Richmond (British Columbia provincial electoral district)

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Richmond was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903. It lasted until the 1920 election, after which it lost some territory to the new South Vancouver riding, and became the new riding of Richmond-Point Grey. There was again an electoral district called Richmond from 1966 through the 1986 provincial elections.

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For other Richmond-area ridings, and other ridings in the Lower Mainland, please see New Westminster (electoral districts). For ridings in the City of Vancouver or on the North Shore, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).

History of MLAs

Single-member district

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
10th 1903–1907 Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton Conservative
11th 1907–1909
12th 1909–1912
13th 1912–1916
14th 1916–1920 Gerry McGeer
15th 1920–1924 Thomas Pearson
Riding dissolved into Richmond-Point Grey and South Vancouver
Riding re-created from Delta
26th 1966–1969 Ernest LeCours Social Credit
27th 1969–1972
28th 1972–1975 Harold Steves NDP
29th 1975–1979 Jim Nielsen Social Credit
30th 1979–1983
31st 1983–1986

Dual-member district

AssemblyYearsSeat 1Seat 2
MemberPartyMemberParty
34th 1986–1991 Bill Vander Zalm Social Credit Nick Loenen Social Credit
Riding re-dissolved into Richmond Centre , Richmond East , Richmond-Steveston .

Electoral history

Note: Winners of each election are inbold.

1903 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton 46058.97%
Liberal John Cunningham Brown 32041.03%
Total valid votes780100.00%
1907 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton 41748.04%
Liberal John Walter Weart 40346.43%
Socialist Charles Edward Kilby485.53%
Total valid votes868100.00%
1909 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton 91857.92%
Liberal John Wallace deBeque Farris 66742.08%
Total valid votes1,585100.00%
1912 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton Acclaimed-.-%
Total valid votesn/a-.-%
1916 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Gerry McGeer 1,44154.07%
Conservative William Joseph Baird1,18944.52%
Independent ConservativeRobert McBride351.31%
Total valid votes2,665 100.00%
1920 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Thomas Pearson 2,86337.89%
Liberal Hiram Perry McCraney2,71235.89%
Federated Labour PartyCharles Smith Cassidy1,49919.84%
Independent FarmerReginald Abbott2723.60%
Independent Robert McBride2102.78%
Total valid votes7,556100.00%
1966 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Social Credit Ernest LeCours 6,52143.33%
New Democratic Robert McMath6,14940.85%
Liberal John McKeman2,38115.82%
Total valid votes15,051100.00%
1969 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Social Credit Ernest LeCours 9,52145.36%
New Democratic Robert McMath8,09938.58%
Liberal John McKeman3,37216.06%
Total valid votes20,992100.00%
1972 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic Harold Steves 12,84545.36%
Social Credit Ernest LeCours 7,22138.58%
Progressive Conservative William Wright3,57313.37%
Liberal Allen Cowen3,08411.54%
Total valid votes26,723100.00%
1975 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Social Credit Jim Nielsen 17,93252.81%
New Democratic Harold Steves 12,59835.10%
Liberal Dave Williams2,6657.85%
Progressive Conservative Madeline Noble7552.11%
Independent Frederick Sim440.13%
Total valid votes33,994100.00%
1979 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Social Credit Jim Nielsen 18,78351.14%
New Democratic Harold Steves 15,54942.33%
Progressive Conservative Barry Wright2,4006.53%
Total valid votes36,732100.00%
1983 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Social Credit Jim Nielsen 26,26155.30%
New Democratic Harold Steves 18,57539.12%
Progressive Conservative Sam Nazaruk1,7513.69%
Liberal Russel Timothy Emes8971.89%
Total valid votes47,484100.00%
1986 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%Elected
Social Credit Bill Vander Zalm 29,76258.28Green check.svgY
Social Credit Nick Loenen 25,98350.88Green check.svgY
New Democratic Doug Sandberg16,54232.39
New Democratic Arthur Kube15,58030.51
Liberal David Chambers4,0287.89
Liberal Steve Mullan3,8307.50
Independent Clinton Davy8221.61
Total valid votes51,071100.00
Total rejected ballots1,670
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Preceded by Constituency represented by the Premier of British Columbia
1986-1991
Succeeded by

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