Grand Forks-Greenwood

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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.

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Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are inbold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Provincial Arthur Strickland Clinton33119.21%unknown
  Liberal Ezra Churchill Henniger64237.26%unknown
Conservative John McKie 75043.53%unknown
Total valid votes1,723100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
17th British Columbia election, 1928
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Charles Morgan Kingston 88852.92 %unknown
  Liberal Dougald McPherson 79047.08%unknown
Total valid votes1,678100.00%
Total rejected ballots33
Turnout%
18th British Columbia election, 1933 15
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.t Robert Lawson22112.51%unknown
Non-Partisan Independent Group Thomas Alfred Love 51128.94%unknown
  Liberal Dougald McPherson 1,03458.55%unknown
Total valid votes1,766100.00%
Total rejected ballots1
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
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Wilbert Richard Braithwaite1649.52%unknown
  Liberal Ezra Churchill Henniger 72241.93%unknown
Conservative Thomas Alfred Love 70340.82%
Social Constructive Anthony Whitehead1337.72%
Total valid votes1,722100.00%
Total rejected ballots29
20th British Columbia election, 1941
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Alan Conway Clapp36522.20%unknown
  Liberal Ezra Churchill Henniger 63738.75%unknown
Conservative Thomas Alfred Love 64239.05%unknown
Total valid votes1,644100.00%
Total rejected ballots4
Turnout%
1945 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal-Conservative Coalition Thomas Alfred Love 70752.06
Co-operative Commonwealth John Townely Rezeau Lawrence46133.95
Independent Labour Charles Westley Clark1067.81
Labor–Progressive Alan Conway Clapp846.19
Total valid votes1,358100.00
Total rejected ballots27
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Rupert Haggen 92244.14%unknown
Coalition Thomas Alfred Love 87341.79%unknown
 IndependentEdwin Stanley Orris29414.07%unknown
Total valid votes2,089100.00%
Total rejected ballots23
Turnout%
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 2
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Rupert Haggen 82639.79%1,04353.08%unknown
  Conservative Cecil Gordon McMynn70634.01%92246.92%unknown
  Liberal Edwin Stanley Orris25212.14%-- %unknown
  B.C. Social Credit League Henry Edgar Parkyn29214.07%-- %unknown
Total valid votes2,076100.00%1,965- %
Total rejected ballots58
Turnout%
2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only.
24th British Columbia election, 1953 3
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Conservative Ruth Ellen May Euerby1778.51%--.- %unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Rupert Haggen 99547.86%1,01650.12%unknown
Social Credit Gordon Clarke McPhail58328.05%61830.49%
  Liberal Klaus Scheer32415.58%39319.39%unknown
Total valid votes2,079100.00%2,027- %
Total rejected ballots145
Turnout%
3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of two (2) shown only.
25th British Columbia election, 1956
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Hilbert Crae Dawson86642.04%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Lois Haggen 87742.57%unknown
  Liberal John Morris Jones31715.39%unknown
Total valid votes2,060100.00%
Total rejected ballots34
Turnout%
26th British Columbia election, 1960
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Joseph Clinton Armstrong75228.56 %unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Lois Haggen 1,11542.35%unknown
  Liberal Frank Martin56421.42%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Yasushi Sugimoto2027.67%unknown
Total valid votes2,633100.00%
Total rejected ballots40
Turnout%
27th British Columbia election, 1963
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Dominic Geronazzo70529.50%unknown
New Democratic Lois Haggen 91938.45%unknown
  Liberal Milo Joseph McGarry76632.05%unknown
Total valid votes2,390100.00%
Total rejected ballots20
Turnout%

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

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