Nanaimo City

Nanaimo City was a provincial electoral district in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia in Canada 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 and Nanaimo and the Islands. The name Nanaimo was restored as a riding name in the 1966 election.

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

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

Geography

Other historical Nanaimo ridings Nanaimo, 1871–1928 Nanaimo and the Islands -1963 South Nanaimo North Nanaimo The Islands

No riding named Nanaimo existed in the 1909 or 1912 elections; the Nanaimo-area ridings were Nanaimo City and The Islands.

The riding of Newcastle, which covered the southern and upland parts of metropolitan Nanaimo and the Gulf Islands to the southeast, first appeared in the 1903 election, along with a reconstituted The Islands, which lasted until the 1937 election. In 1924 Cowichan and Newcastle were joined to form Cowichan-Newcastle riding. Part of the former Islands riding is now represented by North Saanich and the Islands, previously called Saanich and the Islands.

Current Nanaimo-area ridings

Nanaimo 1996–present Nanaimo-Parksville

Election results This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia: Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

|- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|849 !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"| |- bgcolor="white" !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.

|Independent) Labour Party 4 |Henry (Harry) Shepherd |align="right"|290 |align="right"|32.01% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|906 !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"| |- bgcolor="white" !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.

The name Nanaimo City was dropped after the 1912 election. In the 1916 election the Nanaimo name was used.

References

External links Elections BC historical returns

Nanaimo City

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