Salmon Arm (electoral district)

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Salmon Arm was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia including on the town of Salmon Arm on Shuswap Lake. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election. After the 1966 election there was a redistribution with the resulting riding in the same area being Shuswap.

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Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are inbold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 92036.83%unknown
Provincial William Arthur Algernon Warren82432.99%unknown
  Liberal Francis Edward Wilcox75430.18%unknown
Total valid votes2,498100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
17th British Columbia election, 1928
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 1,70673.25%unknown
  Liberal James Smart62326.75%unknown
Total valid votes2,329100.00%
Total rejected ballots24
Turnout%
18th British Columbia election, 1933
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Non-Partisan Independent Group Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 1,35144.82%unknown
  Liberal James Reginald Colley 88829.46%unknown
United Front (Workers and Farmers)Bert Samson1725.71%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. George Faulds Stirling 60320.01%unknown
Total valid votes3,014100.00%
Total rejected ballots20
Turnout%
19th British Columbia election, 1937
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Harold Willett Birch88427.87%unknown
 Independent Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 11,53348.33%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Robert Wood75523.80%unknown
Total valid votes3,172100.00%
Total rejected ballots71
Turnout%
1Supported and endorsed by the B.C. Constructives.
20th British Columbia election, 1941
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Arthur Fancett Barton46818.06%unknown
Conservative Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 1,56160.22%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. John William Tordoff56321.72%unknown
Total valid votes2,592100.00%
Total rejected ballots52
Turnout%
31st British Columbia election, 1945
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Coalition Arthur Brown Ritchie 1,56060.00%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. George Faulds Stirling 1,04040.00%unknown
Total valid votes2,600100.00%
Total rejected ballots28
Turnout%
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Russell Carleton Freeze1,68139.93%unknown
Coalition Arthur Brown Ritchie 2,52960.07%unknown
Total valid votes4,210100.00%
Total rejected ballots86
Turnout%
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 2
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Liberal John James Carmichael66915.69%--.- %unknown
  B.C. Social Credit League James Allan Reid 1,46234.30%1,97955.03%unknown
  Conservative Arthur Brown Ritchie 89621.02%-- %unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William John Thompson1,23628.99%1,61744.97%unknown
Total valid votes4,263100.00%3,596- %
Total rejected ballots164
Turnout%
2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only.
24th British Columbia election, 1953 3
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Liberal John James Carmichael62314.52%--.- %unknown
Social Credit James Allan Reid 1,62737.91%2,01352.71%
  Conservative Arthur Brown Ritchie 60013.98%-- %unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William John Thompson1,34131.24%1,80647.29%unknown
Labor-Progressive Gwyn Lorne Walters1012.35%--.- %
Total valid votes4,292100.00%3,819- %
Total rejected ballots167
Turnout%
3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of four (4) shown only.
25th British Columbia election, 1956
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Greta Dagma Abbing de Vries3398.15%unknown
Social Credit James Allan Reid 2,13151.24%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William John Thompson1,45434.96%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Dennis Allen Williams2355.65%unknown
Total valid votes4,159100.00%
Total rejected ballots79
Turnout%
26th British Columbia election, 1960
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Kenneth Carr Haines1,66735.17%unknown
Social Credit Willis Franklin Jefcoat 1,97941.75%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Torquil (Torque) MacLeod61312.93%unknown
  Liberal Donald Edmund Nunn48110.15%unknown
Total valid votes4,740100.00%
Total rejected ballots59
Turnout%
27th British Columbia election, 1963
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Progressive Conservative James Churchill1,00520.29%unknown
Social Credit Willis Franklin Jefcoat 2,05841.55%unknown
  Liberal Byron O.S. Johnson2454.95%unknown
New Democratic Leonard Terrence O'Neill1,64533.21%unknown
Total valid votes4,953100.00%
Total rejected ballots57
Turnout%

A redistribution took place before the 1966 election, after which the Shuswap Lake area became represented by the renamed riding of Shuswap.

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