Vancouver Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was created before the general election of 1933. It and the other new Vancouver ridings in this year, Vancouver-Burrard, Vancouver-Point Grey and Vancouver East, were created from the old Vancouver City riding, which was a six-member seat. Vancouver Centre was a two-member seat throughout its existence.
For a full listing of Vancouver ridings, historical and current, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).
Contents |
| Population, 2001 | 55,510 |
| Population Change, 1931–2001 | 8.2% |
| Area (km²) | 23.77 |
| Pop. Density | 2,335 |
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
| 18th British Columbia election, 1933 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Socialist | Sydney Earp | 71 | 0.25% | unknown | ||
| United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party | Fred Grange | 325 | 1.15% | unknown | ||
| Independent Conservative | Daryl Herbert Kent | 1,437 | 5.07% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Wallis Walter LeFeaux | 5,352 | 18.90% | unknown | ||
| Independent CCF | Henry Edward Lyon | 293 | 1.03% | unknown | ||
| United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party | Charles James McKendrick | 321 | 1.13% | unknown | ||
| Independent Conservative | Albert DeBurgo McPhillips | 1,304 | 4.60% | unknown | ||
| Independent CCF | Gerald Vincent Pelton | 407 | 1.44% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Gordon McGregor Sloan | 6,925 | 24.45% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | James Samuel Taylor | 5,102 | 18.01% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Gordon Sylvester Wismer | 6,723 | 23.74% | unknown | ||
| Socialist | Rodney J. Young | 63 | 0.22% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 28,323 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 138 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 19th British Columbia election, 1937 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Constructivist | John Towers Burnett | 476 | 1.38% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Montague Gregory Caple | 4,214 | 12.18% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Fred Crone | 6,377 | 18.44% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Matthew Glenday | 5,771 | 16.68% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Adam Smith Johnston | 4,047 | 11.70% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit League of B.C. | Paul McDowell Kerr | 922 | 2.67% | unknown | ||
| Socialist | James King | 234 | 0.68% | unknown | ||
| Constructivist | Alfred Molineux Lester | 415 | 1.20% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frank Roberts | 5,690 | 16.45% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Gordon Sylvester Wismer | 6,444 | 18.63% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 34,590 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 400 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 20th British Columbia election, 1941 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Victory Without Debt Party | Mary Louise Bollert | 209 | 0.50% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Montague Gregory Caple | 6,325 | 15.18% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Edward Allan Jamieson | 6,858 | 16.46% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson | 7,434 | 17.85% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Wallis Walter LeFeaux | 7,371 | 17.70% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Albert DeBurgo McPhillips | 6,198 | 14.88% | unknown | ||
| Socialist Labour | Eric Thomas Reaville | 393 | 0.94% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Gordon Sylvester Wismer | 6,865 | 16.48% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 41,653 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 445 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 21st British Columbia election, 1945 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson | 7,549 | 17.89% | unknown | ||
| social Credit Alliance | Carl J. Julson | 448 | 1.06% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Wallis Walter LeFeaux | 7,451 | 17.65% | unknown | ||
| Coalition | Allan James McDonell | 10,976 | 26.01% | unknown | ||
| Independent Liberal | William Raymond McKay | 10,976 | 26.01% | unknown | ||
| Socialist | Raymond Harold MacLeod | 105 | 0.25% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit Alliance | Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin | 511 | 1.21% | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | Nigel Morgan | 2,101 | 4.98% | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | Maurice Rush | 1,866 | 4.42% | unknown | ||
| Socialist Labour | Horace Warner | 122 | 0.29% | unknown | ||
| Coalition | Gordon Sylvester Wismer | 10,878 | 25.77% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 42,206 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 154 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 22nd British Columbia election, 1949 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | James Campbell Bury | 9,430 | 19.55% | unknown | ||
| BC Social Credit League | John Chmelyk | 465 | 0.96% | unknown | ||
| Socialist Labour | John Alexander Fedoruk | 286 | 0.59% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Wallis Walter LeFeaux | 8,539 | 17.70% | unknown | ||
| Coalition | Allan James McDonell | 14,576 | 30.22% | unknown | ||
| BC Social Credit League | Ernest Ruble | 349 | 0.72% | unknown | ||
| Coalition | Gordon Sylvester Wismer | 14,595 | 30.25% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 48,240 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 996 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with two ballots, one for each seat, with two separate candidate-races:
| 23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver Centre Ballot A 1 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
| Labour Representation Committee | Orville Garfield Braaten | 654 | 2.94% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | James Campbell Bury | 6,912 | 31.02% | 9,363 | 54.06% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Allan James McDonell | 4,120 | 18.49% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| BC Social Credit League | George Churchill Moxham | 4,694 | 21.07% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Christian Democrat | Ferdinand Theodor Peters | 667 | 2.99% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Anna Ethel Sprott | 5,234 | 23.49% | 7,956 | 45.94% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 22,281 | 100.00% | 17,319 | % | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 2,119 | |||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 1 Preferential ballot; first and final of five (5) counts only shown. | ||||||||
| 23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver Centre Ballot B 2 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
| Socialist | William Harold Holtby | 276 | 1.25% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson | 7,350 | 33.17% | 9,893 | 53.80% | unknown | ||
| Christian Democrat | James Byrne Reardon | 691 | 3.12% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Social Credit League | Emil Peter Schafer | 4,497 | 20.29% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Frederick Wellington Taylor | 3,951 | 17.83% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Gordon Sylvester Wismer | 5,394 | 24.34% | 8,496 | 46.20% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 22,159 | 100.00% | 18,389 | % | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,901 | |||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 2 Preferential ballot; first and final of five (5) counts only shown. | ||||||||
| 24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver Centre Ballot A 3 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | James Campbell Bury | 6,238 | 32.10% | 7,757 | 46.25% | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | Mary Chomyn | 572 | 2.94% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Alexander Small Matthew | 7,066 | 36.37% | 9,016 | 53.75% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Glenholme Ferguson McMaster | 971 | 5.00% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Christian Democrat | Ferdinand Theodor Peters | 505 | 2.60% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Anna Ethel Sprott | 4,079 | 20.99% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 19,431 | 100.00% | 16,773 | % | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,638 | |||||||
| Total Registered Voters | ||||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 3 Preferential ballot; first and final of five (5) counts only shown. | ||||||||
| 24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver Centre Ballot B 4 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson | 6,283 | 32.87% | 7,707 | 47.03% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | George Churchill Moxham | 6,782 | 35.48% | 8,679 | 52.97% | unknown | ||
| Christian Democrat | James Byrne Reardon | 480 | 2.50% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | William Angus Stewart | 580 | 3.03% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Michael Leo Sweeney | 3,985 | 20.85% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Frederick Wellington Taylor | 1,007 | 5.27% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 19,117 | 100.00% | 16,386 | % | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,727 | |||||||
| Total Registered Voters | ||||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 4 Preferential ballot; first and final of five (5) counts only shown. | ||||||||
| 25th British Columbia election, 1956 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Progressive Conservative | Reginald Atherton | 969 | 2.67% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William Giesbrecht | 4,393 | 12.10% | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | Jack Gillett | 445 | 1.23% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Ralph Goodman | 3,727 | 10.27% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | James Allen Macdonald | 3,996 | 11.01% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Alexander Small Matthew | 8,614 | 23.73% | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | Nigel Morgan | 485 | 1.34% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Charles Patrick (Paddy) Neale | 4,561 | 12.56% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit League | Leslie Raymond Peterson | 9,112 | 25.10% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 36,302 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 168 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 26th British Columbia election, 1960 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Thomas Henry Berger | 6,530 | 16.03% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Henry Greer Castillou | 3,724 | 9.14% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William James Dennison | 6,378 | 15.66% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Smith Eckhardt | 1,411 | 3.46% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Charles Jordan-Knox | 3,726 | 9.15% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Alexander Small Matthew | 8,227 | 20.20% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit League | Leslie Raymond Peterson | 8,516 | 20.91% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Patrick Lockhart Reid | 1,421 | 3.49% | unknown | ||
| Labour Progressive Party | Maurice Rush | 420 | 1.03% | unknown | ||
| Communist | Sonia Rutka | 380 | 0.93% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 40,733 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 504 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 27th British Columbia election, 1963 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | ||
| Communist | Ronald J. Forkin | 266 | 0.67% | unknown | |||
| Liberal | Alexander Forst | 3,467 | 8.72% | unknown | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Harold G. Haggart | 2,741 | 6.89% | unknown | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Arthur L. Johnson | 2,588 | 6.51% | unknown | |||
| Liberal | Thomas Warnett Kennedy | 3,477 | 8.74% | unknown | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Alexander Small Matthew | 7,594 | 19.09% | unknown | |||
| New Democrat | John M. Norris | 5,806 | 14.60% | unknown | |||
| Social Credit | Leslie Raymond Peterson | 8,060 | 20.26% | unknown | |||
| Communist | William E. Stewart | 240 | 0.60% | unknown | |||
| New Democrat | Frederick Justin Vulliamy | 5,538 | 13.92% | unknown | |||
| Total valid votes | 39,777 | 100.00% | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 419 | ||||||
| Turnout | % | ||||||
| 28th British Columbia election, 1966 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Communist | James William (Jim) Beynon | 253 | .66% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | William Griffiths Black | 4,147 | 10.75% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Harold Peter (Herb) Capozzi | 8,157 | 21.15% | unknown | ||
| Independents | Gerard A. Goeujon | 144 | 0.37% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | F.C. Christopher Huddlestan | 6,871 | 17.81% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Phillip James Lipp | 3,803 | 9.86% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Paul A. Phillips | 7,257 | 18.82% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Evan Maurice Wolfe | 7,938 | 20.58% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 38,570 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 432 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 29th British Columbia election, 1969 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | Emery Oakland Barnes | 9,446 | 19.14% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Harold Peter (Herb) Capozzi | 10,751 | 21.78% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | William Herbert Deverell | 9,441 | 19.13% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Daniel Terence Devlin | 4,551 | 9.22% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Robert Gary Miller | 4,454 | 9.02% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Evan Maurice Wolfe | 10,711 | 21.70% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 49,354 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 528 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 30th British Columbia election, 1972 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | Emery Oakland Barnes | 12,120 | 22.68% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Harold Peter (Herb) Capozzi | 10,037 | 18.78% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Henry Greer Castillou | 4,751 | 8.89% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Thomas Alexander Kennedy | 4,869 | 9.11% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Gary Vernon Lauk | 11,749 | 21.99% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Evan Maurice Wolfe | 9,908 | 18.54% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 53,434 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 539 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 31st British Columbia election, 1975 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Independent | David John Bader | 191 | 0.37% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Emery Oakland Barnes | 12,252 | 23.59% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Harold Peter (Herb) Capozzi | 11,253 | 21.67% | unknown | ||
| Communist | Michael Christopher Gidora | 164 | 0.32% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Thomas Smith Hammond | 1,949 | 3.75% | unknown | ||
| Independent (Social Credit) | Thomas Warnett Kennedy5 | 2,545 | 4.90% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Tin Chao Alan Lau | 7,214 | 13.89% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Gary Vernon Lauk | 12,846 | 24.73% | unknown | ||
| Communist | Nicholas Podovinnikoff | 140 | 0.27% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Malcolm Caldwell Wright | 1,513 | 2.91% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Jack Say Yee | 1,870 | 3.60% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 51,937 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 669 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 5 Campaigned as Ind.SC but listed as Independent in Statement of Votes since the Election Act prohibits the use of a recognized party name by Independent candidates. | ||||||
| 32nd British Columbia election, 1979 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | Emery Oakland Barnes | 17,361 | 27.91% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Keith Donald Eady | 1,475 | 2.37% | unknown | ||
| Communist | Miguel Figueroa | 237 | 0.38% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Douglas David Henderson | 1,511 | 2.43% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Thomas Warnett Kennedy | 12,233 | 19.66% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Richmond Desmond Fitzgerald Kimmitt | 11,649 | 18.73% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Gary Vernon Lauk | 17,464 | 28.07% | unknown | ||
| Communist | Maurice Rush | 277 | 0.45% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 62,207 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,310 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 33rd British Columbia election, 1983 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | Emery Oakland Barnes | 18,960 | 28.70% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Kevin Baden Bruce | 880 | 1.33% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Avril Kim Campbell | 12,740 | 19.28% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Gary Vernon Lauk | 18,743 | 28.37% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Shirley McLoughlin | 2,084 | 3.16% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Philip W. Owen | 12,415 | 18.79% | unknown | ||
| Communist | Maurice Rush | 244 | 0.37% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 66,066 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 84 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 34th British Columbia election, 1986 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Democrat | Emery Oakland Barnes | 20,885 | 29.69% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Steven R. Bourne | 2,564 | 3.65% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Robert Gardner | 10,965 | <15.59% | unknown | ||
| Green | Murray Gudmundson | 317 | 0.45% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Michael Franklin Harcourt | 22,301 | 31.71% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | John Archibald Murchie | 10,679 | 15.18% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Vito Palmieri | 2,036 | 2.89% | unknown | ||
| Green | Gavin L. Ross | 446 | 0.63% | unknown | ||
| People's Front | Brian Keith Sproule | 144 | 0.21% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 70,337 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,548 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old tradition of multiple member districts. Vancouver Centre was abolished. Its principal successor ridings were Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Vancouver-Langara. Some portions may have gone to Vancouver-Burrard or Vancouver-Little Mountain.