Lillooet (electoral district)

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The Lillooet electoral district was a riding (provincial constituency) in the Canadian province of British Columbia, centred on the town of the same name and with various boundaries. Originally with two members, the constituency was split into Lillooet West and Lillooet East in the 1894, 1898, and 1900 elections, with Lillooet West being recomprised as one riding (with only one member) in the 1903 election.

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Political geography

The riding was one of the first created in British Columbia, and at the time the town of Lillooet was one of the largest in the province (it is now one of the smallest). It was originally a two-member riding. It waRegistered Voters

5,933 (1952 list)
Turnout70.15%
9 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown

analysis of preferential ballot - preferential ballot - 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices, respectively:

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

1st British Columbia election, 1871
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 Independent Thomas Basil Humphreys 14544.12%unknown
 Independent Andrew Thomas Jamieson 3635.29%unknown
 IndependentWilliam Saul2120.59%unknown
Total valid votes102100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout79.69%
1Often spelled "Humphries" in many contemporary histories.
British Columbia byelection: Lillooet, November 27, 1871 2
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 IndependentWilliam Chadwick(2)3(6.06%)unknown
 IndependentEdward Kelly(1)3(3.03%)unknown
 Independent William Saul (30)3(90.91%)unknown
Total valid votes(33)(100.00%)
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
2To fill the seat-vacancy caused by the death of A.T. Jamieson 31 October 1872.
3Incomplete returns. Numbers cited are from Cariboo Sentinel 28 December 1872.
British Columbia byelection: Lillooet, November 17, 1874 4
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 Independent William M. Brown 5132.90%unknown
 Independent Thomas Basil Humphreys 5636.13%unknown
 Independent William Saul 4830.97%unknown
Total valid votes155100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
4Resignations 26 September 1874 of T.B. Humphreys and W. Saul over a "dispute between the two gentlemen as to which represents the popular feeling of the district" (Victoria Colonist, September 29, 1874).
1875 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%Elected
Reform caucus William M. Brown 5326.37Green check.svgY
Reform caucus William Morrison 4823.88Green check.svgY
Government William Saul 4622.88
Reform caucus John Martley 53316.42
Reform caucus George Dunne 2110.45
Total valid votes201 100.00
Turnout85.90
5 Captain Martley homesteaded at Pavilion around 1861/62. Ernest Crawford Carson and Robert Henry Carson, his neighbours, became MLAs and cabinet ministers in the 1930s in Lillooet and Kamloops respectively.
3rd British Columbia election, 1878
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Opposition William M. Brown 7832.37%–unknown
Government John Martley 3916.18%–unknown
Government William Morrison 4719.50%–unknown
Opposition William Saul 4823.88%–unknown
Total valid votes241100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout78.01%
4th British Columbia election, 1882
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Opposition Edward Allen 5523.21%–unknown
Government William M. Brown 2811.81%–unknown
Opposition Alexander Edmund Batson Davie 6929.11%–unknown
Government Charles Nelson McLellan4016.88%–unknown
Opposition William Morrison 4518.99%–unknown
Total valid votes237100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout63.37%
British Columbia byelection: Lillooet, March 13, 1883 2
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Government Alexander Edmund Batson Davie Acclaimed -.- %–unknown
Total valid votesn/a-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
2Byelection caused by resignation of A.E.B. Davie upon his appointment to the Executive Council January 29, 1883. Date given is day of return of writs, as polling day was not necessary.
1886 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%Elected
Reform caucus Alexander Edmund Batson Davie 9330.10Green check.svgY
Reform caucusWilliam Allen6521.03Green check.svgY
Independent William Morrison 5718.45
Opposition William Saul 4915.86
UnknownWilliam Livingstone4514.56
Total valid votes309 100.00
Turnout77.25
6th British Columbia election, 1890
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Government William Morrison 6022.39%–unknown
Government Alfred Wellington Smith 8933.21%–unknown
Opposition David Alexander Stoddart 11944.40%–unknown
Total valid votes268100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout55.37%

7th General Election 1894

split to two ridings:

8th General Election 1898

9th General Election 1900

10th British Columbia election, 1903
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Archibald McDonald Accl.--%unknown
Total valid votes----%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
11th British Columbia election, 1907
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Mark Robert Eagleson 12351.68%unknown
Conservative Archibald McDonald 11548.32%unknown
Total valid votes238100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout60.10%
12th British Columbia election, 1909
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Mark Robert Eagleson 11741.20%unknown
Conservative Archibald McDonald 16758.80%unknown
Total valid votes284100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout79.11%
13th British Columbia election, 1912
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Stuart Alexander Henderson 8128.83%unknown
Conservative Archibald McDonald 20071.17%unknown
Total valid votes281100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout71.98%
14th British Columbia election, 1916
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal John Bates Bryson26947.61%unknown
Conservative Archibald McDonald 29652.39%unknown
Total valid votes565100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout66.27%
1920 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Archibald McDonald 33947.48
Liberal John Bates Bryson21321.83
Soldier–Farmer Ernest Crawford Carson 616222.69
Total valid votes714 100.00
Turnout76.94
6 Brother of Robert Henry Carson, Liberal MLA for Kamloops. Both became cabinet ministers in their respective governments. Their father Robert Carson left Scotland at an early age, came west via the Oregon Trail came north for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, then wound up homesteading in 1863 on Pavilion Mountain in the wake of the gold rush, founding one of BC's earliest ranches.
16th British Columbia election, 1924
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Albert Edward Munn 62642.56%unknown
Provincial Norman Joseph Paul52235.49%–unknown
Conservative Archibald McDonald 32321.96%unknown
Total valid votes1,471100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout56.43%
17th British Columbia election, 1928
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 1,23754.61%unknown
  Liberal Albert Edward Munn 1,02845.39%unknown
Total valid votes2,265100.00%
Total rejected ballots56
Turnout80.28%
18th British Columbia election, 1933
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Non-Partisan Independent Group Ernest Crawford Carson 70533.51%–unknown
  Liberal George Matheson Murray 792744.06%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. John Morrison Smith47222.43%unknown
Total valid votes2,104100.00%
Total rejected ballots96
Turnout66.29%
7Publisher of Bridge River-Lillooet News and husband of Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray.
19th British Columbia election, 1937
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Robert Purvis Armstrong85528.92%unknown
Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 92531.29%unknown
  Liberal George Matheson Murray 1,17639.78%unknown
Total valid votes2956100.00%
Total rejected ballots57
Turnout76.12%
20th British Columbia election, 1941
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Harry Grenfell Archibald84131.75%unknown
Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 1,01738.39%unknown
  Liberal George Matheson Murray 79129.86%unknown
Total valid votes2,649100.00%
Total rejected ballots29
Turnout67.02%
1945 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Coalition Ernest Crawford Carson 1,14351.42
Social Credit Alliance John Fossmark Jacobsen2968.82
Progressive Liberal George Matheson Murray 612.74
Co-operative Commonwealth Charles Radcliffe82337.02
Total valid votes2,223 100.00
Total rejected ballots21
Turnout63.19
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Coalition Ernest Crawford Carson 2,33962.83%–unknown
Social Credit Alliance George Willis Lyons1,18031.69%–unknown
 IndependentWilliam Wallace O'Keefe2045.48%unknown
Total valid votes3,723100.00%
Total rejected ballots125
Turnout77.94%
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 8
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count		%Votes
final count		%±%
  Progressive Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 1,30135.68%1,84756.60%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Gordon Hudson Dowding1,07429.46%1,41643.40%unknown
 IndependentJames Coleman Finch962.63%--%unknown
  Liberal William Henry Okell72519.88%--%unknown
Social Credit League Donald Frederick Robinson 45012.34%
Total valid votes3,646%3,263100.00%
Total rejected ballots254
Turnout77.94%
8 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 4) not shown
24th British Columbia election, 1953 9
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count		%Votes
final count		%±%
  Progressive Conservative Herbert Ashby45211.32 %--%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Gordon Hudson Dowding1,37234.37%1,69448.07%unknown
  Liberal Gordon Gibson, Sr. 1,10327.63%1,83051.93%unknown
Social Credit Frank Conrad Olafsen1,06526.68%
Total valid votes3,992100.00%3,524%
Total rejected ballots170
Total Registered Voters5,933 (1952 list)
Turnout70.15%
9 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown

analysis of preferential ballot - preferential ballot - 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices, respectively:

25th British Columbia election, 1956
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Austin Kenneth Greenway90723.13unknown
Social Credit Donald Frederick Robinson 2,05552.41%–unknown
  Liberal James Smith95924.46%unknown
Total valid votes3921100.00%
Total rejected ballots58
Turnout72.97%
26th British Columbia election, 1960
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Progressive Conservative George M. Behrner3367.84%unknown
  Liberal Cyril Clyde Keyes92321.54%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. John Kendrick Macey1,33131.06%unknown
Social Credit Donald Frederick Robinson 1,69539.56%–unknown
Total valid votes4,285100.00%
Total rejected ballots282
Turnout66.77%
27th British Columbia election, 1963
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Henry Greer Castillou97723.15%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Thomas William Meagher70216.64%unknown
Social Credit Donald Frederick Robinson 1,42533.77%–unknown
New Democratic Clare Skatfeld133131.06%unknown
Total valid votes4,220100.00%
Total rejected ballots53
Turnout65.33%

In the 28th General Election in 1966, parts of the former riding of Lillooet became incorporated into the new riding of Yale-Lillooet, which has since been replaced by Fraser-Nicola

Sources

Elections BC website - historical election data

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