Nanaimo (electoral district)

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Nanaimo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1979.

Nanaimo

British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1904
District abolished	1962
First contested	1904
Last contested	1958

This riding was created as Nanaimo riding in 1903 from parts of Vancouver and Victoria ridings.

Its legal description when it was created was: "The electoral district of Nanaimo, comprising the provincial electoral districts of Cowichan, Esquimalt, Nanaimo City, Newcastle, Saanich and The Islands."

Nanaimo electoral district was renamed Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands in 1962.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Vancouver and Victoria
10th	1904–1908		Ralph Smith	Liberal
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917		Francis Henry Shepherd	Conservative
13th	1917–1921		John Charles McIntosh	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Charles Dickie	Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940		James Samuel Taylor	Co-operative Commonwealth
19th	1940–1945		Alan Chambers	Liberal
20th	1945–1949		George Pearkes	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957		Colin Cameron	Co-operative Commonwealth
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Walter Matthews	Progressive Conservative
Riding renamed Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands

Election results

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Walter F. Matthews	10,734	43.91	+17.25
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colin Cameron	10,029	41.03	+3.41
	Liberal	Ernest W.H. Miller	2,606	10.66	-4.33
	Social Credit	Roy Arthur Folz	1,077	4.41	-16.32
Total valid votes			24,446	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+6.92

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colin Cameron	8,650	37.62	-0.94
	Progressive Conservative	Walter Franklyn Matthews	6,131	26.66	+8.57
	Social Credit	Harold Hine	4,766	20.73	+6.02
	Liberal	Frank William Wilfert	3,448	14.99	-10.91
Total valid votes			22,995	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth hold		Swing		-4.76

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colin Cameron	7,272	38.56	+11.77
	Liberal	Gavin Colvin Mouat	4,884	25.90	+0.69
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Deane Finlayson	3,412	18.09	-29.91
	Social Credit	Leonard Francis Hodgson	2,773	14.71	–
	Labor–Progressive	Ernest Leon Knott	516	2.74	–
Total valid votes			18,857	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+5.54

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	George Randolph Pearkes	17,507	48.00	+12.68
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Robert Martin Strachan	9,772	26.79	-3.36
	Liberal	William Edmond Poupore	9,196	25.21	-0.77
Total valid votes			36,475	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+8.02
A redistribution in 1952 (S.C. 1952, c.48) reduced the area and population of the riding.

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	George Randolph Pearkes	11,181	35.32	+5.40
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Morris Thomas	9,542	30.15	+5.27
	Liberal	Alan Chambers	8,223	25.98	-16.48
	Labor–Progressive	George Thomas Greenwell	2,707	8.56	–
Total valid votes			31,653	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+0.12
Change for the Progressive Conservatives is based on the National Government results in the last election.

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Chambers	10,668	42.46	+11.81
	National Government	Frank Stigant Cuncliffe	7,518	29.92	-1.89
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ronald Grantham	6,252	24.88	-9.96
	New Democracy	Andrew Henry Jukes	506	2.01	–
	Independent	William Frederick Povah	181	0.72	–
Total valid votes			25,125	100.0
	Liberal gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+6.85
Change for the National Government is based on the Conservative results in the last election.

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Samuel Taylor	7,053	34.84	–
	Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie	6,440	31.81	-26.01
	Liberal	Alan Chambers	6,204	30.65	-11.44
	Reconstruction	Ashton Aubrey Burnet Matthew Clark	546	2.70	–
Total valid votes			20,243	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth gain from Conservative		Swing		+30.42

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie	11,827	57.91	-8.58
	Liberal	Cornelius Hawkins O'Halloran	8,596	42.09	+8.58
Total valid votes			20,423	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-8.58

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie	10,464	66.49	+12.00
	Liberal	Cornelius Hawkins O'Halloran	5,274	33.51	-1.27
Total valid votes			15,738	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+6.64

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie	9,584	54.49	+8.55
	Liberal	Thomas Banks Booth	6,117	34.78	+7.08
	Labour	William Turner Grieves	1,888	10.73	-15.63
Total valid votes			17,589	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+0.74

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie	6,897	45.94	-27.49
	Liberal	Thomas Banks Booth	4,159	27.70	+11.89
	Labour	William Arthur Pritchard	3,958	26.36	+15.60
Total valid votes			15,014	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-19.69

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government (Unionist)	John Charles McIntosh	9,175	73.43	+15.22
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Hector Allen Stewart	1,976	15.81	-25.98
	Labour	Joseph Taylor	1,344	10.76	–
Total valid votes			12,495	100.0
	Government (Unionist) hold		Swing		+20.60

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Henry Shepherd	2,438	58.21	+25.97
	Liberal	Ralph Smith	1,750	41.79	+5.71
Total valid votes			4,188	100.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+10.13

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ralph Smith	1,494	36.08	-7.23
	Conservative	Francis Henry Shepherd	1,335	32.24	-2.14
	Socialist	James Hurst Hawthornthwaite	1,312	31.68	+9.37
Total valid votes			4,141	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.54

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Ralph Smith	1,392	43.31
	Conservative	? Wolley	1,105	34.38
	Socialist	? Fenton	717	22.31
Total valid votes			3,214	100.00
This riding was created from Vancouver and Victoria, both of which elected a Liberal in the previous election. Ralph Smith was the incumbent from Vancouver.

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

• Nanaimo 1904-1952
• Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands
• Website of the Parliament of Canada