Vancouver Centre (provincial electoral district)

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This page is for the defunct British Columbia provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district of the same name please see Vancouver Centre.

Vancouver Centre was 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-Point Grey and Vancouver East, were all 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).

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[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

[edit] Notable MLAs in Riding History

[edit] Notable MLAs

[edit] Notable candidates

[edit] 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 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		 % ±% Expenditures
     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		 % ±% Expenditures
     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		 % ±% Expenditures
     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		 % ±% Expenditures
     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.

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