Grand Forks-Greenwood was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Grand Forks , in the Boundary Country between the Okanagan and Kootenay Countries. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of Greenwood and Grand Forks , and lasted until the 1963 election. As of 1966 the area was represented by Boundary-Similkameen . The same area is now part of West Kootenay-Boundary .
For other ridings in the Kootenay region , please see Kootenay (electoral districts) .
Demographics [ ]
Population, 1961
Population change, 1871–1961
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)
Political geography [ ]
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Electoral history [ ]
Note: Winners in each election are in bold .
18th British Columbia election, 1933 15
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±
Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.t
Robert Lawson
221
12.51%
unknown
Non-Partisan Independent Group
Thomas Alfred Love
511
28.94%
–
unknown
Liberal
Dougald McPherson
1,034
58.55%
unknown
Total valid votes
1,766
100.00%
Total rejected ballots
1
Turnout
%
1 Details of returns were not supplied by the Returning Officer, only the total valid votes for each candidate, so the number of rejected ballots is unknown.
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 2
Party
Candidate
Votes1st count
%
Votesfinal count
%
±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Rupert Haggen
826
39.79%
1,043
53.08%
unknown
Conservative
Cecil Gordon McMynn
706
34.01%
922
46.92%
unknown
Liberal
Edwin Stanley Orris
252
12.14%
-
- %
unknown
B.C. Social Credit League
Henry Edgar Parkyn
292
14.07%
-
- %
unknown
Total valid votes
2,076
100.00%
1,965
- %
Total rejected ballots
58
Turnout
%
2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only.
24th British Columbia election, 1953 3
Party
Candidate
Votes1st count
%
Votesfinal count
%
±%
Conservative
Ruth Ellen May Euerby
177
8.51%
-
-.- %
unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Rupert Haggen
995
47.86%
1,016
50.12%
unknown
Social Credit
Gordon Clarke McPhail
583
28.05%
618
30.49%
Liberal
Klaus Scheer
324
15.58%
393
19.39%
unknown
Total valid votes
2,079
100.00%
2,027
- %
Total rejected ballots
145
Turnout
%
3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of two (2) shown only.
26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±
Expenditures
Social Credit
Joseph Clinton Armstrong
752
28.56 %
–
unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Lois Haggen
1,115
42.35%
unknown
Liberal
Frank Martin
564
21.42%
unknown
Progressive Conservative
Yasushi Sugimoto
202
7.67%
unknown
Total valid votes
2,633
100.00%
Total rejected ballots
40
Turnout
%
The Boundary area was redistributed following the 1963 election . The new riding representing the area as of the 1966 election was Boundary-Similkameen .
Sources [ ]
Elections BC Historical Returns