Kootenay West

Kootenay West
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914
District abolished	1987
First contested	1917
Last contested	1984

Last updated December 13, 2023

Kootenay West was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1988.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Kootenay
13th	1917–1921	Robert Francis Green	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925	Levi William Humphrey	Progressive
15th	1925–1926	William Esling	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945		National Government
20th	1945–1949	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth
21st	1949–1953		Co-operative Commonwealth
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1961
24th	1961–1962		New Democratic
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972	Randolph Harding	New Democratic
29th	1972–1974	Randolph Harding	New Democratic
30th	1974–1979	Robert Brisco	Progressive Conservative
31st	1979–1980	Robert Brisco	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984	Lyle Kristiansen	New Democratic
33rd	1984–1988	Robert Brisco	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Kootenay West—Revelstoke

Election results

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Brisco	15,804	47.43	+7.27
	New Democratic	Lyle Kristiansen	15,060	45.19	+2.15
	Liberal	Jean Turnbull	2,460	7.38	-9.40
Total valid votes			33,324	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+2.56

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Lyle Kristiansen	12,232	43.04	+3.21
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Brisco	11,417	40.16	-7.08
	Liberal	Peter M. Kendall	4,769	16.78	+4.26
Total valid votes			28,418	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+5.14

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Brisco	13,645	47.24	+5.67
	New Democratic	Lyle S. Kristiansen	11,503	39.83	+1.47
	Liberal	Peter M. Kendall	3,616	12.52	-7.56
	Libertarian	Valerie Phare-Smith	119	0.41	–
Total valid votes			28,883	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+2.10

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Brisco	12,575	41.57	+10.01
	New Democratic	Randolph Harding	11,603	38.36	-15.21
	Liberal	Louis D. Maglio	6,073	20.08	+5.21
Total valid votes			30,251	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+12.61

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Randolph Harding	15,633	53.57	+8.62
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Brisco	9,210	31.56	+15.11
	Liberal	Paul G. Moroso	4,341	14.87	-13.80
Total valid votes			29,184	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-3.24

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Randolph Harding	12,181	44.95	+5.86
	Liberal	Donald F. Griffiths	7,768	28.67	+3.34
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce Arnesen	4,457	16.45	+5.36
	Social Credit	Edward L. Brothers	2,693	9.94	-14.55
Total valid votes			27,099	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+1.26

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	8,481	39.09	+1.60
	Liberal	George B. Cady	5,495	25.33	+4.60
	Social Credit	John Hobson	5,313	24.49	+5.06
	Progressive Conservative	T. Stan Horswill	2,405	11.09	-11.25
Total valid votes			21,694	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-1.50

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	8,595	37.49	+0.66
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Dewdney	5,122	22.34	-5.13
	Liberal	George B. Cady	4,752	20.73	+8.66
	Social Credit	Edith A. Van Maarion	4,455	19.43	-4.20
Total valid votes			22,924	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+2.90

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	8,303	36.83	-6.63
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Dewdney	6,194	27.47	-10.42
	Social Credit	Leslie A. Read	5,327	23.63	+15.58
	Liberal	Nicholas T. Oglow	2,722	12.07	+1.48
Total valid votes			22,546	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+1.90
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	9,460	43.46	-0.33
	Progressive Conservative	F. Dewdney	8,248	37.89	+20.97
	Liberal	William Joseph McLoughlin	2,306	10.59	-2.58
	Social Credit	J.H. Almack	1,753	8.05	-18.07
Total valid votes			21,767	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth hold		Swing		-10.65

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	8,996	43.79	-5.49
	Social Credit	Donald Leslie Brothers	5,366	26.12	+4.90
	Progressive Conservative	Charles H. Wright	3,475	16.92	+11.22
	Liberal	William J. McLoughlin	2,705	13.17	-8.72
Total valid votes			20,542	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth hold		Swing		-5.20

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	8,990	49.28	-4.79
	Liberal	Ian Somerville	3,994	21.89	–
	Social Credit	John Orville Bates	3,871	21.22	–
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Alexander McRae	1,040	5.70	-40.23
	Labor–Progressive	Matilda Hall Belanger	347	1.90	–
Total valid votes			18,242	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth hold		Swing		-13.34

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	9,794	54.07	+7.12
	Progressive Conservative	John Robertson Corner	8,319	45.93	+15.96
Total valid votes			18,113	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth hold		Swing		-4.42
Change for the Co-operative Commonwealth includes that of the Independent Co-operative Commonwealth.

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	6,123	37.17	–
	Progressive Conservative	Stuart Stanley McDiarmid	4,938	29.97	-9.18
	Liberal	James Draper	3,802	23.08	-0.84
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Frank F. Tracy	1,611	9.78	-27.16
Total valid votes			16,474	100.0
	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth gain from National Government		Swing		+23.18
Independent Co-operative Commonwealth candidate Herbert Wilfred Herridge gained 0.23 percentage points from the 1940 election, when he ran as an endorsed Co-operative Commonwealth candidate.

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Government	William Kemble Esling	6,771	39.15	-3.06
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	6,389	36.94	+5.76
	Liberal	Donald MacDonald	4,137	23.92	-2.69
Total valid votes			17,297	100.0
	National Government hold		Swing		-4.41

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Kemble Esling	4,995	42.21	-12.52
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	3,689	31.18	–
	Liberal	Duncan Daniel McLean	3,149	26.61	-15.61
Total valid votes			11,833	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-21.85

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Kemble Esling	7,699	54.73	+0.43
	Liberal	Duncan Daniel McLean	5,938	42.22	-3.48
	Franc Lib	Alfred Edward Watts	429	3.05	–
Total valid votes			14,066	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.96
According to the Parliamentary website, Watts ran as a "Franc Lib" candidate. This appears to be an error.

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Kemble Esling	6,247	54.30	-0.18
	Liberal	Robert Henry Gale	5,257	45.70	–
Total valid votes			11,504	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-22.94

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Kemble Esling	5,720	54.48	+14.77
	Progressive	Levi William Humphrey	4,779	45.52	-3.37
Total valid votes			10,499	100.0
	Conservative gain from Progressive		Swing		+9.07

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Levi William Humphrey	4,790	48.89	–
	Conservative	William Oliver Rose	3,890	39.71	-23.47
	Liberal	Roy Baird Staples	1,117	11.40	-8.99
Total valid votes			9,797	100.0
	Progressive gain from Government (Unionist)		Swing		+36.18

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	Robert Francis Green	5,377	63.18
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Winfield Maxwell	1,735	20.39
	Labour	Irwin Amory Austin	1,399	16.44
Total valid votes			8,511	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Kootenay, where Conservative Robert Francis Green was the incumbent.

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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