Peace River (British Columbia electoral district)
Peace River was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance in the general election of 1933, and its last was in 1953.
Demographics[]
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Geography[]
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History[]
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Electoral history[]
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Emily Loretta Crawford | 59 | 2.30% | – | unknown | |
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Clive Montgomery Francis Planta | 957 | 37.31% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Mervin Cecil Simmons | 800 | 31.19% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Wallace Archibald Watson | 749 | 29.20% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,565 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 19 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,168 | 42.61% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Charles Wilmer Bumstead | 905 | 33.02% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Thomas Hargreaves | 434 | 15.83% | unknown | ||
Independent | Clive Montgomery Francis Planta | 234 | 8.54% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,741 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 34 | |||||
Turnout | % |
1941 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,436 | 51.16 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 983 | 35.02 | |||||
Independent Farmer | Thomas Jamieson | 388 | 13.82 | |||||
Total valid votes | 2,807 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 22 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Coalition | Howard Guthrie Atkinson | 1,117 | 31.78% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 1,682 | 47.85% | unknown | ||
Social Credit Alliance | Margaret Teresa Lally Murray2 | 388 | 13.82% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 3,515 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 27 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
2 Publisher/editor of the Alaska Highway News and wife of George Matheson Murray, formerly MLA for Lillooet (1933–1941) and later MP for Cariboo. |
1949 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Coalition | Glen Everton Braden | 2,342 | 49.69 | |||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 1,901 | 40.34 | |||||
People's Co-operative Commonwealth | Philip Franklin Tompkins | 470 | 9.97 | |||||
Total valid votes | 4,713 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 52 |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 3 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,425 | 26.14% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur Roald Dahlen | 1,571 | 28.82% | 1,865 | 38.80% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Walter Clarence Henderson | 278 | 5.10% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Social Credit League | Charles William Parker | 2,178 | 39.95% | 2,942 | 61.20% | |||
Total valid votes | 5,452 | 100.00% | 4,807 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 151 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 4 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur Roald Dahlen | 1,921 | 33.24% | 2,216 | 42.31% | unknown | ||
Social Credit League | Charles William Parker | 2,481 | 42.92% | 3,022 | 57.69% | |||
Liberal | Stanley Weston | 1,378 | 23.84% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Walter Clarence Henderson | 278 | 5.10% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 5,780 | 100.00% | 5,238 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 316 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
4 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of twp (2) shown only. |
After the 1953 election the Peace River riding was partitioned into North Peace River and South Peace River.
Categories:
- Defunct British Columbia provincial electoral districts
- Peace River Country