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Peace River was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance in the general election of 1933, and its last was in 1953.
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Note: Winners of each election are inbold.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Emily Loretta Crawford | 59 | 2.30% | – | unknown | |
| Non-Partisan Independent Group | Clive Montgomery Francis Planta | 957 | 37.31% | – | unknown | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Mervin Cecil Simmons | 800 | 31.19% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Wallace Archibald Watson | 749 | 29.20% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 2,565 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 19 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,168 | 42.61% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Charles Wilmer Bumstead | 905 | 33.02% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Thomas Hargreaves | 434 | 15.83% | unknown | ||
| Independent | Clive Montgomery Francis Planta | 234 | 8.54% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 2,741 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 34 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 1941 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,436 | 51.16 | |||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 983 | 35.02 | |||||
| Independent Farmer | Thomas Jamieson | 388 | 13.82 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,807 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 22 | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalition | Howard Guthrie Atkinson | 1,117 | 31.78% | – | unknown | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 1,682 | 47.85% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit Alliance | Margaret Teresa Lally Murray 2 | 716 | 13.82% | – | unknown | |
| Total valid votes | 3,515 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 27 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 2Publisher/editor of the Alaska Highway News and wife of George Matheson Murray, formerly MLA for Lillooet (1933–1941) and later MP for Cariboo. | ||||||
| 1949 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Coalition | Glen Everton Braden | 2,342 | 49.69 | |||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 1,901 | 40.34 | |||||
| People's Co-operative Commonwealth | Philip Franklin Tompkins | 470 | 9.97 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 4,713 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 52 | |||||||
| 23rd British Columbia election, 1952 3 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% | ||
| Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,425 | 26.14% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur Roald Dahlen | 1,571 | 28.82% | 1,865 | 38.80% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Walter Clarence Henderson | 278 | 5.10% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Social Credit League | Charles William Parker | 2,178 | 39.95% | 2,942 | 61.20% | |||
| Total valid votes | 5,452 | 100.00% | 4,807 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 151 | |||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 3Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only. | ||||||||
| 24th British Columbia election, 1953 4 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur Roald Dahlen | 1,921 | 33.24% | 2,216 | 42.31% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit League | Charles William Parker | 2,481 | 42.92% | 3,022 | 57.69% | |||
| Liberal | Stanley Weston | 1,378 | 23.84% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 5,780 | 100.00% | 5,238 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 316 | |||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 4Preferential ballot. First and final counts of twp (2) shown only. | ||||||||
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