Alberni was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originally appeared in the 1890 election and then, after being merged into Cowichan-Alberni for the 1894 election, was renamed Alberni riding in the election of 1898. The riding lasted by that name until 1933 and 1937, when the name Alberni-Nanaimo was used. In 1941 the Alberni riding name was restored. After a redistribution, the area became part of the riding of Alberni-Qualicum.
Note: Winners in each election are in bold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Government | Thomas Fletcher | 29 | 70.73% | – | unknown | |
Government | John C. Mollett | 12 | 29.27% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 41 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
In the seventh general election of 1894, the Alberni riding was merged with the Cowichan riding to form Cowichan-Alberni. The separate riding names were restored for the 1898 election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Government | George Albert Huff | 70 | 39.33% | – | unknown | |
Opposition | Alan Webster Neill | 108 | 60.67% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 178 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Progressive | Alan Webster Neill | 108 | 54.55% | |||
Government | James Redford | 57 | 28.79% | |||
Conservative-Opposition | James Bain Thomson | 33 | 16.67% | |||
Total valid votes | 198 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Hume F. Hickey | 102 | 24.17% | unknown | ||
Liberal | William Wallace Burns McInnes | 320 | 75.83% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 422 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Harlan Carey Brewster | 236 | 48.86% | unknown | ||
Socialist | James Cartwright | 43 | 8.90% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | William Manson | 204 | 42.24% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 483 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Harlan Carey Brewster | 293 | 53.37% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Arthur David Morgan | 256 | 46.63% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 549 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Conservative | John George Corry Wood | Accl. | - % | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | n/a | - % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Harlan Carey Brewster | 393 | 39.26% | unknown | ||
Independent | Alan Webster Neill | 253 | 25.27% | unknown | ||
Conservative | John George Corry Wood | 355 | 35.46% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,001 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
1920 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Independent | Richard John Burde | 841 | 43.94 | |||||
Soldier–Farmer | Noel Ernest Money | 675 | 35.27 | |||||
Liberal | Henri Evariste Langis | 398 | 20.79 | |||||
Total valid votes | 1,914 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Independent Liberal | Richard John Burde | 828 | 42.48% | |||
Conservative | James Cameron Johnstone | 339 | 17.39% | unknown | ||
Provincial | Charles Arthur McNaughton | 782 | 40.13% | |||
Total valid votes | 1,949 | 100.00% |
1928 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | Laurence Arnold Hanna | 1,208 | 48.71 | |||||
Conservative | Percy Rushton | 1,022 | 41.21 | |||||
Independent Labour | Thomas Albert Bernard | 250 | 10.08 | |||||
Total valid votes | 2,480 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 34 |
Alberni riding disappeared with redistribution following the 1928 election. Its successor in the 1933 and 1937 elections was Alberni-Nanaimo. For the 1941 election the Alberni riding name was restored:
1941 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | James Mowat | 2,067 | 49.17 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Thomas Albert Bernard | 1,903 | 45.27 | |||||
Independent Labour | Alex Harvey Rowan | 234 | 5.57 | |||||
Total valid votes | 4,204 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 56 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Thomas Speakman Barnett | 1,258 | 31.83% | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Alfred Dewhurst | 559 | 14.14% | unknown | ||
Coalition | James Mowat | 2,135 | 54.02% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 3,952 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 74 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Coalition | Thomas Wellington Christie | 1,638 | 21.33% | – | unknown | |
Labour Progressive | Nigel Morgan | 622 | 8.10% | unknown | ||
Independent | James Mowat | 3,290 | 42.84 % | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Jack Whittall | 2,129 | 27.72% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 7,679 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 200 | |||||
Turnout | % |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% | ||
Conservative | Pitt Clayton | 1,204 | 15.03% | - | - % | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Alfred Dewhurst | 196 | 2.45% | - | -.- % | |||
Liberal | James Mowat | 2,176 | 27.17 % | 3,030 | 42.77% | unknown | ||
Social Credit League | Jack Shulz | 1,366 | 17.06% | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stanley John Squire | 3,067 | 38.29% | 4,054 | 57.23% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 8,009 | 100.00% | 7,084 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 246 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
1Preferential ballot. First and final of four counts shown only. |
24thd British Columbia election, 1953 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% | ||
Labour Progressive | Frank Wendell Bottner | 139 | 1.92% | - | -.- % | |||
Liberal | Loran Kendall Jordon | 2,022 | 27.95% | 2,811 | 43.07% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Thorwald Melanchton Peterson | 1,637 | 22.63% | |||||
Conservative | Oliver James Ruttan | 320 | 4.42% | - | - % | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stanley John Squire | 3,116 | 43.07% | 3,715 | 56.93% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 7,234 | 100.00% | 6,526 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 336 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
1Preferential ballot. First and final of four counts shown only. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | William James Carr | 1,894 | 28.51% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Norman Leslie McKinnon | 1,388 | 20.89% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stanley John Squire | 3,362 | 50.60% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 6,644 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 80 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Eric Frederick Duncan | 2,966 | 32.65% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | Ronald George Lyon | 514 | 5.66% | unknown | ||
Liberal | John Alexander McKenzie | 1,305 | 14.36% | unknown | ||
Communist | Mark Fullmore Mosher | 207 | 2.28% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stanley John Squire | 4,093 | 45.05% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 9,085 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 315 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Eric Frederick Duncan | 3,506 | 39.72% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Edward John (Jack) Luckhurst | 1,071 | 12.13% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Stanley John Squire | 4,249 | 48.14% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 8,826 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 68 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Howard Richmond McDiarmid | 6,039 | 55.55% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | George McLean | 511 | 4.70% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Stanley John Squire | 4,321 | 39.75% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 10,871 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 95 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Howard Richmond McDiarmid | 7,209 | 47.08% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Eugene Edward Romaniuk | 1,424 | 9.30% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Stanley John Squire | 6,680 | 43.62% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 15,313 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 131 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Wayne Albert Ramsey Cathers | 2,272 | 12.92% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Thomas Johnstone | 4,985 | 28.36% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Robert Evans Skelly | 9,439 | 53.69% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Edna Delthene Souther | 883 | 5.02% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 17,579 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 251 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Charles Ormond Haggard | 7,988 | 40.01% | – | unknown | |
Communist | Charles Ormond Haggard | 84 | 0.42% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Cecile Marie T. McKinnon | 1,018 | 5.10% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Allan Arthur Schroeder | 1,278 | 6.40% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Robert Evans Skelly | 9,599 | 48.07% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 19,967 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 226 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democratic | Robert Evans Skelly | 7,935 | 57.63% | unknown | ||
Communist | Gary William Swann | 97 | 0.71% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Joseph Van Bergen | 5,736 | 41.66% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 13,768 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 201 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Alice Chiko | 5,496 | 37.34% | – | unknown | |
Western Canada Concept | Michael Thomas Gaughan | 291 | 1.98% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Susan Patricia Hutchinson | 183 | 1.24% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Robert Evans Skelly | 8,656 | 58.81% | unknown | ||
Communist | Gary William Swann | 92 | 0.63% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 14,718 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 244 | |||||
Turnout | % |
1986 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Green | Ronald Daniel Craigie Aspinall | 87 | 0.56% | |||||
Liberal | William F. Mosdell | 377 | 2.43% | |||||
New Democratic | Robert Evans Skelly | 8,597 | 55.29% | |||||
Social Credit | Gillian Trumper | 6,487 | 41.72% | |||||
Total valid votes | 15,548 | 100.00% | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 304 |
British Columbia provincial by-election, November 19, 1988 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Gerard A. Janssen | 6,401 | 57.47 | +2.18 | ||||
Social Credit | George S. Dryden | 3,096 | 27.80 | −13.92 | ||||
Liberal | Shirley M. Bonfield | 1,640 | 14.73 | +12.3 | ||||
Total valid votes/expense limit | 11,137 | 100.0 | – | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 136 | 0.38 | ||||||
Turnout | 11,273 | |||||||
New Democratic hold | Swing | +8.05 | ||||||
By-election due to the Resignation of Robert Skelly to run for the Canadian House of Commons. | ||||||||
Source(s) "November 19, 1988 By-election" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. November 19, 1988. Retrieved January 19, 2017. |
1991 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Gerard A. Janssen | 7,136 | 53.39 | -4.08 | ||||
Social Credit | Gillian Trumper | 3,665 | 27.43 | -0.37 | ||||
Liberal | Peter J. Tanner | 2,358 | 17.64 | +2.91 | ||||
Western Canada Concept | Alan W. Banford | 206 | 1.54 | – | ||||
Total valid votes | 13,365 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 372 | 0.27 | ||||||
Turnout | 13,737 | |||||||
New Democratic hold | Swing | -2.23 |
1996 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Gerard A. Janssen | 7,398 | 52.01 | -1.38 | ||||
Liberal | Gillian Trumper | 5,099 | 35.85 | +18.21 | ||||
Reform | V. Hansen | 823 | 5.79 | – | ||||
Progressive Democrat | Ingrid Helen Rebar | 578 | 4.06 | – | ||||
Green | Andre Sperling | 195 | 1.37 | – | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Karl Angus | 72 | 0.51 | – | ||||
Natural Law | Kathleen Lapreyrouse | 58 | 0.41 | – | ||||
Total valid votes | 14,223 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 86 | 0.98 | ||||||
Turnout | 14,309 | |||||||
New Democratic hold | Swing | +9.80 |
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