Vancouver (electoral district)

Vancouver
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1872
District abolished	1903
First contested	1872
Last contested	1900

Last updated December 07, 2025

Vancouver was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1904. This riding was created for the 1872 federal election, following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation in 1871, and lasted until 1903.

The name of this riding is not derived from the contemporary City of Vancouver but from its first incarnation in 1871 as the riding representing Vancouver Island (excepting the Victoria-area ridings). The area that now makes up the City of Vancouver was part of the New Westminster electoral district at the time of the province joining Confederation.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
2nd	1872–1874	Francis Hincks	Liberal–Conservative
3rd	1874–1878	Arthur Bunster	Liberal
4th	1878–1882	Arthur Bunster	Liberal
5th	1882–1887	David William Gordon	Liberal–Conservative
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1893
7th	1893–1896	Andrew Haslam	Liberal–Conservative
8th	1896–1900	William Wallace Burns McInnes	Liberal
9th	1900–1904	Ralph Smith	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Nanaimo and Comox—Atlin

Election results

1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ralph Smith	1,256	42.49	+1.33
	Conservative	Clive Phillips Wolley	868	29.36	-3.69
	Liberal	William Sloan	832	28.15	-12.81
Total valid votes			2,956	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.51

1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Wm. W.B. McInnes	1,020	40.96
	Conservative	Andrew Haslam	823	33.05
	Conservative	James Haggart	647	25.98
Total valid votes			2,490	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 1893 On David William Gordon's death, 19 February 1893
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Andrew Haslam	acclaimed

1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	D.W. Gordon	acclaimed

1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	D.W. Gordon	713	60.53	+0.27
	Conservative	J.T. Planta	465	39.47	–
Total valid votes			1,178	100.0
	Liberal–Conservative hold		Swing		-19.60

1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal–Conservative	David William Gordon	455	60.26	+23.02
	Liberal	Arthur Bunster	300	39.74	-7.12
Total valid votes			755	100.0
	Liberal–Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+15.07

1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Bunster	336	46.86	-16.47
	Liberal–Conservative	D.W. Gordon	267	37.24	–
	Unknown	A.J. McLellan	74	10.32	–
	Unknown	John Jessop	40	5.58	–
Total valid votes			717	100.0

1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Arthur Bunster	209	63.33
	Unknown	A.C. Anderson	84	25.45
	Unknown	J.W. Carey	37	11.21

1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Francis Hincks	acclaimed
Minister of Finance in the MacDonald government, unseated in Ontario and parachuted into this riding. Arthur Bunster and other local candidates stood down so that Hincks could have the seat by acclamation. He never saw British Columbia, despite being MP for one of its parliamentary seats for two years.

References

External links

Website of the Parliament of Canada
Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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v t e List of federal ridings in British Columbia
British Columbia Interior	Cariboo—Prince George Columbia—Kootenay—Southern Rockies Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola Kelowna Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay Skeena—Bulkley Valley Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee
Fraser Valley and the Southern Lower Mainland	Abbotsford—South Langley Chilliwack—Hope Cloverdale—Langley City Delta Fleetwood—Port Kells Langley Township—Fraser Heights Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge Richmond Centre—Marpole Richmond East—Steveston South Surrey—White Rock Surrey Centre Surrey Newton
Vancouver and the Northern Lower Mainland	Burnaby Central Burnaby North—Seymour Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville North Vancouver—Capilano Port Moody—Coquitlam Vancouver Centre Vancouver East Vancouver Granville Vancouver Kingsway Vancouver Quadra Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
Vancouver Island	Courtenay—Alberni Cowichan—Malahat—Langford Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke Nanaimo—Ladysmith North Island—Powell River Saanich—Gulf Islands Victoria

v t e Historical federal ridings in British Columbia
Until 2025	Burnaby South Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo Kelowna—Lake Country North Okanagan—Shuswap Vancouver South
Until 2015	British Columbia Southern Interior Burnaby—Douglas Burnaby—New Westminster Delta—Richmond East Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca Langley Nanaimo—Alberni Nanaimo—Cowichan New Westminster—Coquitlam Newton—North Delta Okanagan—Coquihalla Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale Surrey North Vancouver Island North
Until 2004	Cariboo—Chilcotin Delta—South Richmond Fraser Valley Kamloops / Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys Langley—Abbotsford New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby Prince George—Bulkley Valley Skeena South Surrey—White Rock—Langley Surrey Central Vancouver South—Burnaby
Until 1997	Burnaby—Kingsway Capilano—Howe Sound Comox—Alberni Fraser Valley East Fraser Valley West Kootenay West—Revelstoke Mission—Coquitlam Okanagan Centre Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt Surrey—White Rock—South Langley
Until 1988	Burnaby Capilano Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands Esquimalt—Saanich Kamloops—Shuswap Kootenay West Mission—Port Moody North Vancouver—Burnaby Okanagan North Okanagan—Similkameen Surrey—White Rock—North Delta Comox—Powell River
Until 1979	Burnaby—Richmond Burnaby—Seymour Coast Chilcotin Nanaimo (electoral district) Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands New Westminster Okanagan Boundary Okanagan—Kootenay Kamloops—Cariboo
Until 1968	Burnaby—Coquitlam Coast—Capilano Okanagan—Revelstoke Vancouver—Burrard
Until 1953	Yale
Until 1949	Vancouver North
Until 1925	Burrard Victoria City
Until 1917	Comox—Atlin Kootenay Vancouver City Yale—Cariboo
Until 1904	Vancouver
Until 1872	Cariboo District New Westminster District Vancouver Island Victoria District Yale District
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Election results

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