Dewdney (electoral district)

Template:Short description Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney, which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding, which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster riding, which was one of the province's first twelve.

Demographics

Population, 1901
Population change, 1901–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Political geography

This riding was composed of the municipalities of Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Mission, plus all the rural areas to the east of Mission as far as the Harrison River.

Notable MLAs

• Richard McBride, 16th Premier of British Columbia
• John Oliver, 19th Premier of British Columbia
• Dave Barrett, 26th Premier of British Columbia
• George Mussallem
• Lyle Wicks
• Peter Rolston

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

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10th 1903 British Columbia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	William Waugh Forrester	219	33.90%		unknown
Total valid votes			646	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
1 16th Premier of British Columbia.

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11th British Columbia election, 1907

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Robert Jardine	241	38.56%		unknown
Total valid votes			625	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
2 Simultaneously MLA for Victoria City

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12th British Columbia election, 1909

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Alister Thompson	302	32.58%		unknown
Total valid votes			927	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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13th British Columbia election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Total valid votes			997	100.00%

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14th British Columbia election, 1916

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	John Oliver 3	927	54.08%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,714	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
3 19th Premier of British Columbia as of 1918.

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15th British Columbia election, 1920

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Federated Labour Party	William Jamieson Curry	473	14.01%		unknown	Liberal	Donald Bruce Martyn	1,369	40.54%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,377	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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16th British Columbia election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	William Maxwell Smith	1,246	36.22%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,440	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
4 A judicial recount on 29 July 1924 gave Maxwell Smith four extra votes, reducing Catherwood's majority to nine (34 British Columbia Reports 246). A further recount appears to have taken place as a Supreme Court decision of 9 February 1925 which voided the election refers to Catherwood's majority as five. Catherwood was unseated but reinstated 8 June 1925.

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17th British Columbia election, 1928

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	David Whiteside	1,946	41.43%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,697	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			159
Turnout			%

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18th British Columbia election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Independent	Charles George Evans	85	2.09%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Albert Miller	967	23.75%		unknown	Independent	Solomon Mussallem	588	14.44%		unknown	Liberal	David William Strachan	1,235	30.34%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,071	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			43
Turnout			%

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19th British Columbia election, 1937

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	James Miller Cameron	1,274	26.75%		unknown	Liberal	David William Strachan	1,618	33.98%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,762	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			84
Turnout			%

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20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Thomas Greer MacKenzie	2,539	31.48%		unknown	Liberal	David William Strachan	2,532	31.39%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,066	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			117
Turnout			%

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21st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Leonard Hartley	3,953	46.29%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,539	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			96
Turnout			%

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22nd British Columbia election, 1949

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Leonard Hartley	7,604	45.92%		unknown
Total valid votes			16,560	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			343
Turnout			%

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23rd British Columbia election, 1952 5
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harry Dean Ainlay	6,024	30.91%	7,248	42.48%		unknown	Liberal	Reginald Clarence Cox	3,631	18.63%	–	– %		unknown	Progressive Conservative	Roderick Charles MacDonald	2,233	11.46%	-	-%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,488	100.00%	17,061	%
Total rejected ballots			800
Turnout			%
5(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

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24th British Columbia election, 1953 6
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
Liberal	Arthur Albyn Emery	3,715	19.65%	–	– %		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Kenneth William Pattern	7,003	37.04%	8,310	47.82%		unknown	Progressive Conservative	Murray Lorne Watkins	559	2.96%	-	-%		unknown
Total valid votes			18,906	100.00%	17,376	%
Total rejected ballots			953
Turnout			%
6(Preferential ballot: 1st and 5th counts of five shown only)

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25th British Columbia election, 1956

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Michale Joseph Butler	4,141	19.15%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Naranjan Singh Grewall	7,211	33.35%		unknown
Total valid votes			21,619	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			293
Turnout			%

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26th British Columbia election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Dave Barrett 7	12,637	43.73%		unknown	Progressive Conservative	James Ross Gulloch	803	2.78%		unknown	Liberal	Walter Raymond Thompson	4,512	15.61%		unknown
Total valid votes			28,898	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			406
Turnout			%
7 26th Premier of British Columbia 1972–1975.

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27th British Columbia election, 1963

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Wilfred Robert Jack	4,051	14.62%		unknown	Progressive Conservative	Lyn Morrow	1,532	5.53%		unknown
Total valid votes			27,714	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			251
Turnout			%

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28th British Columbia election, 1966

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Thomas H. Davison	1,146	9.41%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,181	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			88
Turnout			%

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29th British Columbia election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Peter Macaulay McDonald	1,987	12.26%		unknown
Total valid votes			16,210	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			158
Turnout			%

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30th British Columbia election, 1972

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Progressive Conservative	Edward Arthur Watson	1,717	8.71%		unknown	Liberal	Theodore John Worthington	1,214	6.16%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,707	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			164
Turnout			%

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31st British Columbia election, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Progressive Conservative	John Willison Green	1,249	5.19%		unknown	Independents	Douglas Wilbur Maddin	188	0.78%		unknown
Total valid votes			24,074	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			247
Turnout			%

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32nd British Columbia election, 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Total valid votes			24,641	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			467
Turnout			%

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33rd British Columbia election, 1983

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Robert L. Moore	410	1.28%		unknown
Total valid votes			32,065	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			366
Turnout			%

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44th British Columbia election, 1986 ⁷

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Bruce Bingham	2,203	3.48%		unknown
Total valid votes			63,347	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			766
Turnout			%
7 Seat increased to two members from one.

Sources

Elections BC historical returns

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