Atlin was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the 10th provincial general election in 1903 and last appeared in the 34th provincial general election in 1986, after which it was merged with the Skeena riding and was succeeded by Bulkley Valley-Stikine.
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Population change, 1903-1986 | |
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Always one of the province's largest ridings by area, it was always among the smallest in population, and is often cited as an example of a lack of proper representation-by-population in the BC political system. From the perspective of riding residents, who are spread out in a handful of small settlements from the Nass River to the Yukon border, a riding incorporating larger population centres was unfair to them. Ultimately the pressure to redress lack of equality in voting-weight among BC ridings saw the Atlin riding became merged with Skeena riding.
Because of its small electorate, battles over spoiled ballots were critical in Atlin's electoral history:
Another important factor in the Atlin riding was the dominance of its First Nations population, including the whole of the Nisga'a Nation (Frank Calder and Larry Guno were both Nisga'a). Also in the riding in its entirety was the Tahltan Nation, centred on the isolated towns of Telegraph Creek and Dease Lake. The area of the town of Atlin is part of the Inland Tlingit Nation.
Another factor in the riding was the dominance of working men in its handful of industrial towns (principally mining).
The main towns in the riding were:
The most notable Member of the Legislative Assembly from Atlin was Frank Calder. A Nisga'a, he originally ran for the CCF, and then the NDP, but in the 1975 election he switched sides to Social Credit, but went down to defeat under that party's banner in 1979 and retired from electoral politics.
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | John Kirkland | 202 | 46.12% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | Henry Essen Young | 236 | 53.88% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 438 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | John Irving | 46 | 37.10% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | Henry Essen Young | 78 | 62.90% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 124 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | John Irving | 65 | 37.79% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | Henry Essen Young | 107 | 62.21% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 172 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Conservative | Henry Essen Young (acclamation) | n/a | % | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | - | --.--% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Conservative | William X. McDonald | 277 | 45.71% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Frank Harry Mobley | 329 | 54.29% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 606 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
1920 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | Herbert Frederick Kergin | 390 | 36.69 | |||||
Federated Labour | George Bernard Casey | 300 | 28.22 | |||||
Conservative | William Cameron Ross | 229 | 21.542 | |||||
Independent | Harold Randolph King | 86 | 8.09 | |||||
Independent Labour | Patrick Daly | 30 | 2.8 | |||||
Independent | Oakley Beauport Bush | 28 | 2.63 | |||||
Total valid votes | 1,063 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Provincial | Robert Armour | 380 | 31.77% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | Edmund John Conway | 353 | 29.52% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Herbert Frederick Kergin | 463 | 38.71% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,196 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Conservative | Thomas Wilbert Falconer | 542 | 46.68% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Herbert Frederick Kergin | 567 | 50.56% | unknown | ||
Independent | William Herbert Moult | 32 | 2.76% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,161 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 22 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | William James Asselstine | 419 | 32.63% | unknown | ||
Independent Conservative | Thomas Wilbert Falconer | 136 | 10.59% | |||
Independent | Herbert Frederick Kergin | 267 | 20.79% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,284 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 34 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | William James Asselstine | 562 | 54.46% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Charles H. Lake | 263 | 25.53% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Ernest Love | 205 | 19.90% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,030 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 31 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | William James Asselstine | 454 | 54.83% | unknown | ||
Labour | John Scott | 374 | 45.17% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 828 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 24 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Norman Cunningham | 292 | 49.58% | |||
Coalition | William Duncan Smith | 297 | 50.42% | |||
Total valid votes | 589 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frank Arthur Calder | 376 | 50.40% | |||
Coalition | William Duncan Smith | 370 | 49.60% | |||
Total valid votes | 746 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 190 | |||||
Turnout | % |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 1 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frank Arthur Calder | 595 | 56.61% | 595 | 56.61% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Thomas Sutherland MacKay | 164 | 15.60% | 164 | 15.60% | unknown | ||
Liberal | William Duncan Smith | 292 | 27.78% | 292 | 27.78% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,051 | 100.00% | 1,051 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 44 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
1 preferential ballot - only 1 count needed |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 2 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% | ||
Social Credit | Frank Assu | 108 | 11.54% | 108 | 11.54% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frank Arthur Calder | 553 | 59.08% | 553 | 59.08% | unknown | ||
Liberal | William Duncan Smith | 275 | 29.38% | 275 | 29.38% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 936 | 100.00% | 936 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 125 | |||||||
Total Registered Voters | 5,933 (1952 list) | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
Preferential ballot; only one count needed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | William James Asselstine | 454 | 48.04% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frank Arthur Calder | 360 | 38.10% | unknown | ||
Liberal | George Douglas Frizzell | 131 | 13.86% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 945 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 59 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | William James Asselstine | 267 | 32.05% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | Charles Jewell Brown | 122 | 14.65% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frank Arthur Calder | 444 | 53.30% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 833 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 85 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | William James Asselstine | 308 | 30.56% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Frank Arthur Calder | 549 | 54.46% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Cyril Felix Dopson | 444 | 53.30% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 1,008 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 19 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Democratic | Frank Arthur Calder | 572 | 59.71% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Robin Roy Datziel | 125 | 13.05% | – | unknown | |
Social Credit | Kirkwood, Thomas James | 271 | 27.24% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 958 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 10 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Democratic | Frank Arthur Calder | 639 | 53.12% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Peter John Curran | 230 | 19.12% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Basil Edward Studer | 334 | 27.76% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 1,203 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 13 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | John Norman Anderson | 245 | 14.88% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Frank Arthur Calder | 675 | 40.98% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Glen Leslie Clayton | 65 | 3.95% | unknown | ||
Independent | Peter John Curran | 242 | 14.69% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Basil Edward Studer | 242 | 14.69% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 1,467 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 27 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Frank Arthur Calder | 984 | 55.50% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Peter John Curran | 292 | 16.47% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Gordon Steidl | 497 | 28.03% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,773 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 22 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Frank Arthur Calder | 749 | 49.97% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Al Passarell | 750 | 50.03% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 1,499 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 39 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Robert Edmund Allen (Bobby) Ball | 1,208 | 40.48% | – | unknown | |
Independent | Paul Danny Brohman | 84 | 2.82% | unknown | ||
Independent | Burgess A. Longson | 105 | 3.52% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Al Passarell | 1,587 | 53.18% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,984 | 70.76% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 393 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Andrew (Andy) Burton | 858 | 37.29% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Larry Guno | 1,443 | 62.71% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,301 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 31 | |||||
Turnout | % |
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