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Nanaimo City was a provincial electoral district in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia in Canada from 1890 to 1912. It was one of two Nanaimo ridings at the time, created out of the older Nanaimo riding (1871 to 1928), with intermediary ridings The Islands and Nanaimo and the Islands. The name Nanaimo was restored as a riding name in the 1966 election.

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For other current and historical federal and provincial Nanaimo-area ridings please see Nanaimo (electoral districts).

Demographics

Population, 1911
Population Change, 1891–1911 %
Area (km²)
Pop. Density (people per km²)

Geography

Other historical Nanaimo ridings

Nanaimo riding did not appear in the 1909 election, but Nanaimo City and The Islands were the Nanaimo-area ridings in the 1909 or 1912 election.

In 1933 there was a Cowichan-Newcastle riding, while in 1937 the riding of Newcastle (southern and upland of metropolitan Nanaimo and the Gulf Islands to the southeast) appeared in the 1916 election, as did a new riding called The Islands which lasted until the 1937 election. Part of that area is now represented by North Saanich and the Islands, which had previously been Saanich and the Islands.

Current Nanaimo-area ridings

Election results

Note: Winners of each election are inbold.

6th British Columbia election, 1890
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 Labour 1 Thomas Keith Accl. -.- %unknown
Total valid votesn/a-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
1 The first labour candidates elected to the Legislature. Forster and Keith were both nominated by the Miners' and Mine Labourers' Protective Association (MMLPA) and campaigned on the "Workingmen's Platform" of the Workingmen's Campaign Committee.
7th British Columbia election, 1894
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 Labour Thomas Keith 41148.81%unknown
Government James McGregor43151.19%unknown
Total valid votes842100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
8th British Columbia election, 1898
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Government Archibald McGregor17020.05%unknown
Opposition Robert Edward McKechnie 67879.95%unknown
Total valid votes848100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout55.37%
9th British Columbia election, 1900
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
 Labour 2 Ralph Smith 76389.87%unknown
Government James Stuart Yates 8610.13%unknown
Total valid votes849100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
2Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party candidate supported by R.E. McKechnie, former Member and supporter of the Provincial Party. Also endorsed by Nanaimo Trades and Labour Council. The N(I)LP appears to have been only loosely organized although a detailed platform was drawn up.
10th British Columbia election, 1903
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Socialist James Hurst Hawthornthwaite 48643.98%unknown
Conservative Edward Quennell32529.41%unknown
 Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party 3Henry (Harry) Shepherd29426.61%unknown
Total valid votes1,105100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
3Nominated by the Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party which had the support and participation of local Liberals (Loosmore, pp. 195–6). During the 1907 election he was referred to as having been a "Liberal-Labour candidate" in the 1903 election.
11th British Columbia election, 1907
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Socialist James Hurst Hawthornthwaite 45550.22%unknown
Conservative Robert Stuart Brock O'Brian16117.77%unknown
 Independent) Labour Party 4Henry (Harry) Shepherd29032.01%unknown
Total valid votes906100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
4The nomination list printed in the newspapers identifies Shepherd as a Liberal. CPG labels both Shepherd and Thomas "Socialists" and Gosnell (who spells Shepherd as Sheppard, as do some other sources) has them as "L.-Soc.", which could be either Liberal or Labour-Socialist. One newspaper refers to Shepherd as a member of the "Nanaimo Liberal Party", another as a nominee of the "Independent Labour Party", "a peculiar combination of Liberal politicians" (Vancouver Province 29 December 1906, p. 1). Thomas is also reported as a nominee of the "Independent Labour Party" in Ladysmith. Shepherd ran as a Liberal in 1912, Thomas as a straight Independent in 1909.
12th British Columbia election, 1909
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Socialist James Hurst Hawthornthwaite 78662.88%unknown
Conservative Albert Edward Planta46437.12%unknown
Total valid votes1,250100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
13th British Columbia election, 1912
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Democratic John Thomas Wilmot Place 62139.45%
Conservative Albert Edward Planta57836.72%unknown
  Liberal Henry (Harry) Shepherd37523.82%unknown
Total valid votes1,574100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%

The name Nanaimo City was dropped after the 1912 election. In the 1916 election the Nanaimo name was used.

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