Cariboo (electoral district)

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For the region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, see Cariboo. For the provincial electoral district of the same name, see Cariboo (provincial electoral district).

Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1892.

This riding was first created as Cariboo District following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation in 1871. The name was changed to "Cariboo" in 1872, and existed in this form until it was abolished in 1892 when it was amalgamated into the new riding of Yale—Cariboo. In 1914, Yale—Cariboo was redistributed and Yale and Cariboo were separate ridings once again, though with smaller areas than before. The Cariboo riding lasted until 1966. The succession of ridings for the Cariboo area since then has been:

The Chilcotin region of the riding, west of the Fraser River, was from 1966 to 1976 part of the Coast Chilcotin riding.

The original form of the riding was the whole of the Cariboo plateau and both Cariboo and Lillooet Land Districts. Its southern boundary was on the northern edge of the Vancouver riding, and later the North Vancouver riding, with near-coastal localities such as Pemberton, Squamish, Britannia Beach and Port Douglas all politically part of "Cariboo".

Cariboo was also a provincial electoral district. It was a three-member riding whose first representatives included George Anthony Boomer Walkem, later 3rd and 5th holder of the office of Premier of British Columbia. It was one of the province's first twelve electoral constituencies.

[edit] Election results

Note: Winners in each election are in bold

Canadian federal election, 1872: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	Joshua Spencer Thompson	acclaimed
Total			n/a

Canadian federal election, 1874: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	Joshua Spencer Thompson	192	82.76%
	Unknown	S. Walker	40	17.24%
Total			232	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1878: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Accl.
Total			n/a

Byelection, March 31, 1881: Cariboo ¹
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	James Reid	179	42.32%
	Unknown	Monroe ²	104	24.59%
	Unknown	Ball ²	78	18.44%
	Unknown	Archibald Greig	62	14.66%
Total			423
¹ By-Election: On Mr. Thompson'death, December 20, 1880.
² Neither Ball's nor Monroe's first names are given in the historical records of this riding.

Canadian federal election, 1882: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	James Reid	Accl.
Total			n/a

Canadian federal election, 1887: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	James Reid	145	58.00%
	Liberal	D. Ferguson	105	42.00%
Total			250	100.00%

Byelection, November 22, 1888: Cariboo ³
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frank Stillman Barnard ⁴	117	39.26%
	Independent	R. McLeese	95	31.88%
	Independent	Rogers ⁵	86	28.86%
Total			298
³ By-Election: On Mr. Reid's appointment to the Senate.
⁴ Son of Frank (Francis Jones) Barnard of Barnard's Express, premier freight company on the Cariboo Wagon Road. Francis Stillman Barnard was later 10th Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia) and was a Knight by the time of his appointment.
⁵ Rogers' first name does not appear in the historical records or this riding.

Canadian federal election, 1891: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	F.S. Barnard	223	53.48%
	Liberal	Hugh Watt	194	46.52%
Total			417

Under the Representation Act of 1892, the constituencies of Yale and Cariboo were united to form Yale—Cariboo. In 1914 that riding was broken up and the Yale and Cariboo riding-names were restored, although the new constituencies were considerably smaller than before. The restored Yale riding included the Boundary Country around Grand Forks and Greenwood, but the Kootenay was now a separate riding and the town of Yale itself was not in the restored Yale riding, but in the new riding of Westminster District. The first election using the new boundaries was in 1917. "Government" and "Opposition" were used during the wartime campaign to designate the governing Conservatives vs the Opposition Liberals.

Canadian federal election, 1917: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government	Frederick John Fulton	6,010	68.19%
	Opposition	Raymond Findlay Leighton	2,804	31.81%
Total			8,814	100%

Canadian federal election, 1921: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas George McBride	7,185	64.94%
	Conservative	John Thomas Robinson	3,879	35.06%
Total			11,064	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1925: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	6,430	53.74%
	Progressive	Thomas George McBride	5,534	46.26%
Total			11,964	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1926: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	7,200	53.00%
	Liberal	Joseph Graham	6,386	47.00%
Total			13,586	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1930: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	8,548	50.98%
	Liberal	Henry George Thomas Perry	8,220	49.02%
Total			16,768	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1935: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Gray Turgeon	4,222	40.89%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John McInnis	3,740	36.22%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	1,853	17.95%
	Reconstruction	Frederick Clarke	510	4.94%
Total			10,325	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1940: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Gray Turgeon	6,063	44.95%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Irvine	5,070	37.59%
	National Government	Frederick Herbert Stephens	2,354	17.45%
Total			13,487	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1945: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Irvine	5,773	40.70%
	Liberal	James Gray Turgeon	4,841	34.13%
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Jamieson	2,490	17.55%
	Social Credit	Volney Lane Phillips	1,080	7.61%
Total			14,184	100.00%

A major redistribution in 1952 took away the southern half of the Cariboodistrict, with a southern boundary at 52 degrees 30 minutes north, just excluding Williams Lakeand the south bank of Quesnel Lake. The rest of the riding extended to the Little Rancheria River and the border with Yukonand the Northwest Territories, therefore including the Omineca, Prince George and Peace River districts.

Canadian federal election, 1949: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray	7,330	55.53%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Irvine	5,870	44.47%
Total			13,200	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1953: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Raymond Leboe	5,562	36.99%
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray	5,160	34.32%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	WIlliam Irvine	4,314	28.69%
Total			15,036	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1957: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Raymond Leboe	8,292	42.62%
	Progressive Conservative	William Dow Ferry	4,217	21.68%
	Liberal	Angus Carmichael	4,208	21.63%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William Marshall Close	2,737	14.07%
Total			19,454	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1958: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Walter Clarence Henderson	9,327	43.20%
	Social Credit	Bert Raymond Leboe	5,811	26.91%
	Liberal	Gordon Douglas Bryant	3,279	15.19%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	William M. Close	3,175	14.70%
Total			21,592	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1962: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Raymond Leboe	8,435	30.43%
	Liberal	Charles E. Graham	7,715	27.84%
	Progressive Conservative	Gus Henderson	6,830	24.65%
	New Democrat	Ken Rutherford	4,732	17.08%
Total			21,592	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1963: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Raymond Leboe	9,335	30.46%
	Liberal	Charles E. Graham	8,543	27.88%
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Runkle	8,304	27.10%
	New Democrat	Bill Close	4,461	14.56%
Total			30,643	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1965: Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Raymond Leboe	12,344	37.59%
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Runkle	7,756	23.62%
	Liberal	Art McLellan	7,144	21.76%
	New Democrat	Fred Atkinson	5,594	17.04%
Total			32,838	100.00%