Vancouver—Burrard (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the defunct provincial electoral district, see Vancouver-Burrard (provincial electoral district).

Vancouver—Burrard

British Columbia electoral district
Boundaries at abolition
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1924
District abolished	1966
First contested	1925
Last contested	1965

Vancouver—Burrard was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1968.

This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Burrard riding. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Vancouver Centre and Vancouver East ridings.

Historical boundaries

• 
  1933 representation order
• 
  1947 representation order
• 
  1952 representation order

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Burrard
15th	1925–1926		John Arthur Clark	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935		Wilfred Hanbury	Liberal
18th	1935–1940		Gerry McGeer	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Charles Merritt	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953		Lorne MacDougall	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		John Russell Taylor	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963		Thomas R. Berger	New Democratic
26th	1963–1965		Ron Basford	Liberal
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Vancouver Centre and Vancouver East

Election results

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ron Basford	10,807	38.70	+1.05
	New Democratic	Ray Parkinson	9,233	33.06	+1.82
	Progressive Conservative	Marianne Linnell	5,138	18.40	-5.59
	Social Credit	Edward M. Chisholm	2,748	9.84	+3.12
Total valid votes			27,926	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.38

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ron Basford	12,048	37.65	+6.50
	New Democratic	Tom Berger	9,998	31.24	-0.23
	Progressive Conservative	John Taylor	7,678	23.99	-5.69
	Social Credit	George C. Mathews	2,150	6.72	-0.98
	Independent Liberal	David Swan	127	0.40	–
Total valid votes			32,001	100.0
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+3.36

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Thomas R. Berger	9,173	31.47	+14.25
	Liberal	Ron Basford	9,079	31.15	+13.82
	Progressive Conservative	John Russell Taylor	8,651	29.68	-30.86
	Social Credit	William Lennox	2,245	7.70	+2.79
Total valid votes			29,148	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+0.22
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth vote in the 1958 election.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Russell Taylor	18,001	60.54	+13.97
	Liberal	Frank George Perrin Lewis	5,154	17.33	+1.63
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Victor Wadham Forster	5,121	17.22	+3.35
	Social Credit	William Rose	1,459	4.91	-18.07
Total valid votes			29,735	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+6.17

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Russell Taylor	13,721	46.57	+29.54
	Social Credit	Peer Vernon Paynter	6,772	22.98	-4.16
	Liberal	Clare Richard James Skatfeld	4,626	15.70	-19.02
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Victor W. Forster	4,088	13.87	-5.38
	Independent	Irving S. Finkleman	259	0.88	–
Total valid votes			29,466	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+16.85

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorne MacDougall	9,035	34.72	-1.42
	Social Credit	Peer Vernon Paynter	7,063	27.14	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gladys Grace Mae Strum	5,010	19.25	-9.43
	Progressive Conservative	Buda Brown	4,430	17.03	-18.15
	Labor–Progressive	Sidney Zlotnik	482	1.85	–
Total valid votes			26,020	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-14.28

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lorne MacDougall	10,967	36.14	+14.11
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Merritt	10,676	35.18	-2.21
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arnold Alexander Webster	8,705	28.68	-2.57
Total valid votes			30,348	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+8.16

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Merritt	14,677	37.39	+8.54
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arnold Alexander Webster	12,264	31.25	-1.47
	Liberal	Gerald Vincent Pelton	8,648	22.03	-16.39
	Labor–Progressive	Minerva Cooper	2,249	5.73	–
	Social Credit	Peer Vernon Paynter	1,025	2.61	–
	Democratic	Dave Bernard Parkin	246	0.63	–
	Socialist Labour	Paul Debragh	140	0.36	–
Total valid votes			39,249	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+5.00

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry McGeer	12,617	38.42	+2.11
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arnold Alexander Webster	10,745	32.72	-3.57
	National Government	Allan James McDonell	9,475	28.85	+10.15
Total valid votes			32,837	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.84

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry McGeer	10,215	36.31	-16.52
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arnold Alexander Webster	10,209	36.29	–
	Conservative	Allan James McDonell	5,259	18.70	-25.44
	Reconstruction	Herbert Lorne Wordsworth Turnbull	1,913	6.80	–
	Social Credit	William Albert Tutte	534	1.90	–
Total valid votes			28,130	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-26.40

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wilfred Hanbury	16,619	52.83	+16.08
	Conservative	Robert James Hamilton	13,885	44.14	-9.50
	Independent	Charles Milton Woodworth	687	2.18	–
	Prohibition	Edwin Clarke Appleby	266	0.85	–
Total valid votes			31,457	100.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+12.79

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Arthur Clark	11,227	53.64	+6.44
	Liberal	Wilfred Hanbury	7,692	36.75	-5.41
	Labour	William Jamison Curry	2,012	9.61	-1.03
Total valid votes			20,931	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+5.92

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Arthur Clark	9,897	47.20
	Liberal	Robert Purves McLennan	8,840	42.16
	Labour	John Sidaway	2,230	10.64
Total valid votes			20,967	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Burrard, where Conservative John Arthur Clark was the incumbent.

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Further reading

• Laponce, J.A. (1969). People vs. Politics: A study of opinions, attitudes, and perceptions in Vancouver-Burrard 1963-1965. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-1517-4.

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament