Peace River South

Peace River South (1991–)
South Peace River (1956–1991)

British Columbia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

MLA

Mike Bernier
Liberal

District created

1955

First contested

1956

Last contested

2013

Peace River South is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was created under the name South Peace River by the Constitution Amendment Act, 1955, which split the old riding of Peace River into northern and southern portions for the 1956 B.C. election. Its current name has been in use since 1991.

Demographics

Population, 2001	28,097
Population change, 1996–2001	-9.2%
Area (km²)	32,085
Population density (people per km²)	0.94

Member of Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
40th	2013–present		Mike Bernier	BC Liberal
39th	2011–2013	Blair Lekstrom		BC Liberal
	2010–2011			Independent
	2009–2010			BC Liberal
38th	2005–2009
37th	2001–2005
36th	1997–2001		Jack Weisgerber	Independent
36th	1996–1997			Reform BC
35th	1995–1996			Reform BC
35th	1991–1995			Social Credit
34th	1986–1991			Social Credit
33rd	1983–1986		Don Phillips	Social Credit
32nd	1979–1983
31st	1975–1979
30th	1972–1975
29th	1972		Don Marshall	Progressive Conservative
29th	1969–1972		Don Marshall	Social Credit
28th	1966–1969		Don Phillips	Social Credit
27th	1963–1966		Stan Carnell	Social Credit
26th	1960–1963
25th	1956–1960
Peace River prior to 1956

Its most recent Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is Mike Bernier. He was first elected in 2013 and represents the British Columbia Liberal Party.

Election results

B.C. General Election 2013: Peace River South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mike Bernier	4,373	46.73	-16.35	$107,254
	Conservative	Kurt Peats	2,546	27.21	n/a	$26,829
	New Democratic	Darwin Wren	1,988	21.24	-5.79	$36,616
	Independent	Tyrel Pohl	451	4.82	n/a	$2,668
Total Valid Votes			9,358	100.00
Total Rejected Ballots			37	0.39%
Turnout			9,395	49.89%

British Columbia sales tax referendum, 2011
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	4,073	58.82%
	No	2,852	41.18%

B.C. General Election 2009 Peace River South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Blair Lekstrom	4,801	63.08	+5.34	$83,241
	New Democratic	Pat Shaw	2,057	27.03	-5.73	$13,686
	Green	Grant Fraser	553	7.00	-2.50	$350
	Independent	Donna Young	220	2.89		$1,976
Total valid votes			7,611	100%
Total rejected ballots			44	0.57%
Turnout			7,655	44.0%

British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2009
Side		Votes	%
	FPTP	4,884	66.31%
	BC-STV	2,481	33.69%

B.C. General Election 2005 Peace River South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Blair Lekstrom	5,810	57.74%	-6.46	$67,507
	New Democratic	Pat Shaw	3,296	32.76%	+25.07	$19,318
	Green	Ariel Lade	956	9.50%	+5.42	$200
Total valid votes			10,062	100%
Total rejected ballots			71	0.71%
Turnout			10,133	56.3%

British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	5,279	54.24%
	No	4,453	45.76%

B.C. General Election 2001: Peace River South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Blair Lekstrom	6,393	64.20%		$58,198
	Social Credit	Grant Mitton	1,726	17.33%	–	$12,655
	New Democratic	Elmer Kabush	767	7.69%		$865
	Marijuana	Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek	444	4.45%		$3,288
	Green	Stacey Dean Lajeunesse	407	4.08%	–	$100
	Unity	Garret Golhof	225	2.25%		$1,540
Total valid votes			9,962	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			34	0.34%
Turnout			9,996	62.37%

B.C. General Election 1996: Peace River South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Jack S. Weisgerber	3,901	31.89%		$15,351
	New Democratic	Patrick Michiel	3,778	30.88%		$19,349
	Liberal	Brian Haddow	3,774	30.85%		$22,822
	Social Credit	Aime Girard	452	3.69%	–	$7,548
	Progressive Democrat	Wade Alexander Allan	183	1.50%	–	$100
	Green	Shane Hartnell	145	1.19%	–	$100
Total valid votes			12,233	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			49	0.40%
Turnout			12,282	62.60%

B.C. General Election 1991: Peace River South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack S. Weisgerber	4,617	37.21%	–	$24,824
	New Democratic	Anne Matheson	3,844	30.98%		$16,578
	Liberal	Marcheta D. N. Leoppky	3,512	28.30%		$3,345
	Green	Hermann E. Bruns	435	3.51%	–	$1,394
Total valid votes			12,408	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			308	2.42%
Turnout			12,716	69.72%

1991 Recall and Initiative Referendum

Question A: Recall
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	9,706	86.15%
	No	1,561	13.85%

Question B: Ballot Initiatives
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	9,759	88.86%
	No	1,223	11.14%

External links

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2009–)

North / Central	Cariboo-Chilcotin Cariboo North Nechako Lakes North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Valemount Skeena Stikine

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-South Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Kootenay East Kootenay West Fraser-Nicola Nelson-Creston Penticton Shuswap Vernon-Monashee Westside-Kelowna

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Mission Abbotsford South Abbotsford West Chilliwack Chilliwack-Hope Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Fleetwood Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Deer Lake Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby-Lougheed Burnaby North Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Coquitlam Powell River-Sunshine Coast Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-False Creek Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena Vancouver-West End West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

Vancouver Island	Alberni-Pacific Rim Comox Valley Cowichan Valley Esquimalt-Royal Roads Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-North Cowichan North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Swan Lake

See also:	Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 List of British Columbia general elections 2013 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2001–2009)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke East Kootenay Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Westside Okanagan-Vernon Penticton-Okanagan Valley Shuswap West Kootenay-Boundary Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Clayburn Abbotsford-Mount Lehman Chilliwack-Kent Chilliwack-Sumas Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Ridge Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Burquitlam Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Moody-Westwood Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Qualicum Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-Parksville North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside

See also:	1999 electoral redistribution 2001 general election 2005 general election 2008 electoral redistribution Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1991–2001)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Boundary Okanagan East Okanagan-Penticton Okanagan-Vernon Okanagan West Shuswap Rossland-Trail Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford Chilliwack Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Matsqui Mission-Kent Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Little Mountain Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1991 general election 1996 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)

North / Central	Atlin Cariboo ‡ North Peace River Omineca Prince George North Prince George South Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ Columbia River Kamloops ‡ Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan North Okanagan South ‡ Rossland-Trail Shuswap-Revelstoke Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ Chilliwack Delta ‡ Dewdney ‡ Langley ‡ Richmond ‡ Surrey (2) †

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Moody Maillardville-Coquitlam New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt-Port Renfrew Mackenzie Nanaimo ‡ North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands ‡ Victoria (2)

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1979 general election 1983 general election 1986 general election Defunct districts

‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies Surrey-Guildford-Whalley Surrey-Newton Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)

North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River Kamloops Kootenay Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke-Slocan Rossland-Trail South Okanagan Shuswap Yale-Lillooet

Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Dewdney Langley New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Richmond Surrey Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands Victoria (2)

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1966 general election 1969 general election 1972 general election 1975 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1956–1966)

North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River

Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale

Lower Mainland	Burnaby (2) Chilliwack Delta (2) Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver (2) Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (3)

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City (3)

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1956 general election 1960 general election 1963 general election Defunct districts

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