- Delta (provincial electoral district)
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Delta was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia based on the municipality of Delta at the mouth of the Fraser River between the city of Vancouver and the US border. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903 and its last in the election of 1986, after which it was succeeded by Delta North and Delta South, which are the current ridings in the area.
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Demographics
Population, 1901 Population change, 1901–1961 Area (km²) Population density (people per km²) Political geography
Notable elections
Notable MLAs
Electoral history
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
10th British Columbia election, 1903 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative William Henry Ladner 309 40.87% unknown Liberal John Oliver 447 59.13% unknown Total valid votes 756 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 11th British Columbia election, 1907 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Francis James Anderson MacKenzie 261 37.77% unknown Liberal John Oliver 430 62.23% unknown Total valid votes 691 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 12th British Columbia election, 1909 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Francis James Anderson MacKenzie 765 58.13% unknown Liberal John Oliver 551 41.87% unknown Total valid votes 1,316 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 1 Results of recount as reported in New Westminster Columbian 29 November 1909, p. 1 13th British Columbia election, 1912 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Francis James Anderson MacKenzie 748 70.83% unknown Liberal John Oliver 308 29.17% unknown Total valid votes 1,056 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 14th British Columbia election, 1916 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Francis James Anderson MacKenzie 964 51.55% unknown Liberal Alexander McDonald Paterson 906 48.45% unknown Total valid votes 1,870 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 15th British Columbia election, 1920 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Francis James Anderson MacKenzie 964 51.55% unknown Liberal John Oliver 1,334 37.50% unknown Soldier-Farmer Party Richmond Archie Payne 1,107 31.12% unknown Total valid votes 3,557 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 16th British Columbia election, 1924 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Provincial Saul A. Bonnell 633 17.42% unknown Independent Liberal Hugh Williams 72 1.98% unknown Conservative Archibald Woodbury McLelan 1,253 34.47% unknown Liberal Alexander McDonald Paterson 1,677 46.13% unknown Total valid votes 3,635 100.00% Total rejected ballots Turnout % 17th British Columbia election, 1928 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative John Walter Berry 2,562 55.73% unknown Liberal Alexander McDonald Paterson 2,035 44.27% unknown Total valid votes 4,597 100.00% Total rejected ballots 51 Turnout % 18th British Columbia election, 1933 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party Robert Kitchener Almas 49 0.69% unknown Independent Conservative John Walter Berry2 447 6.28% unknown Independent Rudolph Martin Grauer 1,735 24.37% unknown Independent Conservative Christopher Thomas Lawrence 2 165 2.32% unknown Liberal Alexander McDonald Paterson 2,093 29.40% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Robert Blatchford Swailes 2,631 36.95% unknown Total valid votes 7,120 100.00% Total rejected ballots 64 Turnout % 2 Includes Conservatives who chose to run as straight Independents. They are shown in the Results by Electoral District, when so indicated by newspaper reports, as Ind.(Cons.). Because of internal discord, the provincial executive of the Conservative Party decided not to contest the election officially; each local association was to act on its own. 19th British Columbia election, 1937 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Rudolph Martin Grauer 2,815 29.04% unknown Liberal Arthur Laing 3,102 32.01% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leonard Alec Shepherd 3,192 32.93% unknown Constructivist Robert Blatchford Swailes 583 6.02% unknown Total valid votes 9,692 100.00% Total rejected ballots 150 Turnout % 20th British Columbia election, 1941 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative Alexander Campbell Hope 3,478 28.54% unknown Liberal Arthur Laing 3,554 29.17% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leonard Alec Shepherd 5,153 42.29% unknown Total valid votes 12,185 100.00% Total rejected ballots 225 Turnout % 21st British Columbia election, 1945 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Coalition Alexander Campbell Hope 5,859 53.64% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leonard Alec Shepherd 5,063 46.36% unknown Total valid votes 10,922 100.00% Total rejected ballots 138 Turnout % 22nd British Columbia election, 1949 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Coalition Alexander Campbell Hope 12,203 49.59% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leonard Alec Shepherd 11,110 45.15% unknown Social Credit Lyle Wicks 1,293 5.25% unknown Total valid votes 24,606 100.00% Total rejected ballots 903 Turnout % 23rd British Columbia election, 1952 3 Party Candidate Votes
1st count% Votes
final count% ±% Progressive Conservative Alexander Campbell Hope 4,688 14.84% - -.- % unknown B.C. Social Credit League Thomas Irwin 11,759 37.22% 14,805 52.69% unknown Liberal Donald Alexander Sutherland Lanskail 4,293 13.59% - -.- % unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leonard Alec Shepherd 10,853 34.35% 13,295 47.31% unknown Total valid votes 31,593 100.00% 28,100 Total rejected ballots 2,172 Turnout % 3 Preferential ballot. First and final of three counts only shown. 24th British Columbia election, 1953 4 Party Candidate Votes
1st count% Votes
final count% ±% Christian Democrat Cyril Anthony Brocking 315 1.02% - -.- % unknown Labour Progressive David Arnold Danielson 390 1.26% - -.- % unknown Liberal Leslie Gilmore 5,500 17.75% % unknown Social Credit Thomas Irwin 13,079 42.20% 15,417 54.05% unknown People's Party of British Columbia5 Edward Charles Mills 20 0.06% % unknown Progressive Conservative Robert William Pybus 591 1.91% - -.- % unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leonard Alec Shepherd 11,095 35.80% 13,108 45.95% unknown Total valid votes 30,990 100.00% 28,525 Total rejected ballots 1,786 Turnout % 4 Preferential ballot. First and second of six counts only shown. 5 Not the leftist People's Party of earlier times, but a populist one also identified as the Common Herd. 25th British Columbia election, 19566 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Labour Progressive Myrtle Evelyn Burnell 355 0.51% unknown Labour Progressive Frank Gaspar 272 0.39% unknown Social Credit Thomas Irwin 18,848 27.29% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Walter H. Johnson 11,202 16.22% unknown Social Credit Nehemiah George Massey 17,762 25.72% unknown Liberal Victor A. McPherson 5,149 7.46% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. James Henry Rhodes 10,798 15.63% unknown Liberal William Pearce Wilson 4,680 6.78% unknown Total valid votes 69,066 100.00% Total rejected ballots 352 Turnout % 6 Seat increased to two members from one. 26th British Columbia election, 1960 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Independent Norman Baker 220 0.21% unknown Progressive Conservative George Francis Crowe 2,280 2.14% unknown Independent Gordon Lionel Gibson 2,010 1.89% unknown Liberal Arthur R. Helps 8,529 8.02% unknown Progressive Conservative Dalton O. Jones 2,159 2.03% unknown Communist George Lakusta 408 0.38% unknown Social Credit Nehemiah George Massey 21,011 19.76% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Camille Mildred Mather 21,839 20.54% unknown Liberal C. Douglas Morris 8,517 8.01% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. James Henry Rhodes 21,559 20.28% unknown Social Credit Donald H. Riggan 17,291 16.26% unknown Communist Homer John Stevens 505 0.47% unknown Total valid votes 106,328 100.00% Total rejected ballots 834 Turnout % 27th British Columbia election, 1963 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Progressive Conservative Thomas Horan 4,049 4.04% unknown Liberal Harry Lewis Huff 5,342 5.32% unknown Progressive Conservative Theodore Kuhn 4,461 4.45% unknown Social Credit Ernest A. LeCours 22,067 22.00% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Camille Mildred Mather 18,690 18.63% unknown Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. James Henry Rhodes 17,661 17.60% unknown Liberal J.T. "Jock" Smith 5,553 5.53% unknown Social Credit Hunter Bertram Vogel 22,504 22.43% unknown Communist Homer John Stevens 505 0.47% unknown Total valid votes 100,327 100.00% Total rejected ballots 473 Turnout % 28th British Columbia election, 1966 7 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Liberal George Garrett 1,954 11.69% unknown Progressive Conservative Philip Govan 921 5.51% unknown New Democrat Thomas Jack Howard 6,078 36.35% unknown Social Credit Robert Lloyd Wenman 7,768 46.46% unknown Total valid votes 16,721 100.00% Total rejected ballots 153 Turnout % 2 Seat decreased to one member from two. 29th British Columbia election, 1969 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Liberal Doral Hemm 3,545 12.87% unknown New Democrat Carl Oswald Liden 9,855 35.78% unknown Social Credit Robert Lloyd Wenman 14,145 51.35% unknown Total valid votes 27,545 100.00% Total rejected ballots 295 Turnout % 30th British Columbia election, 1972 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Progressive Conservative Marcia Ann Boyd 6,660 17.67% unknown Liberal Lorne L. Donnelly 3,730 9.90% unknown New Democrat Carl Oswald Liden 15,040 39.90% unknown Social Credit Robert Lloyd Wenman 12,260 32.53% unknown Total valid votes 37,690 100.00% Total rejected ballots 378 Turnout % 31st British Columbia election, 1975 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Liberal Arthur Edward Bates 2,236 4.60% unknown Communist Michael Anthony Darnell 105 0.22% unknown Social Credit Kenneth Walter Davidson 25,892 53.32% unknown New Democrat Carl Oswald Liden 17,469 35.98% unknown Progressive Conservative John O'Brien Bell 2,857 5.88% unknown Total valid votes 48,559 100.00% Total rejected ballots 592 Turnout % 32nd British Columbia election, 1979 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Progressive Conservative Elsie Gwendolyn Burnett 1,877 6.30% unknown Social Credit Kenneth Walter Davidson 16,421 55.10% unknown New Democrat Carl Oswald Liden 11,429 38.35% unknown Communist John Michael Stevens 73 0.25% unknown Total valid votes 29,800 100.00% Total rejected ballots 228 Turnout % 33rd British Columbia election, 1983 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Liberal Ken Buhay 464 1.26 unknown Western Canada Concept Michael Terence Coggan 450 1.22% unknown Social Credit Kenneth Walter Davidson 21,496 58.37% unknown Progressive Conservative David Peter Hoyt 1,117 3.03% unknown New Democrat Karl H. Moser 13,300 36.12% unknown Total valid votes 36,827 100.00% Total rejected ballots 247 Turnout % 34th British Columbia election, 19868 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures New Democrat Sylvia K. Bishop 11,984 16.72% unknown Social Credit Kenneth Walter Davidson 20,523 28.62% unknown New Democrat Karl H. Moser 13,581 18.94% unknown Social Credit John Lawrence Savage 20,950 29.22% unknown Progressive Conservative Kenneth Douglas Smith 1,804 2.52% unknown Liberal Samuel D. Stevens 2,855 3.98% unknown Total valid votes 71,697 100.00% Total rejected ballots 722 Turnout % 8 Seat increased to two members from one. The Delta riding was partitioned after the 1986 election into Delta North and Delta South, which are current ridings.
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Elections BC Historical Returns
North / Central Atlin • Cariboo ‡ • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince George North • Prince George South • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace RiverSouthern Interior Fraser Valley / South LM Vancouver / North LM Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Coquitlam-Moody • Maillardville-Coquitlam • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Capilano • North Vancouver-Seymour • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (2) • Vancouver South (2) • West Vancouver-Howe SoundVancouver Island / South Coast Notes ‡ - from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency
† - from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies: Surrey-Guildford-Whalley • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-White Rock-CloverdaleSee also: List of British Columbia general elections • 1979 general election • 1983 general election • 1986 general election • Defunct districtsNorth / Central Atlin • Cariboo • Fort George • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace RiverSouthern Interior Lower Mainland Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Chilliwack • Coquitlam • Delta • Dewdney • Langley • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Capilano • North Vancouver-Seymour • Richmond • Surrey • Vancouver-Burrard (2) • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (2) • Vancouver South (2) • West Vancouver-Howe SoundVancouver Island / South Coast See also: List of British Columbia general elections • 1966 general election • 1969 general election • 1972 general election • 1975 general election • Defunct districtsNorth / Central Atlin • Cariboo • Fort George • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace RiverSouthern Interior Columbia • Cranbrook • Fernie • Grand Forks-Greenwood • Kamloops • Kaslo-Slocan • Lillooet • Nelson-Creston • North Okanagan • Revelstoke • Rossland-Trail • Shuswap • Similkameen • South Okanagan • YaleLower Mainland Burnaby (2) • Chilliwack • Delta (2) • Dewdney • New Westminster • North Vancouver (2) • Vancouver-Burrard (2) • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (3)Vancouver Island / South Coast See also: List of British Columbia general elections • 1956 general election • 1960 general election • 1963 general election • Defunct districtsNorth / Central Southern Interior Columbia • Cranbrook • Fernie • Grand Forks-Greenwood • Kamloops • Kaslo-Slocan • Lillooet • Nelson-Creston • North Okanagan • Revelstoke • Rossland-Trail • Shuswap • Similkameen • South Okanagan • YaleLower Mainland Burnaby • Chilliwack • Delta • Dewdney • New Westminster • North Vancouver • Vancouver-Burrard (2) • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (3)Vancouver Island / South Coast See also: Categories:- Defunct British Columbia provincial electoral districts
- Politics of Delta, British Columbia
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