Fernie (electoral district)

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Fernie was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Fernie in the southern Rockies. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903. In a redistribution after the 1963 election the area covered by this riding was incorporated into the new Kootenay riding (same name but smaller than the original 1871-vintage Kootenay riding).

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Notable MLAs

Electoral history

Note: Winners of each election are inbold.

10th British Columbia election, 1903
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Socialist John Ross McPherson22126.12%unknown
Conservative William Roderick Ross 31637.35%unknown
  Liberal Edwin Clarke Smith 30936.52%unknown
Total valid votes846100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
11th British Columbia election, 1907
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal William Martin Dicken669.42%unknown
Socialist Henry George Parson 28540.66%unknown
Conservative William Roderick Ross 35049.93%unknown
Total valid votes701100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%


12th British Columbia election, 1909
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Alexander Ingram Fisher40521.90%unknown
Socialist John David Harrington64935.10%unknown
Conservative William Roderick Ross 79543.00%unknown
Total valid votes1,849100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
13th British Columbia election, 1912
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Socialist William Davidson76341.69%unknown
Conservative William Roderick Ross 1,06758.31%unknown
Total valid votes1,830100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
14th British Columbia election, 1916
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Alexander Ingram Fisher 90346.38%unknown
Socialist John Amos McDonald21811.20%unknown
Conservative Thomas Aubert Uphill 82642.42%unknown
Total valid votes1,947100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
15th British Columbia election, 1920
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Alexander Ingram Fisher 72329.77%unknown
Conservative Laurence Sherwood K. Herchmer77431.86%unknown
 Federated Labour Party Thomas Aubert Uphill 93238.37%unknown
Total valid votes2,429100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
16th British Columbia election, 1924
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Saul A. Bonnell85134.12%unknown
  Liberal James McLean64125.70%unknown
 Federated Labour Party Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,00240.18%unknown
Total valid votes2,494100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
17th British Columbia election, 1928
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Michael D. McLean1,10240.20%unknown
 Independent Labour Party 1 Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,63959.80%unknown
Total valid votes2,741100.00%
Total rejected ballots67
Turnout%
1 Labour in Summary of Votes.
18th British Columbia election, 1933
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Michael D. McLean1,29943.42%unknown
 Labour (Party) 2 Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,69356.58%unknown
Total valid votes2,992100.00%
Total rejected ballots26
Turnout%
2 i.e. "Labour" was the name of the party.
18th British Columbia election, 1937
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Harry Wilfrid Colgan1,47046.36%unknown
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,70153.64%unknown
Total valid votes3,171100.00%
Total rejected ballots71
Turnout%
19th British Columbia election, 1941
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Harry Wilfrid Colgan1,21437.70%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. James Lancaster2878.91%unknown
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,71953.39%unknown
Total valid votes3,220100.00%
Total rejected ballots29
Turnout%
19th British Columbia election, 1945
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Kenneth Claude Minifie74224.34%unknown
Coalition Kenny Nash Stewart1,01833.39%unknown
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,28942.28%unknown
Total valid votes3,049100.00%
Total rejected ballots10
Turnout%
20th British Columbia election, 1949
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Stephen Alexander Fleming83722.06%unknown
Coalition Kenny Nash Stewart1,47438.85%unknown
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,48339.09%unknown
Total valid votes3,794100.00%
Total rejected ballots68
Turnout%
21st British Columbia election, 1952 3
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Magnus Eliason61216.40%--.- %unknown
  B.C. Social Credit League John Mackenzie Patterson71319.11%--.- %unknown
  Liberal Stewart Kenny Nash1,11729.93%1,32943.05%unknown
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,29034.57%1,75856.95%unknown
Total valid votes3,732100.00%3,087
Total rejected ballots61
Turnout%
3 Preferential ballot. First and final of three counts only shown.
22nd British Columbia election, 1953 4
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Liberal Henry Cartmell (Harry) McKay 1,22934.80%1,40243.88%unknown
Social Credit William Paniec70219.88%
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,60145.32%1,79356.12%unknown
Total valid votes3,532100.00%3,195
Total rejected ballots145
Turnout%
4 Preferential ballot. First and second of two counts only shown.
23rd British Columbia election, 1956
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Frank Joseph Butala1,18137.94%unknown
  Liberal Kenny Nash Stewart61119.63%unknown
 Labour (Party) Thomas Aubert Uphill 1,32142.43%unknown
Total valid votes3,113100.00%
Total rejected ballots112
Turnout%
24th British Columbia election, 1960
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Frank Joseph Butala92729.83%unknown
  Liberal Henry Cartmell (Harry) McKay 1,12636.23%unknown
  CCF Lloyd Phillips86427.80%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Francis J. Ramage1916.15%unknown
Total valid votes3,108100.00%
Total rejected ballots29
Turnout%
25th British Columbia election, 1963
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
New Democratic Ezner De Anna1,03735.25%unknown
  Liberal Henry Cartmell (Harry) McKay 1,22641.67%unknown
Social Credit Maurice J. O'Rourke67923.08%unknown
Total valid votes2,942100.00%
Total rejected ballots22
Turnout%

Following the 1963 election, the Fernie riding was redistributed and a new riding, Kootenay was formed (same name as the original 1871 Kootenay riding, but much smaller in scope). The Kootenay riding combined Fernie with the riding of Cranbrook and parts of the Columbia ridings.

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