Whitewood (electoral district)

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Whitewood, was a territorial electoral district in the Northwest Territories of Canada from 1887 to 1905. The district was created from the former district of Broadview, prior to the 1888 general election.

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This district was the first to use a secret ballot. During the 1894 By-election, ballots were first used in this electoral district. The territory went to using colored pencils on paper to count ballots, except someone forgot the pencil for the Candidate William Clements at the Fairmede polling station, and one had to be sent out from the Chief electoral office in Regina. Fred Chamberlain, the local liveryman, drove his horse and carriage twenty-five miles through a raging blizzard to deliver a new pencil and arrived just before the polls opened. [1]

After the province of Saskatchewan split from the Northwest Territories in 1905, Whitewood continued to exist as a district in Saskatchewan until 1908.

Election results

1894 – 1902

1894 North-West Territories general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Archibald Beaton Gillis 30051.64%
Independent Walter Claude Thorburn28148.36%
1898 North-West Territories general election
PartyCandidateVotes
Independent Archibald Beaton Gillis Acclaimed
1902 North-West Territories general election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal–Conservative Archibald Beaton Gillis Acclaimed

1888 – 1894

1894 by-election Results 1891 Results 1888 Results
CandidateVotes %CandidateVotes %CandidateVotes %
Joseph Clementson 187?% Daniel Campbell 19745.92% Alexander Thorburn 16638.88%
James Sumner 25?% Alexander Thorburn 17841.49% Thomas Lyons 15837.00%
Allan B. Potter 69?% John Hawkes 5412.59% John Hawkes 10326.12%
William Clements 41?%

Note: Vote returns not complete for the 1894 By-election. Returns only include the polls from Whitewood and Broadview, they do not include the rural stations. As reported in the Lethbridge Herald February 22, 1894. The Broadview and Whitewood polls were announced by the returning officer on February 16, 1894, and the rural vote was announced February 17, 1894 but was not printed.

By-election reasons

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References

  1. MacEwan, Grant (1966). Poking into politics. Edmonton, Alberta: The Institute of Applied Art. pp. 57–59. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  2. Thomas, Lewis H. (1978). The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories, 1870-97 (2nd ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 245. ISBN   978-1-4875-7499-4.