New Westminster District

Federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

New Westminster District British Columbia electoral district

Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature| House of Commons
District created| 1871
District abolished| 1872
First contested| 1871
Last contested| 1871

New Westminster District was a Canadian federal electoral district created when the province of British Columbia joined Confederation in 1871. Like other ridings established in that year, a byelection was called to fill the seat until the general election of 1872. The riding constituted all of the New Westminster Land District as well as the whole of the mainland Coast and adjoining islands, all the way to the Yukon border excepting the Coast and the Alaska Panhandle.

The 1871 names were all temporary pending ratification of the riding system by the provincial legislature. When they became mandated the riding names were simplified, New Westminster District's becoming simply New Westminster, and the same pattern was followed by the other temporary names, Victoria District, Cariboo Distridct, and Yale District, which became the ridings of Victoria, Cariboo, and Yale for the general election the following year. Riding of Vancouver Island became the riding of Vancouver.

Note the historical British Columbia provincial riding, Westminster, which appeared in the 1890 provincial election only.

## Members of Parliament

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Parliament | Years | Member | Party

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1st |  1871–1872 |      | Hugh Nelson | Liberal–Conservative
Riding dissolved into New Westminster

## Election results

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Canadian federal by-election, December 13, 1871

Party  | Candidate  | Votes | %
| Liberal–Conservative | Hugh Nelson | 125 | 83.89
| Unknown | ? Scott | 24 | 16.11
Total valid votes  | 149 | 100.0
This was a new riding created when British Columbia joined Confederation. Scott's first name is not given in the electoral record.

By the 1872 election the riding boundaries had been properly legislated and renamed. New Westminster District became the riding of New Westminster.

## External links

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* Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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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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