Alberni-Nanaimo

Alberni-Nanaimo was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia which was used only in the general elections of 1933 and 1937.

For other current and historical ridings on Vancouver Island, please see Vancouver Island (electoral districts)..

Demographics

Geography

History

Member of Legislative Assembly

= Electoral history = "Note: Winners of each election are in" bold.
United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party
Alexander Cramb
align="right"|185
align="right"|2.79%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Independent
Roy Branwood Dier
align="right"|162
align="right"|2.44%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
NPIG
George Arthur Benjamin Hall
align="right"|781
align="right"|11.79%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
George Sharratt Pearson
align="right"|3,146
align="right"|47.47%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
James Lyle Telford
align="right"|2,353
align="right"|35.51%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|6,627 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|76!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
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Constructivist
Frederick Henry Giles
align="right"|397
align="right"|4.87%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
George Sharratt Pearson
align="right"|3,616
align="right"|44.34 %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Alexander Maitland Stephen ¹
align="right"|3,129
align="right"|38.36%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Conservative
Nicholas Wright
align="right"|1,014
align="right"|12.43%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|8,156 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|100!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|¹ Although suspended and repudiated by the provincial executive, Stephen was nominated by the Alberni-Nanaimo CCF Club, and ran as a CCF candidate.

The riding was redistributed after the 1937 election. In the 1941 general election the successor ridings to Alberni-Nanaimo were:

*Alberni
*Nanaimo and the Islands

External links

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