Rossland City

Rossland City

Rossland City was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the West Kootenay region. It is named after the town of Rossland, near Trail, B.C. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903 and lasted only until 1912, after which the revised riding was simply Rossland.

For other current and historical electoral districts in the Kootenay region, please see Kootenay (electoral districts).

Demographics

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

"Note: Winners of each election are in" bold.
Conservative
Arthur Samuel Goodeve
align="right"|343
align="right"|44.03%
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align="right"|unknown
Liberal
James Alexander MacDonald
align="right"|436
align="right"|55.97%
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align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|779 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|1 Parr may have been a Labour candidate although Gosnell labels him a Liberal; he may have campaigned as both.
Socialist
Archibald Francis Berry
align="right"|98
align="right"|18.67%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Conservative
Lorne Argyle Campbell
align="right"|186
align="right"|35.43%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
James Alexander MacDonald
align="right"|241
align="right"|45.90 %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|525!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
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Conservative
William Robert Braden
align="right"|237
align="right"|38.60 %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Socialist
George Bernard Casey
align="right"|160
align="right"|26.06%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
John M. English
align="right"|217
align="right"|35.34%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|614!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"
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!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
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Conservative
Lorne Argyle Campbell
align="right"|336
align="right"|56.09%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Socialist
George Bernard Casey
align="right"|95
align="right"|15.86%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
Louis Denison Taylor
align="right"|168
align="right"|28.05%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|599!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"
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!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
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Redistribution following the 1912 election resulted in the renaming of the riding to Rossland.

Source

[http://www.elections.bc.ca/elections/electoral_history/toc.html Elections BC Historical Returns]


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