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			%

1920 British Columbia general election
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			%

1941 British Columbia general election
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			%

1952 British Columbia general election
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.

1953 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Social Credit	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	4,037	49.33	4,171	51.44
	Liberal	Robert Gordon Carson^5	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 Carson^5	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%

2001 British Columbia general election
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

2005 British Columbia general election
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

Sources

• BC Stats - 2001 (pdf)
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• Elections BC Historical Returns