Comox_(electoral_district)

Comox (electoral district)

Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

Comox was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was one of the first twelve ridings representing that province upon its joining Confederation, and was a one-member constituency. The core of this once-vast riding, which at its inception stretched to the Yukon border, is now named Comox Valley.

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

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Population, 1986
Population change, 1903–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Independent	John Ash	16	66.67%	unknown
	Independent	Robert Cameron Coleman	8	33.33%	unknown
Total valid votes			24	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Independent	John Ash	Acclaimed	-.- %	unknown
Total valid votes			n/a	-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
¹ The byelection was called due to J. Ash's resignation upon appointment to the Executive Council (cabinet) on December 23, 1872. This byelection was one of a series held to confirm appointments to the Executive Council, which was the old parliamentary convention. As this byelection writ was filled by acclamation, no polling day was required and the seat was filled within two weeks. The stated date is the date the return of writs was received by the Chief Electoral Officer.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	John Ash	36	78.26%	–	unknown
	Government	Robb James	10	21.74%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			46	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Opposition	John Ash	31	59.62%	–	unknown
	Government	Reginald Terry Carwithen	21	40.38%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			52	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Opposition	Andrew Byron Crawford	14	16.87%
	Government	William Munro Dingwall	67	80.72%
	Unknown	Thomas Robson²	2	2.41%
Total valid votes			83
² Withdrew before polling day.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	William Munro Dingwall	40	31.25%	–	unknown
	Government	Stafford McKelvey	10	7.81%	–	unknown
	Opposition	Robb James	33	25.78%	–	unknown
	Opposition	Anthony Maitland Stenhouse	45	35.16%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			128	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	Joseph Hunter	115	61.17%	–	unknown
	Opposition	Joseph McPhee	73	38.83%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			188	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	Joseph Hunter	239	64.95%	–	unknown
	Opposition	Percy Fremlin Scharschmidt	129	35.05%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			368	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	James Dunsmuir³	297	64.71%	–	unknown
	Opposition	William James McAllan	162	35.29%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			459	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
³ Later 14th Premier of British Columbia 1900-1902

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	Joseph McPhee⁴	279	45.22%	–	unknown
	Opposition	Lewis Alfred Mounce	338	54.78%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			617	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
⁴ 3. McPhee was nominated as a Liberal candidate in opposition to Mounce who campaigned as a Conservative Party supporter. According to the Nanaimo Herald both were anti-Martin but the Vancouver Province and Victoria Times listed both as Government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Robert Grant	361	53.24%	unknown
	Liberal	Frederick McBain Young	317	46.76%	unknown
Total valid votes			678	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Bertram Bennett	292	43.98%	unknown
	Conservative	Robert Grant	372	56.02%	unknown
Total valid votes			664	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Socialist	James Cartwright	206	20.96%
	Independent Conservative	William Duncan	154	15.67%
	Liberal	James McKelvey Forrest	172	17.50%	unknown
	Conservative	Michael Manson	451	45.88%	unknown
Total valid votes			983	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Socialist	Wallis Walter Lefeaux	355	33.84%	–	unknown
	Conservative	Michael Manson	694	66.16%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,049	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	Michael Manson	882	41.47%		unknown
	Socialist	William Arthur Pritchard	246	11.57%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Hugh Stewart	916	43.07%		unknown
	Social Democratic	George Edgar Winkler	83	3.90%
Total valid votes			812	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harold Tuttle Allen	1,590	36.03%	unknown
	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth	George Robert Bates	276	6.25%	unknown
	Liberal	Laurence Arnold Hanna	2,204	49.94%	unknown
	United Front (Workers and Farmers)	Hugh Gray Russell	259	5.87%
	Independent	Ernest Richard Tarling	84	1.90%	unknown
Total valid votes			4,413	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			34
Turnout			%

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Colin Cameron	2,336	44.83%	unknown
	Liberal	Laurence Arnold Hanna	1,876	36.00%	unknown
	Conservative	Gordon Noel Money	999	19.17%	unknown
Total valid votes			5,211	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			80
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Colin Cameron	3,126	45.31%	unknown
	Liberal	William Edward Mantle	2,158	31.28%	unknown
	Conservative	Edward Roger Gibson Richardson	1,615	23.41%	unknown
Total valid votes			6,899	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			166
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	William Edward Anderson	1,233	29.90%	unknown
	Independent Liberal	William Wallace Burns McInnes	731	17.73%
	Peoples Party (Farmer-Labour)	Thomas Menzies	1,354	32.83%	unknown
	Liberal	Patrick Daly	806	19.54%	unknown
Total valid votes			4,124	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	William Duncan	815	28.41%		unknown
	Provincial	George Every-Clayton	793	27.64%	–	unknown
	Independent Liberal	Paul Phillips Harrison	1,261	43.95%
Total valid votes			2,869	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Colin Cameron	3,362	44.69%		unknown
	Labour Progressive	Thomas McEwen	729	9.69%		unknown
	Coalition	Herbert John Welch	3,432	45.62%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			7,523	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			161
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Colin Cameron	5,238	40.81%		unknown
	Coalition	Herbert John Welch	7,596	59.19%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			12,834	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			435
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 ⁵
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	W. Bruce Gordon	1,868	13.58%	--	--.--%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Campbell Moore	5,369	39.03%	7,098	57.67%		unknown
	Social Credit League	Cyril Hugh Poole	2,987	21.71%
	Liberal	Herbert John Welch	3,532	25.68%	5,210	42.33%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,756	100.00%	12,308	%
Total rejected ballots			446
Turnout			77.94%
⁵(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Robert John Campbell	4,916	41.63%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Robert George McPhee	2,339	19.81%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Cyril Newman	4,555	38.57%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,810	100.00%
Total valid votes			11,810	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			183
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	William Wallace Baikie	2,759	17.47%		unknown
	Social Credit	Daniel Robert John Campbell	6,100	38.63%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Alan Gray	653	4.14%		unknown
	Communist	John Higgin	207	1.31%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Frederick Charles Wood	6,072	38.45%		unknown
Total valid votes			15,791	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			248
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Robert John Campbell	6,598	42.38%	–	unknown
	Liberal	David Alexander Elrix	1,259	8.09%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Duncan McIntyre Fraser	1,475	9.47%		unknown
	New Democratic	Frederick Sidney Williams	6,238	40.06%		unknown
Total valid votes			15,570	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			150
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Robert John Campbell	5,449	49.39%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Joseph J. Cvetkovich	1,276	11.57%		unknown
	New Democratic	Neville Shanks	4,308	39.05%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,033	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			104
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Robert John Campbell	7,910	45.61%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Olga Ruth Henrietta Chown	2,303	13.28%		unknown
	New Democratic	Harry Harris	7,131	41.12%		unknown
Total valid votes			17,344	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			194
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Robert John Campbell	6,376	29.00%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Lawrence Foort	1,166	5.30%		unknown
	New Democratic	Karen Sanford	12,540	57.40%		unknown
	Liberal	Patrick Melvin Thompson	1,903	8.66%		unknown
Total valid votes			21,985	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			135
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Daniel Edgard Hanuse	10,171	38.90%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Norman L. McLaren	1,381	5.28%		unknown
	New Democratic	Karen Sanford	10,650	40.73%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Victor Albert Stephens	3,906	15.09%		unknown
Total valid votes			26,148	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			454
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Delbert Keith Doll	9,390	42.57%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Harry Kellow	2,251	10.20%		unknown
	New Democratic	Karen Sanford	10,420	47.23%		unknown
Total valid votes			22,061	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			315
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Thomas John Finnie	502	1.71%		unknown
	Western Canada Concept	Allan Wayne Griffiths	1,104	3.75%		unknown
	New Democratic	Karen Sanford	13,719	46.58%		unknown
	Social Credit	George Herbert Parke Smith	13,422	45.57%	–	unknown
	Independent	Victor Albert Stephens	705	2.39%		unknown
Total valid votes			29,452	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			258
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Stan Hagen	15,833	51.15
	New Democratic	Karen Sanford	13,562	43.82%	unknown
	Liberal	John G. (Jack) Setter	985	3.18%	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Terry Ian	573	1.85%	unknown
Total valid votes			30,953	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			276
Turnout			%