Vancouver East (provincial electoral district)
Vancouver East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1933. It and the other new Vancouver ridings in this year, Vancouver-Burrard, Vancouver-Point Grey and Vancouver Centre, were all created from the old Vancouver City riding, which was a six-member seat. Vancouver East was a two-member seat.
For a full listing of Vancouver ridings, historical and current, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).
Demographics
Population, 2001 | 55,510 |
Population Change, 1931–2001 | 8.2% |
Area (km²) | 23.77 |
Pop. Density | 2,335 |
Electoral history 1933-1986
1933 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Harold Edward Winch2 | 11,019 | 26.82 | ![]() | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | John Price | 10,972 | 26.70 | ![]() | ||||
Liberal | Manfred McGeer | 7,348 | 17.88 | |||||
Liberal | James Gray Turgeon | 6,823 | 16.60 | |||||
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Alexander Daniel MacLean | 1,237 | 3.01 | |||||
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Norah Leavy | 1,213 | 2.95 | |||||
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Ethel Jane Evans | 501 | 1.22 | |||||
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Robert Henry Lealess | 501 | 1.22 | |||||
Independent | Gordon Monroe Grant | 418 | 1.027 | |||||
Unionist | Gabriel Eustis1 | 404 | 0.98 | |||||
Independent Co-operative Commonwealth | Fenwick Wilbur Crawford | 309 | 0.75 | |||||
Independent Co-operative Commonwealth | John Grant Leggatt | 249 | 0.61 | |||||
Socialist | John Henry Burrough | 98 | 0.24 | |||||
Total valid votes | 28,323 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 138 | |||||||
1 Referred to as "Labour" in the newspapers but identified as UPBC in Statement of Votes and List of Candidates. 2 Leader of the Opposition, 1941-1953. |
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Margaret Russell Barclay | 5,063 | 12.37% | |||
Socialist | John Henry Burrough | 53 | 0.13% | – | unknown | |
Conservative | William Corran | 3,079 | 7.52% | |||
Liberal | Charles Albert Donovan | 5,251 | 12.83% | |||
Conservative | Thomas Irvine | 2,835 | 6.93% | |||
Social Credit League | Claude Weamar Powell | 208 | 0.51 | |||
Social Constructive | John Price | 682 | 1.67% | |||
Social Constructive | William Arthur Pritchard | 464 | 1.13% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | James Lyle Telford | 11,752 | 28.72% | |||
Social Credit League | Gordon Victor Towle | 181 | 0.44% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Harold Edward Winch | 11,350 | 27.74% | |||
Total valid votes | 40,918 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 362 |
1941 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Harold Edward Winch | 13,571 | 30.78 | ![]() | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Arthur James Turner | 9,757 | 22.12 | ![]() | ||||
Liberal | John Henderson | 4,938 | 11.20 | |||||
Liberal | Theodore Roosvelt Burnett | 4,557 | 10.34 | |||||
Conservative | William Wilfred Derpak | 3,770 | 8.55 | |||||
Independent Labour | James Lyle Telford | 3,665 | 8.31 | |||||
Conservative | George Wilkinson Hubbard | 3,562 | 8.08 | |||||
Socialist Labour | Robert Gordon McQuillan | 271 | 0.61 | |||||
Total valid votes | 44,091 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 420 | |||||||
2 Became Leader of the Opposition. |
1945 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Harold Edward Winch | 13,421 | 27.81 | ![]() | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Arthur James Turner | 12,300 | 25.49 | ![]() | ||||
Coalition | Frederick John Hume | 9,816 | 20.34 | |||||
Coalition | Henry Edwards | 9,164 | 18.99 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Harold James Pritchett | 1,541 | 3.19 | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Charles MacGregor Stewart | 1,257 | 2.60 | |||||
Social Credit Alliance | Arthur C. Rowe | 372 | 0.77 | |||||
Social Credit Alliance | Gordon Victor Towle | 333 | 0.69 | |||||
Socialist Labour | Raymond Harold MacLeod | 56 | 0.12 | |||||
Total valid votes | 48,260 | |||||||
Total rejected ballots | 154 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Progressive | Viola May Bianco | 1,038 | 1.36% | unknown | ||
Coalition | Douglas Brown | 16,909 | 22.23% | – | unknown | |
Coalition | John Dickinson Cornett | 17,168 | 22.57% | – | unknown | |
Union of Electors | Sidney Lamont Gray | 109 | 0.14% | – | unknown | |
Social Credit | Thomas McGibbon | 625 | 0.82% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Audrey Anne Neale | 395 | 0.52% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Arthur James Turner | 19,284 | 25.35% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Harold Edward Winch | 20,531 | 27.00% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 76,059 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 523 | |||||
Turnout | % |
For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with two ballots, one for each seat, with two separate candidate-races:
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver East Ballot A 3 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Christian Democratic | Albert Peter Busch | 1,387 | 3.13% | |||||
Liberal | Everett Crowley | 6,574 | 14.85% | 8,263 | 19.37% | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Stephen Endicott | 917 | 2.07% | - | -.- % | |||
BC Social Credit League | Ira Nathan Molson | 11,536 | 26.06% | 12,433 | 29.15% | |||
Progressive Conservative | Emma Loring Tinsman | 2,850 | 6.44% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur James Turner | 21,006 | 47.45% | 21,960 | 51.48% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 44,270 | 100.00% | 42,656 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 2,701 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
3 Preferential ballot; first and final of four (4) counts only shown. |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 - Vancouver East Ballot B 4 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Christian Democratic | Lomer Arthur Louis Dion | 1,318 | 2.94% | 1,318 | 2.94% | |||
Progressive Conservative | Irving Simpson Finkleman | 3,045 | 6.79% | 3,045 | 6.79% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Frank George Perrin Lewis | 5,286 | 11.79% | 5,286 | 11.79% | unknown | ||
Social Credit League | John Duncan Roberts | 11,202 | 24.99% | 11,202 | 24.99% | |||
Labour Progressive | Maurice Rush | 931 | 2.08% | 931 | 2.08% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Harold Edward Winch | 23,051 | 51.42% | 23,051 | 51.42% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 44,833 | 100.00% | 44,833 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 2,338 | |||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
4 Preferential ballot; one count only required on this ballot. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver East Ballot A 5 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Social Credit | Anthony Maximilian Arnold | 13,225 | 32.81% | 13,872 | 35.02% | |||
Christian Democratic | Albert Peter Busch | 743 | 1.84% | |||||
Liberal | Everett Crowley | 5,272 | 13.08% | 5,796 | 14.63% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Irving Simpson Finkleman | 747 | 1.86% | - | -.- % | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Nigel Morgan | 842 | 2.09% | - | -.- % | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur James Turner | 19,475 | 48.32% | 19,942 | 50.35% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 40,304 | 100.00% | 39,610 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 2,592 | |||||||
Total Registered Voters | ||||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
5 Preferential ballot; first and final of four (4) counts only shown. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 Vancouver East Ballot B 6 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | ±% | ||
Christian Democratic | Lomer Arthur Louis Dion | 351 | 0.87% | 351 | 0.87% | |||
Liberal | Phillip James Lipp | 4,727 | 11.76% | 4,727 | 11.76% | unknown | ||
Labour Progressive | Harvey Murphy | 816 | 2.03% | 816 | 2.03% | |||
Progressive Conservative | Stanley Alexander Roberts | 803 | 2.00% | 803 | 2.00% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arnold Alexander Webster | 20,583 | 51.22% | 20,583 | 51.22% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Stanley Earl Wilcox | 12,910 | 32.12% | 12,910 | 32.12% | |||
Total valid votes | 40,190 | 100.00% | 40,190 | % | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 2,681 | |||||||
Total Registered Voters | ||||||||
Turnout | % | |||||||
6 Preferential ballot; only one count required on this ballot. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive Conservative | Lorne C. Aggett | 720 | 0.85% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Sidney Lewis Beyer | 541 | 0.64% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Evelyn Margaret Fingarson | 17,821 | 21.11% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | John Leslie McCabe | 4,156 | 4.92% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Patrick Joseph O'Donohue | 4,229 | 5.01% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Frederick Morton Sharp | 18,640 | 22.08% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Harold Edward Thayer | 18,541 | 21.96% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur James Turner | 19,774 | 23.42% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 84,422 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 76 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Harold (Harry) Appleton | 5,906 | 5.92% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Joseph Charles Bryant | 5,828 | 5.86% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Madeline Barbara Dent | 999 | 1.01% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Norman Gareth Dent | 1,080 | 1.09% | unknown | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 25,610 | 25.74% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Raymond McCarthy | 16,379 | 16.46% | – | unknown | |
Communist | Nigel Morgan | 718 | 0.72% | unknown | ||
Communist | John Phillips | 598 | 0.60% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Frederick Morton Sharp | 16,622 | 16.71% | – | unknown | |
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Arthur James Turner | 25,580 | 25.71% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 99,479 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 761 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive Conservative | Gladys Chong | 2,308 | 2.64% | unknown | |||
Progressive Conservative | William Dronsfield | 2,260 | 2.59% | unknown | |||
Independent | Albert Dunn | 215 | 0.25% | unknown | |||
Liberal | John Joseph Fedyk | 3,996 | 4.58% | unknown | |||
Social Credit | James Morris Kennedy | 17,031 | 19.51% | – | unknown | ||
Liberal | Lloyd Bruce Little | 3,901 | 4.47% | unknown | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 20,424 | 23.40% | unknown | |||
New Democratic | Arthur James Turner | 20,292 | 23.25% | unknown | |||
Social Credit | Earl Vance | 16,867 | 19.32% | – | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 87,294 | 100.00% | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 644 | ||||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Joseph Fedyk | 1,637 | 3.60% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | James Morris Kennedy | 8,644 | 18.99% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 12,502 | 27.46% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Allan Edward Morgan | 8,593 | 18.88% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Harry Pedrini | 1,583 | 3.48% | unknown | ||
Communist | Homer John Stevens | 377 | 8.28% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Robert Arthur Williams | 12,185 | 26.77% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 45,521 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 404 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Communist | Ernest Francis Crist | 159 | 0.31% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Mary Gertrude Gibson | 2,398 | 4.72% | unknown | ||
Independent | Lionel Vincent Hodgson | 54 | 0.11% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Arthur Berg Jacobson | 9,997 | 19.66% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 13,006 | 25.60% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Max Edward Meyer | 9,905 | 19.49% | – | unknown | |
Communist | Nigel Morgan | 203 | 0.40% | unknown | ||
Liberal | James Morrison | 2,320 | 4.57% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Robert Arthur Williams | 12,768 | 25.13% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 50,810 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 338 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | A.G. David Brown | 7,473 | 13.99% | – | unknown | |
Communist | Barry F. Dean | 237 | 0.44% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Biren K. Jha | 7,117 | 13.32% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 16,946 | 31.72% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Donald McIntyre | 2,453 | 4.59% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Paul John Mitchell | 2,299 | 4.30% | unknown | ||
Communist | Nigel Morgan | 250 | 0.47% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Robert Arthur Williams | 16,647 | 31.16% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 53,422 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 515 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Ratomir (Roy) Babic | 10,431 | 18.81% | |||
Liberal | Norman Sidney Chamberlist | 1,591 | 2.87% | |||
Revolutionary Marxist Group | Gary Eric Cristall | 31 | 0.06% | |||
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 15,918 | 28.70% | |||
Social Credit | Nick Mandrusiak | 10,267 | 18.51% | |||
Communist | Nigel Morgan | 214 | 0.39% | |||
Revolutionary Marxist Group | Stephen Richard Penner | 41 | 0.07% | |||
North American Labour Party | Calvin Alphonso Segur | 42 | 0.07% | |||
Liberal | Florence Anne Simatos | 1,387 | 2.50% | |||
Communist | Samuel G. Vint | 144 | 0.26% | |||
New Democratic | Robert Arthur Williams | 15,396 | 27.76% | |||
Total valid votes | 55,462 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 582 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Democratic | Dave Barrett | 21,836 | 32.95% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Helen Demetra Boyce | 10,857 | 16.38% | – | unknown | |
North American Labour Party | Andre Doucet | 152 | 0.23% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | William Arthur Honour | 1,068 | 1.61% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Shirley Joann Keinanen | 999 | 1.51% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 20,670 | 31.19% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Bernard Merle Smith | 10,688 | 16.13% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 66,270 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,032 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Democratic | Dave Barrett | 22,117 | 31.78% | unknown | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | 21,112 | 30.34% | unknown | |||
Social Credit | William James McMartin | 12,025 | 17.28% | – | unknown | ||
Communist | Bert Ogden | 316 | 0.46% | unknown | |||
Liberal | Bruce W. Robinson | 1,188 | 1.71% | unknown | |||
Social Credit | Gordon Ralph Smith | 11,741 | 16.87% | – | unknown | ||
Liberal | Angela E. Thiele | 1,087 | 1.56% | unknown | |||
Total valid votes | 69,586 | 100.00% | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,046 | ||||||
Turnout | % |
British Columbia provincial by-election, November 8, 1984 Resignation of Dave Barrett | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
New Democratic | Bob Williams | 12,857 | 55.50 | |||||
Liberal | Arthur John "Art" Lee | 6,287 | 27.14 | |||||
Social Credit | Mario Caravetta | 3,743 | 16.16 | |||||
Green | Hans-Joachim Grages | 200 | 0.86 | |||||
Independent | David John Ford | 79 | 0.34 | |||||
Total valid votes | 23,166 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 364 | |||||||
Turnout | 23,530 | |||||||
Source(s) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Val J. Anderson | 3,348 | 4.71% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | John M. Bitonti | 11,069 | 15.58% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Glen David Clark | 20,951 | 29.49% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Anita M. Morris | 2,804 | 3.95% | unknown | ||
Communist | Maurice Rush | 324 | 0.45% | unknown | ||
People's Front | Joseph Theriault | 94 | 0.13% | |||
Social Credit | Peter Guy Westlake | 10,907 | 15.35% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Robert Arthur Williams | 21,555 | 30.34% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 71,052 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,718 | |||||
Turnout | % |
A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old tradition of multiple member districts. Vancouver East was abolished. Its principal successor ridings were Vancouver-Kensington, Vancouver-Hastings and Vancouver-Kingsway. Portions of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Vancouver-Burrard, formerly part of Vancouver Centre may also have been added.
References
- "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections British Columbia. 1988. Retrieved 2021-01-09.