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Salmon Arm (electoral district)

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

Demographics

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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

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Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924
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 %
17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
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 %
18th British Columbia election, 1933
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 %
19th British Columbia election, 1937
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.
20th British Columbia election, 1941
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 %
31st British Columbia election, 1945
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 %
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Russell Carleton Freeze 1,681 39.93% unknown
Coalition Arthur Brown Ritchie 2,529 60.07% unknown
Total valid votes 4,210 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 86
Turnout %
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 2
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
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
Labor-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.
25th British Columbia election, 1956
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 %
26th British Columbia election, 1960
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 %
27th British Columbia election, 1963
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.

Sources

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Elections BC Historical Returns