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'''Alberni-Nanaimo''' was a provincial electoral district in the [[Canadian province]] of [[British Columbia]] which was used only in the [[1933 British Columbia general election|general elections of 1933]] and [[1937 British Columbia general election|1937]].<ref name=Pa>{{cite web|title=Constituency Profile|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileConstituency.aspx?Key=599&Language=E|work=House of Commons - Members|accessdate=22 August 2012}}</ref>

For other current and historical ridings on Vancouver Island, please see [[Vancouver Island (electoral districts)]]..

== Electoral history ==
''Note:  Winners of each election are in'' '''bold'''.
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[1933 British Columbia general election|18th British Columbia election, 1933]]}}
{{CANelec |BC |UFWF |Alexander Cramb |185 	 	 	 |2.79% |&ndash; |unknown}}
{{Canadian party colour|BC|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|Roy Branwood Dier
|align="right"|162 	 	 	 		 	 
|align="right"|2.44%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{CANelec |BC |NPIG |[[George Arthur Benjamin Hall]] |781 	 	 		 	 		 |11.79% |&ndash; |unknown}}
{{CANelec|BC|Liberal|'''[[George Sharratt Pearson]]'''|'''3,146''' 	 		 	 		|'''47.47%'''||unknown}}
{{Canadian party colour|BC|CCF|row}} 
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|[[James Lyle Telford]]
|align="right"|2,353 		 
|align="right"|35.51%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|6,627 
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|76
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
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|}

{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[1937 British Columbia general election|19th British Columbia election, 1937]]}}
{{CANelec |BC |Social Constructive |Frederick Henry Giles |397 |4.87%}}
{{CANelec|BC|Liberal|'''[[George Sharratt Pearson]]'''|'''3,616''' 	 		 	 		|'''44.34	%'''||unknown}}
{{Canadian party colour|BC|CCF|row}} 
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|[[Alexander Maitland Stephen]] <sup>1</sup>
|align="right"|3,129 			 
|align="right"|38.36%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{CANelec|BC|Conservative|Nicholas Wright|1,014 		 		|12.43%||unknown}}
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|8,156 
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|100
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>1</sup>  <small>Although suspended and repudiated by the provincial executive, Stephen was nominated by the Alberni-Nanaimo CCF Club, and ran as a CCF candidate.</small>
|}

The riding was redistributed after the 1937 election.  In the [[1941 British Columbia general election|1941 general election]] the successor ridings to Alberni-Nanaimo were:

*[[Alberni (electoral district)|Alberni]]
*[[Nanaimo and the Islands]]

==See also==
*[[Politics of Canada]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081004023944/http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/resource-centre/electoral-history-of-bc/  Elections BC Historical Returns]

[[Category:Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia on Vancouver Island]]

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