Nanaimo City was a provincial electoral district in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia

Nanaimo, British Columbia

Nanaimo is a city on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It has been dubbed the "Bathtub Racing Capital of the World" and "Harbour City". Nanaimo is also sometimes referred to as the "Hub City" because of its central location on Vancouver Island and due to the layout of the downtown...

 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 from 1890 to 1912. It was one of two Nanaimo ridings at the time, created out of the older Nanaimo riding (1871 to 1928), with intermediary ridings The Islands

The Islands

The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new riding Nanaimo and The Islands as of the 1941 election.- Demographics :-Notable MLAs:This...

 and Nanaimo and the Islands

Nanaimo and the Islands

Nanaimo and the Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1941 to 1963. It was formed of parts of the former ridings of Nanaimo and The Islands. In the 1966 election the Nanaimo riding name was restored and the southern part of the riding became...

. The name Nanaimo was restored as a riding name in the 1996 election.

For other current and historical federal and provincial Nanaimo-area ridings please see Nanaimo (electoral districts)

Nanaimo (electoral districts)

Nanaimo is the same of several Canadian federal and British Columbia provincial electoral districts, both historical and current, in and around the Vancouver Island city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.-Current:...

.

Demographics

Population, 1911
Population Change, 1891–1911	%
Area (km²)
Pop. Density (people per km²)

Other historical Nanaimo ridings

• Nanaimo 1871-1928
• Nanaimo and the Islands
  Nanaimo and the Islands
  Nanaimo and the Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1941 to 1963. It was formed of parts of the former ridings of Nanaimo and The Islands. In the 1966 election the Nanaimo riding name was restored and the southern part of the riding became...
  
   -1963
• South Nanaimo
• North Nanaimo
• The Islands
  The Islands
  The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new riding Nanaimo and The Islands as of the 1941 election.- Demographics :-Notable MLAs:This...
  
  

Nanaimo riding did not appear in the 1909 election, but Nanaimo City and The Islands

The Islands

The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new riding Nanaimo and The Islands as of the 1941 election.- Demographics :-Notable MLAs:This...

 were the Nanaimo-area ridings in the 1909 or 1912 election.

In 1933 there was a Cowichan-Newcastle

Cowichan-Newcastle

Cowichan-Newcastle was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It appeared in two separate eras, the later in the British Columbia elections of 1960 and 1963 elections.- Demographics :- Electoral history :...

 riding, while in 1937 the riding of Newcastle (southern and upland of metropolitan Nanaimo

Nanaimo, British Columbia

Nanaimo is a city on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It has been dubbed the "Bathtub Racing Capital of the World" and "Harbour City". Nanaimo is also sometimes referred to as the "Hub City" because of its central location on Vancouver Island and due to the layout of the downtown...

 and the Gulf Islands

Gulf Islands

The Gulf Islands are the islands in the Strait of Georgia , between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada....

 to the southeast) appeared in the 1916 election, as did a new riding called The Islands

The Islands

The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new riding Nanaimo and The Islands as of the 1941 election.- Demographics :-Notable MLAs:This...

 which lasted until the 1937 election. Part of that area is now represented by North Saanich and the Islands, which had previously been Saanich and the Islands

Saanich and the Islands

Saanich and the Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1986. Most of the riding is now part of Saanich North and the Islands, while the southern part of the riding is now Saanich South....

.

Current Nanaimo-area Ridings

• Nanaimo 1996–present
• Nanaimo-Parksville
  Nanaimo-Parksville
  Nanaimo-Parksville was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009.- Demographics :-1999 Redistribution:...
  
  

Election results

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

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|Labour ¹
|Thomas Keith

Thomas Keith (politician)

Thomas Keith was an Irish-born miner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Nanaimo City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1890 to 1894....

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!align="right" colspan=7|¹ The first labour candidates elected to the Legislature. Forster and Keith were both nominated by the Miners' and Mine Labourers' Protective Association (MMLPA) and campaigned on the "Workingmen's Platform" of the Workingmen's Campaign Committee.
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|Labour
|Thomas Keith

Thomas Keith (politician)

Thomas Keith was an Irish-born miner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Nanaimo City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1890 to 1894....

|align="right"|411
|align="right"|48.81%
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|Government
|James McGregor

James McGregor

James Bradley McGregor, born 1930 Cambridge, Ohio) is an American organist and composer.-Life:In 1953 he received a B.S. degree in music from Capital University, where he studied with William S. Bailey. In 1959, he received an M.S.M degree from the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New...

|align="right"|431
|align="right"|51.19%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|842
!align="right"|100.00%
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|Government
|Archibald McGregor
|align="right"|170
|align="right"|20.05%
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|Opposition
|Robert Edward McKechnie
|align="right"|678
|align="right"|79.95%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|848
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
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!align="right"|55.37%
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|Labour ²
|Ralph Smith
|align="right"|763
|align="right"|89.87%
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|Government
|James Stuart Yates
|align="right"|86
|align="right"|10.13%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|849
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right" colspan=7|² Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party candidate supported by R.E. McKechnie, former Member and supporter of the Provincial Party. Also endorsed by Nanaimo Trades and Labour Council. The N(I)LP appears to have been only loosely organized although a detailed platform was drawn up.
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|Socialist Party of B.C.

Socialist Party of Canada

There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada...

|James Hurst Hawthornthwaite

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite was an Irish-born land agent, businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Nanaimo City from 1901 to 1908 and from 1909 to 1912 as a Socialist and Newcastle from 1918 to 1920 as an Independent Socialist in the Legislative Assembly of British...

|align="right"|486
|align="right"|43.98%
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|Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|Edward Quennell
|align="right"|325
|align="right"|29.41%
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|Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party ³
|Henry (Harry) Shepherd
|align="right"|294
|align="right"|26.61%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,105
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right" colspan=7|³ Nominated by the Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party which had the support and participation of local Liberals (Loosmore, pp. 195–6). During the 1907 election he was referred to as having been a "Liberal-Labour candidate" in the 1903 election.
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|Socialist

Socialist Party of Canada

There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada...

|James Hurst Hawthornthwaite

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite was an Irish-born land agent, businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Nanaimo City from 1901 to 1908 and from 1909 to 1912 as a Socialist and Newcastle from 1918 to 1920 as an Independent Socialist in the Legislative Assembly of British...

|align="right"|455
|align="right"|50.22%
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|Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|Robert Stuart Brock O'Brian
|align="right"|161
|align="right"|17.77%
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|Independent) Labour Party ⁴
|Henry (Harry) Shepherd
|align="right"|290
|align="right"|32.01%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|906
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right" colspan=7|⁴ The nomination list printed in the newspapers identifies Shepherd as a Liberal. CPG labels both Shepherd and Thomas "Socialists" and Gosnell (who spells Shepherd as Sheppard, as do some other sources) has them as "L.-Soc.", which could be either Liberal or Labour-Socialist. One newspaper refers to Shepherd as a member of the "Nanaimo Liberal Party", another as a nominee of the "Independent Labour Party", "a peculiar combination of Liberal politicians" (Vancouver Province 29 December 1906, p. 1). Thomas is also reported as a nominee of the "Independent Labour Party" in Ladysmith. Shepherd ran as a Liberal in 1912, Thomas as a straight Independent in 1909.
|}

|Socialist

Socialist Party of Canada

There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada...

|James Hurst Hawthornthwaite

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite was an Irish-born land agent, businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Nanaimo City from 1901 to 1908 and from 1909 to 1912 as a Socialist and Newcastle from 1918 to 1920 as an Independent Socialist in the Legislative Assembly of British...

|align="right"|786
|align="right"|62.88%
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|Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|Albert Edward Planta
|align="right"|464
|align="right"|37.12%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,250
!align="right"|100.00%
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|Social Democrat

Social Democratic Party of Canada

The Social Democratic Party was a social democratic political party in Canada founded in 1911 by members of the right wing of the Socialist Party of Canada. these members were dissatisfied with what they saw as that party's rigid, doctrinaire approach...

|John Thomas Wilmot Place
|align="right"|621
|align="right"|39.45%
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|Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|Albert Edward Planta
|align="right"|578
|align="right"|36.72%
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|align="right"|unknown

|Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...

|Henry (Harry) Shepherd
|align="right"|375
|align="right"|23.82%
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|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,574
!align="right"|100.00%
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The name Nanaimo City was dropped after the 1912 election. In the 1916 election the Nanaimo

Nanaimo (electoral district)

Nanaimo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1979.This riding was created as Nanaimo riding in 1903 from parts of Vancouver and Victoria ridings....

name was used.

External links

• Elections BC historical returns

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