votes			19,166	100.00
Total rejected ballots			139	0.72
Turnout			19,305	55.43
Source: Elections BC[2]

2013 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Martin	9,983	47.58
	New Democratic	Patti MacAhonic	6,548	31.21
	Conservative	Chad Elton Eros	2,510	11.96
	Green	Kim Reimer	1,761	8.39
	Excalibur	Michael Raymond Halliday	181	0.86
Total valid votes			21,002	100.00
Total rejected ballots			101	0.48
Turnout			21,103	55.85
Source: Elections BC[3]

B.C. General Election 2009 Chilliwack

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	John Les	8,138	44.61
	NDP	Mason Goulden	5,908	32.39
	Conservative	Benjamin Besler	2,672	14.65
	Green	Fraea Bolding	1,523	8.35	–
Total				18,241	100.00%

Pre 2008

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

14th British Columbia election, 1916

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Dodsley Barrow	987	55.64%		unknown
	Conservative	William Lyle Macken	787	44.36%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,774	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

15th British Columbia election, 1920

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Dodsley Barrow	1,911	53.16%		unknown
	Conservative	Andrew Leslie Coote	1,684	46.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,595	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

16th British Columbia election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Dodsley Barrow	1,429	37.83%
	Provincial	John Alexander MacLeod	1,281	33.928%
	Independent Conservative	John J. McPhee	1,067	28.25%
Total valid votes			3,777	100.00%

17th British Columbia election, 1928

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	William Atkinson	2,595	55.51%		unknown
	Liberal	Edward Dodsley Barrow	2,080	44.49%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			4,675	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			79
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Dodsley Barrow	2,273	44.96%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Alexander Ingvald Hougen	1,128	22.31%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John Perriman Wheeler	1,655	32.73%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,056	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			70
Turnout			%

19th British Columbia election, 1937

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Dodsley Barrow	2,220	35.25%	–	unknown
	Conservative	Leslie Harvey Eyres	2,524	40.08%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Thomas Luxton	1,554	24.67%		unknown
Total valid votes			6,298	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			77
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	Leslie Harvey Eyres	2,704	37.78%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Eric Symonds Fowerdew	1,810	25.29%		unknown
	Liberal	Frederick Alexander Menzies	2,644	36.94%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			7,158	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			42
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Leslie Harvey Eyres	3,804	62.37%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Thomas Richards	2,295	37.63%		unknown
Total valid votes			6,099	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			35
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Henry Barefoot	2,712	22.65%		unknown
	Coalition	Leslie Harvey Eyres	6,847	57.17%	–	unknown
	BC Social Credit League	Peer Vernon Paynter	2,417	20.18%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,976	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			167
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952^8
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Leslie Harvey Eyres	2,097	13.62%	2,097	13.62%		unknown
	Liberal	Alexander Ingvald Hougen	2,543	16.52%	2,543	16.52%		unknown
	Social Credit]]	William Kenneth Kiernan	8,509	55.29%	8,059	55.29%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	James John Sutherland	2,242	14.57%	2,242	14.57%		unknown
Total valid votes			15,391	100.00%	15,391	%
Total rejected ballots			421
Turnout			%
^8 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; one count only required in this riding.

24th British Columbia election, 1953 ^9
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Emil Anderson	2,456	16.99%	2,456	16.99%		unknown
	Liberal	Lloyd Truman Beharrell	2,631	18.20%	2,631	18.20%		unknown
	Social Credit	William Kenneth Kiernan	8,776	60.73%	8,776	60.73%
	Progressive Conservative	Henry Edward Taylor	589	4.08%	589	4.08%		unknown
Total valid votes			14,452	100.00%	14,452	%
Total rejected ballots			775
Total Registered Voters
Turnout			%
^9 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; one count only required in this riding..

25th British Columbia election, 1956

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Henry Goosen	3,118	19.76%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	William Kenneth Kiernan	9,008	57.10%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Michael Kournossoff	2,992	18.97%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Grant Burton Taylor	658	4.17%	-	-.- %
Total valid votes			15,776	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			138
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	William Kenneth Kiernan	10,051	54.30%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Grant Burton Taylor	1,173	6.34%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Leslie Malcolm Walker Tetlock	4,123	22.27%		unknown
	Liberal	Frank Wilson	3,163	17.09%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			18,510	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			150
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Oscar Murray Dayton	1,757	10.24%		unknown
	Social Credit	William Kenneth Kiernan	10,031	58.44%	–	unknown
	Liberal	John Fife Spencer	2,252	13.12%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Leslie Malcolm Walker Tetlock	3,125	18.21%		unknown
Total valid votes			17,165	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			118
Turnout			%

28th British Columbia election, 1966

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	William Kerr	3,081	25.26%		unknown
	Social Credit	William Kenneth Kiernan	7,703	63.17%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Lillian Louise Lancaster	1,411	11.57%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			12,195	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			164
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Frank Edward Hollins	3,688	20.72%		unknown
	Liberal	Kenneth Jessiman	2,366	13.29%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	William Kenneth Kiernan	11,747	65.99%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			17,801	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			165
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Independent	Kenneth Leyden Christensen	107 x	107 0.49%		unknown
	Liberal	Johann Erickson	3,782	17.45%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Allan Bryan Holder	4,134	19.07%		unknown
	Social Credit	Harvey Schroeder	8,712	40.19%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Kelly Margaret Weger	4,942	22.80%		unknown
Total valid votes			21,677	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			264
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Ian McBeth Cameron	6,628	25.35%		unknown
	Liberal	Johann Erickson	2,987	11.43%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	Harvey Schroeder	16,528	63.22%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			26,143	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			79
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	David Carstairs (Dave) Menzies	5,792	31.41%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Fitzgerland (Jerry) Pirie	1,413	7.66%		unknown
	Social Credit	Harvey Schroeder	11,236	60.93%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			18,441	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			238
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Scott Orman Fast	7,955	35.34%		unknown
	Western Canada Concept	Clarence Ernest Hjalmarson	953	4.23%		unknown
	Social Credit	Harvey Schroeder	12,255	54.45%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Matthew Tyson	847	3.76%		unknown
	Liberal	Hartwig B. Warnke	500	2.22%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			22,510	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			289
Turnout			%

34th British Columbia election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Scott Orman Fast	6,626	30.44%		unknown
	Liberal	Clinton E. Hames	1,859	8.54%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	John Jansen	12,838	58.97%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Gerald James Edward Kirby	446	2.05%		unknown
Total valid votes			21,769	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			300
Turnout			%

35th British Columbia election, 1991

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gladys Doreen Brown	5,688	25.68%		unknown
	Liberal	Robert Chisholm	8,601	38.83%		unknown
	Social Credit	John Jansen	7,619	43.40%	–	unknown
	Green	Steve Kisby	241	1.49%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			22,149	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			408
Turnout			%

1996 British Columbia general election: Chilliwack
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Barry Penner	9,273	37.90	-0.93
	New Democratic	Rollie Keith	5,989	24.48	-0.80
	No Affiliation	Bob Chisholm	5,736	23.44	–
	Reform	Bill Wimpney	3,237	13.23	–
	Green	Steve Kisby	232	0.95	-0.14
Total valid votes			24,467	100.00
Total rejected ballots			107	0.50
Turnout			24,574	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.87

References

1. "CBC.ca - B.C. Votes - Chilliwack-Hope". CBC. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
2. "Statement of Votes – 41st Provincial General Election – May 9, 2017" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
3. "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.