Burnaby (provincial electoral district)

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Burnaby was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that first appeared on the hustings in the 1928 election. For the federal electoral district of the same name, please see Burnaby (electoral district).

1 Demographics
2 Political geography
3 Notable elections
4 Notable MLAs
5 Electoral history
6 Sources

[edit] Demographics

Population, 1926	Population, 1966
Population change, 1926-1966
Area (km²)
Population density

[edit] Political geography

The riding was identical with the Municipality of Burnaby, other than areas near to New Westminster which were included in the New Westminster. At the time of the riding's creation much of Burnaby was still semi-rural and development was confined to the Kingsway corridor (then "Westminster Highway"), along Hastings Street and Broadway (near Lougheed Highway), and along the two mainlines of the British Columbia Electric Railway via Central Park and Burnaby Lake.

[edit] Notable elections

[edit] Notable MLAs

Ernest Edward Winch

[edit] Electoral history

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent Labour Party	Francis Aubrey Browne	1,330	25.32%		unknown
	Liberal	John Angus McIver	1,779	33.87%		unknown
	Conservative	William Robert Rutledge	2,144	40.81%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,253	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			125
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	Hans John Diffner	22	0.19%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Gilbert Wainwright Hall	519	4.48%		unknown
	Liberal	Eleanor Walker Johnson	4,020	34.72%		unknown
	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	James Elman Johnston	344	2.97%		unknown
	Socialist	James King	29	0.25%		unknown
	Unionist	Frederick William Ball Law	1,051	9.08%		unknown
	Progressive Liberal	William Henry Lench	353	3.05%		unknown
	United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party	John Stevenson	694	5.99%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	4,548	39.27%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,580	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			138
Turnout			%

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Howard Wilfrid Clegg	2,307	17.19%		unknown
	Liberal	William Ewart Grieve	3,379	25.18%		unknown
	Social Credit League of B.C.	Herbert Wesley Halling	136	1.01%		unknown
	Independent	Eleanor Walker Johnson	1,009	7.52%		unknown
	Constructivist	Roderick Charles MacDonald	644	4.80%		unknown
	Independent	Louis Elmo Walker	34	0.25%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	5,908	44.03%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,417	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			121
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Charles Clare Bell	2,707	20.79%		unknown
	Religious Political Brotherhood	Archibald Emmanuel Hardy	105	0.81%		unknown
	Liberal	Aubrey Charles Peck	3,762	28.90%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	6,444	49.50%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,018	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			237
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit Alliance	(Mrs.) Lyle Campbell	298	2.55%		unknown
	Coalition	Vernon James Lewis	4,733	40.52%		unknown
	Labour Progressive Party	Elizabeth Wilson	744	6.37%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	5,905	50.56%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,680	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			302
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Coalition	George Andrew Morrison	9,981	46.08%		unknown
	BC Social Credit League	Henry George Rhodes	655	3.02%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ernest Edward Winch	11,025	50.90%		unknown
Total valid votes			21,661	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			204
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952¹
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Ronald William Fairclough	3,816	14.15%	4,919	18.84%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Oscar Rudolph Olson	2,807	10.41%	-	-.- %		unknown
	Social Credit League	Clement Frederick Stelter	6,750	25.03%	7,780	29.79%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	12,933	47.96%	13,416	51.37%		unknown
	Christian Democrat	Bernard William Worsley	662	2.45%	-	-.- %		unknown
Total valid votes			26,968	%	26,115	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			789
Turnout			%
¹ Preferential ballot; only one count necessary due to majority on first count.

24th British Columbia election, 1953 ²
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit League	Ernest Arthur Crampton	8,151	31.85%	8,161	31.98%		unknown
	Liberal	Mary Edith McDonald	3,351	13.09%	3,364	13.18%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick Marven Stephens	641	2.50%	646	2.53%		unknown
	Labour Progressive Party	William John Turner	367	1.43%	-	-.- %		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	12,689	49.58%	12,947	50.73%		unknown
	Christian Democrat	Bernard William Worsley	396	1.55%	401	1.57%		unknown
Total valid votes			25,595	100.00%	25,519	%
Total rejected ballots			1,058
Total Registered Voters
Turnout			%
² Preferential ballot; first and final of two (two) counts only shown.

25th British Columbia election, 1956 ³
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Emmet Cafferky	3,895	6.43%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Hudson Dowding	12,692	20.96%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	John A.W. Drysdale	513	0.84%	-	unknown
	Liberal	James Henry Edwards	3,972	6.56%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Malcolm Fitzgerald Green	478	0.80%	-	unknown
	Social Credit	Kenneth Martin Hoffman	11,583	19.13%		unknown
	Social Credit	William Parker Philps	12,103	20.00%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	15,304	25.28%		unknown
Total valid votes			60,540	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			236
Turnout			%
³ Seat increased to two members from one.

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Hilliard Harold William Beyerstein	13,469	16.98%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Cedric Cox	17,659	22.27%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Hudson Dowding	17,522	22.09%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Malcolm Fitzgerald Green	1,069	1.35%		unknown
	Social Credit	Thomas James Irwin	13,394	16.89%		unknown
	Liberal	Graham B. Ladner	7,601	9.58%		unknown
	Liberal	William Lindsay	7,111	8.97%		unknown
	Communist	Harold James Pritchett	409	0.52%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Florence B. Zucco	1,075	1.36%		unknown
Total valid votes			79,309	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			589
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Marshall Bauder	5,472	7.43%		unknown
	Social Credit	Hilliard Harold William Beyerstein	14,070	19.12%		unknown
	New Democrat	Cedric Cox	14,409	19.58%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Hudson Dowding	14,750	20.04%		unknown
	Liberal	Ronald William Fairclough	5,641	7.66%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Esmond Sibley Gladwin	2,263	3.07%		unknown
	Social Credit	Charles Willoughby MacSorley	14,650	19.91%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Christopher John McKin Thomson	2,343	3.18%		unknown
Total valid votes			73,598	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			20
Turnout			%

The Burnaby riding was partitioned in the large redistribution prior to the 1966 election. Successor ridings were Burnaby-Edmonds, Burnaby-Willingdon and Burnaby North.