Salmon Arm (electoral district)
Salmon Arm was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia including on the town of Salmon Arm on Shuswap Lake. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election. After the 1966 election there was a redistribution with the resulting riding in the same area being Shuswap.
For other current and historical federal and provincial ridings in the area of Kamloops, British Columbia see Kamloops (provincial electoral district) and Kamloops (electoral district); for those in the Okanagan please see Okanagan (electoral districts).
Demographics
Population, 1921 | |
Population change, 1921–1966 | |
Area (km²) | |
Population density (people per km²) |
Political geography
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Notable elections
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Notable MLAs
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Electoral history
Note: Winners in each election are in bold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rolf Wallgren Bruhn | 920 | 36.83% | unknown | ||
Provincial | William Arthur Algernon Warren | 824 | 32.99% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Francis Edward Wilcox | 754 | 30.18% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,498 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Conservative | Rolf Wallgren Bruhn | 1,706 | 73.25% | unknown | ||
Liberal | James Smart | 623 | 26.75% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,329 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 24 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Rolf Wallgren Bruhn | 1,351 | 44.82% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | James Reginald Colley | 888 | 29.46% | unknown | ||
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Bert Samson | 172 | 5.71% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | George Faulds Stirling | 603 | 20.01% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 3,014 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 20 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Harold Willett Birch | 884 | 27.87% | unknown | ||
Independent | Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 1 | 1,533 | 48.33% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Robert Wood | 755 | 23.80% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 3,172 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 71 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
1 Supported and endorsed by the B.C. Constructives. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Arthur Fancett Barton | 468 | 18.06% | unknown | ||
Conservative | Rolf Wallgren Bruhn | 1,561 | 60.22% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | John William Tordoff | 563 | 21.72% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,592 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 52 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coalition | Arthur Brown Ritchie | 1,560 | 60.00% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | George Faulds Stirling | 1,040 | 40.00% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 2,600 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 28 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Russell Carleton Freeze | 1,681 | 39.93% | unknown | ||
Coalition | Arthur Borwn Ritchie | 2,529 | 60.07% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 4,210 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 86 | |||||
Turnout | % |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||||||||||
Liberal | John James Carmichael | 669 | 15.69% | - | -.- % | unknown | B.C. Social Credit League | James Allan Reid | 1,462 | 34.30% | 1,979 | 55.03% | unknown | |||
Conservative | Arthur Brown Ritchie | 896 | 21.02% | - | - % | unknown | ||||||||||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William John Thompson | 1,236 | 28.99% | 1,617 | 44.97% | unknown | ||||||||||
Total valid votes | 4,263 | 100.00% | 3,596 | - % | ||||||||||||
Total rejected ballots | 164 | |||||||||||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||||||||||
2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 3 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Liberal | John James Carmichael | 623 | 14.52% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Social Credit | James Allan Reid | 1,627 | 37.91% | 2,013 | 52.71% | |||
Conservative | Arthur Brown Ritchie | 600 | 13.98% | - | - % | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William John Thompson | 1,341 | 31.24% | 1,806 | 47.29% | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Gwyn Lorne Walters | 101 | 2.35% | - | -.- % | |||
Total valid votes | 4,292 | 100.00% | 3,819 | - % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 167 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of four (4) shown only. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Greta Dagma Abbing de Vries | 339 | 8.15% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | James Allan Reid | 2,131 | 51.24% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William John Thompson | 1,454 | 34.96% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Dennis Allen Williams | 235 | 5.65% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 4,159 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 79 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Kenneth Carr Haines | 1,667 | 35.17% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Willis Franklin Jefcoat | 1,979 | 41.75% | – | unknown | |
Progressive Conservative | Torquil (Torque) MacLeod | 613 | 12.93% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Donald Edmund Nunn | 481 | 10.15% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 4,740 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 59 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive Conservative | James Churchill | 1,005 | 20.29% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Willis Franklin Jefcoat | 2,058 | 41.55% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Byron O.S. Johnson | 245 | 4.95% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Leonard Terrence O'Neill | 1,645 | 33.21% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 4,953 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 57 | |||||
Turnout | % |
A redistribution took place before the 1966 election, after which the Shuswap Lake area became represented by the renamed riding of Shuswap.