Nanaimo—Alberni was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988. It was subsequently recreated and was represented in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2015.
Nanaimo—Alberni has the highest median age of all federal electoral districts in Canada (50.1 years of age).[3]
Geography[]
From 1979 to 1988, it consisted of:
the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District,
the Nanaimo Regional District,
(Lasqueti Island and the adjacent smaller islands in the Powell River Regional District,
the northwest part of Electoral Area H of the Cowichan Valley Regional District.
The present district includes Lasqueti Island, the Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot, and all of the Regional District of Nanaimo except the extreme southeastern part, including but the extreme northern part of Nanaimo. The southern part of Nanaimo is part of the Nanaimo—Cowichan electoral district.
The 2012 electoral redistribution will see this riding dissolved into the new ridings of Courtenay—Alberni and Nanaimo—Ladysmith for the 2015 election.
Members of Parliament[]
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
This riding was created from parts of Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan, both of which elected a Reform Party candidate in the previous election. Bill Gilmour was the incumbent from Comox—Alberni.