- Nanaimo (electoral district)
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- For the city, see Nanaimo, British Columbia.
For other current and historical electoral districts, federal and provincial, please see Nanaimo (electoral districts)
Nanaimo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1979.
This riding was created as Nanaimo riding in 1903 from parts of Vancouver and Victoria ridings.
Its legal description when it was created was: "The electoral district of Nanaimo, comprising the provincial electoral districts of Cowichan, Esquimalt, Nanaimo City, Newcastle, Saanich and The Islands."
Nanaimo electoral district was renamed "Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands" in 1962. (See that article for more information.) It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed into Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands and Nanaimo—Alberni ridings.
Election results
Canadian federal election, 1904 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Ralph Smith 1,392 43.31% Progressive Conservative Wolley 1 1,105 34.38% Socialist Fenton 1 717 22.31% Total 3,214 100.00% 1 Neither Wolley's nor Fenton's first names appear in the historical records on this riding. Canadian federal election, 1908 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Ralph Smith 1,494 36.08% Progressive Conservative Francis Henry Shepherd 1,335 32.24% Socialist James Hurst Hawthornthwaite 1,312 31.68% Total 4,141 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1911 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative Francis Henry Shepherd 2,438 58.21% Liberal Ralph Smith 1,750 41.79% Total 4,188 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1917 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Government John Charles McIntosh 9,175 73.43% Opposition Hector Allen Stewart 1,976 15.81% Labour Joseph Taylor 1,344 10.76% Total 12,495 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1921 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative Charles Herbert Dickie 6,897 45.94% Liberal Thomas Banks Booth 4,159 27.70% Labour William Arthur Pritchard 3,958 26.36% Total 15,014 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1925 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative Charles Herbert Dickie 9,584 54.49% Liberal Thomas Banks Booth 6,117 34.78% Labour William Turner Grieves 1,888 10.73% Total 17,589 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1926 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative Charles Herbert Dickie 10,464 66.49% Liberal Cornelius Hawkins O'Halloran 5,274 33.51% Total 15,738 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1930 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative Charles Herbert Dickie 11,827 57.91% Liberal Cornelius Hawkins O'Halloran 8,596 42.09% Total 20,423 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1935 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Co-operative Commonwealth James Samuel Taylor 7,053 34.84% Progressive Conservative Charles Herbert Dickie 6,440 31.81% Liberal Alan Chambers 6,204 30.65% Reconstruction Ashton Aubrey Burnet Matthew Clark 546 2.70% Total 20,243 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1940 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Alan Chambers 10,668 42.46% National Government Frank Stigant Cuncliffe 7,518 29.92% Co-operative Commonwealth Ronald Grantham 6,252 24.88% New Democracy Andrew Henry Jukes 506 2.01% Independent William Frederick Povah 181 0.72% Total 25,125 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1945 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative George Randolph Pearkes2 11,181 35.32% Co-operative Commonwealth John Morris Thomas 9,542 30.15% Liberal Alan Chambers 8,223 25.98% Labour-Progressive George Thomas Greenwell 2,707 8.56% Total 31,653 100.00% 2Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, 1960-1968 Canadian federal election, 1949 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative George Randolph Pearkes 17,507 48.00% Co-operative Commonwealth Robert Martin Strachan 9,772 26.79% Liberal William Edmond Poupore 9,196 25.21% Total 36,475 100.00% A redistribution in 1952 (S.C. 1952, c.48) reduced the area and population of the riding. Canadian federal election, 1953 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Co-operative Commonwealth Colin Cameron 7,272 38.56% Liberal Gavin Colvin Mouat 4,884 25.90% Progressive Conservative Douglas Deane Finlayson 3,412 18.09% Social Credit Leonard Francis Hodgson 2,773 14.71% Labour-Progressive Ernest Leon Knott 516 2.74% Total 18,857 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1957 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Co-operative Commonwealth Colin Cameron 8,650 37.62% Progressive Conservative Walter Franklyn Matthews 6,131 26.66% Social Credit Harold Hine 4,766 20.73% Liberal Frank William Wilfert 3,448 14.99% Total 22,995 100.00% Canadian federal election, 1958 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative Walter F. Matthews 10,734 43.91% Co-operative Commonwealth Colin Cameron 10,029 41.03% Liberal Ernest W.H. Miller 2,606 10.66% Social Credit Roy Arthur Folz 1,077 4.41% Total 24,446 100.00% See also
- List of Canadian federal electoral districts
- Past Canadian electoral districts
External links
Riding history from the Library of Parliament:
- Nanaimo 1904-1952
- Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands
- Website of the Parliament of Canada
Coordinates: 49°09′45″N 123°56′19″W / 49.16262°N 123.93874°W
Categories:- Defunct British Columbia federal electoral districts
- For the city, see Nanaimo, British Columbia.
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