Vancouver Centre (provincial Electoral District) - Electoral History 1933-1986

Electoral History 1933-1986

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
 % Votes
 % ±%
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
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver Centre Ballot B 2
Party Candidate Votes
 % Votes
 % ±%
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
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver Centre Ballot A 3
Party Candidate Votes
 % Votes
 % ±%
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
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver Centre Ballot B 4
Party Candidate Votes
 % Votes
 % ±%
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
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
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.

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