New Westminster (provincial electoral district)

Electoral history 1871-1991

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

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1st British Columbia general election, 1871

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Independent	William James Armstrong	128	39.63%		unknown	Independent	Josiah Charles Hughes	148	45.82%		unknown	Independent	Hugh McRoberts	47	14.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			323	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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British Columbia Byelection: New Westminster January 11, 1873¹

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Independent	William James Armstrong	Acclaimed	-.- %		unknown
Total valid votes			n/a	-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
1 The byelection was called due to Armstrong's resignation upon appointment to the Executive Council (cabinet) on December 23, 1872. This byelection was one of a series held to confirm appointments to the Executive Council, which was the old parliamentary convention. As this byelection writ was filled by acclamation, no polling day was required and the seat was filled within two weeks. The stated date is the date the return of writs was received by the Chief Electoral Officer.

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2nd British Columbia election, 1875

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Government	William James Armstrong	153	25.98%		unknown	Independent-Government	Ebenezer Brown	154	26.15%		unknown	Government	William M. Campbell	54	9.17%		unknown	Reform caucus	Donald McGillivray	117	19.86%		unknown	Reform caucus	Jeremiah Rogers 2	111	18.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			589	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
2 Noted lumberman on False Creek/English Bay

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3rd British Columbia election, 1878

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Government	Wellington John Harris	171	24.43%		unknown	Independent	James Kennedy	44	6.28%		unknown	Government	Donald McGillivray	202	28.86%		unknown	Opposition	Henry Mathers	130	18.57%		unknown	Opposition	James Orr	153	21.86%		unknown
Total valid votes			700	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout

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4th British Columbia election, 1882

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Opposition	Henry Dawson	60	8.47%		unknown	Government	William Isaac	15	2.12%		unknown	Opposition	Herbert John Kirkland	127	17.94%		unknown	Government	William Henry Ladner	76	10.73%		unknown	Opposition	James Orr	168	23.73%		unknown	Opposition	John Robson	262	37.01%		unknown
Total valid votes			708	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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British Columbia Byelection: New Westminster March 13, 1883 ³

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Opposition	John Robson	Acclaimed	-.-%		unknown
Total valid votes			n/a	-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
3 Reason for byelection was resignation of John Robson upon his appointment to the Executive Council (cabinet) January 29 1883.

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5th British Columbia general election, 1886 ⁴

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Independent	Lewis Arthur Agassiz	142	6.31%		unknown	Independent	Henry Dawson	11	0.49%		unknown	Independent	William Isaac	17	0.76%		unknown	Independent	James Kennedy	7	0.31%		unknown	Government	Herbert John Kirkland	348	15.47%		unknown	Opposition	Wiliam Henry Ladner	365	16.23%		unknown	Opposition	Donald McGillivray	331	14.72%		unknown	Opposition	James Orr	358	15.92%		unknown	Government	John Robson	331	14.72%		unknown	Government	Allen Casey Wells	358	15.92%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,249	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
4 Seat increased to three members from two.

In 1890 changes in population and boundaries led to the riding's renaming as Westminster, with the following year that riding being subdivided into Westminster-Chilliwhack, Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Richmond, which were to become a few elections later the Chilliwhack (later Chilliwack. Delta, and Richmond ridings. The core of the New Westminster urban area (then still separate from Vancouver's) continued to be represented by New Westminster City until 1916, when that riding was redistrubuted as a one-member seat from its maximum of three, and in the process it was given the old rural riding's name, "New Westminster".

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14th British Columbia election, 1916

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Conservative	Thomas Gifford	1,186	46.42%		unknown	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,369	53.59%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,555	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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15th British Columbia election, 1920

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Conservative	Thomas Gifford	1,006	21.88%		unknown	Soldier-Labour	William James Sloan 5	1,611	35.04%		unknown	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,980	43.07%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,597	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
5/sup> Also referred to as an Independent. Nominated by delegates representing the Great War Veterans Association, the GAUV, the B.C. Fisherman's Protective Association, the Army and Navy Veterans, and organized labour.

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16th British Columbia election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Provincial	George Livingstone Cassady	591	14.21%		unknown	Canadian Labour Party	Richard Carter Higgins	693	16.67%		unknown	Liberal	Edwin James Rothwell	1,564	37.61%		unknown	Conservative	Albert Morris Sanford	1,310	31.51%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,158	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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17th British Columbia election, 1928

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray 6	3.262	56.16%		unknown	Conservative	Albert Morris Sanford	2,546	43.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,808	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			205
Turnout			%
6 "Wells Gray", namesake and instigator of the provincial park of that name in the Cariboo Mountains.

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18th British Columbia election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party	Douglas Thomas	125	2.18%		unknown	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray 7	2,694	46.98%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Daniel McGrath	1,476	25.74%		unknown	Independent	David Whiteside 5	1,439	25.10%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,734	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			67
Turnout			%
7 Endorsed by the Independent CCF.

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19th British Columbia election, 1937

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Communist	Edwin Henry Baker	567	7.27%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Stanley Blake	1,321	16.95%		unknown	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	4,055	52.02%		unknown	Labour (Party)	Edward Charles Mills	86	1.10%		unknown	Conservative	Thomas Robert Selkirk	1,766	22.66%		unknown
Total valid votes			7,795	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			116
Turnout			%

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20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Stanley Blake	2,387	26.97%		unknown	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	3,694	41.74%		unknown	Conservative	Mary Dorothea McBride	1,923	21.73%		unknown	Labour (Party)	Edward Charles Mills	845	9.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,849	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			178
Turnout			%

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21st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Clifford Augustine Greer	2,967	35.06%		unknown	Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson 8	>b?4,900	57.91%		unknown	Labour Progressive	Charles Stewart	3,432	45.62%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,462	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			94
Turnout			%
8 23rd Premier of British Columbia

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22nd British Columbia election, 1949

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson	>b>7,969	61.57%		unknown	Social Credit Party	Clifford Augustine Greer	2,967	35.06%		unknown	People's Party of British Columbia	Edward Charles Mills	137	1.06%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Henry Mitchell	4,509	34.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,943	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			125
Turnout			%

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23rd British Columbia election, 1952 9
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	4,262	29.68%	6,475	52.89 %		unknown	Liberal	Byron Ingemar Johnson	4,317	30.07%	5,768	47.11		unknown	BC Social Credit League	Wilbur Watson Lyle	3,616	25.18%	-	-%		unknown	Progressive Conservative	Elizabeth C. Wood	2,163	15.06%	--	--.--%		unknown
Total valid votes			14,358	100.00%	12,243	%
Total rejected ballots			437
Turnout			77.94%
9(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

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24th British Columbia election, 1953 10
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
Labour Progressive Party	Alfred Dewhurst	157	1.19%	-	-.-%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	4,903	37.02%	5,970	51.34%		unknown	Liberal	Fred H. Jackson	4,309	32.53%	5,658	48.66%		unknown	Christian Democrat	Mervin Casper	89	0.67%	--	--.--%		unknown	BC Social Credit League	Malvin A. Olsen	3,787	28.59 %	-	- %		unknown
Total valid votes			13,245	100.00%	11,628	%
Total rejected ballots			486
Turnout			77.94%
10Preferential ballot: 1st and 4th counts of four shown only)

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25th British Columbia election, 1956

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Stewart Alsbury	2,220	19.29%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	4,469	38.83%		unknown	Social Credit	Stanley Desmond Kermeen	4,176	36.28%		unknown	Independent-SC	J. Lewis Sangster	645	5.60%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,510	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			82
Turnout			%

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26th British Columbia election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Samuel Thomas Dare	2,519	16.00%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	6,496	41.25%		unknown	Social Credit	Stanley Desmond Kermeen	5,041	32.01%		unknown	Progressive Conservative	Frederick Craig Munroe	1,691	10.74%		unknown
Total valid votes			15,747	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			127
Turnout			%

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27th British Columbia election, 1963

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	George Herbert Barrett	2,335	17.42%		unknown	Social Credit	Edith Maud Corrigan	4,717	35.19%		unknown	New Democrat	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	5,035	37.57%		unknown	Progressive Conservative	G. Basil Raikes	1,316	9.82%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,403	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			98
Turnout			%

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28th British Columbia election, 1966

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Robert James Cooper	1,577	12.24%		unknown	Social Credit	Edith Maud Corrigan	5,552	43.11%		unknown	New Democrat	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	5,751	44.65%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,880	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			160
Turnout			%

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29th British Columbia election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	7,280	40.75%		unknown	Communist	Harry Harris	57	0.32%		unknown	Social Credit	John Earl Edmondson	7,161	40.08%		unknown	Liberal	Dennis Douglas George Milne	3,368	18.85%		unknown
Total valid votes			17,866	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			221
Turnout			%

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30th British Columbia election, 1972

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	10,357	55.63%		unknown	Social Credit	John Earl Edmondson	5,306	28.50%		unknown	Liberal	Carl L. Miller	2,953	15.86%		unknown
Total valid votes			18,616	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			287
Turnout			%

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31st British Columbia election, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	10,357	55.63%		unknown	Communist	Roderick Doran	60	0.31%		unknown	Liberal	Karl Franke	923	4.83%		unknown	Social Credit	Alexander John Seigo	8,473	44.35%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,106	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			166
Turnout			%

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32nd British Columbia election, 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	11,343	59.30%		unknown	Social Credit	Malvern James Hughes	7,786	40.70%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,129	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			292
Turnout			%

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33rd British Columbia election, 1983

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Social Credit	Barry David Butler	8,224	40.57%		unknown	New Democrat	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	11,455	56.52%		unknown	Liberal	John Ian Paterson	590	2.91%		unknown
Total valid votes			20,269	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			233
Turnout			%

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34th British Columbia election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Liberal	Timothy E. Courtney	1,200	5.90%		unknown	Social Credit	Dwight Maxwell Ross	8,949	43.99%		unknown	New Democrat	Anita Mae Joan Hagen	13,562	43.82%		unknown	Communist	Roderick Doran	73	0.36%		unknown
Total valid votes			20,342	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			245
Turnout			%

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35th British Columbia election, 1991

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
NDP	Anita Hagen	10,384	49.89%		$24,062
BC Liberal	Lori MacDonald	7,117	34.20%		$2,534	Social Credit	Tom Baker	3,311	15.91%		$26,509
Total Valid Votes			20,812	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			395	1.86%
Turnout			21,207	72.32%