Election Results
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
| Canadian federal election, 1872: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Edgar Dewdney |
43 |
|
|
| |
Unknown |
Robert Smith |
19 |
|
|
| Total |
62 |
|
|
| 1 |
| Canadian federal election, 1874: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Edgar Dewdney |
89 |
|
|
| |
Unknown |
D. Chisholm |
20 |
|
|
| Total |
109 |
|
|
| Canadian federal election, 1878: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Edgar Dewdney |
Acclaimed |
|
|
| Total |
- |
|
|
| Byelection, September 29, 1879: Yale 2 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Francis Jones Barnard 3 |
212 |
|
|
| |
Unknown |
John Trapp |
99 |
|
|
| Total |
311 |
|
|
| 2 |
| 3 |
| Canadian federal election, 1882: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
F.J. Barnard |
266 |
|
|
| |
Unknown |
Jas. Robinson |
109 |
|
|
| |
Unknown |
F.G. Vernon |
78 |
|
|
| Total |
453 |
|
|
| Canadian federal election, 1887: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
John Andrew Mara |
Acclaimed |
|
|
| Canadian federal election, 1891: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
John Andrew Mara |
Acclaimed |
|
|
Under the Representation Act of 1892, the constituencies of Yale and Cariboo were united to form Yale—Cariboo. In 1914, that riding was broken up and the Yale and Cariboo riding-names were restored, although the new constituencies were considerably smaller than before. The restored Yale riding included the Boundary Country around Grand Forks and Greenwood, but the Kootenay was now a separate riding and the town of Yale itself was not in the restored Yale riding, but in the new riding of Westminster District. The first election using the new boundaries was in 1917, although the seat was won by acclamation by the Hon. Martin Burrell, who had been the member for Yale—Cariboo.
| Canadian federal election, 1917: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Government |
Hon. Martin Burrell |
Acclaimed |
|
|
| Byelection, November 22, 1920: Yale 4 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
John Armstrong MacKelvie |
4,989 |
52.03% |
|
| |
United Farmers |
Charles Edgar Edgett |
4,600 |
47.97% |
|
| Total |
9,589 |
100.00 |
|
| 4 |
| Canadian federal election, 1921: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
John Armstrong MacKelvie |
6,475 |
52.18% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Daniel Wilbur Sutherland |
5,933 |
47.82% |
|
| Total |
12,408 |
100.00% |
|
| Byelection, November 6, 1924: Yale 5 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Grote Stirling |
6,354 |
51.48% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Daniel Wilbur Sutherland |
5,988 |
48.52% |
|
| Total |
12,342 |
100.00 |
|
| 5 |
| Canadian federal election, 1925: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Grote Stirling |
7,573 |
60.86% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Charles Edgar Edgett |
4,870 |
39.14% |
|
| Total |
12,443 |
100.00% |
|
| Canadian federal election, 1926: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Grote Stirling |
7,815 |
66.55% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Fremont Blakeslee Cossitt |
3,928 |
33.45% |
|
| Total |
11,743 |
100.00% |
|
| Canadian federal election, 1930: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Grote Stirling |
8,447 |
63.25% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Walter Gordon Wilkins |
4,908 |
36.75% |
|
| Total |
13,355 |
100.00% |
|
A redistribution in 1933 rearranged the riding's boundaries, once again including the original core area around Yale and Hope, though the bulk of the riding's population remained in the orchard towns of the Okanagan.
| Canadian federal election, 1935: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Conservative |
Grote Stirling |
6,791 |
41.27% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Charles Edward Oliver |
5,113 |
31.07% |
|
| |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Edward Woodford MacKay |
4,551 |
27.66% |
|
| Total |
16,455 |
100.00% |
|
| Canadian federal election, 1940: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
National Government |
Grote Stirling |
8,599 |
37.66% |
|
| |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Owen Lewis Jones |
7,428 |
32.53% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Charles William Morrow |
6,805 |
29.81% |
|
| Total |
22,832 |
100.00% |
|
| Canadian federal election, 1945: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Progressive Conservative |
Grote Stirling |
9,625 |
39.21% |
|
| |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Owen Lewis Jones |
7,713 |
31.42% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Arthur Wilfred Gray |
4,705 |
19.17% |
|
| |
Social Credit |
James Allan Reid |
1,685 |
6.86% |
|
| |
Labour Progressive Party |
Allan Conway Clapp |
820 |
3.34% |
|
| Total |
24,548 |
100.00% |
|
| By-Election May 31, 1948: Yale 6 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Owen Lewis Jones |
12,838 |
45.38% |
|
| |
Progressive Conservative |
William Andrew Cecil Bennett 7 |
7,953 |
28.11% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Edward John Chambers |
7,500 |
26.51% |
|
| Total |
28,291 |
100.00% |
|
| 6 |
| 7 |
| Canadian federal election, 1949: Yale |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
| |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Owen Lewis Jones |
13,298 |
42.44% |
|
| |
Progressive Conservative |
Theodore Robert Bruce Adams |
11,562 |
36.89% |
|
| |
Liberal |
Charles James McDowell |
5,576 |
17.79% |
|
| |
Social Credit |
James Allan Reid |
902 |
2.88% |
|
| Total |
31,338 |
100.00% |
|
Yale riding was abolished in 1952. Its successor ridings were Okanagan Boundary and Okanagan—Revelstoke. Areas of the original core area around Yale are now part of Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon, which extends up the Fraser River to Lillooet.