Electoral History
| 28th British Columbia election, 1966 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Louis Allan Williams | 8,346 | 52.76% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Laurence Smith Eckhardt | 5,499 | 34.76% | – | unknown | |
| New Democrat | James William C. McKenzie | 1,975 | 12.48% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 15,820 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 171 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 29th British Columbia election, 1969 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Louis Allan Williams | 8,974 | 46.39% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Leonard Joseph Corcoran | 7,433 | 22.47% | – | unknown | |
| New Democrat | William Basil Mundy | 2,939 | 15.19% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 19,346 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 131 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 30th British Columbia election, 1972 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Louis Allan Williams | 7,597 | 33.93% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Stewart Hyndman | 7,076 | 31.60% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Louis Joseph Corcoran | 5,098 | 22.77% | – | unknown | |
| New Democrat | Raymond Alden Copes | 2,619 | 11.70% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 22,390 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 158 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 31st British Columbia election, 1975 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Social Credit | Louis Allan Williams | 16,173 | 64.40% | – | unknown | |
| New Democrat | Murray Wayne Miller | 4,647 | 18.50% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Cordelia Kitty Maracle | 3,263 | 12.99% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Francis Bernard Jameson | 998 | 3.97% | unknown | ||
| League for Socialist Action | Joseph Kellner | 34 | 0.14% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 25,115 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 261 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 32nd British Columbia election, 1979 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Social Credit | Louis Allan Williams | 16,566 | 67.94% | – | unknown | |
| New Democrat | Lawrence Charles Minchin | 5,773 | 23.68% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Christopher Derrick England | 1,916 | 7.86% | unknown | ||
| Gay Alliance Toward Equality | Robert Douglas Cook | 126 | 0.52% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 24,381 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 459 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 33rd British Columbia election, 1983 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Social Credit | John Reynolds | 17,218 | 61.35% | – | unknown | |
| New Democrat | Claus Frank Spiekerman | 6,766 | 24.11% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Morton Alexander Graham | 1,941 | 6.92% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Stewart Thompson | 1,824 | 6.50% | unknown | ||
| Independents | James Roland Chabot | 316 | 1.12% | |||
| Total valid votes | 28,065 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 234 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 34th British Columbia election, 1986 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Social Credit | John Reynolds | 14,591 | 54.31% | – | unknown | |
| Liberal | Ed Carlin | 6,786 | 25.26% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | David C. Manning | 5,490 | 20.43% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 26,867 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 265 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
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