New Westminster (provincial electoral district)

New Westminster is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It is the only electoral district in British Columbia to have existed for every general election.

New Westminster

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Jennifer Whiteside New Democratic
First contested	1875
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	New Westminster

The riding is notable for a couple of reasons. It never voted for a Social Credit candidate during the Socred's era of dominance between 1952 and 1991. It was also represented by Byron Ingemar Johnson, the 24th Premier of British Columbia.

During the 1990s, the riding was represented by Anita Hagen, who served as Deputy Premier of British Columbia and Minister of Education from 1991 to 1993 during the premiership of Mike Harcourt. Hagen was replaced by Graeme Bowbrick in 1996, who served as Minister of Advanced Education in 2000, and Attorney General from 2000 to 2001.

Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Its MLA is Jennifer Whiteside. She was first elected in 2020. She is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
14th	1916–1920		David Whiteside	Liberal
15th	1920–1924
16th	1924–1928		Edwin James Rothwell	Liberal
17th	1928–1933		Arthur Wellesley Gray	Liberal
18th	1933–1937
19th	1937–1941
20th	1941–1945
21st	1945–1949		Byron Ingemar Johnson	Coalition
22nd	1949–1952
23rd	1952–1953		Rae Eddie	CCF
24th	1953–1956
25th	1956–1960
26th	1960–1963
27th	1963–1966			New Democatic
28th	1966–1969
29th	1969–1972		Dennis Cocke	New Democatic
30th	1972–1975
31st	1975–1979
32nd	1979–1983
33rd	1983–1986
34th	1986–1991		Anita Hagen	New Democatic
35th	1991–1996
36th	1996–2001		Graeme Bowbrick	New Democatic
37th	2001–2005		Joyce Murray	Liberal
38th	2005–2009		Chuck Puchmayr	New Democatic
39th	2009–2013		Dawn Black
40th	2013–2017		Judy Darcy
41st	2017–2020
42nd	2020–present		Jennifer Whiteside

Election results

2020

2020 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jennifer Whiteside	15,903	60.25	+8.32	$31,579.21
	Green	Cyrus Sy	5,020	19.02	−6.05	$18,803.70
	Liberal	Lorraine Brett	4,291	16.26	−4.94	$9,107.81
	Conservative	Benny Ogden	912	3.46	–	$0.00
	Libertarian	Donald Wilson	269	1.02	+0.30	$0.00
Total valid votes			26,395	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC[1][2]

2017

2017 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Judy Darcy	14,377	51.93	+3.09	$64,541
	Green	Jonina Campbell	6,939	25.07	+16.72	$31,266
	Liberal	Lorraine Brett	5,870	21.20	−12.17	$24,848
	Social Credit	James Crosty	298	1.08	–	$3,877
	Libertarian	Rex Brocki	199	0.72	+0.02	$0
Total valid votes			27,683	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			108	0.39	−0.10
Turnout			27,791	63.61	+5.80
Registered voters			43,690
Source: Elections BC[3][4]

2013

2013 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Judy Darcy	13,170	48.84	−7.52	$126,704
	Liberal	Hector Bremner	8,997	33.37	−1.24	$56,036
	Green	Terry Teather	2,252	8.35	−0.68	$1,417
	Conservative	Paul Forseth	1,318	4.89	−	$1,450
	Independent	James Crosty	1,038	3.85	−	#3,530
	Libertarian	Lewis Dahlby	190	0.70	−	$250
Total valid votes			26,965	100.00
Total rejected ballots			132	0.49
Turnout			27,097	57.81
Source: Elections BC[5]

2009

2009 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dawn Black	13,418	56.36	+5.04	$80,256
	Liberal	Carole Millar	8,240	34.61	−2.81	$24,880
	Green	Matthew Laird	2,151	9.03	−0.34	$5,214
Total Valid Votes			23,809	100
Total Rejected Ballots			137	0.57
Turnout			23,946	55.99

2005

2005 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Chuck Puchmayr	13,226	51.32	+20.30	$61,892
	Liberal	Joyce Murray	9,645	37.42	−11.78	$135,015
	Green	Robert Broughton	2,416	9.37	−3.90	$1,417
	Marijuana	Christina Racki	293	1.14	−2.68	$100
	Democratic Reform	John Robinson Warren	152	0.59	–	$410
	Platinum	Greg Calcutta	42	0.16	–	$100
Total Valid Votes			25,774	100.00
Total Rejected Ballots			166	0.64	+0.14
Turnout			25,940	63.91	−6.5
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+16.04

2001

37th British Columbia election, 2001

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Joyce Murray	11,059	49.20%		$47,701
	New Democratic	Graeme Bowbrick	6,971	31.02%		$26,704
	Green	Robert Broughton	2,982	13.27%		$3,401
	Marijuana	Marlene P. Campbell	859	3.82%		$394
	Unity	Howard Vernon Irving	604	2.69%
Total Valid Votes			22,475	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			113	0.50%
Turnout			22,588	71.07%

1996

36th British Columbia election, 1996

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Graeme Bowbrick	10,418	46.69%		$29,591
	Liberal	Helen Sparkes	8,591	38.50%		$34,673
	Reform	Brian Stromgren	1,446	6.48%
	Progressive Democrat	Craig Sahlin	1,121	5.02%
	Green	Michael G. Horn	488	2.19%		$145
	Independent	Arthur Crossman	142	0.64%
	Natural Law	George Bauch	107	0.48%		$224
Total Valid Votes			22,313	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			133	0.59%
Turnout			22,446	70.41%

1991

35th British Columbia election, 1991

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Anita Hagen	10,384	49.89%		$24,062
	Liberal	Lori MacDonald	7,117	34.20%		$2,534
	Social Credit	Tom Baker	3,311	15.91%		$26,509
Total Valid Votes			20,812	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			395	1.86%
Turnout			21,207	72.32%

1986

1986 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Anita Hagen	13,562	66.67
	Social Credit	Dwight Maxwell Ross	8,949	43.99
	Liberal	Timothy E. Courtney	1,200	5.90
	Communist	Roderick Doran	73	0.36
Total valid votes			20,342	100.00
Total rejected ballots			245

1983

33rd British Columbia election, 1983

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	11,455	56.52%		unknown
	Social Credit	Barry David Butler	8,224	40.57%		unknown
	Liberal	John Ian Paterson	590	2.91%		unknown
Total valid votes			20,269	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			233
Turnout			%

1979

32nd British Columbia election, 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	11,343	59.30%		unknown
	Social Credit	Malvern James Hughes	7,786	40.70%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,129	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			292
Turnout			%

1975

31st British Columbia election, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	10,357	55.63%		unknown
	Social Credit	Alexander John Seigo	8,473	44.35%		unknown
	Liberal	Karl Franke	923	4.83%		unknown
	Communist	Roderick Doran	60	0.31%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,106	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			166
Turnout			%

1972

30th British Columbia election, 1972

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	10,357	55.63%		unknown
	Social Credit	John Earl Edmondson	5,306	28.50%		unknown
	Liberal	Carl L. Miller	2,953	15.86%		unknown
Total valid votes			18,616	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			287
Turnout			%

1969

29th British Columbia election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	7,280	40.75%		unknown
	Social Credit	John Earl Edmondson	7,161	40.08%		unknown
	Liberal	Dennis Douglas George Milne	3,368	18.85%		unknown
	Communist	Harry Harris	57	0.32%		unknown
Total valid votes			17,866	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			221
Turnout			%

1966

28th British Columbia election, 1966

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Rae Eddie	5,751	44.65%		unknown
	Social Credit	Edith Maud Corrigan	5,552	43.11%		unknown
	Liberal	Robert James Cooper	1,577	12.24%		unknown
Total valid votes			12,880	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			160
Turnout			%

1963

27th British Columbia election, 1963

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Rae Eddie	5,035	37.57%		unknown
	Social Credit	Edith Maud Corrigan	4,717	35.19%		unknown
	Liberal	George Herbert Barrett	2,335	17.42%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	G. Basil Raikes	1,316	9.82%		unknown
Total valid votes			13,403	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			98
Turnout			%

1960

26th British Columbia election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rae Eddie	6,496	41.25%		unknown
	Social Credit	Stanley Desmond Kermeen	5,041	32.01%
	Liberal	Samuel Thomas Dare	2,519	16.00%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick Craig Munroe	1,691	10.74%		unknown
Total valid votes			15,747	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			127
Turnout			%

1956

1956 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rae Eddie	4,469	38.83
	Social Credit	Stanley Desmond Kermeen	4,176	36.28
	Liberal	Stewart Alsbury	2,220	19.29
	Independent Social Credit	J. Lewis Sangster	645	5.60
Total valid votes			11,510	100.00
Total rejected ballots			82

1953

1953 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rae Eddie	4,903	37.02	5,970	51.34
	Liberal	Fred H. Jackson	4,309	32.53	5,658	48.66
	Social Credit League	Malvin A. Olsen	3,787	28.59
	Labor–Progressive	Alfred Dewhurst	157	1.19
	Christian Democratic	Mervin Casper	89	0.67
Total valid votes			13,245	100.00	11,628	100.00
Total rejected ballots			486
Turnout			77.94
Note: Preferential ballot: 1st and 4th counts of four shown only

1952

1952 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rae Eddie	4,262	29.68	6,475	52.89
	Liberal	Byron Ingemar Johnson	4,317	30.07	5,768	47.11
	Social Credit League	Wilbur Watson Lyle	3,616	25.18
	Progressive Conservative	Elizabeth C. Wood	2,163	15.06
Total valid votes			14,358	100.00	12,243	100.00
Total rejected ballots			437
Turnout			77.94
Note: Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only

1949

1949 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson	7,969	61.57
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Henry Mitchell	4,509	34.84
	Social Credit	Wilbur Watson Lyle	328	2.53
	People's	Edward Charles Mills	137	1.06
Total valid votes			12,943	100.00
Total rejected ballots			125

1945

21st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson ^8	4,900	57.91%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clifford Augustine Greer	2,967	35.06%		unknown
	Labour Progressive	Charles Stewart	595	7.03%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,462	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			94
Turnout			%
^8 23rd Premier of British Columbia

1941

20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	3,694	41.74%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley Blake	2,387	26.97%		unknown
	Conservative (historical)	Mary Dorothea McBride	1,923	21.73%		unknown
	Labour	Edward Charles Mills	845	9.55%		unknown
Total valid votes			8,849	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			178
Turnout			%

1937

19th British Columbia election, 1937

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	4,055	52.02%		unknown
	Conservative (historical)	Thomas Robert Selkirk	1,766	22.66%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley Blake	1,321	16.95%		unknown
	Communist	Edwin Henry Baker	567	7.27%		unknown
	Labour	Edward Charles Mills	86	1.10%		unknown
Total valid votes			7,795	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			116
Turnout			%

1933

18th British Columbia election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	2,694	46.98%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Daniel McGrath	1,476	25.74%		unknown
	Independent	David Whiteside ^1	1,439	25.10%		unknown
	United Front (Workers and Farmers)	Douglas Thomas	125	2.18%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,734	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			67
Turnout			%
^1 Endorsed by the Independent CCF.

1928

17th British Columbia election, 1928

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray ^6	3.262	56.16%		unknown
	Conservative (historical)	Albert Morris Sanford	2,546	43.84%		unknown
Total valid votes			5,808	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			205
Turnout			%
^6 "Wells Gray", namesake and instigator of the provincial park of that name in the Cariboo Mountains.

1924

16th British Columbia election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Edwin James Rothwell	1,564	37.61%		unknown
	Conservative (historical)	Albert Morris Sanford	1,310	31.51%		unknown
	Labour	Richard Carter Higgins	693	16.67%		unknown
	Provincial	George Livingstone Cassady	591	14.21%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,158	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

1920

1920 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,980	43.07
	Soldier–Labour	William James Sloan ^5	1,611	35.04
	Conservative	Thomas Gifford	1,006	21.88
Total valid votes			4,597	100.00
^5 Also referred to as an Independent. Nominated by delegates representing the Great War Veterans Association, the GAUV, the B.C. Fisherman's Protective Association, the Army and Navy Veterans, and organized labour.

1916

1916 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,369	53.59%
	Conservative	Thomas Gifford	1,186	46.42%
Total valid votes			2,555	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

1875

1875 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Independent Government	Ebenezer Brown	154	26.15
	Government	William James Armstrong	153	25.98
	Reform caucus	Donald McGillivray	117	19.86
	Reform caucus	Jeremiah Rogers ^2	111	18.84
	Government	William M. Campbell	54	9.17
Total valid votes			589	100.00
^2 Noted lumberman on False Creek/English Bay

References

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2. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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5. "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.