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Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney, which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding, which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster riding, which was one of the province's first twelve.

Demographics

Population, 1901
Population change, 1901–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Political geography

This riding was composed of the municipalities of Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Mission, plus all the rural areas to the east of Mission as far as the Harrison River.

Notable MLAs

Richard McBride, 16th Premier of British Columbia

John Oliver, 19th Premier of British Columbia

Dave Barrett, 26th Premier of British Columbia

George Mussallem

Lyle Wicks

Peter Rolston

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

10th British Columbia general election, 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Richard McBride ¹	427	66.10%	unknown
	Liberal	William Waugh Forrester	219	33.90%	unknown
Total valid votes			646	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
¹16th Premier of British Columbia.

11th British Columbia election, 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Robert Jardine	241	38.56%	unknown
	Conservative	Richard McBride ²	384	61.44%	unknown
Total valid votes			625	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
²Simultaneously MLA for Victoria City

12th British Columbia election, 1909
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	William J. Manson	625	67.42%	unknown
	Liberal	Alister Thompson	302	32.58%	unknown
Total valid votes			927	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

13th British Columbia election, 1912
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Independent Conservative	John Higginson McNeice	194	19.46%
	Conservative	William J. Manson	803	80.54%	unknown
Total valid votes			997	100.00%

14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	William J. Manson	787	45.92%	unknown
	Liberal	John Oliver ³	927	54.08%	unknown
Total valid votes			1,714	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
³19th Premier of British Columbia as of 1918.

15th British Columbia election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	John Alexander Catherwood	1,535	45.45%	unknown
	Federated Labour Party	William Jamieson Curry	473	14.01%	unknown
	Liberal	Donald Bruce Martyn	1,369	40.54%	unknown
Total valid votes			3,377	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Conservative	John Alexander Catherwood ⁴	1,259	36.60%		unknown
	Provincial	Harold Reginald Smith	935	27.18%	–	unknown
	Liberal	William Maxwell Smith	1,246	36.22%		unknown
Total valid votes			3,440	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%
⁴ A judicial recount on 29 July 1924 gave Maxwell Smith four extra votes, reducing Catherwood's majority to nine (34 British Columbia Reports 246). A further recount appears to have taken place as a Supreme Court decision of 9 February 1925 which voided the election refers to Catherwood's majority as five. Catherwood was unseated but reinstated 8 June 1925.

17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Nelson Seymour Lougheed	2,751	58.57%	unknown
	Liberal	David Whiteside	1,946	41.43%	unknown
Total valid votes			4,697	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			159
Turnout			%

18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Independent	Charles George Evans	85	2.09%		unknown
	United Front (Workers and Farmers)	Charles James McKendrick	127	3.12%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	George Albert Miller	967	23.75%		unknown
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	David Garnet Morse	1,069	26.26%	–	unknown
	Independent	Solomon Mussallem	588	14.44%		unknown
	Liberal	David William Strachan	1,235	30.34%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,071	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			43
Turnout			%

19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	James Miller Cameron	1,274	26.75%	unknown
	Conservative	Frank Porter Patterson	1,870	39.27%	unknown
	Liberal	David William Strachan	1,618	33.98%	unknown
Total valid votes			4,762	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			84
Turnout			%

20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Roderick Charles MacDonald	2,995	37.13%	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Thomas Greer MacKenzie	2,539	31.48%	unknown
	Liberal	David William Strachan	2,532	31.39%	unknown
Total valid votes			8,066	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			117
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Leonard Hartley	3,953	46.29%		unknown
	Coalition	Roderick Charles MacDonald	4,586	53.71%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			8,539	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			96
Turnout			%

22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit League	(Mrs.) Lyle Campbell	829	5.01%	–	unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Leonard Hartley	7,604	45.92%		unknown
	Coalition	Roderick Charles MacDonald	8,127	49.08%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			16,560	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			343
Turnout			%

23rd British Columbia election, 1952 ⁵
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harry Dean Ainlay	6,024	30.91%	7,248	42.48%		unknown
	Liberal	Reginald Clarence Cox	3,631	18.63%	-	- %		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Roderick Charles MacDonald	2,233	11.46%	-	-%		unknown
	Social Credit League	Lyle Wicks	7,600	39.00%	9,813	57.52%
Total valid votes			19,488	100.00%	17,061	%
Total rejected ballots			800
Turnout			%
⁵(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)

24th British Columbia election, 1953 ⁶
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Albyn Emery	3,715	19.65%	-	- %		unknown
	Labour Progressive	Amy Frances Gilstead	250	1.32%	-	- %
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Kenneth William Pattern	7,003	37.04%	8,310	47.82%		unknown
	Christian Democrat	George Frampton Pedlar	72	0.38%
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Lorne Watkins	559	2.96%	-	-%		unknown
	Social Credit League	Lyle Wicks	7,307	38.65%	9,066	52.18%
Total valid votes			18,906	100.00%	17,376	%
Total rejected ballots			953
Turnout			%
⁶(Preferential ballot: 1st and 5th counts of five shown only)

25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Michale Joseph Butler	4,141	19.15%		unknown
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Naranjan Singh Grewall	7,211	33.35%		unknown
	Social Credit	Lyle Wicks	10,267	47.49%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			21,619	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			293
Turnout			%

26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Dave Barrett ⁷	12,637	43.73%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	James Ross Gulloch	803	2.78%		unknown
	Communist	Carl Christian Hilland	233	0.81%		unknown
	Liberal	Walter Raymond Thompson	4,512	15.61%		unknown
	Social Credit	Lyle Wicks	10,713	37.07%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			28,898	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			406
Turnout			%
⁷26th Premier of British Columbia 1972-1975.

27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Dave Barrett	11,625	41.95%		unknown
	Liberal	Wilfred Robert Jack	4,051	14.62%		unknown
	Social Credit	Richard Egerton Lester	10,506	37.91%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Lyn Morrow	1,532	5.53%		unknown
Total valid votes			27,714	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			251
Turnout			%

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Thomas H. Davison	1,146	9.41%		unknown
	New Democratic	William R. Franklin	4,528	37.17%		unknown
	Social Credit	George Mussallem	6,507	53.42%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			12,181	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			88
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Stuart Malcolm Leggatt	5,980	36.89%		unknown
	Liberal	Peter Macaulay McDonald	1,987	12.26%		unknown
	Social Credit	George Mussallem	8,243	50.85%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			16,210	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			158
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	George Mussallem	7,548	38.30%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Peter Rolston	9,228	46.83%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Edward Arthur Watson	1,717	8.71%		unknown
	Liberal	Theodore John Worthington	1,214	6.16%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,707	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			164
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	John Willison Green	1,249	5.19%		unknown
	Independents	Douglas Wilbur Maddin	188	0.78%		unknown
	Social Credit	George Mussallem	13,024	54.10%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Peter Rolston	9,613	39.93%		unknown
Total valid votes			24,074	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			247
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	George Mussallem	12,643	51.31%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Joan Mary Norris	11,998	48.69%		unknown
Total valid votes			24,641	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			467
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Western Canada Concept	Wally Altwasser	566	1.76%		unknown
	Liberal	Robert L. Moore	410	1.28%		unknown
	Social Credit	Forbes Charles Austin Pelton	15,820	49.34%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Sophie Weremchuk	15,269	47.62%		unknown
Total valid votes			32,065	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			366
Turnout			%

44th British Columbia election, 1986 ⁷
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bruce Bingham	2,203	3.48%		unknown
	New Democratic	William James (Bill) Hartley	14,923	23.56%		unknown
	Social Credit	Johann Alvin Norman Jacobsen	15,328	24.19%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	Forbes Charles Austin Pelton	15,614	24.65%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Sophie Weremchuk	15,279	24.12%		unknown
Total valid votes			63,347	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			766
Turnout			%
⁷ Seat increased to two members from one.

Sources

Elections BC historical returns

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo ‡ North Peace River Omineca Prince George North Prince George South Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ Columbia River Kamloops ‡ Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan North Okanagan South ‡ Rossland-Trail Shuswap-Revelstoke Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ Chilliwack Delta ‡ Dewdney ‡ Langley ‡ Richmond ‡ Surrey (2) †
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Moody Maillardville-Coquitlam New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt-Port Renfrew Mackenzie Nanaimo ‡ North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands ‡ Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1979 general election 1983 general election 1986 general election Defunct districts
‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies Surrey-Guildford-Whalley Surrey-Newton Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River Kamloops Kootenay Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke-Slocan Rossland-Trail South Okanagan Shuswap Yale-Lillooet
Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Dewdney Langley New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Richmond Surrey Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1966 general election 1969 general election 1972 general election 1975 general election Defunct districts

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1956–1966)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby (2) Chilliwack Delta (2) Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver (2) Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (3)
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City (3)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1956 general election 1960 general election 1963 general election Defunct districts

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1941–1956)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George Omineca Peace River Prince Rupert Skeena
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby Chilliwack Delta Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (3)
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City (3)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1941 general election 1945 general election 1949 general election 1952 general election 1953 general election Defunct districts

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