Lillooet_(electoral_district)

Lillooet (electoral district)

Former provincial electoral district of British Columbia

The Lillooet electoral district was a riding (provincial constituency) in the Canadian province of British Columbia, centred on the town of the same name and with various boundaries. Originally with two members, the constituency was split into Lillooet West and Lillooet East in the 1894, 1898, and 1900 elections, with Lillooet West being recomprised as one riding (with only one member) in the 1903 election.

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5,933 (1952 list)
Turnout			70.15%
⁹ Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Independent	Thomas Basil Humphreys¹	45	44.12%	unknown
	Independent	Andrew Thomas Jamieson	36	35.29%	unknown
	Independent	William Saul	21	20.59%	unknown
Total valid votes			102	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			79.69%
¹ Often spelled "Humphries" in many contemporary histories.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Independent	William Chadwick	(2)³	(6.06%)	unknown
	Independent	Edward Kelly	(1)³	(3.03%)	unknown
	Independent	William Saul	(30)³	(90.91%)	unknown
Total valid votes			(33)	(100.00%)
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
² To fill the seat-vacancy caused by the death of A.T. Jamieson 31 October 1872.
³ Incomplete returns. Numbers cited are from Cariboo Sentinel 28 December 1872.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Independent	William M. Brown	51	32.90%	unknown
	Independent	Thomas Basil Humphreys	56	36.13%	unknown
	Independent	William Saul	48	30.97%	unknown
Total valid votes			155	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
⁴ Resignations 26 September 1874 of T.B. Humphreys and W. Saul over a "dispute between the two gentlemen as to which represents the popular feeling of the district" (Victoria Colonist, September 29, 1874).

v t e 1875 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Reform caucus	William M. Brown	53	26.37	Y
	Reform caucus	William Morrison	48	23.88	Y
	Government	William Saul	46	22.88
	Reform caucus	John Martley ⁵	33	16.42
	Reform caucus	George Dunne	21	10.45
Total valid votes			201	100.00
Turnout			85.90
⁵ Captain Martley homesteaded at Pavilion around 1861/62. Ernest Crawford Carson and Robert Henry Carson, his neighbours, became MLAs and cabinet ministers in the 1930s in Lillooet and Kamloops respectively.

Lillooet_(electoral_district)

Lillooet (electoral district)

Political geography

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Opposition	William M. Brown	78	32.37%	–	unknown
	Government	John Martley	39	16.18%	–	unknown
	Government	William Morrison	47	19.50%	–	unknown
	Opposition	William Saul	48	23.88%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			241	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			78.01%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Opposition	Edward Allen	55	23.21%	–	unknown
	Government	William M. Brown	28	11.81%	–	unknown
	Opposition	Alexander Edmund Batson Davie	69	29.11%	–	unknown
	Government	Charles Nelson McLellan	40	16.88%	–	unknown
	Opposition	William Morrison	45	18.99%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			237	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			63.37%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	Alexander Edmund Batson Davie	Acclaimed	-.- %	–	unknown
Total valid votes			n/a	-.- %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
² Byelection caused by resignation of A.E.B. Davie upon his appointment to the Executive Council January 29, 1883. Date given is day of return of writs, as polling day was not necessary.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Government	William Morrison	60	22.39%	–	unknown
	Government	Alfred Wellington Smith	89	33.21%	–	unknown
	Opposition	David Alexander Stoddart	119	44.40%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			268	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			55.37%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	Accl.	--%	unknown
Total valid votes			--	--%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Robert Eagleson	123	51.68%	unknown
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	115	48.32%	unknown
Total valid votes			238	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			60.10%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Robert Eagleson	117	41.20%	unknown
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	167	58.80%	unknown
Total valid votes			284	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			79.11%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Stuart Alexander Henderson	81	28.83%	unknown
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	200	71.17%	unknown
Total valid votes			281	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			71.98%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Bates Bryson	269	47.61%	unknown
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	296	52.39%	unknown
Total valid votes			565	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			66.27%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Albert Edward Munn	626	42.56%		unknown
	Provincial	Norman Joseph Paul	522	35.49%	–	unknown
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	323	21.96%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,471	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			56.43%

v t e 1920 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	339	47.48
	Liberal	John Bates Bryson	213	21.83
	Soldier–Farmer	Ernest Crawford Carson ⁶	162	22.69
Total valid votes			714	100.00
Turnout			76.94
⁶ Brother of Robert Henry Carson, Liberal MLA for Kamloops. Both became cabinet ministers in their respective governments. Their father Robert Carson left Scotland at an early age, came west via the Oregon Trail came north for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, then wound up homesteading in 1863 on Pavilion Mountain in the wake of the gold rush, founding one of BC's earliest ranches.

18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Ernest Crawford Carson	705	33.51%	–	unknown
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray⁷	927	44.06%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John Morrison Smith	472	22.43%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,104	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			96
Turnout			66.29%
⁷ Publisher of Bridge River-Lillooet News and husband of Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray.

v t e 1945 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Coalition	Ernest Crawford Carson	1,143	51.42
	Social Credit Alliance	John Fossmark Jacobsen	296	8.82
	Progressive Liberal	George Matheson Murray	61	2.74
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Charles Radcliffe	823	37.02
Total valid votes			2,223	100.00
Total rejected ballots			21
Turnout			63.19

23rd British Columbia election, 1952⁸
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Crawford Carson	1,301	35.68%	1,847	56.60%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Hudson Dowding	1,074	29.46%	1,416	43.40%		unknown
	Independent	James Coleman Finch	96	2.63%	-	-%		unknown
	Liberal	William Henry Okell	725	19.88%	-	-%		unknown
	Social Credit League	Donald Frederick Robinson	450	12.34%
Total valid votes			3,646	%	3,263	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			254
Turnout			77.94%
⁸ Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 4) not shown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Ernest Crawford Carson	1,237	54.61%	unknown
	Liberal	Albert Edward Munn	1,028	45.39%	unknown
Total valid votes			2,265	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			56
Turnout			80.28%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Robert Purvis Armstrong	855	28.92%	unknown
	Conservative	Ernest Crawford Carson	925	31.29%	unknown
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray	1,176	39.78%	unknown
Total valid votes			2956	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			57
Turnout			76.12%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harry Grenfell Archibald	841	31.75%	unknown
	Conservative	Ernest Crawford Carson	1,017	38.39%	unknown
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray	791	29.86%	unknown
Total valid votes			2,649	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			29
Turnout			67.02%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Ernest Crawford Carson	2,339	62.83%	–	unknown
	Social Credit Alliance	George Willis Lyons	1,180	31.69%	–	unknown
	Independent	William Wallace O'Keefe	204	5.48%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,723	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			125
Turnout			77.94%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Austin Kenneth Greenway	907	23.13		unknown
	Social Credit	Donald Frederick Robinson	2,055	52.41%	–	unknown
	Liberal	James Smith	959	24.46%		unknown
Total valid votes			3921	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			58
Turnout			72.97%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	George M. Behrner	336	7.84%		unknown
	Liberal	Cyril Clyde Keyes	923	21.54%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John Kendrick Macey	1,331	31.06%		unknown
	Social Credit	Donald Frederick Robinson	1,695	39.56%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			4,285	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			282
Turnout			66.77%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Henry Greer Castillou	977	23.15%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas William Meagher	702	16.64%		unknown
	Social Credit	Donald Frederick Robinson	1,425	33.77%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Clare Skatfeld	1331	31.06%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,220	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			53
Turnout			65.33%