Similkameen (electoral district)

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Similkameen was the name of a provincial electoral district of British Columbia, Canada, formed around the historic mining district of the same name. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903. After the 1963 election, which was the occasion of this riding's last appearance, this electoral district was combined with Grand Forks-Greenwood to form Boundary-Similkameen for the 1966 election.

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Notable MLAs

Electoral history

Note: Winners of each election are inbold.

10th British Columbia election, 1903
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Lytton Wilmot Shatford 29958.28%unknown
  Liberal William Alexander McLean21441.72%unknown
Total valid votes513100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
11th British Columbia election, 1907
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Lytton Wilmot Shatford 29856.55%unknown
  Liberal Curtis Smith20037.95%unknown
Socialist George Edgar Winkler295.50%unknown
Total valid votes527100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
12th British Columbia election, 1909
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Lytton Wilmot Shatford 44068.22%unknown
  Liberal Richard Elmhirst20531.78%unknown
Total valid votes645100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
1Also spelled Elmhurst.
13th British Columbia election, 1912
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Lytton Wilmot Shatford Acclaimed -.-%unknown
Total valid votesn/a100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
14th British Columbia election, 1916
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative Lytton Wilmot Shatford 65055.41%unknown
  Liberal Robert Scott Conklin52344.59%unknown
Total valid votes1,173100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
15th British Columbia election, 1920
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative William Alexander McKenzie 1,35451.72%unknown
  Liberal Edward John Chambers1,26448.28%unknown
Total valid votes2,618100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
16th British Columbia election, 1924
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative William Alexander McKenzie 1,30639.56%unknown
Provincial Percy Walter Gregory1,22437.08%unknown
  Liberal Zella May McGregor77123.36%unknown
Total valid votes3,301100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout%
17th British Columbia election, 1928
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Conservative William Alexander McKenzie 2,07955.53%unknown
  Liberal Charles Herbert Percy Tupper 21,66544.47%unknown
Total valid votes3,744100.00%
Total rejected ballots63
Turnout%
2Not to be confused with Canadian Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper or his son, Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper.
18th British Columbia election, 1933
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Charles Herbert Percy Tupper 1,76543.23%unknown
Non-Partisan Independent Group William Alexander McKenzie 1,38633.95%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Francis Henry (Frank) Brown73017.88%unknown
 IndependentThomas Heeney2024.95%unknown
Total valid votes4,083100.00%
Total rejected ballots81
Turnout%
18th British Columbia election, 1937
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Liberal Charles Herbert Percy Tupper 2,26643.55%unknown
Conservative Harry Howes Boyle2,13040.94%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Francis Henry (Frank) Brown80715.51%unknown
Total valid votes5,203100.00%
Total rejected ballots71
Turnout%
19th British Columbia election, 1941
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Bernard George Webber 2,60141.16%unknown
  Liberal Charles Herbert Percy Tupper 1,96531.10%unknown
Conservative Thomas F. Daly1,75327.74%unknown
Total valid votes6,319100.00%
Total rejected ballots118
Turnout%
19th British Columbia election, 1945
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Coalition Reginald Robert Laird 3,44757.09%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Bernard George Webber 2,59142.91%unknown
Total valid votes6,038100.00%
Total rejected ballots53
Turnout%
20th British Columbia election, 1949
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Coalition Maurice Patrick Finnerty 5,74458.78%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Bernard George Webber 4,02841.22%unknown
Total valid votes9,772100.00%
Total rejected ballots284
Turnout%
21st British Columbia election, 1952 3
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Harold Sidney Kenyon3,43332.02%4,66849.77%unknown
  B.C. Social Credit League Harry Denyer Francis 3,34431.19%4,71250.23%unknown
  Liberal Maurice Patrick Finnerty 2,54523.73%--.- %unknown
  Progressive Conservative Edward Titchmarsh140113.07%--.- %unknown
Total valid votes10,723100.00%9,380
Total rejected ballots296
Turnout%
3 Preferential ballot. First and final of three counts only shown.
22nd British Columbia election, 1953 4
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count
%Votes
final count
%±%
Social Credit Frank Richter, Jr. 4,46543.29%5,41856.89%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Harold Sidney Kenyon3,41933.14%4,10543.11%unknown
  Liberal James Bowie Fairley2,10920.44%--.- %unknown
  Progressive Conservative John Brown McLaren Clarke3233.13%--.- %unknown
Total valid votes10,316100.00%9,523
Total rejected ballots347
Turnout%
4 Preferential ballot. First and second of three counts only shown.
23rd British Columbia election, 1956
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Frank Richter, Jr. 5,18953.94%unknown
  Liberal Frank William Laird1,18137.94%unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Stephen Archibald Mepham2,20022.87%unknown
  Progressive Conservative James Douglas Southworth4875.06%unknown
Total valid votes9,620100.00%
Total rejected ballots90
Turnout%
24th British Columbia election, 1960
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Frank Richter, Jr. 4,79746.84%unknown
  CCF Francis Douglas Stuart3,15130.77%unknown
  Liberal Johannes Joseph Winkelaar1,45414.20%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Winnifred Odetta Mathias8408.20%unknown
Total valid votes10,242100.00%
Total rejected ballots75
Turnout%
25th British Columbia election, 1963
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Frank Richter, Jr. 5,09348.71%unknown
New Democratic Francis Douglas Stuart2,63625.21%unknown
  Liberal Alwyn Day Coleman Washington1,42313.61%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Evelyn Annie McElroy1,30312.46%unknown
Total valid votes10,455100.00%
Total rejected ballots86
Turnout%

The riding was redistributed following the 1963 election. The main successor riding was Boundary-Similkameen.

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