Vancouver (electoral district)

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For the Canadian city, see Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1872 to 1904. This riding was created for the 1872 federal election, following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation in 1871, and lasted until 1903.

The name of this riding is not derived from the contemporary City of Vancouver, B.C., but from its first incarnation in 1871 as the riding of Vancouver Island. The Vancouver area was part of the New Westminster (electoral district) at the time of the province joining Confederation.

For other ridings with the name Vancouver or which are in the city of Vancouver or the municipalities of North Vancouver and West Vancouver, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).

[edit] Election results, 1872-1902

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

Canadian federal election, 1872: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	Francis Hincks ¹	Acclaimed	-.- %
Total			n/a	n/a%
¹ Minister of Finance in the MacDonald government, unseated in Ontario and parachuted into this riding. Arthur Bunster and other local candidates stood down so that Hincks could have the seat by acclamation. He never saw British Columbia, despite being MP for one of its parliamentary seats for two years.

Canadian federal election, 1874: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Bunster	209	63.33%
	Unknown	A.C. Anderson ²	84	25.45%
	Unknown	J.W. Carey	37	11.21%
Total			330	100.00%
² Alexander Caulfield Anderson, former Hudson's Bay Company explorer who charted the Lakes Route from Lillooet to Harrison Lake in 1842.

Canadian federal election, 1878: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Bunster	336	46.86%
	Liberal-Conservative	D.W. Gordon	267	37.24%
	Unknown	A.J. McLellan	74	10.32%
	Unknown	John Jessop	40	5.58%
Total			717

Canadian federal election, 1882: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	David William Gordon	455	60.26%
	Liberal	Arthur Bunster	300	39.74%
Total			755

Canadian federal election, 1887: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	D.W. Gordon	713	60.53%
	Conservative	J.T. Planta	465	39.47%
Total			1,178	100.00%

Canadian federal election, 1891: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	D.W. Gordon	Acclaimed	-.- %
Total			n/a	-.- %

By-election, 1893: Vancouver ³
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	Andrew Haslam	Acclaimed	-.- %
Total			n/a	-.- %
³ By-Election: On Mr. Gordon's death, February 19, 1893

Canadian federal election, 1896: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wm. W.B. McInnes	1,020	40.96%
	Conservative	Andrew Haslam	823	33.05%
	Conservative	James Haggart	647	25.98%
Total			2,490

Canadian federal election, 1900: Vancouver
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ralph Smith	1,256	42.49%
	Conservative	Clive Phillips Wolley	868	29.36%
	Liberal	William Sloan	832	28.15%
Total			2,956	100.00%