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Vancouver-Point Grey is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1933. It and the other new Vancouver ridings in this year, Vancouver-Burrard, Vancouver Centre and Vancouver East, were all created from the old Vancouver City riding, which was a six-member seat. Vancouver-Point Grey was a three-member seat, while the other three Vancouver ridings were only two members. Later it was reduced to a two-member seat when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created, and in the redistributino preceding the 1991 election it was reduced to a one-member riding along with the other older urban ridings, as several new one-member ridings were created. For a full listing of Vancouver ridings, historical and current, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).
[edit] Demographics
Population, 2001 |
55,510 |
Population Change, 1931-2001 |
8.2% |
Area (km²) |
23.77 |
Pop. Density |
2,335 |
[edit] Geography
[edit] History
[edit] Member of Legislative Assembly
Its MLA is Gordon Campbell. He was elected in 1996 and then re-elected in 2001 and again in 2005. He represents the British Columbia Liberal Party.
[edit] Notable MLAs in Riding History
[edit] Notable MLAs
Notable candidates:
Arthur "Art" Phillips, later mayor of Vancouver and husband of fellow politician Carole Taylor, also a former Vancouver civic politician and current Minister of Finance.
[edit] Election results
B.C. General Election 1991: Vancouver-Point Grey |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
NDP |
Darlene R. Marzari |
12,076 |
49.26% |
|
$61,454 |
|
BC Liberal |
Barry J. Burke |
9,022 |
36.80% |
|
$6,832 |
|
Social Credit |
Richard J. Wright |
2,817 |
11.49% |
|
$24,472 |
|
Green |
Nicole C. Kohnert |
388 |
1.58% |
|
$41 |
|
Independent |
Betty E. L. Green |
138 |
0.56% |
|
$11 |
|
Libertarian |
Joan M. Saxton |
75 |
0.31% |
|
$412 |
Total Valid Votes |
24,516 |
100.00% |
|
|
Total Rejected Ballots |
367 |
1.47% |
|
|
Turnout |
24,516 |
73.50% |
|
|
[edit] Electoral history 1933-1986
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
18th British Columbia election, 1933 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Independent CCF |
Edwin Clarke Appleby |
111 |
0.15% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Frank Ebenezer Buck |
7,423 |
10.36% |
|
unknown |
|
Unionist |
Frederick DeWolfe Turner |
2,078 |
2.90% |
|
unknown |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group |
Dugald Donaghy |
5,130 |
7.16% |
|
unknown |
|
United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party |
George Drayton |
174 |
0.24% |
|
unknown |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group |
Laura Dickey MacKay |
1,731 |
2.41% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Stanley Stewart McKeen |
9,880 |
13.79% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
William McNeill |
902 |
1.26% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William Arthur Pritchard |
7,693 |
10.74% |
|
unknown |
|
Unionist |
William Savage |
2,640 |
3.68% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Dorothy Gretchen Steeves |
7,214 |
10.07% |
|
unknown |
|
Unionist |
Alice Townley |
1,434 |
2.00% |
|
unknown |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group |
George Alexander Walkem |
3,694 |
5.15% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
George Moir Weir |
12,163 |
16.97% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Robert Wilkinson |
9,393 |
13.11% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
71,660 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
608 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
19th British Columbia election, 1937 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Conservative |
Cyril Gainsborough Beeston |
8,809 |
11.60% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
John (Jack) Evans |
6,382 |
8.40% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Stanley Stewart McKeen |
9,125 |
12.01% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Royal Lethington Maitland1 |
10,580 |
13.93% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William Ralph Offer |
6,196 |
8.16% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
James Alexander Paton |
9,745 |
12.83% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League of B.C. |
William Savage |
1,001 |
1.32% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
George Moir Weir |
9,235 |
12.16% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Edgar Westmoreland |
6,011 |
7.91% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Robert Wilkinson |
8,883 |
11.69% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
75,967 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
472 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
1 Leader of the Opposition 1937-1941. |
20th British Columbia election, 1941 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Mary Louise Bollert |
9,470 |
9.95% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Albert Dawson Gordon |
7,603 |
7.99% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Helena Rose Gutteridge |
8,183 |
8.60% |
|
unknown |
|
Emancipation Party |
Catherine Emily Ling |
265 |
0.28 |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Royal Lethington Maitland |
14,668 |
15.41% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Harold Elsdale Molson |
8,503 |
8.94% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
James Alexander Paton |
14,148 |
14.87% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Tilly Jean Rolston |
13,584 |
14.27% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William Ewart Turner |
7,662 |
8.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
George Moir Weir |
11,073 |
11.64% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
95,159 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
597 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with three ballots, one for each seat, with three separate candidate-races:
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver-Point Grey Ballot A 1 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
1st count |
% |
Votes
final count |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Credit League |
Thomas Audley Bate |
13,771 |
26.24% |
20,645 |
47.80% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Theodore Roosvelt Burnett |
13,406 |
25.54% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Victor Wadham Forster |
11,267 |
21.47% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Albert Reginald MacDougall |
14,042 |
26.75% |
22,549 |
52.20% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
52,495 |
100.00% |
43,194 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
4,502 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
1 Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown. |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver-Point Grey Ballot B 2 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
1st count |
% |
Votes
final count |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Alexander Whidden Fisher |
12,828 |
24.69% |
4,919 |
18.84% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Clifford Augustine Greer |
11,366 |
21.87% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
George Clark Miller |
14,886 |
28.65% |
24,089 |
56.43% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Claude Delbert Powell |
12,882 |
24.79% |
18,603 |
43.57% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
51,962 |
100.00% |
42,692 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
4,933 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
2 Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown. |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Ballot C 3 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
1st count |
% |
Votes
final count |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
George Alfred Isherwood |
10,451 |
20.05% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
George Stanley Miller |
12,087 |
23.19% |
18,078 |
41.25% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Tilly Jean Rolston |
19,236 |
36.90% |
25,749 |
58.75% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Hattie Pearl Steen |
10,356 |
19.87% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
52,130 |
100.00% |
43,827 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
4,787 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
3 Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver Point-Grey Ballot A 4 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
1st count |
% |
Votes
final count |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Credit League |
Thomas Audley Bate |
19,768 |
39.77% |
22,503 |
52.25% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Theodore Roosvelt Burnett |
14,612 |
29.40% |
20,567 |
47.75% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Stewart Leslie Chambers |
4,533 |
9.12% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Christian Democrat |
Wilfrid Joseph Charbonneau |
194 |
0.39% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Labour Progressive Party |
Beatrice Christine Ferneyhough |
348 |
0.70% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Victor Wadham Forster |
10,058 |
20.23% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
William Norman Kemp |
193 |
0.39 % |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
49,706 |
100.00% |
43,070 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
3,205 |
|
|
|
|
Total Registered Voters |
|
|
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
|
|
4 Preferential ballot; first and final of six (6) counts only shown. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver-Point Grey Ballot B 5 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
1st count |
% |
Votes
final count |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Credit League |
Robert William Bonner |
20,205 |
40.60% |
24,144 |
56.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Christian Democrat |
Alma Jane Diebolt |
212 |
0.43% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Alexander Whidden Fisher |
12,022 |
24.16% |
18,928 |
43.95% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
George James Greenaway |
9,556 |
19.19% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Labour Progressive Party |
William John Turner |
367 |
1.43% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Labour Progressive Party |
Harold John Michael Griffin |
337 |
2.50% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Goorge Clark Miller |
7,373 |
14.81% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Abie Louis Seligman |
64 |
0.13% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
49,769 |
100.00% |
43,072 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
3,150 |
|
|
|
|
Total Registered Voters |
|
|
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
|
|
5 Preferential ballot; first and final of six (6) counts only shown. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver-Point Grey Ballot C 6 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
1st count |
% |
Votes
final count |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Frederick Norman Hill |
9,441 |
18.86% |
12,947 |
50.73% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Arthur Laing |
17,412 |
34.79% |
22,730 |
51.56% |
|
unknown |
|
Labour Progressive Party |
Constance Marguerite Marks |
338 |
0.67% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Christian Democrat |
Mae Angelique Messner |
196 |
0.39% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Thomas Frederick Orr |
3,607 |
7.21% |
- |
-.- % |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Tilly Jean Rolston |
19,061 |
38.08% |
21,354 |
48.44% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
50,055 |
100.00% |
44,084 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
2,866 |
|
|
|
|
Total Registered Voters |
|
|
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
|
|
6 Preferential ballot; first and final of five (5) counts only shown. |
25th British Columbia election, 1956 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Independent |
Ernest Forbes Allistone |
959 |
0.61% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Reginald Atherton |
3,324 |
2.13% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Thomas Audley Bate |
23,696 |
15.19% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Robert William Bonner |
25,615 |
16.42% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Ebbie William Bowering |
2,878 |
1.85% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Buda Hosmer Brown |
23,238 |
14.90% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Theodore Roosvelt Burnett |
12,924 |
8.29% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Alexander Whidden Fisher |
15,599 |
10.00% |
|
unknown |
|
Labour Progressive Party |
Harold John Michael Griffin |
318 |
0.20% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Frederick Norman Hill |
8,435 |
5.41% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Arthur Laing |
17,801 |
11.44% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Winona Grace MacInnis |
11,365 |
7.29% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William James Gibbs Pierce |
7,979 |
5.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Emma Loring Tinsman |
1,822 |
1.69% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
155,953 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
561 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
26th British Columbia election, 1960 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Reginald Atherton |
6,774 |
3.92% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Thomas Audley Bate |
23,950 |
13.86% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Robert William Bonner |
24,273 |
14.04% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Francis Cecil Boyes |
17,438 |
10.09% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Buda Hosmer Brown |
23,583 |
13.65% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Samuel Joseph Dumaresq |
15,107 |
8.74% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
George Nelson Gibson |
12,158 |
7.03% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Clifford Augustine Greer |
12,702 |
7.35% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Desmond Fife Kidd |
6,453 |
3.73% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Mary Helen Poaps |
4,029 |
2.33% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Thomas Walter Thomason |
11,538 |
6.68% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Leslie Charles Way |
14,827 |
8.58% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
172,832 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
803 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
27th British Columbia election, 1963 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Credit League |
Thomas Audley Bate |
20,267 |
11.29% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Robert William Bonner |
23,172 |
12.91% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Ernest James (Ernie) Broome |
7,643 |
4.26% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Amy Dalgleish |
8,072 |
4.50% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Ralph Raymond Loffmark |
20,962 |
11.68% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
John Kendrick Macey |
8,663 |
4.83% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
H. Richardson (Dick) Malkin |
7,213 |
4.02% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
25,592 |
14.26% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Arthur Phillips |
16,510 |
9.20% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Harry Purdy |
15,719 |
8.76% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
William George Rathie |
17,641 |
9.83% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
William James Whitney |
8,018 |
4.67% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
179,472 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
726 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
30th British Columbia election, 1972 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Garde Basil Gardom |
13,673 |
20.72% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Ian Bruce Kelsey |
5,103 |
7.73% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Marianne Linnell |
5,696 |
8.63% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
14,599 |
22.13% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
John George Puil |
8,326 |
12.62% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Paul Sabatino |
5,260 |
7.97% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Edward Charles Sweeney |
8,006 |
12.13% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Hilda Louise Thomas |
5,312 |
8.05% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
65,975 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
387 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
31st British Columbia election, 1975 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Richard Neill MacLeod Brown |
1,340 |
1.86% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Theodore Bolton Burgoyne |
1,032 |
1.44% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
George Henry Does |
98 |
0.14% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Richard John Joseph Durante |
5,004 |
6.96% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Garde Basil Gardom |
20,761 |
28.88% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
21,192 |
29.48% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Venkatachala Setty Pendakur |
8,932 |
12.42% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Moyra Anne Roberts |
4,383 |
6.10% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Hilda Louise Thomas |
9,143 |
12.72% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
71,885 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
554 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
32nd British Columbia election, 1979 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Progressive Conservative |
William Fairley |
2,511 |
3.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Garde Basil Gardom |
20,620 |
26.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Elizabeth L. Green |
2,437 |
3.08% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
19,789 |
25.00% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Timothy Charles O'Brien |
1,399 |
1.77% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Thomas Francis Shandel |
15,686 |
19.82% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Christopher Keith Sumner |
1,131 |
1.43% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Hilda Louise Thomas |
15,578 |
19.68% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
79,151 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
1,274 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
33rd British Columbia election, 1983 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Leopold Auer |
1,675 |
1.98% |
|
unknown |
|
Green |
Adriane Janice Carr |
1,549 |
1.83% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Garde Basil Gardom |
22,550 |
26.58% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
22,970 |
27.08% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Lorne Neil MacLean |
1,573 |
1.86% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Maureen Patricia Marchak |
16,612 |
19.58% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Hilda Louise Thomas |
15,849 |
18.68% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
William Fairley |
2,511 |
3.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Allan Edward Warnke |
2,048 |
2.41% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
84,826 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
480 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old multiple member districts. Vancouver-Point Grey was trimmed with parts of going to the creation of Vancouver-Quilchena, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Burrard (mostly to Quilchena).
35th British Columbia election, 19913 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Barry J. Burke |
9,022 |
36.80% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Betty E.L. Green |
138 |
0.56% |
|
unknown |
|
Green |
Nicole C. Kohnert |
388 |
1.58% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
Darlene R. Marzari |
12,076 |
49.26% |
|
unknown |
|
Libertarian |
Joan M. Saxton |
75 |
0.31% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit League |
Richard J. Wright |
2,817 |
11.49% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
24,516 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
367 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
3 Seat reduced to one member from two. All Vancouver ridings become one-member ridings only, but greater in number. |
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