Kaslo-Slocan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the

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centred on the town of

Kaslo Kaslo is a village on the west shore of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. A member municipality of the Central Kootenay Regional District, the name derives from the adjacent Kaslo River. At 2016, the p ...

Kootenay Lake Kootenay Lake is a lake located in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River. The lake has been raised by the Corra Linn Dam and has a dike system at the southern end, which, along with industry in the 1950s–70s, has changed th ...

as well as the mining towns of the "Silvery Slocan". The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of

and Slocan, and lasted until the 1963 election. For other ridings in the Kootenay region, please see

Kootenay (electoral districts) {{short description, None Kootenay is a name found in various provincial and federal electoral districts in the Canadian province of British Columbia. This page lists ridings with the name Kootenay in them, and also other ridings within the Koote ...

Demographics

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

''Note: Winners in each election are in'' bold. ,

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Charles Sidney Leary Charles Sidney Leary (March 4, 1883 – 1950) was an English-born lumberman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Kaslo-Slocan in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1924 to 1928 and from 1933 to 1945 as a Li ...

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, align="right", 1,113 , align="right", 48.77% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,282 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 69 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , James Fitzsimmons , align="right", 951 , align="right", 34.27% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, align="right", 1,250 , align="right", 45.05% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , George Walton , align="right", 574 , align="right", 20.68% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,775 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 31 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Amos Craven , align="right", 929 , align="right", 33.93% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, align="right", 1,064 , align="right", 38.86 % , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,738 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 30 ,

, align="right", 941 , align="right", 42.18% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Hugh Earl Nelson , align="right", 536 , align="right", 24.03% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,231 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 27 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Randolph Harding , align="right", 1,098 , align="right", 53.12% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,067 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 34 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Randolph Harding , align="right", 1,633 , align="right", 53.19% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 3,070 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 38 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , B.C. Social Credit League , Edward Wilbert Bourque , align="right", 597 , align="right", 18.97 , align="right", - , align="right", -.- % , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Randolph Harding , align="right", 1,411 , align="right", 44.84% , align="right", 1,792 , align="right", 64.18% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, Thomas Melville Leask , align="right", 617 , align="right", 19.61% , align="right", 1,000 , align="right", 35.82% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

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, Howard Milward Parker , align="right", 522 , align="right", 16.59% , align="right", - , align="right", - % , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 3,147 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", 2,792 !align="right", - % !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 82 !align="right", !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 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only. , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Randolph Harding , align="right", 1,481 , align="right", 47.17% , align="right", 1,692 , align="right", 59.22% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, Bessie Florence Leary , align="right", 792 , align="right", 25.22% , align="right", - , align="right", -.- % , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 3,140 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", 2,027 !align="right", - % !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 108 !align="right", !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, ³ Preferential ballot. First and final counts of two (2) shown only. ,

, Frank Harold Abey , align="right", 297 , align="right", 10.67% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Randolph Harding , align="right", 1,512 , align="right", 54.31% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,784 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 50 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Randolph Harding , align="right", 1,298 , align="right", 50.35 % , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Progressive Conservative , John Verdner Humphries , align="right", 244 , align="right", 9.46% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, Thomas Melville Leask , align="right", 303 , align="right", 11.75% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,578 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 23 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", ,

, Onni Matt Maja , align="right", 301 , align="right", 10.92% , align="right", , align="right", unknown {{Canadian party colour, BC, PC, row , Progressive Conservative , Donald Walter Williams , align="right", 120 , align="right", 4.35% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,756 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 27 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", The area was redistributed after the 1963 election. For the 1966 election, the Slocan area became part of Revelstoke-Slocan, while the Kaslo area became part of

Nelson-Creston Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding. ...

. The original riding name of

Kootenay Kootenay, Kootenai, and Kutenai may refer to: Ethnic groups *The Kutenai, also known as the Ktunaxa, Kootenai, or Kootenay, an indigenous people of the United States and Canada **Kutenai language, the traditional language of the Kutenai **Ktunaxa ...

was re-established in this redistribution, but the new electoral district by that name was limited to the East Kootenay.

Sources

Elections BC Historical Returns 1871-1986
Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia West Kootenay