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.

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

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Single-member district

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Assembly Years Member Party
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

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

Electoral history

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Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

1903 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton 460 58.97%
Liberal John Cunningham Brown 320 41.03%
Total valid votes 780 100.00%
1907 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton 417 48.04%
Liberal John Walter Weart 403 46.43%
Socialist Charles Edward Kilby 48 5.53%
Total valid votes 868 100.00%
1909 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton 918 57.92%
Liberal John Wallace deBeque Farris 667 42.08%
Total valid votes 1,585 100.00%
1912 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton Acclaimed -.-%
Total valid votes n/a -.-%
1916 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Gerry McGeer 1,441 54.07%
Conservative William Joseph Baird 1,189 44.52%
Independent Conservative Robert McBride 35 1.31%
Total valid votes 2,665 100.00%
1920 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Thomas Pearson 2,863 37.89%
Liberal Hiram Perry McCraney 2,712 35.89%
Federated Labour Party Charles Smith Cassidy 1,499 19.84%
Independent Farmer Reginald Abbott 272 3.60%
Independent Robert McBride 210 2.78%
Total valid votes 7,556 100.00%
1966 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Ernest LeCours 6,521 43.33%
New Democratic Robert McMath 6,149 40.85%
Liberal John McKeman 2,381 15.82%
Total valid votes 15,051 100.00%
1969 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Ernest LeCours 9,521 45.36%
New Democratic Robert McMath 8,099 38.58%
Liberal John McKeman 3,372 16.06%
Total valid votes 20,992 100.00%
1972 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
New Democratic Harold Steves 12,845 45.36%
Social Credit Ernest LeCours 7,221 38.58%
Progressive Conservative William Wright 3,573 13.37%
Liberal Allen Cowen 3,084 11.54%
Total valid votes 26,723 100.00%
1975 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Jim Nielsen 17,932 52.81%
New Democratic Harold Steves 12,598 35.10%
Liberal Dave Williams 2,665 7.85%
Progressive Conservative Madeline Noble 755 2.11%
Independent Frederick Sim 44 0.13%
Total valid votes 33,994 100.00%
1979 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Jim Nielsen 18,783 51.14%
New Democratic Harold Steves 15,549 42.33%
Progressive Conservative Barry Wright 2,400 6.53%
Total valid votes 36,732 100.00%
1983 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Jim Nielsen 26,261 55.30%
New Democratic Harold Steves 18,575 39.12%
Progressive Conservative Sam Nazaruk 1,751 3.69%
Liberal Russel Timothy Emes 897 1.89%
Total valid votes 47,484 100.00%
1986 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Social Credit Bill Vander Zalm 29,762 58.28 Green tickY
Social Credit Nick Loenen 25,983 50.88 Green tickY
New Democratic Doug Sandberg 16,542 32.39
New Democratic Arthur Kube 15,580 30.51
Liberal David Chambers 4,028 7.89
Liberal Steve Mullan 3,830 7.50
Independent Clinton Davy 822 1.61
Total valid votes 51,071 100.00
Total rejected ballots 1,670
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Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Preceded by Constituency represented by the Premier of British Columbia
1986-1991
Succeeded by

Sources

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Elections BC Historical Returns


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