Dewdney (electoral district)
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'''Dewdney''' was a provincial [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] in the [[Canadian province]] of [[British Columbia]]. Its predecessor was the riding of [[Westminster-Dewdney]], which was created for the [[British Columbia general election, 1894|1894 election]] from a partition of the [[Westminster (electoral district)|Westminster riding]], which was a rural-area successor to the original [[New Westminster (provincial electoral district)|New Westminster riding]], which was one of the province's first twelve.
== Demographics ==
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|Population change, 1901-1986
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|Population density (people per km²)
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== Political geography ==
This riding was composed of the municipalities of [[Pitt Meadows, British Columbia|Pitt Meadows]], [[Maple Ridge, British Columbia|Maple Ridge]] and [[Mission, British Columbia|Mission]], plus all the rural areas to the east of Mission as far as the [[Harrison River]].
==Notable elections==
==First Nations==
== Notable MLAs ==
*[[Richard McBride]], 16th [[Premier of British Columbia]]
*[[John Oliver (politician)|John Oliver]], 19th [[Premier of British Columbia]]
*[[David Barrett]], 26th Premier of British Columbia
*[[George Mussallem]]
*[[Lyle Wicks]]
*[[Peter Carson Rolston]]
== Electoral history ==
''Note: Winners in each election are in <b>bold<b>.''
{{Election FPTP begin | title=10th [[British Columbia general election, 1903]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Richard McBride]] <sup>1</sup>
|align="right"|<b>427
|align="right"|<b>66.10%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|William Waugh Forrester
|align="right"|219
|align="right"|33.90%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|646
!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"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>1</sup> <small>16th [[Premier of British Columbia]].</small>
|}
{{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]]
|Robert Jardine
|align="right"|241
|align="right"|38.56%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Richard McBride]] <sup>2</sup>
|align="right"|<b>384
|align="right"|<b>61.44%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|625
!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"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>2</sup> <small>Simultaneously MLA for [[Victoria City (provincial electoral district)|Victoria City]]</small>
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1909|12th British Columbia election, 1909]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[William J. Manson]]
|align="right"|625
|align="right"|67.42%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Alister Thompson
|align="right"|302
|align="right"|32.58%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|927
!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/IndCons/row}}
|Independent Conservative
|John Higginson McNeice
|align="right"|194
|align="right"|19.46%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[William J. Manson]]
|align="right"|<b>803
|align="right"|<b>80.54%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|997
!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, 1916|14th British Columbia election, 1916]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|[[William J. Manson]]
|align="right"|787
|align="right"|45.92%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[John Oliver (politician)|John Oliver]] <sup>3</sup>
|align="right"|<b>927
|align="right"|<b>54.08%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,714
!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"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>3</sup> <small>19th [[Premier of British Columbia]] as of [[1918]].</small>
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1920|15th British Columbia election, 1920]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[John Alexander Catherwood]]
|align="right"|<b>1,535
|align="right"|<b>45.45%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Labour/row}}
|Federated Labour Party
|William Jamieson Curry
|align="right"|473
|align="right"|14.01%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Donald Bruce Martyn
|align="right"|1,369
|align="right"|40.54%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|3,377
!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/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[John Alexander Catherwood]] <sup>4</sup>
|align="right"|<b>1,259
|align="right"|<b>36.60%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Provincial/row}}
|[[British Columbia Provincial Party|Provincial]]
|Harold Reginald Smith
|align="right"|935
|align="right"|27.18%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|William Maxwell Smith
|align="right"|1,246
|align="right"|36.22%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|3,440
!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"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>4</sup> <small> 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]]. </small>
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1928|17th British Columbia election, 1928]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Nelson Seymour Lougheed]]
|align="right"|<b>2,751
|align="right"|<b>58.57%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|David Whiteside
|align="right"|1,946
|align="right"|41.43%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,697
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|159
!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/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|Charles George Evans
|align="right"|85
|align="right"|2.09%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/UFWF/row}}
|United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party
|Charles James McKendrick
|align="right"|127
|align="right"|3.12%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|George Albert Miller
|align="right"|967
|align="right"|23.75%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NPIG/row}}
|[[Non-Partisan Independent Group]]
|David Garnet Morse
|align="right"|1,069
|align="right"|26.26%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independent
|[[George Mussallem|Solomon Mussallem]]
|align="right"|588
|align="right"|14.44%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|<b>[[David William Strachan]]
|align="right"|<b>1,235
|align="right"|<b>30.34%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,071
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|43
!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/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|James Miller Cameron
|align="right"|1,274
|align="right"|26.75%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Frank Porter Patterson]]
|align="right"|<b>1,870
|align="right"|<b>39.27%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|[[David William Strachan]]
|align="right"|1,618
|align="right"|33.98%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,762
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|84
!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/Conservative/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Conservative]]
|<b>[[Roderick Charles MacDonald]]
|align="right"|<b>2,995
|align="right"|<b>37.13%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|Thomas Greer MacKenzie
|align="right"|2,539
|align="right"|31.48%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|[[David William Strachan]]
|align="right"|2,532
|align="right"|31.39%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|8,066
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|117
!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.]]
|[[William Leonard Hartley]]
|align="right"|3,953
|align="right"|46.29%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Coalition/row}}
|<b>[[Liberal-Conservative Coalition|Coalition]]
|<b>[[Roderick Charles MacDonald]]
|align="right"|<b>4,586
|align="right"|<b>53.71%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|8,539
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|96
!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/Social Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|BC Social Credit League]]
|(Mrs.) Lyle Campbell
|align="right"|829
|align="right"|5.01%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|[[William Leonard Hartley]]
|align="right"|7,604
|align="right"|45.92%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Coalition/row}}
|<b>[[Liberal-Conservative Coalition|Coalition]]
|<b>[[Roderick Charles MacDonald]]
|align="right"|<b>8,127
|align="right"|<b>49.08%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|16,560
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|343
!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>5</sup>}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|[[Harry Dean Ainlay]]
|align="right"|6,024
|align="right"|30.91%
|align="right"|7,248
|align="right"|42.48%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Reginald Clarence Cox
|align="right"|3,631
|align="right"|18.63%
|align="right"| -
|align="right"| - %
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|[[Roderick Charles MacDonald]]
|align="right"|2,233
|align="right"|11.46%
|align="right"|-
|align="right"|-%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|BC Social Credit League]]
|<b>[[Lyle Wicks]]
|align="right"|<b>7,600
|align="right"|<b>39.00%
|align="right"|<b>9,813
|align="right"|<b>57.52%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|19,488
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|17,061
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|800
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=9|<sup>5</sup>(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)
|}
{{Election Pref begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1953|24th British Columbia election, 1953]] <sup>6</sup>}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Arthur Albyn Emery
|align="right"|3,715
|align="right"|19.65%
|align="right"| -
|align="right"| - %
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Communist/row}}
|[[Communist Party of Canada|Labour Progressive Party]]
|Amy Frances Gilstead
|align="right"|250
|align="right"|1.32%
|align="right"| -
|align="right"| - %
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|Kenneth William Pattern
|align="right"|7,003
|align="right"|37.04%
|align="right"|8,310
|align="right"|47.82%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CDP/row}}
|[[Christian Democratic Party of British Columbia|Christian Democrat]]
|George Frampton Pedlar
|align="right"|72
|align="right"|0.38%
|align="right"|-
|align="right"|-%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|Murray Lorne Watkins
|align="right"|559
|align="right"|2.96%
|align="right"|-
|align="right"|-%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|BC Social Credit League]]
|<b>[[Lyle Wicks]]
|align="right"|<b>7,307
|align="right"|<b>38.65%
|align="right"|<b>9,066
|align="right"|<b>52.18%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|18,906
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|17,376
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|953
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=9|<sup>6</sup>(Preferential ballot: 1st and 5th counts of five shown only)
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1956|25th British Columbia election, 1956]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Michale Joseph Butler
|align="right"|4,141
|align="right"|19.15%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/CCF/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|Naranjan Singh Grewall
|align="right"|7,211
|align="right"|33.35%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[Lyle Wicks]]
|align="right"|10,267
|align="right"|47.49%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|21,619
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|293
!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/CCF/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.]]
|<b>[[David Barrett]] <sup>7</sup>
|align="right"|<b>12,637
|align="right"|<b>43.73%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|James Ross Gulloch
|align="right"|803
|align="right"|2.78%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Communist/row}}
|[[Communist Party of Canada|Communist]]
|Carl Christian Hilland
|align="right"|233
|align="right"|0.81%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Walter Raymond Thompson
|align="right"|4,512
|align="right"|15.61%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|[[Lyle Wicks]]
|align="right"|10,713
|align="right"|37.07%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|28,898
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|406
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>7</sup> <small>26th [[Premier of British Columbia]] [[1972]]-[[1975]].</small>
|}
{{Election FPTP begin | title=[[British Columbia general election, 1963|27th British Columbia election, 1963]]}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|<b>[[David Barrett]]
|align="right"|<b>11,625
|align="right"|<b>41.95%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Wilfred Robert Jack
|align="right"|4,051
|align="right"|14.62%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Richard Egerton Lester
|align="right"|10,506
|align="right"|37.91%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|Lyn Morrow
|align="right"|1,532
|align="right"|5.53%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|27,714
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|251
!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/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Thomas H. Davison
|align="right"|1,146
|align="right"|9.41%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|William R. Franklin
|align="right"|4,528
|align="right"|37.17%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[George Mussallem]]
|align="right"|<b>6,507
|align="right"|<b>53.42%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|12,181
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|88
!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}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|Stuart Malcolm Leggatt
|align="right"|5,980
|align="right"|36.89%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Peter Macaulay McDonald
|align="right"|1,987
|align="right"|12.26%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[George Mussallem]]
|align="right"|<b>8,243
|align="right"|<b>50.85%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|16,210
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|158
!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]]
|[[George Mussallem]]
|align="right"|7,548
|align="right"|38.30%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|<b>[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|<b>[[Peter Carson Rolston]]
|align="right"|<b>9,228
|align="right"|<b>46.83%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|Edward Arthur Watson
|align="right"|1,717
|align="right"|8.71%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Theodore John Worthington
|align="right"|1,214
|align="right"|6.16%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|19,707
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|164
!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/Progressive Conservatives/row}}
|[[British Columbia Conservative Party|Progressive Conservative]]
|John Willison Green
|align="right"|1,249
|align="right"|5.19%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}}
|Independents
|Douglas Wilbur Maddin
|align="right"|188
|align="right"|0.78%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[George Mussallem]]
|align="right"|<b>13,024
|align="right"|<b>54.10%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|[[Peter Carson Rolston]]
|align="right"|9,613
|align="right"|39.93%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|24,074
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|247
!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}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[George Mussallem]]
|align="right"|<b>12,643
|align="right"|<b>51.31%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|Joan Mary Norris
|align="right"|11,998
|align="right"|48.69%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|24,641
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|467
!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/Western Canada Concept/row}}
|[[Western Canada Concept]]
|Wally Altwasser
|align="right"|566
|align="right"|1.76%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Robert L. Moore
|align="right"|410
|align="right"|1.28%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[Forbes Charles Austin Pelton]]
|align="right"|<b>15,820
|align="right"|<b>49.34%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|[[Sophie Weremchuk]]
|align="right"|15,269
|align="right"|47.62%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|32,065
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|366
!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|44th British Columbia election, 1986]] <sup>7</sup>}}
|-
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}}
|[[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Bruce Bingham
|align="right"|2,203
|align="right"|3.48%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|[[William James (Bill) Hartley]]
|align="right"|14,923
|align="right"|23.56%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[Johann Alvin Norman Jacobsen]]
|align="right"|<b>15,328
|align="right"|<b>24.19%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/BC Social Credit/row}}
|<b>[[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|<b>[[Forbes Charles Austin Pelton]]
|align="right"|<b>15,614
|align="right"|<b>24.65%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/NDP/row}}
|[[New Democratic Party of British Columbia|New Democrat]]
|[[Sophie Weremchuk]]
|align="right"|15,279
|align="right"|24.12%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|63,347
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|766
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|<sup>7</sup> Seat increased to two members from one.
|}
== Source ==
[http://www.elections.bc.ca/elections/electoral_history/toc.html Elections BC historical returns]
[[Category:Defunct British Columbia provincial electoral districts]]
[[Category:Pitt Meadows, British Columbia]]
[[Category:Maple Ridge, British Columbia]]