Atlin (electoral district)
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/* Notable elections */
'''Atlin''' was a provincial electoral district in the [[Canadian province]] of [[British Columbia]]. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the [[British Columbia general election, 1903|10th provincial general election in 1903]] and last appeared in the [[British Columbia general election, 1903|34th provincial general election in 1986]], after which it was merged with the [[Skeena (provincial electoral district)|Skeena riding]].
== Demographics ==
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== Political geography ==
Always one of the province's largest ridings by area, it was always among the smallest in population, and is often cited as an example of a lack of proper representation-by-population in the BC political system. From the perspective of riding residents, who are spread out in a handful of small settlements from the [[Nass River]] to the [[Yukon]] border, a riding incorporating larger population centres was unfair to them. Ultimately the pressure to redress lack of equality in voting-weight among BC ridings saw the Atlin riding became merged with [[Skeena (provincial electoral district)|Skeena riding]].
==Notable elections==
Because of its small electorate, battles over spoiled ballots were critical in Atlin's electoral history:
*The 1928 election saw a 567/542/32 three-way split in favour of [[Herbert Frederick Kergin]] of the [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal Party]], with 22 rejected ballots
*The 1945 election saw a 297/292 split in favour of [[William Duncan Smith]] of the [[Liberal-Conservative Coalition]], with no rejected ballots
*The 1949 election saw a 376/370 split in favour of [[Frank Arthur Calder|Frank Calder]], then a candidate for the [[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF) - with 190 rejected ballots.
*The 1956 election saw a 450/360/131 split in favour of [[William James Asseltine]] of the [[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]], with 59 rejected ballots.
*the 1979 election saw a 750/749 split in favour of [[Alan Lawrence Passarell]] of the [[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]] over [[Frank Arthur Calder|Frank Calder]], who had switched sides to Social Credit in the [[British Columbia general election, 1975]] - with 39 rejected ballots
==First Nations==
Another important factor in the Atlin riding was the dominance of its [[First Nations]] population, including the whole of the [[Nisga'a Nation]] ([[Frank Arthur Calder|Frank Calder]] and [[Larry Edward Guno|Larry Guno]] were both [[Nisga'a]]). Also in the riding in its entirety was the [[Tahltan]] Nation, centred on the isolated towns of [[Telegraph Creek, British Columbia|Telegraph Creek]] and [[Dease Lake, British Columbia|Dease Lake]]. The area of the town of [[Atlin, British Columbia|Atlin]] is part of the Inland [[Tlingit]] Nation.
== Towns and industry ==
Another factor in the riding was the dominance of working men in its handful of industrial towns (principally mining).
The main towns in the riding were:
*[[Atlin, British Columbia|Atlin]]
*[[Teslin, British Columbia|Teslin]]
*[[Dease Lake, British Columbia|Dease Lake]]
*[[Telegraph Creek, British Columbia|Telegraph Creek]]
*[[Anyox, British Columbia|Anyox]] (now a ghost town, formerly a large smelter town)
*[[Stewart, British Columbia|Stewart]]
== Notable MLAs ==
The most notable [[Member of the Legislative Assembly]] from Atlin was [[Frank Arthur Calder|Frank Calder]]. A [[Nisga'a]], he originally ran for the CCF, and then the NDP, but in the 1975 election he switched sides to [[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]], but went down to defeat under that party's banner in 1979 and retired from electoral politics.
== Electoral history ==
''Note: Winners of each election are in ''<b>bold</b>.
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1903|10th British Columbia election, 1903]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|John Kirkland
|align="right"|202
|align="right"|46.12%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Henry Essen Young]]
|align="right"|<b>236
|align="right"|<b>53.88%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|438
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1907|11th British Columbia election, 1907]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|John Irving
|align="right"|46
|align="right"|37.10%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Henry Essen Young]]
|align="right"|<b>78
|align="right"|<b>62.90%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|124
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1909|12th British Columbia election, 1909]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|John Irving
|align="right"|65
|align="right"|37.79%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Henry Essen Young]]
|align="right"|<b>107
|align="right"|<b>62.21%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|172
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1912|13th British Columbia election, 1912]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Henry Essen Young]] (acclamation)
|align="right"|<b>n/a
|align="right"|<b>%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|-
!align="right"|--.--%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1916|14th British Columbia election, 1916]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|William X. McDonald
|align="right"|277
|align="right"|45.71%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[Frank Harry Mobley]]
|align="right"|<b>329
|align="right"|<b>54.29%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|606
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1920|15th British Columbia election, 1920]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|Oakley Beauport Bush
|align="right"|28
|align="right"|2.63%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Labour/row}}
|[[Federated Labour Party]]
|George Bernard Casey
|align="right"|300
|align="right"|28.22%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/IndLab/row}}
|Independent Labour
|Patrick Daly
|align="right"|30
|align="right"|2.8%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[Herbert Frederick Kergin]]
|align="right"|<b>390
|align="right"|<b>36.69%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|Harold Randolph King
|align="right"|86
|align="right"|8.09%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|William Cameron Ross
|align="right"|229
|align="right"|21.542%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,063
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1924|16th British Columbia election, 1924]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Provincial/row}}
|[[Provincial Party|Provincial]]
|Robert Armour
|align="right"|380
|align="right"|31.77%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|Edmund John Conway
|align="right"|353
|align="right"|29.52%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[Herbert Frederick Kergin]]
|align="right"|<b>463
|align="right"|<b>38.71%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,196
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1928|17th British Columbia election, 1928]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|Thomas Wilbert Falconer
|align="right"|542
|align="right"|46.68%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[Herbert Frederick Kergin]]
|align="right"|<b>567
|align="right"|<b>50.56%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|William Herbert Moult
|align="right"|32
|align="right"|2.76%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,161
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|22
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1933|18th British Columbia election, 1933]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[William James Asseltine]]
|align="right"|<b>419
|align="right"|<b>32.63%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/IndCons/row}}
|Independent Conservative
|Thomas Wilbert Falconer
|align="right"|136
|align="right"|10.59%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|[[Herbert Frederick Kergin]]
|align="right"|267
|align="right"|20.79%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,284
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|34
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1937|19th British Columbia election, 1937]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[William James Asseltine]]
|align="right"|<b>562
|align="right"|<b>54.46%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth]]
|Charles H. Lake
|align="right"|263
|align="right"|25.53%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|Ernest Love
|align="right"|205
|align="right"|19.90%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,030
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|31
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1941|20th British Columbia election, 1941]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[William James Asseltine]]
|align="right"|<b>454
|align="right"|<b>54.83%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Labour/row}}
|Labour
|John Scott
|align="right"|374
|align="right"|45.17%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|828
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|24
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1945|21st British Columbia election, 1945]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|Norman Cunningham
|align="right"|292
|align="right"|49.58%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Coalition/row}}
|<b>[[Liberal-Conservative Coalition]]
|<b>[[William Duncan Smith]]
|align="right"|<b>297
|align="right"|<b>50.42%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|589
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|0
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1949|22nd British Columbia election, 1949]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>376
|align="right"|<b>50.40%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Coalition/row}}
|[[Liberal-Conservative Coalition]]
|William Duncan Smith
|align="right"|370
|align="right"|49.60%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|746
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|190
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election Pref begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1952|23rd British Columbia election, 1952]]<sup>1</sup>}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>595
|align="right"|<b>56.61%
|align="right"|<b>595
|align="right"|<b>56.61%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|Thomas Sutherland MacKay
|align="right"|164
|align="right"|15.60%
|align="right"|164
|align="right"|15.60%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|William Duncan Smith
|align="right"|292
|align="right"|27.78%
|align="right"|292
|align="right"|27.78%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,051
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|1,051
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|44
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=9|<sup>1</sup> preferential ballot - only 1 count needed
|}
{{Election Pref begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1953|24th British Columbia election, 1953]] <sup>2</sup>}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Frank Assu
|align="right"|108
|align="right"|11.54%
|align="right"|108
|align="right"|11.54%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>553
|align="right"|<b>59.08%
|align="right"|<b>553
|align="right"|<b>59.08%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|William Duncan Smith
|align="right"|275
|align="right"|29.38%
|align="right"|275
|align="right"|29.38%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|936
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|936
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|125
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Registered Voters
!align="right"|5,933 (1952 list)
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=9|Preferential ballot; only one count needed
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1956|25th British Columbia election, 1956]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[William James Asseltine]]
|align="right"|<b>454
|align="right"|<b>48.04%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|360
|align="right"|38.10%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|George Douglas Frizzell
|align="right"|131
|align="right"|13.86%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|945
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|59
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1960|26th British Columbia election, 1960]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|[[William James Asseltine]]
|align="right"|267
|align="right"|32.05%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|Charles Jewell Brown
|align="right"|122
|align="right"|14.65%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>444
|align="right"|<b>53.30%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|833
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|85
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1963|27th British Columbia election, 1963]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|[[William James Asseltine]]
|align="right"|308
|align="right"|30.56%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>549
|align="right"|<b>54.46%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Cyril Felix Dopson
|align="right"|444
|align="right"|53.30%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,008
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|19
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1966|28th British Columbia election, 1966]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>572
|align="right"|<b>59.71%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Robin Roy Datziel
|align="right"|125
|align="right"|13.05%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Kirkwood, Thomas James
|align="right"|271
|align="right"|27.24%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|958
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|10
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1969|29th British Columbia election, 1969]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>639
|align="right"|<b>53.12%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Peter John Curran
|align="right"|230
|align="right"|19.12%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Basil Edward Studer
|align="right"|334
|align="right"|27.76%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,203
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|13
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1972|30th British Columbia election, 1972]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|John Norman Anderson
|align="right"|245
|align="right"|14.88%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>675
|align="right"|<b>40.98%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive_Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|Glen Leslie Clayton
|align="right"|65
|align="right"|3.95%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|Peter John Curran
|align="right"|242
|align="right"|14.69%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Basil Edward Studer
|align="right"|242
|align="right"|14.69%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,467
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|27
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1975|31st British Columbia election, 1975]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|<b>984
|align="right"|<b>55.50%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Peter John Curran
|align="right"|292
|align="right"|16.47%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|Gordon Steidl
|align="right"|497
|align="right"|28.03%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,773
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|22
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1979|32nd British Columbia election, 1979]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|[[Frank Arthur Calder]]
|align="right"|749
|align="right"|49.97%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Alan Lawrence Passarell]]
|align="right"|<b>750
|align="right"|<b>50.03%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,499
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|39
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1983|33rd British Columbia election, 1983]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Robert Edmund Allen (Bobby) Ball
|align="right"|1,208
|align="right"|40.48%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|Paul Danny Brohman
|align="right"|84
|align="right"|2.82%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|Burgess A. Longson
|align="right"|105
|align="right"|3.52%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Alan Lawrence Passarell]]
|align="right"|<b>1,587
|align="right"|<b>53.18%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|2,984
!align="right"|70.76%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|393
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1986|34th British Columbia election, 1986]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social_Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Andrew (Andy) Burton
|align="right"|858
|align="right"|37.29%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democratic Party]]
|<b>[[Larry Edward Guno]]
|align="right"|<b>1,443
|align="right"|<b>62.71%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|2,301
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|31
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
[[Category:Defunct British Columbia provincial electoral districts]]