New Westminster (provincial electoral district) explained

New Westminster
Province:British Columbia
Prov-Status:active
Prov-Election-First:1871
Prov-Election-Last:2020
Prov-Rep:Jennifer Whiteside
Prov-Rep-Party:NDP
Demo-Cd:Metro Vancouver
Demo-Csd:New Westminster

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.

The riding is notable in a variety of ways. 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.

Under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution the riding was dissolved into Burnaby-New Westminster and New Westminster-Coquitlam.[1]

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.

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
14th1916–1920David WhitesideLiberal
15th1920–1924
16th1924–1928Edwin James RothwellLiberal
17th1928–1933Arthur Wellesley GrayLiberal
18th1933–1937
19th1937–1941
20th1941–1945
21st1945–1949Byron Ingemar JohnsonCoalition (Liberal)
22nd1949–1952
1952Liberal
23rd1952–1953Rae EddieCCF
24th1953–1956
25th1956–1960
26th1960–1963
27th1963–1966New Democratic
28th1966–1969
29th1969–1972Dennis CockeNew Democratic
30th1972–1975
31st1975–1979
32nd1979–1983
33rd1983–1986
34th1986–1991Anita HagenNew Democratic
35th1991–1996
36th1996–2001Graeme BowbrickNew Democratic
37th2001–2005Joyce MurrayLiberal
38th2005–2009Chuck PuchmayrNew Democratic
39th2009–2013Dawn Black
40th2013–2017Judy Darcy
41st2017–2020
42nd2020–presentJennifer Whiteside

Election results

2001

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes!align="right"|22,475!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots!align="right"|113!align="right"|0.50%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|22,588!align="right"|71.07%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1996

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes!align="right"|22,313!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots!align="right"|133!align="right"|0.59%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|22,446!align="right"|70.41%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1991

|- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes !align="right"|20,812 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots !align="right"|395 !align="right"|1.86% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|21,207 !align="right"|72.32% !align="right"| !align="right"|

1983

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|20,269 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|233!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1979

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|19,129!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|292!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1975

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|19,106 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|166!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1972

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|18,616 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|287!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1969

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|17,866!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|221!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1966

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|12,880 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|160!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1963

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|13,403!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|98!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1960

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|15,747!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|127!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1945

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|8,462 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|94!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|8 23rd Premier of British Columbia

1941

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|8,849 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|178!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1937

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|7,795 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|116!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"|

1933

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"| 5,734 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|67!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|1 Endorsed by the Independent CCF.

1928

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|5,808!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|205!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=7|6 "Wells Gray", namesake and instigator of the provincial park of that name in the Cariboo Mountains.

1924

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|4,158 !align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||-

1920

1916

|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|2,555!align="right"|100.00%|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"||-

1875

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-04-04 . Changes may be coming to Coquitlam, Port Moody provincial ridings . 2024-04-24 . Tri-City News . en.