Vancouver-Point Grey
Vancouver-Point Grey is 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 Centre and Vancouver East, were all created from the old Vancouver City riding, which was a six-member seat. Vancouver-Point Grey was a three-member seat, while the other three Vancouver ridings were only two members. Later it was reduced to a two-member seat when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created, and in the redistribution preceding the 1991 election it was reduced to a one-member riding along with the other older urban ridings, as several new one-member ridings were created. Prominent politicians elected at this riding include Premiers of British Columbia , Christy Clark and Gordon Campbell, and former Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell.
For a full listing of Vancouver ridings, historical and current, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).
Geography
The district currently comprises the Vancouver neighbourhoods of West Point Grey and part of Kitsilano, as well as the adjacent University Endowment Lands, the main campus of the University of British Columbia.
Election results
British Columbia provincial by-election, May 11, 2011 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes | % | Expenditures |
|
Liberal | Christy Clark[1] | 7,757 | 48.73 | $98,448 |
|
New Democratic | David Eby[1] | 7,193 | 45.19 | $77,889 |
|
Green | Françoise Raunet | 545 | 3.42 | $309 |
|
First | Danielle Alie | 379 | 2.38 | $35,785 |
|
Independent | William Gibbens | 28 | 0.18 | $388 |
|
Independent | Eddie Petrossian | 16 | 0.10 | $321 |
Total valid votes |
15,918 | 100 |
Total rejected ballots |
33 | 0.21 |
Turnout |
15,951 | 38.94 |
Called upon the resignation of Gordon Campbell.[2] |
Electoral history 1933-1986
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
British Columbia general election, 1933 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes | % | Elected |
|
Liberal | George Moir Weir | 12,163 | 16.97% | Y |
|
Liberal | Stanley Stewart McKeen | 9,880 | 13.79% | Y |
|
Liberal | Robert Wilkinson | 9,393 | 13.11% | Y |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | William Arthur Pritchard | 7,693 | 10.74% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | Frank Ebenezer Buck | 7,423 | 10.36% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | Dorothy Gretchen Steeves | 7,214 | 10.07% |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Dugald Donaghy | 5,130 | 7.16% |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group | George Alexander Walkem | 3,694 | 5.15% |
|
Unionist | William Savage | 2,640 | 3.68% |
|
Unionist | Frederick DeWolfe Turner | 2,078 | 2.90% |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Laura Dickey MacKay | 1,731 | 2.41% |
|
Unionist | Alice Townley | 1,434 | 2.00% |
|
Independent | William McNeill | 902 | 1.26% |
|
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | George Drayton | 174 | 0.24% |
|
Independent Co-operative Commonwealth | Edwin Clarke Appleby | 111 | 0.15% |
Total valid votes |
71,660 | 100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
608 |
19th British Columbia election, 1937 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Conservative | Cyril Gainsborough Beeston | 8,809 | 11.60% | | unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
John (Jack) Evans |
6,382 |
8.40% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Stanley Stewart McKeen |
9,125 |
12.01% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative | Royal Lethington Maitland1 | 10,580 | 13.93% | | unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William Ralph Offer |
6,196 |
8.16% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative | James Alexander Paton | 9,745 | 12.83% | | unknown |
|
Social Credit League | William Savage | 1,001 | 1.32% | – | unknown |
|
Liberal |
George Moir Weir |
9,235 |
12.16% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Edgar Westmoreland |
6,011 |
7.91% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Robert Wilkinson |
8,883 |
11.69% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
75,967 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
472 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
1 Leader of the Opposition 1937-1941. |
20th British Columbia election, 1941 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Mary Louise Bollert |
9,470 |
9.95% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Albert Dawson Gordon |
7,603 |
7.99% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Helena Rose Gutteridge |
8,183 |
8.60% |
|
Emancipation Party | Catherine Emily Ling | 265 | 0.28 |
|
Conservative | Royal Lethington Maitland | 14,668 | 15.41% |
|
Liberal |
Harold Elsdale Molson |
8,503 |
8.94% |
|
Conservative | James Alexander Paton | 14,148 | 14.87% |
|
Conservative | Tilly Rolston | 13,584 | 14.27% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William Ewart Turner |
7,662 |
8.05% |
|
Liberal |
George Moir Weir |
11,073 |
11.64% |
Total valid votes |
95,159 |
Total rejected ballots |
597 |
For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with three ballots, one for each seat, with three separate candidate-races:
British Columbia general election, 1952, ballot A |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % |
|
Progressive Conservative | Albert Reginald MacDougall | 14,042 | 26.75% | 22,549 | 52.20% |
|
Social Credit League | Thomas Audley Bate | 13,771 | 26.24% | 20,645 | 47.80% |
|
Liberal | Theodore Roosvelt Burnett | 13,406 | 25.54% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | Victor Wadham Forster | 11,267 | 21.47% |
Total valid votes |
52,495 | 100.00% | 43,194 | 100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
4,502 |
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown. |
British Columbia general election, 1952, ballot B |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % |
|
PC | George Clark Miller | 14,886 | 28.65% | 24,089 | 56.43% |
|
Social Credit League | Claude Delbert Powell | 12,882 | 24.79% | 18,603 | 43.57% |
|
Liberal | Alexander Whidden Fisher | 12,828 | 24.69% | 4,919 | 18.84% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | Clifford Augustine Greer | 11,366 | 21.87% |
Total valid votes |
51,962 | 100.00% | 42,692 | 100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
4,933 |
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown. |
British Columbia general election, 1952, ballot C |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % |
|
Social Credit League | Tilly Rolston | 19,236 | 36.90% | 25,749 | 58.75% |
|
Liberal | George Stanley Miller | 12,087 | 23.19% | 18,078 | 41.25% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | George Alfred Isherwood | 10,451 | 20.05% |
|
Progressive Conservative | Hattie Pearl Steen | 10,356 | 19.87% |
Total valid votes |
52,130 | 100.00% | 43,827 | 100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
4,787 |
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown. |
British Columbia general election, 1953, ballot A |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % |
|
Social Credit League | Thomas Audley Bate | 19,768 | 39.77% | 22,503 | 52.25% |
|
Liberal | Theodore Roosvelt Burnett | 14,612 | 29.40% | 20,567 | 47.75% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | Victor Wadham Forster | 10,058 | 20.23% |
|
Progressive Conservative | Stewart Leslie Chambers | 4,533 | 9.12% |
|
Labour Progressive | Beatrice Christine Ferneyhough | 348 | 0.70% |
|
Christian Democratic | Wilfrid Joseph Charbonneau | 194 | 0.39% |
|
Independent | William Norman Kemp | 193 | 0.39% |
Total valid votes |
49,706 | 100.00% | 43,070 | 100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
3,205 |
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of six (6) counts only shown. |
British Columbia general election, 1953, ballot B |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % |
|
Social Credit League | Robert William Bonner | 20,205 | 40.60% | 24,144 | 56.05% |
|
Liberal | Alexander Whidden Fisher | 12,022 | 24.16% | 18,928 | 43.95% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | George James Greenaway | 9,556 | 19.19% |
|
Progressive Conservative | George Clark Miller | 7,373 | 14.81% |
|
Labour Progressive | William John Turner | 367 | 0.74% |
|
Labour Progressive | Harold John Michael Griffin | 337 | 0.68% |
|
Christian Democratic | Alma Jane Diebolt | 212 | 0.43% |
|
Independent | Abie Louis Seligman | 64 | 0.13% |
Total valid votes |
49,769 | 100.00% | 43,072 | 100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
3,150 |
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of six (6) counts only shown. |
British Columbia general election, 1953, ballot C |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % |
|
Liberal | Arthur Laing | 17,412 | 34.79% | 22,730 | 39.86% |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth | Frederick Norman Hill | 9,441 | 18.86% | 12,947 | 22.70% |
|
Social Credit League | Tilly Rolston | 19,061 | 38.08% | 21,354 | 37.44% |
|
Progressive Conservative | Thomas Frederick Orr | 3,607 | 7.21% |
|
Labor–Progressive | Constance Marguerite Marks | 338 | 0.67% |
|
Christian Democratic | Mae Angelique Messner | 196 | 0.39% |
Total valid votes |
50,055 | 100.00% | 44,084 | %100.00% |
Total rejected ballots |
2,866 |
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of five (5) counts only shown. |
25th British Columbia election, 1956 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Independent |
Ernest Forbes Allistone |
959 |
0.61% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Reginald Atherton |
3,324 |
2.13% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Thomas Audley Bate | 23,696 | 15.19% | – | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Robert William Bonner | 25,615 | 16.42% | – | unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Ebbie William Bowering |
2,878 |
1.85% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Buda Hosmer Brown | 23,238 | 14.90% | – | unknown |
|
Liberal |
Theodore Roosvelt Burnett |
12,924 |
8.29% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Alexander Whidden Fisher |
15,599 |
10.00% |
|
unknown |
|
Labour Progressive | Harold John Michael Griffin | 318 | 0.20% | | unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Frederick Norman Hill |
8,435 |
5.41% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Arthur Laing |
17,801 |
11.44% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Winona Grace MacInnis |
11,365 |
7.29% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
William James Gibbs Pierce |
7,979 |
5.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Emma Loring Tinsman |
1,822 |
1.69% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
155,953 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
561 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
26th British Columbia election, 1960 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Reginald Atherton |
6,774 |
3.92% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Thomas Audley Bate | 23,950 | 13.86% | – | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Robert William Bonner | 24,273 | 14.04% | – | unknown |
|
Liberal |
Francis Cecil Boyes |
17,438 |
10.09% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Buda Hosmer Brown | 23,583 | 13.65% | – | unknown |
|
Liberal |
Samuel Joseph Dumaresq |
15,107 |
8.74% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
George Nelson Gibson |
12,158 |
7.03% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Clifford Augustine Greer |
12,702 |
7.35% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Desmond Fife Kidd |
6,453 |
3.73% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Mary Helen Poaps |
4,029 |
2.33% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Thomas Walter Thomason |
11,538 |
6.68% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Leslie Charles Way |
14,827 |
8.58% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
172,832 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
803 |
27th British Columbia election, 1963 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Credit | Thomas Audley Bate | 20,267 | 11.29% |
|
Social Credit | Robert William Bonner | 23,172 | 12.91% |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Ernest James (Ernie) Broome |
7,643 |
4.26% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democratic | Amy Dalgleish | 8,072 | 4.50% | | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Ralph Raymond Loffmark | 20,962 | 11.68% | – | unknown |
|
New Democratic | John Kendrick Macey | 8,663 | 4.83% | | unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
H. Richardson (Dick) Malkin |
7,213 |
4.02% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
25,592 |
14.26% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Arthur Phillips |
16,510 |
9.20% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Harry Purdy |
15,719 |
8.76% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
William George Rathie |
17,641 |
9.83% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democratic | William James Whitney | 8,018 | 4.67% | | unknown |
Total valid votes |
179,472 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
726 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
30th British Columbia election, 1972 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Garde Basil Gardom |
13,673 |
20.72% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Ian Bruce Kelsey |
5,103 |
7.73% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Marianne Linnell |
5,696 |
8.63% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Patrick Lucey McGeer |
14,599 |
22.13% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | John George Puil | 8,326 | 12.62% | – | unknown |
|
New Democratic | Paul Sabatino | 5,260 | 7.97% | | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Edward Charles Sweeney | 8,006 | 12.13% | – | unknown |
|
New Democratic | Hilda Louise Thomas | 5,312 | 8.05% | | unknown |
Total valid votes |
65,975 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
387 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
31st British Columbia election, 1975 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Richard Neill MacLeod Brown |
1,340 |
1.86% |
|
unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Theodore Bolton Burgoyne |
1,032 |
1.44% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
George Henry Does |
98 |
0.14% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Richard John Joseph Durante |
5,004 |
6.96% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Garde Basil Gardom | 20,761 | 28.88% | – | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Patrick Lucey McGeer | 21,192 | 29.48% | – | unknown |
|
New Democratic | Venkatachala Setty Pendakur | 8,932 | 12.42% | | unknown |
|
Liberal |
Moyra Anne Roberts |
4,383 |
6.10% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democratic | Hilda Louise Thomas | 9,143 | 12.72% | | unknown |
Total valid votes |
71,885 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
554 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
32nd British Columbia election, 1979 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Progressive Conservative |
William Fairley |
2,511 |
3.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Garde Basil Gardom | 20,620 | 26.05% | – | unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Elizabeth L. Green |
2,437 |
3.08% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit | Patrick Lucey McGeer | 19,789 | 25.00% | – | unknown |
|
Liberal |
Timothy Charles O'Brien |
1,399 |
1.77% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democratic | Thomas Francis Shandel | 15,686 | 19.82% | | unknown |
|
Liberal |
Christopher Keith Sumner |
1,131 |
1.43% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democratic | Hilda Louise Thomas | 15,578 | 19.68% | | unknown |
Total valid votes |
79,151 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
1,274 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
33rd British Columbia election, 1983 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Leopold Auer |
1,675 |
1.98% |
|
unknown |
|
Green | Adriane Janice Carr | 1,549 | 1.83% | – | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Garde Basil Gardom | 22,550 | 26.58% | – | unknown |
|
Social Credit | Patrick Lucey McGeer | 22,970 | 27.08% | – | unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Lorne Neil MacLean |
1,573 |
1.86% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democratic | Maureen Patricia Marchak | 16,612 | 19.58% | | unknown |
|
New Democratic | Hilda Louise Thomas | 15,849 | 18.68% | | unknown |
|
Progressive Conservative |
William Fairley |
2,511 |
3.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Allan Edward Warnke |
2,048 |
2.41% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
84,826 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
480 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
In 1988 Kim Campbell resigned as the MLA to run in the federal election. Dr. Tom Perry Tom Perry (NDP) won the seat in the 1989 by-election,finishing the term with Marzari as his seatmate.[3] A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old multiple member districts. Vancouver-Point Grey was trimmed with parts of going to the creation of Vancouver-Quilchena, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Burrard (mostly to Quilchena). In the 1991 election Perry moved over and was elected in the riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain.
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