Election Results
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
6th British Columbia election, 1890 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Labour 1 |
Thomas Keith |
Accl. |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
n/a |
-.- % |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
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|
1 |
7th British Columbia election, 1894 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Labour |
Thomas Keith |
411 |
48.81% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
James McGregor |
431 |
51.19% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
842 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
8th British Columbia election, 1898 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Government |
Archibald McGregor |
170 |
20.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
Robert Edward McKechnie |
678 |
79.95% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
848 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
55.37% |
|
|
9th British Columbia election, 1900 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Labour 2 |
Ralph Smith |
763 |
89.87% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
James Stuart Yates |
86 |
10.13% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
849 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
2 |
10th British Columbia election, 1903 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Socialist Party of B.C. |
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite |
486 |
43.98% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Edward Quennell |
325 |
29.41% |
|
unknown |
|
Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party 3 |
Henry (Harry) Shepherd |
294 |
26.61% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,105 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
3 |
11th British Columbia election, 1907 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Socialist |
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite |
455 |
50.22% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Robert Stuart Brock O'Brian |
161 |
17.77% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent) Labour Party 4 |
Henry (Harry) Shepherd |
290 |
32.01% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
906 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
4 |
12th British Columbia election, 1909 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Socialist |
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite |
786 |
62.88% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Albert Edward Planta |
464 |
37.12% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,250 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
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13th British Columbia election, 1912 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Democrat |
John Thomas Wilmot Place |
621 |
39.45% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Albert Edward Planta |
578 |
36.72% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Henry (Harry) Shepherd |
375 |
23.82% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,574 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
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The name Nanaimo City was dropped after the 1912 election. In the 1916 election the Nanaimo name was used.