Omineca (electoral district)

Last updated July 21, 2025

Omineca was a provincial electoral district of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1916.

Electoral history

14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	473	62.16%	unknown
	Conservative	Frank Maurice Dockrill	288	37.84%	unknown
Total valid votes			761	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

15th British Columbia election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	630	60.87%	unknown
	Conservative	George L. Murray	273	26.38%	unknown
	Independent	Alexander James Prudhomme	78	7.54%	unknown
	Independent	Joseph S. Kelly	54	5.22%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,035	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	592	44.08%		unknown
	Provincial	Arthur Shelford	453	33.73%	–	unknown
	Conservative	Samuel Williams Cocker	298	22.19%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,343	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	889	57.21%	unknown
	Conservative	Arthur Shelford	665	42.79%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,554	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			20
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	1,079	52.23%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Arthur Edward Windle	538	26.04%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Samuel Williams Cocker	355	17.18%	–	unknown
	Independent	Louis Denison Taylor	94	4.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,066	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			35
Turnout			%

British Columbia by-election, June 22, 1936
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Matthew Connelly	899	48.75%	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Sidney Godwin	697	37.80%	unknown
	Conservative	Alfred Thompson	248	13.45%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,844	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Reason for by-election: Resignation of A. M. Manson on September 14, 1935 to contest federal election (Vancouver South, October 14, 1935).

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Matthew Connelly	1,013	50.90%	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Sidney Godwin	783	39.35%	unknown
	Conservative	George Samuel Belsham	194	9.75%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,990	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			37
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Matthew Connelly	839	49.50%	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William David Menzies	554	32.68%	unknown
	Conservative	Albert Kenzie Hemstreet	302	17.82%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,695	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			48
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Edward Fraser Rowland	932	51.58%		unknown
	Coalition	Mark Matthew Connelly	875	48.42%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			1,807	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			36
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Robert Cecil Steele	1,885	61.60%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Edward Fraser Rowland	1,175	38.40%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,060	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			83
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 ¹
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Social Credit League	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,137	31.17%	1,607	52.79%
	Liberal	Robert Cecil Steele	1,099	30.13%	1,437	47.21%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Warden Randle Taylor	838	22.97%	-	- %
	Progressive Conservative	George Ogston	574	15.73%	--	--.--%
Total valid votes			3,648	100.00%	3,044	%
Total rejected ballots			132
Turnout			%
¹(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

24th British Columbia election, 1953 ²
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Social Credit League	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,390	37.99%	1,612	53.90%
	Liberal	Robert Cecil Steele	1,145	31.29%	1,379	46.10%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Edward Fraser Rowland	952	26.02%	-	- %
	Progressive Conservative	Samuel Williams Cocker	172	4.70%	--	--.--%
Total valid votes			3,659	100.00%	2,991	%
Total rejected ballots			175
Turnout			%
²Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of Three shown only)

25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,685	54.06%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Joseph Norman Leslie	847	27.17%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Johnson McInnis	585	18.77%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,117	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			52
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,633	45.88%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ivan Everett Holmes	1,119	31.44%		unknown
	Liberal	Marguerite Clarice Deeder	529	14.86%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Karl Peter Frederiksen	278	7.81%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,559	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			64
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,936	55.09%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Robert Fred Langford	779	22.17%		unknown
	Liberal	Richard M. McCallum	528	15.03%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Philip Pickering	271	7.71%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,514	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			51
Turnout			%

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	2,337	70.16%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Cornelius Bergen	994	29.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,331	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			172
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	3,252	61.00%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Douglas Tynwald Kelly	1,607	30.14%		unknown
	Liberal	Michael Chunys	472	8.85%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,331	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			72
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Douglas Tynwald Kelly	2,600	39.68%		unknown
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	2,418	36.90%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Irving Beck	1,018	15.53%		unknown
	Liberal	Darrell Frederick Cursons	517	7.89%		unknown
Total valid votes			6,553	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			101
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	5,228	58.04%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Douglas Tynwald Kelly	2,776	30.82%		unknown
	Liberal	Basil Edward Studer	1,003	11.14%		unknown
Total valid votes			9,007	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			111
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	5,830	58.34%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Russell Frederick Anderson	4,163	41.66%		unknown
Total valid votes			9,993	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			199
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	6,722	55.77%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Bruce Thomas Kanary	4,164	34.54%		unknown
	Western Canada Concept	Clyde William Nunn	1,006	8.35%		unknown
	Liberal	David Anthony Seiler	162	1.34%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,054	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			168
Turnout			%

44th British Columbia election, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	6,586	60.53%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Louise B. Kilby	4,295	39.47%		unknown
Total valid votes			10,881	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			154
Turnout			%

References

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v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo ‡ North Peace River Omineca Prince George North Prince George South Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ Columbia River Kamloops ‡ Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan North Okanagan South ‡ Rossland-Trail Shuswap-Revelstoke Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ Chilliwack Delta ‡ Dewdney ‡ Langley ‡ Richmond ‡ Surrey (2) †
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Moody Maillardville-Coquitlam New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt-Port Renfrew Mackenzie Nanaimo ‡ North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands ‡ Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1979 general election 1983 general election 1986 general election Defunct districts
‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies Surrey-Guildford-Whalley Surrey-Newton Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River Kamloops Kootenay Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke-Slocan Rossland-Trail South Okanagan Shuswap Yale-Lillooet
Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Dewdney Langley New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Richmond Surrey Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1966 general election 1969 general election 1972 general election 1975 general election Defunct districts

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1956–1966)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby (2) Chilliwack Delta (2) Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver (2) Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (3)
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City (3)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1956 general election 1960 general election 1963 general election Defunct districts

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1941–1956)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George Omineca Peace River Prince Rupert Skeena
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby Chilliwack Delta Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver Centre Vancouver East Vancouver-Point Grey
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1941 general election 1945 general election 1949 general election 1952 general election 1953 general election Defunct districts

Omineca (electoral district)

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Electoral history

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