Chilliwack
British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA
 
 		 
Dan Coulter
New Democratic
District created2008
First contested2009
Last contested2020
Demographics
Population (2006)49,338
Area (km²)146.05
Pop. density (per km²)337.8
Census division(s)Fraser Valley Regional District
Census subdivision(s)Chilliwack

Chilliwack has been a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia since 1916. Incorporating slightly different boundaries, it was the successor riding to the Chilliwhack riding the name of which was based on the older spelling of the name.

Political geography and history

Chilliwack was the successor riding to Westminster-Chilliwhack, which was one of four subdivisions of the old rural Westminster riding, the others being the ridings that became, after similar name-changes, Delta, Dewdney and Richmond, which are the parent ridings of all current Fraser Valley electoral districts. Chilliwack riding lasted until the 1996 election. In 2001 the area became represented by Chilliwack-Kent and Chilliwack-Sumas. The latter takes in part of the City of Chilliwack and Sumas Prairie (part of the City of Abbotsford), while the other includes Agassiz, the municipality of Kent, and the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, as well as a certain amount of lands along the banks of the Fraser towards Hope. Following the 2008 redistribution, Chilliwack was reconstituted, primarily out of Chilliwack-Sumas, while much of Chilliwack-Kent will be joined with parts of the Fraser Canyon previously in Yale-Lillooet to form Chilliwack-Hope.[1][needs update]

History

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2022)
Assembly Years Member Party
Chilliwack
37th 2001–2005 Barry Penner Liberal
Chilliwack-Sumas
37th 2001–2005 John Les Liberal
38th 2005–2009
Chilliwack
39th 2009–2013 John Les Liberal
40th 2013–2017 John Martin
41st 2017–2020
42nd 2020–present Dan Coulter New Democratic

Member of the Legislative Assembly

On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term. John Lesof the British Columbia Liberal Party was initially elected during the 2005 election to the Chilliwack-Sumas riding. He successfully ran for re-election in the newly created Chilliwack riding.

Electoral history

Post-2008

2020 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Dan Coulter 7,349 41.56 +9.18 $5,919.34
Liberal John Martin 5,102 28.85 −19.57 $36,378.86
Conservative Diane Janzen 2,910 16.46 – $20,583.54
Green Tim Cooper 1,888 10.68 −6.42 $2,161.84
Independent Josue Anderson 257 1.45 – $2,965.16
Libertarian Andrew Coombes 177 1.00 – $0.00
Total valid votes 17,683 100.00 –
Total rejected ballots    
Turnout    
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC[2][3]
2017 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal John Martin 9,280 48.42 +0.84 $43,462
New Democratic Tracey Lorrean O'Hara 6,207 32.38 +1.17 $7,077
Green Wayne Froese 3,277 17.10 +8.71 $855
Independent Ryan McKinnon 402 2.10 –
Total valid votes 19,166 100.00
Total rejected ballots 139 0.72
Turnout 19,305 55.43
Source: Elections BC[4]
2013 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal John Martin 9,983 47.58
New Democratic Patti MacAhonic 6,548 31.21
Conservative Chad Elton Eros 2,510 11.96
Green Kim Reimer 1,761 8.39
Excalibur Michael Raymond Halliday 181 0.86
Total valid votes 21,002 100.00
Total rejected ballots 101 0.48
Turnout 21,103 55.85
Source: Elections BC[5]
B.C. General Election 2009 Chilliwack
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Les 8,138 44.61
  NDP Mason Goulden 5,908 32.39
Conservative Benjamin Besler 2,672 14.65
Green Fraea Bolding 1,523 8.35 –
Total 18,241 100.00%

Pre-2008

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal Edward Dodsley Barrow 987 55.64% unknown
Conservative William Lyle Macken 787 44.36% unknown
Total valid votes 1,774 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
15th British Columbia election, 1920
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal Edward Dodsley Barrow 1,911 53.16% unknown
Conservative Andrew Leslie Coote 1,684 46.84% unknown
Total valid votes 3,595 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal Edward Dodsley Barrow 1,429 37.83%
Provincial John Alexander MacLeod 1,281 33.928%
Independent Conservative John J. McPhee 1,067 28.25%
Total valid votes 3,777 100.00%
17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative William Atkinson 2,595 55.51% unknown
Liberal Edward Dodsley Barrow 2,080 44.49% – unknown
Total valid votes 4,675 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 79
Turnout %
18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal Edward Dodsley Barrow 2,273 44.96% unknown
Non-Partisan Independent Group Alexander Ingvald Hougen 1,128 22.31% – unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. John Perriman Wheeler 1,655 32.73% unknown
Total valid votes 5,056 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 70
Turnout %
19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Liberal Edward Dodsley Barrow 2,220 35.25% – unknown
Conservative Leslie Harvey Eyres 2,524 40.08% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Thomas Luxton 1,554 24.67% unknown
Total valid votes 6,298 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 77
Turnout %
20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative Leslie Harvey Eyres 2,704 37.78% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Eric Symonds Fowerdew 1,810 25.29% unknown
Liberal Frederick Alexander Menzies 2,644 36.94% – unknown
Total valid votes 7,158 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 42
Turnout %
21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Coalition Leslie Harvey Eyres 3,804 62.37% – unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William Thomas Richards 2,295 37.63% unknown
Total valid votes 6,099 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 35
Turnout %
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. George Henry Barefoot 2,712 22.65% unknown
Coalition Leslie Harvey Eyres 6,847 57.17% – unknown
  BC Social Credit League Peer Vernon Paynter 2,417 20.18% unknown
Total valid votes 11,976 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 167
Turnout %
23rd British Columbia election, 19528
Party Candidate Votes
1st count 		% Votes
final count 		% ±%
  Progressive Conservative Leslie Harvey Eyres 2,097 13.62% 2,097 13.62% unknown
  Liberal Alexander Ingvald Hougen 2,543 16.52% 2,543 16.52% unknown
Social Credit]] William Kenneth Kiernan 8,509 55.29% 8,059 55.29%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. James John Sutherland 2,242 14.57% 2,242 14.57% unknown
Total valid votes 15,391 100.00% 15,391 %
Total rejected ballots 421
Turnout %
8 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; one count only required in this riding.
24th British Columbia election, 1953 9
Party Candidate Votes
1st count 		% Votes
final count 		% ±%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Emil Anderson 2,456 16.99% 2,456 16.99% unknown
  Liberal Lloyd Truman Beharrell 2,631 18.20% 2,631 18.20% unknown
Social Credit William Kenneth Kiernan 8,776 60.73% 8,776 60.73%
  Progressive Conservative Henry Edward Taylor 589 4.08% 589 4.08% unknown
Total valid votes 14,452 100.00% 14,452 %
Total rejected ballots 775
Total Registered Voters
Turnout %
9 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; one count only required in this riding..
25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Liberal Henry Goosen 3,118 19.76% – unknown
Social Credit William Kenneth Kiernan 9,008 57.10% – unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Michael Kournossoff 2,992 18.97% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Douglas Grant Burton Taylor 658 4.17% - -.- %
Total valid votes 15,776 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 138
Turnout %
26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit William Kenneth Kiernan 10,051 54.30% – unknown
  Progressive Conservative Douglas Grant Burton Taylor 1,173 6.34% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leslie Malcolm Walker Tetlock 4,123 22.27% unknown
Liberal Frank Wilson 3,163 17.09% – unknown
Total valid votes 18,510 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 150
Turnout %
27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Progressive Conservative Oscar Murray Dayton 1,757 10.24% unknown
Social Credit William Kenneth Kiernan 10,031 58.44% – unknown
Liberal John Fife Spencer 2,252 13.12% – unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Leslie Malcolm Walker Tetlock 3,125 18.21% unknown
Total valid votes 17,165 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 118
Turnout %
28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic William Kerr 3,081 25.26% unknown
Social Credit William Kenneth Kiernan 7,703 63.17% – unknown
Liberal Lillian Louise Lancaster 1,411 11.57% – unknown
Total valid votes 12,195 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 164
Turnout %
29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Frank Edward Hollins 3,688 20.72% unknown
Liberal Kenneth Jessiman 2,366 13.29% – unknown
Social Credit William Kenneth Kiernan 11,747 65.99% – unknown
Total valid votes 17,801 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 165
Turnout %
30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Independent Kenneth Leyden Christensen 107 x 107 0.49% unknown
Liberal Johann Erickson 3,782 17.45% – unknown
  Progressive Conservative Allan Bryan Holder 4,134 19.07% unknown
Social Credit Harvey Schroeder 8,712 40.19% – unknown
New Democratic Kelly Margaret Weger 4,942 22.80% unknown
Total valid votes 21,677 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 264
Turnout %
31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Ian McBeth Cameron 6,628 25.35% unknown
Liberal Johann Erickson 2,987 11.43% – unknown
Social Credit Harvey Schroeder 16,528 63.22% – unknown
Total valid votes 26,143 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 79
Turnout %
32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic David Carstairs (Dave) Menzies 5,792 31.41% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Thomas Fitzgerland (Jerry) Pirie 1,413 7.66% unknown
Social Credit Harvey Schroeder 11,236 60.93% – unknown
Total valid votes 18,441 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 238
Turnout %
33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Scott Orman Fast 7,955 35.34% unknown
Western Canada Concept Clarence Ernest Hjalmarson 953 4.23% unknown
Social Credit Harvey Schroeder 12,255 54.45% – unknown
  Progressive Conservative Thomas Matthew Tyson 847 3.76% unknown
Liberal Hartwig B. Warnke 500 2.22% – unknown
Total valid votes 22,510 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 289
Turnout %
34th British Columbia election, 1986
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Scott Orman Fast 6,626 30.44% unknown
Liberal Clinton E. Hames 1,859 8.54% – unknown
Social Credit John Jansen 12,838 58.97% – unknown
  Progressive Conservative Gerald James Edward Kirby 446 2.05% unknown
Total valid votes 21,769 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 300
Turnout %
35th British Columbia election, 1991
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Gladys Doreen Brown 5,688 25.68% unknown
  Liberal Robert Chisholm 8,601 38.83% unknown
Social Credit John Jansen 7,619 43.40% – unknown
Green Steve Kisby 241 1.49% – unknown
Total valid votes 22,149 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 408
Turnout %


1996 British Columbia general election: Chilliwack
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Barry Penner 9,273 37.90 -0.93
New Democratic Rollie Keith 5,989 24.48 -0.80
No Affiliation Bob Chisholm 5,736 23.44 –
Reform Bill Wimpney 3,237 13.23 –
Green Steve Kisby 232 0.95 -0.14
Total valid votes 24,467 100.00
Total rejected ballots 107 0.50
Turnout 24,574 –
Liberal hold Swing -0.87

References

  1. ^ "CBC.ca - B.C. Votes - Chilliwack-Hope". CBC. Retrieved April 11, 2009.
  2. ^ "2020 Provincial General Election Final Voting Results". electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  4. ^ "Statement of Votes – 41st Provincial General Election – May 9, 2017" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  5. ^ "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
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