Peace River (British Columbia electoral district)
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Peace River was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its only appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933.
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[edit] Demographics
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| Population Change, 1931-1961 | % |
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[edit] Geography
[edit] History
[edit] Member of Legislative Assembly
[edit] Electoral history
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
| 18th British Columbia election, 1933 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party | Emily Loretta Crawford | 59 | 2.30% | unknown | ||
| Non-Partisan Independent Group | Clive Montgomery Francis Planta | 957 | 37.31% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Mervin Cecil Simmons | 800 | 31.19% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Wallace Archibald Watson | 749 | 29.20% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 2,565 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 19 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 19th British Columbia election, 1937 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,168 | 42.61% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Charles Wilmer Bumstead | 905 | 33.02% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Thomas Hargreaves | 434 | 15.83% | unknown | ||
| Independent | Clive Montgomery Francis Planta | 234 | 8.54% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 2,741 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 34 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 20th British Columbia election, 1941 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,436 | 51.16% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 983 | 35.02% | unknown | ||
| Independent Farmer | Thomas Jamieson | 388 | 13.82% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 2,807 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 22 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 21st British Columbia election, 1945 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Coalition | Howard Guthrie Atkinson | 1,117 | 31.78% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 1,682 | 47.85% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit Alliance | Margaret Teresa Lally Murray2 | 388 | 13.82% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 3,515 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 27 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 2 Publisher/editor of the Alaska Highway News and wife of George Matheson Murray, formerly MLA for Lillooet (1933-1941) and later MP for Cariboo. | ||||||
| 22nd British Columbia election, 1949 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Coalition | Glen Everton Braden | 2,342 | 49.69% | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie | 1,901 | 40.34% | unknown | ||
| People's Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Philip Franklin Tompkins | 470 | 9.97% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 4,713 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 52 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 23rd British Columbia election, 1952 3 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Glen Everton Braden | 1,425 | 26.14% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur Roald Dahlen | 1,571 | 28.82% | 1,865 | 38.80% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Walter Clarence Henderson | 278 | 5.10% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| BC Social Credit League | Charles William Parker | 2,178 | 39.95% | 2,942 | 61.20% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 5,452 | 100.00% | 4,807 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 151 | |||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only. | ||||||||
| 24th British Columbia election, 1953 4 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur Roald Dahlen | 1,921 | 33.24% | 2,216 | 42.31% | unknown | ||
| BC Social Credit League | Charles William Parker | 2,481 | 42.92% | 3,022 | 57.69% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Stanley Weston | 1,378 | 23.84% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Walter Clarence Henderson | 278 | 5.10% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 5,780 | 100.00% | 5,238 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 316 | |||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||||
| 4 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of twp (2) shown only. | ||||||||
After the 1953 election the Peace River riding was partitioned into North Peace River and South Peace River.
