Grand Forks-Greenwood

Last updated January 01, 2024

Grand Forks-Greenwood was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Grand Forks, in the Boundary Country between the Okanagan and Kootenay Countries. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of Greenwood and Grand Forks, and lasted until the 1963 election. As of 1966 the area was represented by Boundary-Similkameen. The same area is now part of West Kootenay-Boundary.

Demographics

Population, 1961
Population change, 1871–1961
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are inbold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Provincial	Arthur Strickland Clinton	331	19.21%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Ezra Churchill Henniger	642	37.26%		unknown
	Conservative	John McKie	750	43.53%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,723	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Charles Morgan Kingston	888	52.92 %	unknown
	Liberal	Dougald McPherson	790	47.08%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,678	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			33
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933 ¹⁵
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.t	Robert Lawson	221	12.51%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Thomas Alfred Love	511	28.94%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Dougald McPherson	1,034	58.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,766	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			¹
Turnout			%
¹ Details of returns were not supplied by the Returning Officer, only the total valid votes for each candidate, so the number of rejected ballots is unknown.

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Wilbert Richard Braithwaite	164	9.52%	unknown
	Liberal	Ezra Churchill Henniger	722	41.93%	unknown
	Conservative	Thomas Alfred Love	703	40.82%
	Social Constructive	Anthony Whitehead	133	7.72%
Total valid votes			1,722	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			29

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Alan Conway Clapp	365	22.20%	unknown
	Liberal	Ezra Churchill Henniger	637	38.75%	unknown
	Conservative	Thomas Alfred Love	642	39.05%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,644	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			4
Turnout			%

v t e 1945 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal-Conservative Coalition	Thomas Alfred Love	707	52.06
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Townely Rezeau Lawrence	461	33.95
	Independent Labour	Charles Westley Clark	106	7.81
	Labor–Progressive	Alan Conway Clapp	84	6.19
Total valid votes			1,358	100.00
Total rejected ballots			27

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rupert Haggen	922	44.14%		unknown
	Coalition	Thomas Alfred Love	873	41.79%	–	unknown
	Independent	Edwin Stanley Orris	294	14.07%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,089	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			23
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 ²
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rupert Haggen	826	39.79%	1,043	53.08%		unknown
	Conservative	Cecil Gordon McMynn	706	34.01%	922	46.92%		unknown
	Liberal	Edwin Stanley Orris	252	12.14%	-	- %		unknown
	B.C. Social Credit League	Henry Edgar Parkyn	292	14.07%	-	- %		unknown
Total valid votes			2,076	100.00%	1,965	- %
Total rejected ballots			58
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	%	±%
	Conservative	Ruth Ellen May Euerby	177	8.51%	-	-.- %		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rupert Haggen	995	47.86%	1,016	50.12%		unknown
	Social Credit	Gordon Clarke McPhail	583	28.05%	618	30.49%
	Liberal	Klaus Scheer	324	15.58%	393	19.39%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,079	100.00%	2,027	- %
Total rejected ballots			145
Turnout			%
³ Preferential ballot. First and final counts of two (2) shown only.

25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Hilbert Crae Dawson	866	42.04%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Lois Haggen	877	42.57%		unknown
	Liberal	John Morris Jones	317	15.39%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,060	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			34
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Joseph Clinton Armstrong	752	28.56 %	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Lois Haggen	1,115	42.35%		unknown
	Liberal	Frank Martin	564	21.42%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Yasushi Sugimoto	202	7.67%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,633	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			40
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Dominic Geronazzo	705	29.50%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Lois Haggen	919	38.45%		unknown
	Liberal	Milo Joseph McGarry	766	32.05%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,390	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			20
Turnout			%

The Boundary area was redistributed following the 1963 election. The new riding representing the area as of the 1966 election was Boundary-Similkameen.

Sources

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