Dewdney (electoral district)
Dewdney 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.
Demographics
Population, 1901 | |
Population change, 1901–1986 | |
Area (km²) | |
Population density (people per km²) |
Political geography
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.
Notable MLAs
- 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
Electoral history
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 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | ||
Labour 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. |
Sources
Elections BC historical returns
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