Burnaby (provincial electoral district)

Burnaby was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that first appeared on the hustings in the 1924 election. For the federal electoral district of the same name, please see Burnaby (federal electoral district).

Political geography

The riding was identical with the Municipality of Burnaby, other than areas near to New Westminster which were included in the New Westminster electoral district. At the time of the riding's creation much of Burnaby was still semi-rural and development was confined to the Kingsway corridor (then "Westminster Highway"), along Hastings Street and Broadway (near Lougheed Highway), and along the two mainlines of the British Columbia Electric Railway via Central Park and Burnaby Lake.

Notable MLAs

Ernest Edward Winch

Electoral history

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Canadian Labour	Francis Aubrey Browne	1,567	31.22%		unknown
	Liberal	Hugh Murray Fraser	1,324	26.37%	–	unknown
	Provincial	Alexander Kenneth McLean	1,155	23.01%	–	unknown
	Conservative	Thomas Sanderson	974	19.40%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,020	100.00%
Turnout			%

v t e 1928 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Robert Rutledge	2,144	40.81
	Liberal	John Angus McIver	1,779	33.87
	Independent Labour	Francis Aubrey Browne	1,330	25.32
Total valid votes			5,253	100.00
Total rejected ballots			125

v t e 1933 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ernest Edward Winch	4,548	39.27
	Liberal	Eleanor Walker Johnson	4,020	34.72
	Unionist	Frederick William Ball Law	1,051	9.08
	United Front (Workers and Farmers)	John Stevenson	694	5.99
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Gilbert Wainwright Hall	519	4.48
	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth	James Elman Johnston	344	2.97
	Progressive Liberal	William Henry Lench	353	3.05
	Socialist	James King	29	0.25
	Independent	Hans John Diffner	22	0.19
Total valid votes			11,580	100.00
Total rejected ballots			138

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	Howard Wilfrid Clegg	2,307	17.19%		unknown
	Liberal	William Ewart Grieve	3,379	25.18%	–	unknown
	Social Credit League	Herbert Wesley Halling	136	1.01%	–	unknown
	Independent	Eleanor Walker Johnson	1,009	7.52%		unknown
	Social Constructive	Roderick Charles MacDonald	644	4.80%		unknown
	Independent	Louis Elmo Walker	34	0.25%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	5,908	44.03%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,417	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			121

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Charles Clare Bell	2,707	20.79%	unknown
	Religious Political Brotherhood	Archibald Emmanuel Hardy	105	0.81%	unknown
	Liberal	Aubrey Charles Peck	3,762	28.90%	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	6,444	49.50%	unknown
Total valid votes			13,018
Total rejected ballots			237

21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit Alliance	(Mrs.) Lyle Campbell	298	2.55%		unknown
	Coalition	Vernon James Lewis	4,733	40.52%	–	unknown
	Labor-Progressive	Elizabeth Wilson	744	6.37%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	5,905	50.56%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,680	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			302
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	George Andrew Morrison	9,981	46.08%	–	unknown
	Social Credit League	Henry George Rhodes	655	3.02%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ernest Edward Winch	11,025	50.90%		unknown
Total valid votes			21,661	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			204
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952¹
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Liberal	Ronald William Fairclough	3,816	14.15%	4,919	18.84%
	Progressive Conservative	Oscar Rudolph Olson	2,807	10.41%	-	-.- %
	Social Credit League	Clement Frederick Stelter	6,750	25.03%	7,780	29.79%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	12,933	47.96%	13,416	51.37%
	Christian Democratic	Bernard William Worsley	662	2.45%	-	-.- %
Total valid votes			26,968	%	26,115	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			789
Turnout			%
¹ Preferential ballot; only one count necessary due to majority on first count.

24th British Columbia election, 1953 ²
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Social Credit League	Ernest Arthur Crampton	8,151	31.85%	8,161	31.98%
	Liberal	Mary Edith McDonald	3,351	13.09%	3,364	13.18%
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick Marven Stephens	641	2.50%	646	2.53%
	Labor-Progressive	William John Turner	367	1.43%	-	-.- %
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	12,689	49.58%	12,947	50.73%
	Christian Democratic	Bernard William Worsley	396	1.55%	401	1.57%
Total valid votes			25,595	100.00%	25,519	%
Total rejected ballots			1,058
Total Registered Voters
Turnout			%
² Preferential ballot; first and final of two (two) counts only shown.

25th British Columbia election, 1956 ³
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Emmet Cafferky	3,895	6.43%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Dowding	12,692	20.96%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	John A.W. Drysdale	513	0.84%	-	unknown
	Liberal	James Henry Edwards	3,972	6.56%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Malcolm Fitzgerald Green	478	0.80%	-	unknown
	Social Credit	Kenneth Martin Hoffman	11,583	19.13%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	William Parker Philps	12,103	20.00%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch	15,304	25.28%		unknown
Total valid votes			60,540	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			236
Turnout			%
³ Seat increased to two members from one.

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Hilliard Harold William Beyerstein	13,469	16.98%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Cedric Cox	17,659	22.27%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Dowding	17,522	22.09%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Malcolm Fitzgerald Green	1,069	1.35%		unknown
	Social Credit	Thomas Irwin	13,394	16.89%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Graham B. Ladner	7,601	9.58%	–	unknown
	Liberal	William Lindsay	7,111	8.97%	–	unknown
	Communist	Harold James Pritchett	409	0.52%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Florence B. Zucco	1,075	1.36%		unknown
Total valid votes			79,309	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			589
Turnout			%

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edward Marshall Bauder	5,472	7.43%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	Hilliard Harold William Beyerstein	14,070	19.12%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Cedric Cox	14,409	19.58%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Gordon Dowding	14,750	20.04%		unknown
	Liberal	Ronald William Fairclough	5,641	7.66%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Esmond Sibley Gladwin	2,263	3.07%		unknown
	Social Credit	Charles Willoughby MacSorley	14,650	19.91%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Christopher John McKin Thomson	2,343	3.18%		unknown
Total valid votes			73,598	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			20
Turnout			%

The Burnaby riding was partitioned in the large redistribution prior to the 1966 election. Successor ridings were Burnaby-Edmonds, Burnaby-Willingdon and Burnaby North.

Sources

Elections BC website - historical election data