Dewdney (electoral district)

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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.

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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

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

10th 1903 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Richard McBride 142766.10%unknown
  Liberal William Waugh Forrester21933.90%unknown
Total valid votes646100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
116th Premier of British Columbia.
11th British Columbia election, 1907
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Robert Jardine24138.56%unknown
Conservative Richard McBride 238461.44%unknown
Total valid votes625100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
2Simultaneously MLA for Victoria City
12th British Columbia election, 1909
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative William J. Manson 62567.42%unknown
  Liberal Alister Thompson30232.58%unknown
Total valid votes927100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
13th British Columbia election, 1912
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Independent ConservativeJohn Higginson McNeice19419.46%
Conservative William J. Manson 80380.54%unknown
Total valid votes997100.00%
14th British Columbia election, 1916
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative William J. Manson 78745.92%unknown
  Liberal John Oliver 392754.08%unknown
Total valid votes1,714100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
319th Premier of British Columbia as of 1918.
15th British Columbia election, 1920
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative John Alexander Catherwood 1,53545.45%unknown
 Federated Labour PartyWilliam Jamieson Curry47314.01%unknown
  Liberal Donald Bruce Martyn1,36940.54%unknown
Total valid votes3,377100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
16th British Columbia election, 1924
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative John Alexander Catherwood 41,259 36.60% unknown
Provincial Harold Reginald Smith93527.18%unknown
  Liberal William Maxwell Smith1,24636.22%unknown
Total valid votes3,440100.00%
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.
17th British Columbia election, 1928
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Nelson Seymour Lougheed 2,75158.57%unknown
  Liberal David Whiteside1,94641.43%unknown
Total valid votes4,697100.00%
Total rejected ballots159
Turnout%
18th British Columbia election, 1933
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 IndependentCharles George Evans852.09%unknown
United Front (Workers and Farmers)Charles James McKendrick1273.12%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. George Albert Miller96723.75%unknown
Non-Partisan Independent Group David Garnet Morse1,06926.26%unknown
 Independent Solomon Mussallem 58814.44%unknown
  Liberal David William Strachan 1,23530.34%unknown
Total valid votes4,071100.00%
Total rejected ballots43
Turnout%
19th British Columbia election, 1937
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. James Miller Cameron1,27426.75%unknown
Conservative Frank Porter Patterson 1,87039.27%unknown
  Liberal David William Strachan 1,61833.98%unknown
Total valid votes4,762100.00%
Total rejected ballots84
Turnout%
20th British Columbia election, 1941
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Roderick Charles MacDonald 2,99537.13%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Thomas Greer MacKenzie2,53931.48%unknown
  Liberal David William Strachan 2,53231.39%unknown
Total valid votes8,066100.00%
Total rejected ballots117
Turnout%
21st British Columbia election, 1945
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William Leonard Hartley 3,95346.29%unknown
Coalition Roderick Charles MacDonald 4,58653.71%unknown
Total valid votes8,539100.00%
Total rejected ballots96
Turnout%
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit League (Mrs.) Lyle Campbell8295.01%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William Leonard Hartley 7,60445.92%unknown
Coalition Roderick Charles MacDonald 8,12749.08%unknown
Total valid votes16,560100.00%
Total rejected ballots343
Turnout%
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 5
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Harry Dean Ainlay 6,02430.91%7,24842.48%unknown
  Liberal Reginald Clarence Cox3,63118.63% %unknown
  Progressive Conservative Roderick Charles MacDonald 2,23311.46%--%unknown
Social Credit League Lyle Wicks 7,60039.00%9,81357.52%
Total valid votes19,488100.00%17,061%
Total rejected ballots800
Turnout%
5(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)
24th British Columbia election, 1953 6
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Liberal Arthur Albyn Emery3,71519.65% %unknown
Labor-Progressive Amy Frances Gilstead2501.32%- %
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Kenneth William Pattern7,00337.04%8,31047.82%unknown
Christian DemocratGeorge Frampton Pedlar720.38%
  Progressive Conservative Murray Lorne Watkins5592.96%--%unknown
Social Credit League Lyle Wicks 7,30738.65%9,06652.18%
Total valid votes18,906100.00%17,376%
Total rejected ballots953
Turnout%
6(Preferential ballot: 1st and 5th counts of five shown only)
25th British Columbia election, 1956
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Michale Joseph Butler4,14119.15%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Naranjan Singh Grewall7,21133.35%unknown
Social Credit Lyle Wicks 10,26747.49%unknown
Total valid votes21,619100.00%
Total rejected ballots293
Turnout%
26th British Columbia election, 1960
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Dave Barrett 712,63743.73%unknown
  Progressive Conservative James Ross Gulloch8032.78%unknown
Communist Carl Christian Hilland2330.81%unknown
  Liberal Walter Raymond Thompson4,51215.61%unknown
Social Credit Lyle Wicks 10,71337.07%unknown
Total valid votes28,898100.00%
Total rejected ballots406
Turnout%
726th Premier of British Columbia 1972–1975.
27th British Columbia election, 1963
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
New Democratic Dave Barrett 11,62541.95%unknown
  Liberal Wilfred Robert Jack4,05114.62%unknown
Social Credit Richard Egerton Lester10,50637.91%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Lyn Morrow1,5325.53%unknown
Total valid votes27,714100.00%
Total rejected ballots251
Turnout%
28th British Columbia election, 1966
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Thomas H. Davison1,1469.41%unknown
New Democratic William R. Franklin4,52837.17%unknown
Social Credit George Mussallem 6,50753.42%unknown
Total valid votes12,181100.00%
Total rejected ballots88
Turnout%
29th British Columbia election, 1969
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
New Democratic Stuart Malcolm Leggatt5,98036.89%unknown
  Liberal Peter Macaulay McDonald1,98712.26%unknown
Social Credit George Mussallem 8,24350.85%unknown
Total valid votes16,210100.00%
Total rejected ballots158
Turnout%
30th British Columbia election, 1972
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit George Mussallem 7,54838.30%unknown
New Democratic Peter Rolston 9,22846.83%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Edward Arthur Watson1,7178.71%unknown
  Liberal Theodore John Worthington1,2146.16%unknown
Total valid votes19,707100.00%
Total rejected ballots164
Turnout%
31st British Columbia election, 1975
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Progressive Conservative John Willison Green1,2495.19%unknown
 IndependentsDouglas Wilbur Maddin1880.78%unknown
Social Credit George Mussallem 13,02454.10%unknown
New Democratic Peter Rolston 9,61339.93%unknown
Total valid votes24,074100.00%
Total rejected ballots247
Turnout%
32nd British Columbia election, 1979
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit George Mussallem 12,64351.31%unknown
New Democratic Joan Mary Norris11,99848.69%unknown
Total valid votes24,641100.00%
Total rejected ballots467
Turnout%
33rd British Columbia election, 1983
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Western Canada Concept Wally Altwasser5661.76%unknown
  Liberal Robert L. Moore4101.28%unknown
Social Credit Forbes Charles Austin Pelton 15,82049.34%unknown
New Democratic Sophie Weremchuk 15,26947.62%unknown
Total valid votes32,065100.00%
Total rejected ballots366
Turnout%
44th British Columbia election, 1986 7
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Bruce Bingham2,2033.48%unknown
New Democratic William James (Bill) Hartley 14,92323.56%unknown
Social Credit Johann Alvin Norman Jacobsen 15,32824.19%unknown
Social Credit Forbes Charles Austin Pelton 15,61424.65%unknown
New Democratic Sophie Weremchuk 15,27924.12%unknown
Total valid votes63,347100.00%
Total rejected ballots766
Turnout%
7 Seat increased to two members from one.

Sources

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Preceded by Constituency represented by the Premier of British Columbia
1903–1909
1918–1920
Succeeded by
Victoria City
Victoria City

Elections BC historical returns

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