Salmon Arm (electoral district)

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 (electoral districts); for those in the Okanagan please see Okanagan (electoral districts).

Demographics

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

"Note: Winners in each election are in" bold.
Conservative
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
align="right"|920
align="right"|36.83%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Provincial
William Arthur Algernon Warren
align="right"|824
align="right"|32.99%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
Francis Edward Wilcox
align="right"|754
align="right"|30.18%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"| 2,498 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"
!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Conservative
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
align="right"|1,706
align="right"|73.25%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
James Smart
align="right"|623
align="right"|26.75%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|2,329 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|24!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Non-Partisan Independent Group
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
align="right"|1,351
align="right"|44.82%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
James Reginald Colley
align="right"|888
align="right"|29.46%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party
Bert Samson
align="right"|172
align="right"|5.71%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
George Faulds Sterling
align="right"|603
align="right"|20.01%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|3,014 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|20!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"


Liberal
Harold Willett Birch
align="right"|884
align="right"|27.87%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Independent
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn 1
align="right"|1,533
align="right"|48.33%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Robert Wood
align="right"|755
align="right"|23.80%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|3,172 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|71!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|1 Supported and endorsed by the B.C. Constructives.

Liberal
Arthur Fancett Barton
align="right"|468
align="right"|18.06%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Conservative
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
align="right"|1,561
align="right"|60.22%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
John William Tordoff
align="right"|563
align="right"|21.72%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|2,592 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|52!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Coalition
Arthur Brown Ritchie
align="right"|1,560
align="right"|60.00%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
George Faulds Stirling
align="right"|1,040
align="right"|40.00%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|2,600!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|28!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Russell Carleton Freeze
align="right"|1,681
align="right"|39.93%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Coalition
Arthur Borwn Ritchie
align="right"|2,529
align="right"|60.07%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,210 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|86!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Liberal
John James Carmichael
align="right"|669
align="right"|15.69%
align="right"| -
align="right"| -.- %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
B.C. Social Credit League
James Allan Reid
align="right"|1,462
align="right"|34.30%
align="right"|1,979
align="right"|55.03%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Conservative
Arthur Brown Ritchie
align="right"|896
align="right"|21.02%
align="right"| -
align="right"| - %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
William John Thompson
align="right"|1,236
align="right"|28.99%
align="right"|1,617
align="right"|44.97%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,263 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|3,596 !align="right"| - %!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|164!align="right"
!align="right"
!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only.
Liberal
John James Carmichael
align="right"|623
align="right"|14.52%
align="right"| -
align="right"| -.- %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Social Credit
James Allan Reid
align="right"|1,627
align="right"|37.91%
align="right"|2,013
align="right"|52.71%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Conservative
Arthur Brown Ritchie
align="right"|600
align="right"|13.98%
align="right"| -
align="right"| - %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
William John Thompson
align="right"|1,341
align="right"|31.24%
align="right"|1,806
align="right"|47.29%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Labour Progressive Party.
Gwyn Lorne Walters
align="right"|101
align="right"|2.35%
align="right"| -
align="right"| -.- %
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,292 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|3,819 !align="right"| - %!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|167!align="right"
!align="right"
!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of four (4) shown only.
Liberal
Greta Dagma Abbing de Vries
align="right"|339
align="right"|8.15%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Social Credit
James Allan Reid
align="right"|2,131
align="right"|51.24%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
William John Thompson
align="right"|1,454
align="right"|34.96%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Progressive Conservative
Dennis Allen Williams
align="right"|235
align="right"|5.65%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,159 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|79!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Kenneth Carr Haines
align="right"|1,667
align="right"|35.17%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Social Credit
Willis Franklin Jefcoat
align="right"|1,979
align="right"|41.75%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Progressive Conservative
Torquil (Torque) MacLeod
align="right"|613
align="right"|12.93%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
Donald Edmund Nunn
align="right"|481
align="right"|10.15%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,740!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|59!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

Progressive Conservative
James Churchill
align="right"|1,005
align="right"|20.29%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Social Credit
Willis Franklin Jefcoat
align="right"|2,058
align="right"|41.55%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
Liberal
Byron O.S. Johnson
align="right"|245
align="right"|4.95%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
New Democrat
Leonard Terrence O'Neill
align="right"|1,645
align="right"|33.21%
align="right"
align="right"|unknown
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,953 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|57!align="right"
!align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"
!align="right"

A redistribution took place before the 1966 election, after which the Shuswap Lake area became represented by the renamed riding of Shuswap.

Source

[http://www.elections.bc.ca/elections/electoral_history/toc.html Elections BC Historical Returns]


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