New Westminster (provincial Electoral District) - Electoral History 1871-present

Electoral History 1871-present

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

1st British Columbia general election, 1871
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	William James Armstrong	128	39.63%		unknown
	Independent	Josiah Charles Hughes	148	45.82%		unknown
	Independent	Hugh McRoberts	47	14.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			323	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

British Columbia Byelection: New Westminster January 11, 1873
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	William James Armstrong	Acclaimed	-.- %		unknown
Total valid votes			n/a	-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Note:The byelection was called due to Armstrong's resignation upon appointment to the Executive Council (cabinet) on December 23, 1872. This byelection was one of a series held to confirm appointments to the Executive Council, which was the old parliamentary convention. As this byelection writ was filled by acclamation, no polling day was required and the seat was filled within two weeks. The stated date is the date the return of writs was received by the Chief Electoral Officer.

2nd British Columbia election, 1875
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Government	William James Armstrong	153	25.98%		unknown
	Independent-Government	Ebenezer Brown	154	26.15%		unknown
	Government	William M. Campbell	54	9.17%		unknown
	Reform caucus	Donald McGillivray	117	19.86%		unknown
	Reform caucus	Jeremiah Rogers 2	111	18.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			589	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
2 Noted lumberman on False Creek/English Bay

3rd British Columbia election, 1878
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Government	Wellington John Harris	171	24.43%		unknown
	Independent	James Kennedy (Canadian politician)	44	6.28%		unknown
	Government	Donald McGillivray	202	28.86%		unknown
	Opposition	Henry Mathers	130	18.57%		unknown
	Opposition	James Orr	153	21.86%		unknown
Total valid votes			700	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout

4th British Columbia election, 1882
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Opposition	Henry Dawson	60	8.47%		unknown
	Government	William Isaac	15	2.12%		unknown
	Opposition	Herbert John Kirkland	127	17.94%		unknown
	Government	William Henry Ladner	76	10.73%		unknown
	Opposition	James Orr	168	23.73%		unknown
	Opposition	John Robson	262	37.01%		unknown
Total valid votes			708	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

British Columbia Byelection: New Westminster March 13, 1883 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Opposition	John Robson	Acclaimed	-.-%		unknown
Total valid votes			n/a	-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
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5th British Columbia general election, 1886 4
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	Lewis Arthur Agassiz	142	6.31%		unknown
	Independent	Henry Dawson	11	0.49%		unknown
	Independent	William Isaac	17	0.76%		unknown
	Independent	James Kennedy (Canadian politician)	7	0.31%		unknown
	Government	Herbert John Kirkland	348	15.47%		unknown
	Opposition	Wiliam Henry Ladner	365	16.23%		unknown
	Opposition	Donald McGillivray	331	14.72%		unknown
	Opposition	James Orr	358	15.92%		unknown
	Government	John Robson	331	14.72%		unknown
	Government	Allen Casey Wells	358	15.92%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,249	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
4

In 1890 changes in population and boundaries led to the riding's renaming as Westminster, with the following year that riding being subdivided into Westminster-Chilliwhack, Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Richmond, which were to become a few elections later the Chilliwhack (later Chilliwack) Delta, and Richmond ridings. The core of the New Westminster urban area (then still separate from Vancouver's) continued to be represented by New Westminster City until 1916, when that riding was redistributed as a one-member seat from its maximum of three, and in the process it was given the old rural riding's name, "New Westminster".

14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Thomas Gifford	1,186	46.42%		unknown
	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,369	53.59%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,555	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

15th British Columbia election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Thomas Gifford	1,006	21.88%		unknown
	Soldier-Labour	William James Sloan 5	1,611	35.04%		unknown
	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,980	43.07%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,597	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
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16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Provincial	George Livingstone Cassady	591	14.21%		unknown
	Canadian Labour Party	Richard Carter Higgins	693	16.67%		unknown
	Liberal	Edwin James Rothwell	1,564	37.61%		unknown
	Conservative	Albert Morris Sanford	1,310	31.51%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,158	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray 6	3.262	56.16%		unknown
	Conservative	Albert Morris Sanford	2,546	43.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,808	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			205
Turnout			%
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18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party	Douglas Thomas	125	2.18%		unknown
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray 7	2,694	46.98%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Daniel McGrath	1,476	25.74%		unknown
	Independent	David Whiteside 5	1,439	25.10%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,734	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			67
Turnout			%
7 Endorsed by the Independent CCF.

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Communist	Edwin Henry Baker	567	7.27%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Stanley Blake	1,321	16.95%		unknown
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	4,055	52.02%		unknown
	Labour (Party)	Edward Charles Mills	86	1.10%		unknown
	Conservative	Thomas Robert Selkirk	1,766	22.66%		unknown
Total valid votes			7,795	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			116
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Stanley Blake	2,387	26.97%		unknown
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	3,694	41.74%		unknown
	Conservative	Mary Dorothea McBride	1,923	21.73%		unknown
	Labour (Party)	Edward Charles Mills	845	9.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,849	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			178
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Clifford Augustine Greer	2,967	35.06%		unknown
	Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson 8	>b?4,900	57.91%		unknown
	Labour Progressive	Charles Stewart	3,432	45.62%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,462	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			94
Turnout			%
8 23rd Premier of British Columbia

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson	>b>7,969	61.57%		unknown
	Social Credit Party	Clifford Augustine Greer	2,967	35.06%		unknown
	People's Party of British Columbia	Edward Charles Mills	137	1.06%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Henry Mitchell	4,509	34.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,943	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			125
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 9
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rae Eddie	4,262	29.68%	6,475	52.89 %		unknown
	Liberal	Byron Ingemar Johnson	4,317	30.07%	5,768	47.11		unknown
	BC Social Credit League	Wilbur Watson Lyle	3,616	25.18%	-	-%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Elizabeth C. Wood	2,163	15.06%	--	--.--%		unknown
Total valid votes			14,358	100.00%	12,243	%
Total rejected ballots			437
Turnout			77.94%
9(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

24th British Columbia election, 1953 10
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Progressive Party	Alfred Dewhurst	157	1.19%	-	-.-%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rae Eddie	4,903	37.02%	5,970	51.34%		unknown
	Liberal	Fred H. Jackson	4,309	32.53%	5,658	48.66%		unknown
	Christian Democrat	Mervin Casper	89	0.67%	--	--.--%		unknown
	BC Social Credit League	Malvin A. Olsen	3,787	28.59 %	-	- %		unknown
Total valid votes			13,245	100.00%	11,628	%
Total rejected ballots			486
Turnout			77.94%
10Preferential ballot: 1st and 4th counts of four shown only)

25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Stewart Alsbury	2,220	19.29%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rae Eddie	4,469	38.83%		unknown
	Social Credit	Stanley Desmond Kermeen	4,176	36.28%		unknown
	Independent-SC	J. Lewis Sangster	645	5.60%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,510	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			82
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Samuel Thomas Dare	2,519	16.00%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rae Eddie	6,496	41.25%		unknown
	Social Credit	Stanley Desmond Kermeen	5,041	32.01%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick Craig Munroe	1,691	10.74%		unknown
Total valid votes			15,747	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			127
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	George Herbert Barrett	2,335	17.42%		unknown
	Social Credit	Edith Maud Corrigan	4,717	35.19%		unknown
	New Democrat	Rae Eddie	5,035	37.57%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	G. Basil Raikes	1,316	9.82%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,403	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			98
Turnout			%

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Robert James Cooper	1,577	12.24%		unknown
	Social Credit	Edith Maud Corrigan	5,552	43.11%		unknown
	New Democrat	Rae Eddie	5,751	44.65%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,880	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			160
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	7,280	40.75%		unknown
	Communist	Harry Harris	57	0.32%		unknown
	Social Credit	John Earl Edmondson	7,161	40.08%		unknown
	Liberal	Dennis Douglas George Milne	3,368	18.85%		unknown
Total valid votes			17,866	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			221
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	10,357	55.63%		unknown
	Social Credit	John Earl Edmondson	5,306	28.50%		unknown
	Liberal	Carl L. Miller	2,953	15.86%		unknown
Total valid votes			18,616	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			287
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	10,357	55.63%		unknown
	Communist	Roderick Doran	60	0.31%		unknown
	Liberal	Karl Franke	923	4.83%		unknown
	Social Credit	Alexander John Seigo	8,473	44.35%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,106	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			166
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	11,343	59.30%		unknown
	Social Credit	Malvern James Hughes	7,786	40.70%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,129	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			292
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Barry David Butler	8,224	40.57%		unknown
	New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	11,455	56.52%		unknown
	Liberal	John Ian Paterson	590	2.91%		unknown
Total valid votes			20,269	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			233
Turnout			%

34th British Columbia election, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Timothy E. Courtney	1,200	5.90%		unknown
	Social Credit	Dwight Maxwell Ross	8,949	43.99%		unknown
	New Democrat	Anita Hagen	13,562	43.82%		unknown
	Communist	Roderick Doran	73	0.36%		unknown
Total valid votes			20,342	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			245
Turnout			%

35th British Columbia election, 1991
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Anita Hagen	10,384	49.89%		$24,062
	BC Liberal	Lori MacDonald	7,117	34.20%		$2,534
	Social Credit	Tom Baker	3,311	15.91%		$26,509
Total Valid Votes			20,812	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			395	1.86%
Turnout			21,207	72.32%

36th British Columbia election, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Graeme Bowbrick	10,418	46.69%		$29,591
	BC Liberal	Helen Sparkes	8,591	38.50%		$34,673
	BC Reform	Brian Stromgren	1,446	6.48%
	PDA	Craig Sahlin	1,121	5.02%
	Green	Michael G. Horn	488	2.19%	–	$145
	Independent	Arthur Crossman	142	0.64%
	Natural Law	George Bauch	107	0.48%		$224
Total Valid Votes			22,313	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			133	0.59%
Turnout			22,446	70.41%

37th British Columbia election, 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	BC Liberal	Joyce Murray	11,059	49.20%		$47,701
	NDP	Graeme Bowbrick	6,971	31.02%		$26,704
	Green	Robert Broughton	2,982	13.27%	–	$3,401
	Marijuana	Marlene P. Campbell	859	3.82%		$394
	Unity	Howard Vernon Irving	604	2.69%
Total Valid Votes			22,475	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			113	0.50%
Turnout			22,588	71.07%

38th British Columbia election, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Chuck Puchmayr	13,226	51.32%		$61,892
	BC Liberal	Joyce Murray	9,645	37.42%		$135,015
	Green	Robert Broughton	2,416	9.37%	–	$1,417
	Marijuana	Christina Racki	293	1.14%		$100
	DRBC	John Robinson Warren	152	0.59%		$410
	Platinum	Greg Calcutta	42	0.16%		$100
Total Valid Votes			25,774	100%
Total Rejected Ballots			166	0.64%
Turnout			25,940	63.91%

B.C. General Election 2009 New Westminster
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Dawn Black	13,418	56.36	+5.04	$80,256
	BC Liberal	Carole Millar	8,240	34.61	-2.81	$24,880
	Green	Matthew Laird	2,151	9.03	-0.34	$5,214
Total Valid Votes			23,809	100%
Total Rejected Ballots			137	0.57%
Turnout			23,946	55.99%

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2009–) North / Central Cariboo-Chilcotin Cariboo North Nechako Lakes North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Valemount Skeena Stikine Southern Interior Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-South Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Kootenay East Kootenay West Fraser-Nicola Nelson-Creston Penticton Shuswap Vernon-Monashee Westside-Kelowna Fraser Valley / South LM Abbotsford-Mission Abbotsford South Abbotsford West Chilliwack Chilliwack-Hope Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Fleetwood Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock Vancouver / North LM Burnaby-Deer Lake Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby-Lougheed Burnaby North Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Coquitlam Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-False Creek Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena Vancouver-West End West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Vancouver Island / South Coast Alberni-Pacific Rim Comox Valley Cowichan Valley Esquimalt-Royal Roads Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-North Cowichan North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Swan Lake See also: Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 List of British Columbia general elections 2009 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2001–2009) North / Central Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena Southern Interior Columbia River-Revelstoke East Kootenay Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Westside Okanagan-Vernon Penticton-Okanagan Valley Shuswap West Kootenay-Boundary Yale-Lillooet Fraser Valley / South LM Abbotsford-Clayburn Abbotsford-Mount Lehman Chilliwack-Kent Chilliwack-Sumas Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Ridge Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock Vancouver / North LM Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Burquitlam Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Moody-Westwood Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi Vancouver Island / South Coast Alberni-Qualicum Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-Parksville North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside See also: 1999 electoral redistribution 2001 general election 2005 general election 2008 electoral redistribution Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1991–2001) North / Central Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena Southern Interior Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Boundary Okanagan East Okanagan-Penticton Okanagan-Vernon Okanagan West Shuswap Rossland-Trail Yale-Lillooet Fraser Valley / South LM Abbotsford Chilliwack Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Matsqui Mission-Kent Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock Vancouver / North LM Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Little Mountain Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi Vancouver Island / South Coast Alberni Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside See also: List of British Columbia general elections 1991 general election 1996 general election Defunct districts