Oak Bay (electoral District) - Electoral History

Electoral History

Note: Winners in each election are shown in bold.

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Conservative Herbert Anscomb 2,676 55.88% unknown
Liberal Everett Stanley Farr 1,520 31.74% unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Geoffrey LeGallais 593 12.38% unknown
Total valid votes 4,789 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 68
Turnout %
21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Coalition Herbert Anscomb 4,598 82.31% unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Clare Nulalinda McAllister 988 17.69% unknown
Total valid votes 5,586 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 40
Turnout %
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Coalition Herbert Anscomb 5,918 84.21% unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Patricia Mary Luchinsky 890 12.66% unknown
Union of Electors Claudius Edward Wright 220 3.13% unknown
Total valid votes 7,028 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 183
Turnout %
23rd British Columbia election, 19521
Party Candidate Votes
 % Votes
 % ±%
Progressive Conservative Herbert Anscomb 2,843 34.45% 3,282 43.24% unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Frederick James Bevis 707 8.57% - - % unknown
Liberal Philip Archibald Gibbs 3,631 44.00% 4,308 56.76% unknown
Total valid votes 8,252 % 7,590 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 130
Turnout %
1 Preferential ballot; 1st and final counts (of three) shown only.
24th British Columbia election, 1953 2
Party Candidate Votes
 % Votes
 % ±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Frederick James Bevis 508 6.20% - - % unknown
Progressive Conservative Douglas Deane Finlayson 1,220 14.90% - - % unknown
Liberal Philip Archibald Gibbs 3,182 38.85% 4,110 52.75% unknown
Social Credit League Einar Maynard Gunderson 3,280 40.05 3% 3,681 47.25% unknown
Total valid votes 8,190 100.00% 7,791 %
Total rejected ballots 192
Total Registered Voters
Turnout %
2 Preferential ballot; 1st and final counts (of three) shown only.
25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Philip Archibald Gibbs 3,940 49.38% unknown
Progressive Conservative Justin Victor Harbord 919 11.52% unknown
Social Credit Kenneth Oliver 2,691 33.73 unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Patrick Holman Thomas 429 5.38% unknown
Total valid votes 7,979 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 74
Turnout %
26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Progressive Conservative James Arthur Anderson 1,212 11.82% unknown
Liberal Alan Brock MacFarlane 4,558 44.46% unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Francis Harris Mitchell 701 6.84% unknown
Social Credit George Murdoch 3,780 36.87% unknown
Total valid votes 10,251 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 113
Turnout %
27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Social Credit Charles McGregor Ennals 3,770 36.17% unknown
New Democrat Robert Wayne Harrigan 469 4.50% unknown
Progressive Conservative Hugh Larratt Henderson 1,726 16.56% unknown
Liberal Alan Brock MacFarlane 4,457 42.77% unknown
Total valid votes 10,422 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 72
Turnout %
28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Social Credit Charles McGregor Ennals 5,808 38.97% unknown
Liberal Alan Brock MacFarlane 8,118 54.48% unknown
New Democrat Mira V. Yarwood 976 6.55% unknown
Total valid votes 14,902 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 184
Turnout %
29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Allan Leslie Cox 6,656 36.37% unknown
New Democrat Kirby Gerald Seabrook 2,105 11.50% unknown
Social Credit George Scott Wallace 9,542 52.13% unknown
Total valid votes 18,303 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 174
Turnout %
30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Melville Bertram Couvelier 3,253 16.47% unknown
Social Credit Howard Richmond McDiarmid 4,752 24.06% unknown
New Democrat John Gordon Neuls 1,423 7.21% unknown
Progressive Conservative George Scott Wallace 10,319 52.06% unknown
Total valid votes 19,747 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 229
Turnout %
31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Social Credit Sherman Frank Byas Carson 8,274 37.29% unknown
Liberal Sarah Elizabeth Jameson 359 1.62% unknown
New Democrat Raymond Barrie Vickery 2,067 9.31% unknown
Progressive Conservative George Scott Wallace 11,489 51.78% unknown
Total valid votes 22,189 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 229
Turnout %
By-election, March 20, 1978
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Social Credit Sherman Frank Byas Carson 5,109 28.52% unknown
Liberal Denson Graham Ross-Smith 2,350 13.12% unknown
Progressive Conservative Victor Albert Stephens 6,904 38.54% unknown
Socialist Lawrence Richard Tickner 54 00.3% unknown
Total valid votes 17,915 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 154
Turnout %

The Oak Bay riding was redistributed and the new riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head created. It first appeared in the general election of 1979.

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