Omineca (electoral district)

Omineca was a provincial electoral district of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1916.

Demographics

Population, 1916
Population Change, 1916–61
Area (km²)
Pop. Density (people per km²)

Electoral history

14th British Columbia election, 1916

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	473	62.16%		unknown
	Conservative	Frank Maurice Dockrill	288	37.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			761	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

15th British Columbia election, 1920

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	630	60.87%		unknown
	Conservative	George L. Murray	273	26.38%		unknown
	Independent	Alexander James Prudhomme	78	7.54%		unknown
	Independent	Joseph S. Kelly	54	5.22%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,035	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

16th British Columbia election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	592	44.08%		unknown
	Provincial	Arthur Shelford	453	33.73%	–	unknown
	Conservative	Samuel Williams Cocker	298	22.19%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,343	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

17th British Columbia election, 1928

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	889	57.21%		unknown
	Conservative	Arthur Shelford	665	42.79%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,554	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			20
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	1,079	52.23%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Arthur Edward Windle	538	26.04%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Samuel Williams Cocker	355	17.18%	–	unknown
	Independent	Louis Denison Taylor	94	4.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,066	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			35
Turnout			%

British Columbia by-election, June 22, 1936

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Matthew Connelly	899	48.75%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Sidney Godwin	697	37.80%		unknown
	Conservative	Alfred Thompson	248	13.45%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,844	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Reason for by-election: Resignation of A. M. Manson on September 14, 1935 to contest federal election (Vancouver South, October 14, 1935).

19th British Columbia election, 1937

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Matthew Connelly	1,013	50.90%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Sidney Godwin	783	39.35%		unknown
	Conservative	George Samuel Belsham	194	9.75%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,990	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			37
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Matthew Connelly	839	49.50%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William David Menzies	554	32.68%		unknown
	Conservative	Albert Kenzie Hemstreet	302	17.82%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,695	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			48
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Edward Fraser Rowland	932	51.58%		unknown
	Coalition	Mark Matthew Connelly	875	48.42%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			1,807	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			36
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Robert Cecil Steele	1,885	61.60%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Edward Fraser Rowland	1,175	38.40%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,060	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			83
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 1
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Social Credit League	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,137	31.17%	1,607	52.79%
	Liberal	Robert Cecil Steele	1,099	30.13%	1,437	47.21%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Warden Randle Taylor	838	22.97%	-	- %
	Progressive Conservative	George Ogston	574	15.73%	--	--.--%
Total valid votes			3,648	100.00%	3,044	%
Total rejected ballots			132
Turnout			%
1(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

24th British Columbia election, 1953 2
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Social Credit League	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,390	37.99%	1,612	53.90%
	Liberal	Robert Cecil Steele	1,145	31.29%	1,379	46.10%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Edward Fraser Rowland	952	26.02%	-	- %
	Progressive Conservative	Samuel Williams Cocker	172	4.70%	--	--.--%
Total valid votes			3,659	100.00%	2,991	%
Total rejected ballots			175
Turnout			%
2Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of Three shown only)

25th British Columbia election, 1956

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,685	54.06%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Joseph Norman Leslie	847	27.17%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Johnson McInnis	585	18.77%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,117	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			52
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,633	45.88%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ivan Everett Holmes	1,119	31.44%		unknown
	Liberal	Marguerite Clarice Deeder	529	14.86%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Karl Peter Frederiksen	278	7.81%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,559	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			64
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	1,936	55.09%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Robert Fred Langford	779	22.17%		unknown
	Liberal	Richard M. McCallum	528	15.03%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Philip Pickering	271	7.71%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,514	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			51
Turnout			%

28th British Columbia election, 1966

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	2,337	70.16%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Cornelius Bergen	994	29.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,331	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			172
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	3,252	61.00%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Douglas Tynwald Kelly	1,607	30.14%		unknown
	Liberal	Michael Chunys	472	8.85%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,331	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			72
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Douglas Tynwald Kelly	2,600	39.68%		unknown
	Social Credit	Cyril Morley Shelford	2,418	36.90%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Irving Beck	1,018	15.53%		unknown
	Liberal	Darrell Frederick Cursons	517	7.89%		unknown
Total valid votes			6,553	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			101
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	5,228	58.04%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Douglas Tynwald Kelly	2,776	30.82%		unknown
	Liberal	Basil Edward Studer	1,003	11.14%		unknown
Total valid votes			9,007	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			111
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	5,830	58.34%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Russell Frederick Anderson	4,163	41.66%		unknown
Total valid votes			9,993	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			199
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	6,722	55.77%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Bruce Thomas Kanary	4,164	34.54%		unknown
	Western Canada Concept	Clyde William Nunn	1,006	8.35%		unknown
	Liberal	David Anthony Seiler	162	1.34%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,054	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			168
Turnout			%

44th British Columbia election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jack Joseph Kempf	6,586	60.53%	–	unknown
	New Democrat	Louise B. Kilby	4,295	39.47%		unknown
Total valid votes			10,881	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			154
Turnout			%

Sources

Elections BC historical returns