Salmon Arm (electoral district)

Salmon Arm was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia including on the town of Salmon Arm on Shuswap Lake. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election. After the 1966 election there was a redistribution with the resulting riding in the same area being Shuswap.

For other current and historical federal and provincial ridings in the area of Kamloops, British Columbia see Kamloops (provincial electoral district) and Kamloops (electoral district); for those in the Okanagan please see Okanagan (electoral districts).

Demographics

Population, 1921
Population change, 1921–1966
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	920	36.83%		unknown
	Provincial	William Arthur Algernon Warren	824	32.99%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Francis Edward Wilcox	754	30.18%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,498	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

17th British Columbia election, 1928

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	1,706	73.25%		unknown
	Liberal	James Smart	623	26.75%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,329	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			24
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	1,351	44.82%	–	unknown
	Liberal	James Reginald Colley	888	29.46%		unknown
	United Front (Workers and Farmers)	Bert Samson	172	5.71%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Faulds Stirling	603	20.01%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,014	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			20
Turnout			%

19th British Columbia election, 1937

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Harold Willett Birch	884	27.87%		unknown
	Independent	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn ^1	1,533	48.33%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Robert Wood	755	23.80%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,172	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			71
Turnout			%
^1 Supported and endorsed by the B.C. Constructives.

20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arthur Fancett Barton	468	18.06%		unknown
	Conservative	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	1,561	60.22%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John William Tordoff	563	21.72%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,592	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			52
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Arthur Brown Ritchie	1,560	60.00%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Faulds Stirling	1,040	40.00%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,600	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			28
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Russell Carleton Freeze	1,681	39.93%		unknown
	Coalition	Arthur Borwn Ritchie	2,529	60.07%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			4,210	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			86
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 ^2
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Liberal	John James Carmichael	669	15.69%	-	-.- %		unknown
	B.C. Social Credit League	James Allan Reid	1,462	34.30%	1,979	55.03%		unknown
	Conservative	Arthur Brown Ritchie	896	21.02%	-	- %		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William John Thompson	1,236	28.99%	1,617	44.97%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,263	100.00%	3,596	- %
Total rejected ballots			164
Turnout			%
^2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only.

24th British Columbia election, 1953 ^3
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Liberal	John James Carmichael	623	14.52%	-	-.- %		unknown
	Social Credit	James Allan Reid	1,627	37.91%	2,013	52.71%
	Conservative	Arthur Brown Ritchie	600	13.98%	-	- %		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William John Thompson	1,341	31.24%	1,806	47.29%		unknown
	Labour Progressive	Gwyn Lorne Walters	101	2.35%	-	-.- %
Total valid votes			4,292	100.00%	3,819	- %
Total rejected ballots			167
Turnout			%
^3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of four (4) shown only.

25th British Columbia election, 1956

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Greta Dagma Abbing de Vries	339	8.15%		unknown
	Social Credit	James Allan Reid	2,131	51.24%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William John Thompson	1,454	34.96%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Dennis Allen Williams	235	5.65%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,159	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			79
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Kenneth Carr Haines	1,667	35.17%		unknown
	Social Credit	Willis Franklin Jefcoat	1,979	41.75%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Torquil (Torque) MacLeod	613	12.93%		unknown
	Liberal	Donald Edmund Nunn	481	10.15%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,740	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			59
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	James Churchill	1,005	20.29%		unknown
	Social Credit	Willis Franklin Jefcoat	2,058	41.55%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Byron O.S. Johnson	245	4.95%		unknown
	New Democratic	Leonard Terrence O'Neill	1,645	33.21%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,953	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			57
Turnout			%

A redistribution took place before the 1966 election, after which the Shuswap Lake area became represented by the renamed riding of Shuswap.

Sources

Elections BC Historical Returns