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In the [[1966 British Columbia general election|28th General Election in 1966]], parts of the former riding of Lillooet became incorporated into the new riding of [[Yale-Lillooet]], which has since been replaced by [[Fraser-Nicola]]

In the [[1966 British Columbia general election|28th General Election in 1966]], parts of the former riding of Lillooet became incorporated into the new riding of [[Yale-Lillooet]], which has since been replaced by [[Fraser-Nicola]]


==Sources==

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[http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/resource-centre/electoral-history-of-bc/ Elections BC website - historical election data]

[http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/resource-centre/electoral-history-of-bc/ Elections BC website - historical election data]

Latest revision as of 18:23, 17 June 2024

The Lillooet electoral district was a riding (provincial constituency) in the Canadian provinceofBritish Columbia, centred on the town of the same name and with various boundaries. Originally with two members, the constituency was split into Lillooet West and Lillooet East in the 1894, 1898, and 1900 elections, with Lillooet West being recomprised as one riding (with only one member) in the 1903 election.

Political geography[edit]

The riding was one of the first created in British Columbia, and at the time the town of Lillooet was one of the largest in the province (it is now one of the smallest). It was originally a two-member riding. It waRegistered Voters

5,933 (1952 list)
Turnout 70.15%
9 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown

analysis of preferential ballot - preferential ballot - 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices, respectively:

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit]

Election results[edit]

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

1st British Columbia election, 1871
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Independent Thomas Basil Humphreys1 45 44.12% unknown
  Independent Andrew Thomas Jamieson 36 35.29% unknown
  Independent William Saul 21 20.59% unknown
Total valid votes 102 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout 79.69%
1 Often spelled "Humphries" in many contemporary histories.
British Columbia byelection: Lillooet, November 27, 1871 2
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Independent William Chadwick (2)3 (6.06%) unknown
  Independent Edward Kelly (1)3 (3.03%) unknown
  Independent William Saul (30)3 (90.91%) unknown
Total valid votes (33) (100.00%)
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
2 To fill the seat-vacancy caused by the death of A.T. Jamieson 31 October 1872.
3 Incomplete returns. Numbers cited are from Cariboo Sentinel 28 December 1872.
British Columbia byelection: Lillooet, November 17, 1874 4
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Independent William M. Brown 51 32.90% unknown
  Independent Thomas Basil Humphreys 56 36.13% unknown
  Independent William Saul 48 30.97% unknown
Total valid votes 155 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
4 Resignations 26 September 1874 of T.B. Humphreys and W. Saul over a "dispute between the two gentlemen as to which represents the popular feeling of the district" (Victoria Colonist, September 29, 1874).


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    • 1875 British Columbia general election
    Party Candidate Votes % Elected
    Reform caucus William M. Brown 53 26.37 Green tickY
    Reform caucus William Morrison 48 23.88 Green tickY
    Government William Saul 46 22.88
    Reform caucus John Martley 5 33 16.42
    Reform caucus George Dunne 21 10.45
    Total valid votes 201 100.00
    Turnout 85.90
    5 Captain Martley homesteaded at Pavilion around 1861/62. Ernest Crawford Carson and Robert Henry Carson, his neighbours, became MLAs and cabinet ministers in the 1930s in Lillooet and Kamloops respectively.
    3rd British Columbia election, 1878
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Opposition William M. Brown 78 32.37% – unknown
    Government John Martley 39 16.18% – unknown
    Government William Morrison 47 19.50% – unknown
    Opposition William Saul 48 23.88% – unknown
    Total valid votes 241 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 78.01%
    4th British Columbia election, 1882
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Opposition Edward Allen 55 23.21% – unknown
    Government William M. Brown 28 11.81% – unknown
    Opposition Alexander Edmund Batson Davie 69 29.11% – unknown
    Government Charles Nelson McLellan 40 16.88% – unknown
    Opposition William Morrison 45 18.99% – unknown
    Total valid votes 237 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 63.37%
    British Columbia byelection: Lillooet, March 13, 1883 2
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Government Alexander Edmund Batson Davie Acclaimed -.- % – unknown
    Total valid votes n/a -.- %
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout %
    2 Byelection caused by resignation of A.E.B. Davie upon his appointment to the Executive Council January 29, 1883. Date given is day of return of writs, as polling day was not necessary.


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    • 1886 British Columbia general election
    Party Candidate Votes % Elected
    Reform caucus Alexander Edmund Batson Davie 93 30.10 Green tickY
    Reform caucus William Allen 65 21.03 Green tickY
    Independent William Morrison 57 18.45
    Opposition William Saul 49 15.86
    Unknown William Livingstone 45 14.56
    Total valid votes 309 100.00
    Turnout 77.25
    6th British Columbia election, 1890
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Government William Morrison 60 22.39% – unknown
    Government Alfred Wellington Smith 89 33.21% – unknown
    Opposition David Alexander Stoddart 119 44.40% – unknown
    Total valid votes 268 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 55.37%

    7th General Election 1894

    split to two ridings:

    8th General Election 1898

    9th General Election 1900

    10th British Columbia election, 1903
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Conservative Archibald McDonald Accl. --% unknown
    Total valid votes -- --%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout %
    11th British Columbia election, 1907
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Liberal Mark Robert Eagleson 123 51.68% unknown
    Conservative Archibald McDonald 115 48.32% unknown
    Total valid votes 238 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 60.10%
    12th British Columbia election, 1909
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Liberal Mark Robert Eagleson 117 41.20% unknown
    Conservative Archibald McDonald 167 58.80% unknown
    Total valid votes 284 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 79.11%
    13th British Columbia election, 1912
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Liberal Stuart Alexander Henderson 81 28.83% unknown
    Conservative Archibald McDonald 200 71.17% unknown
    Total valid votes 281 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 71.98%
    14th British Columbia election, 1916
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Liberal John Bates Bryson 269 47.61% unknown
    Conservative Archibald McDonald 296 52.39% unknown
    Total valid votes 565 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 66.27%
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    • 1920 British Columbia general election
    Party Candidate Votes %
    Conservative Archibald McDonald 339 47.48
    Liberal John Bates Bryson 213 21.83
    Soldier–Farmer Ernest Crawford Carson 6 162 22.69
    Total valid votes 714 100.00
    Turnout 76.94
    6 Brother of Robert Henry Carson, Liberal MLA for Kamloops. Both became cabinet ministers in their respective governments. Their father Robert Carson left Scotland at an early age, came west via the Oregon Trail came north for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, then wound up homesteading in 1863 on Pavilion Mountain in the wake of the gold rush, founding one of BC's earliest ranches.
    16th British Columbia election, 1924
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Liberal Albert Edward Munn 626 42.56% unknown
    Provincial Norman Joseph Paul 522 35.49% – unknown
    Conservative Archibald McDonald 323 21.96% unknown
    Total valid votes 1,471 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots
    Turnout 56.43%
    17th British Columbia election, 1928
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 1,237 54.61% unknown
      Liberal Albert Edward Munn 1,028 45.39% unknown
    Total valid votes 2,265 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 56
    Turnout 80.28%
    18th British Columbia election, 1933
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Non-Partisan Independent Group Ernest Crawford Carson 705 33.51% – unknown
      Liberal George Matheson Murray7 927 44.06% unknown
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. John Morrison Smith 472 22.43% unknown
    Total valid votes 2,104 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 96
    Turnout 66.29%
    7 Publisher of Bridge River-Lillooet News and husband of Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray.
    19th British Columbia election, 1937
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Robert Purvis Armstrong 855 28.92% unknown
    Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 925 31.29% unknown
      Liberal George Matheson Murray 1,176 39.78% unknown
    Total valid votes 2956 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 57
    Turnout 76.12%
    20th British Columbia election, 1941
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Harry Grenfell Archibald 841 31.75% unknown
    Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 1,017 38.39% unknown
      Liberal George Matheson Murray 791 29.86% unknown
    Total valid votes 2,649 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 29
    Turnout 67.02%
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    • 1945 British Columbia general election
    Party Candidate Votes %
    Coalition Ernest Crawford Carson 1,143 51.42
    Social Credit Alliance John Fossmark Jacobsen 296 8.82
    Progressive Liberal George Matheson Murray 61 2.74
    Co-operative Commonwealth Charles Radcliffe 823 37.02
    Total valid votes 2,223 100.00
    Total rejected ballots 21
    Turnout 63.19
    22nd British Columbia election, 1949
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
    Coalition Ernest Crawford Carson 2,339 62.83% – unknown
    Social Credit Alliance George Willis Lyons 1,180 31.69% – unknown
      Independent William Wallace O'Keefe 204 5.48% unknown
    Total valid votes 3,723 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 125
    Turnout 77.94%
    23rd British Columbia election, 19528
    Party Candidate Votes
    1st count     		% Votes
    final count     		% ±%
      Progressive Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson 1,301 35.68% 1,847 56.60% unknown
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Gordon Hudson Dowding 1,074 29.46% 1,416 43.40% unknown
      Independent James Coleman Finch 96 2.63% - -% unknown
      Liberal William Henry Okell 725 19.88% - -% unknown
    Social Credit League Donald Frederick Robinson 450 12.34%
    Total valid votes 3,646 % 3,263 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 254
    Turnout 77.94%
    8 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 4) not shown
    24th British Columbia election, 1953 9
    Party Candidate Votes
    1st count     		% Votes
    final count     		% ±%
      Progressive Conservative Herbert Ashby 452 11.32 % - -% unknown
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Gordon Hudson Dowding 1,372 34.37% 1,694 48.07% unknown
      Liberal Gordon Gibson, Sr. 1,103 27.63% 1,830 51.93% unknown
    Social Credit Frank Conrad Olafsen 1,065 26.68%
    Total valid votes 3,992 100.00% 3,524 %
    Total rejected ballots 170
    Total Registered Voters 5,933 (1952 list)
    Turnout 70.15%
    9 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown

    analysis of preferential ballot - preferential ballot - 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices, respectively:

    25th British Columbia election, 1956
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Austin Kenneth Greenway 907 23.13 unknown
    Social Credit Donald Frederick Robinson 2,055 52.41% – unknown
      Liberal James Smith 959 24.46% unknown
    Total valid votes 3921 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 58
    Turnout 72.97%
    26th British Columbia election, 1960
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Progressive Conservative George M. Behrner 336 7.84% unknown
      Liberal Cyril Clyde Keyes 923 21.54% unknown
      Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. John Kendrick Macey 1,331 31.06% unknown
    Social Credit Donald Frederick Robinson 1,695 39.56% – unknown
    Total valid votes 4,285 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 282
    Turnout 66.77%
    27th British Columbia election, 1963
    Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
      Liberal Henry Greer Castillou 977 23.15% unknown
      Progressive Conservative Thomas William Meagher 702 16.64% unknown
    Social Credit Donald Frederick Robinson 1,425 33.77% – unknown
    New Democratic Clare Skatfeld 1331 31.06% unknown
    Total valid votes 4,220 100.00%
    Total rejected ballots 53
    Turnout 65.33%

    In the 28th General Election in 1966, parts of the former riding of Lillooet became incorporated into the new riding of Yale-Lillooet, which has since been replaced by Fraser-Nicola

    Sources[edit]

    Elections BC website - historical election data


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