Electoral History
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
| 10th British Columbia election, 1903 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | 460 | 58.97% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | John Cunningham Brown | 320 | 41.03% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 780 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 11th British Columbia election, 1907 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | 417 | 48.04% | unknown | ||
| Socialist | Charles Edward Kilby | 48 | 5.53% | – | unknown | |
| Liberal | John Walter Weart | 403 | 46.43% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 868 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 12th British Columbia election, 1909 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | 918 | 57.92% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | John Wallace deBeque Farris | 667 | 42.08% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 1,585 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 13th British Columbia election, 1912 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Acclaimed | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | n/a | -.- % | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 14th British Columbia election, 1916 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||||||
| Conservative | William Joseph Baird | 1,189 | 44.62% | unknown | Independent Conservative | Robert McBride 1 | 35 | 1.31% | unknown | |||
| Conservative | Gerald Grattan McGeer | 1,441 | 54.07% | unknown | ||||||||
| Total valid votes | 2,665 | 100.00% | ||||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||
| British Columbia general election, 1920 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
| Independent Farmer | Reginald Abbott | 272 | 3.60% | |||
| Federated Labour Party | Charles Smith Cassidy | 1,499 | 19.84% | |||
| Independent | Robert McBride | 210 | 2.78% | |||
| Liberal | Hiram Perry McCraney | 2,712 | 35.89% | |||
| Conservative | Thomas Pearson | 2,863 | 37.89% | |||
| Total valid votes | 7,556 | 100.00% | ||||
The riding was redistributed after the 1920 election. In 1924 it was combined with the western parts of the City of Vancouver, formerly the Municipality of Point Grey, to form Richmond-Point Grey.
Read more about this topic: Richmond (British Columbia Provincial Electoral District)
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