Nanaimo City was a provincial electoral district in the city of
Nanaimo,
British Columbia
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in
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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 was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 British Columbia general election, 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new ...
and
Nanaimo and the Islands
Nanaimo is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.
Demographics
Geography
The riding contains most of the city of Nanaimo plus the uninhabited Five Finger Island, Snake Island and Hu ...
. 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 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. Ridings "descended" from the original ...
.
Demographics
Geography
Other historical Nanaimo ridings
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Nanaimo 1871-1928
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Nanaimo and the Islands
Nanaimo is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.
Demographics
Geography
The riding contains most of the city of Nanaimo plus the uninhabited Five Finger Island, Snake Island and Hu ...
-1963
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South Nanaimo
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North Nanaimo
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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 British Columbia general election, 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new ...
Nanaimo riding did not appear in the 1909 election, but Nanaimo City and
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 British Columbia general election, 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new ...
were the Nanaimo-area ridings in the 1909 or 1912 election.
In 1933 there was a
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
Political geography
...
riding, while in 1937 the riding of
Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to:
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(southern and upland of
metropolitan Nanaimo and the
Gulf Islands
The Gulf Islands are a group of islands in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia.
Etymology
The name "Gulf Islands" comes from "Gulf of Georgia," the original term used by George Vancouver in his ...
to the southeast) appeared in the 1916 election, as did a new riding called
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 British Columbia general election, 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new ...
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.
Current Nanaimo-area ridings
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Nanaimo 1996–present
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Nanaimo-Parksville
Nanaimo-Parksville was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009.
Demographics
Geography
History
1999 redistribution
Nanaimo-Parksville created from parts of Nanaimo a ...
Election results
''Note: Winners of each election are in'' bold.
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1
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Thomas Keith
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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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Thomas Keith
, align="right", 411
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2
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Ralph Smith
, align="right", 763
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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.
, Nanaimo (Independent) Labour Party
3
, Henry (Harry) Shepherd
, align="right", 294
, align="right", 26.61%
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!align="right", 1,105
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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.
, Independent) Labour Party
4
, Henry (Harry) Shepherd
, align="right", 290
, align="right", 32.01%
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!align="right", 906
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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.
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Liberal
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, Henry (Harry) Shepherd
, align="right", 375
, align="right", 23.82%
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!align="right", 1,574
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The name Nanaimo City was dropped after the 1912 election. In the 1916 election the
Nanaimo name was used.
External links
Elections BC historical returns
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Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia on Vancouver Island
Politics of Nanaimo