Cariboo (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Cariboo was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1871 to 1892.

This riding was first created as Cariboo District

Cariboo District

Cariboo District was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1872....

following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed on July 1, 1867. On that day, three British colonies were formed into four Canadian provinces...

in 1871. The name was changed to "Cariboo" in 1872, and existed in this form until it was abolished in 1892 when it was amalgamated into the new riding of Yale—Cariboo

Yale—Cariboo

Yale—Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1917....

. In 1914, Yale—Cariboo was redistributed and Yale

Yale (electoral district)

Yale was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1872 to 1892 and from 1917 to 1953....

and Cariboo were separate ridings once again, though with smaller areas than before. The Cariboo riding lasted until 1966. The succession of ridings for the Cariboo area since then has been:

Kamloops—Cariboo
Kamloops—Cariboo
Kamloops–Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Cariboo and Kamloops ridings....

)
Cariboo—Chilcotin
Cariboo—Chilcotin
Cariboo–Chilcotin was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons from 1979 to 2003.- Geography :It consisted initially of:* the Cariboo Regional District;...

(1976—2003)
Cariboo—Prince George
Cariboo—Prince George
Cariboo—Prince George is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.-Geography:...

(2003 - )
Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo
Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo
Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004...

(2004 - )

The Chilcotin

Chilcotin District

The Chilcotin District of British Columbia is usually known simply as "the Chilcotin", and also in speech commonly as "the Chilcotin Country" or simply Chilcotin. It is a plateau and mountain region in British Columbia on the inland lea of the Coast Mountains on the west side of the Fraser River....

region of the riding, west of the Fraser River

Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver. It is the tenth longest river in Canada...

, was from 1966 to 1976 part of the Coast Chilcotin

Coast Chilcotin

Coast Chilcotin was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of British Columbia.- Geography :...

riding.

The original form of the riding was the whole of the Cariboo Plateau

Cariboo Plateau

The Cariboo Plateau is a volcanic plateau in south-central British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Fraser Plateau that itself is a northward extension of the North American Plateau...

and both Cariboo and Lillooet Land Districts. Its southern boundary was on the northern edge of the New Wesminster

New Westminster (electoral district)

New Westminster was a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1979....

riding, and later the Burrard

Burrard (electoral district)

Burrard was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1904 and from 1917 to 1925. This riding was created in 1892 from parts of New Westminster riding.- Election results :...

riding, then the North Vancouver

North Vancouver (electoral district)

North Vancouver is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988.-Demographics:-Geography:...

riding, with near-coastal localities such as Pemberton

Pemberton, British Columbia

Pemberton is a village north of Whistler in the Pemberton Valley of British Columbia in Canada, with a population of 2,192. Until the 1960s the village could be accessed only by train but that changed when Highway 99 was built through Whistler and Pemberton.-Climate:The climate of Pemberton is...

, Squamish

Squamish, British Columbia

Squamish is a community and a district municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located at the north end of Howe Sound on the Sea to Sky Highway...

, Britannia Beach

Britannia Beach, British Columbia

Britannia Beach is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 30 kilometers north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound. It has a population of about 300....

and Port Douglas

Port Douglas, British Columbia

Port Douglas, sometimes referred to simply as Douglas, is a remote community in British Columbia, Canada at the head of Harrison Lake, which is the head of river navigation from the Strait of Georgia...

all politically part of "Cariboo".

Cariboo was also a provincial electoral district

Cariboo (provincial electoral district)

Cariboo was one of the twelve original electoral districts created when British Columbia became a Canadian province in 1871. Roughly corresponding to the old colonial electoral administrative district of the same name, it was a three-member riding until the 1894 election, when it was reduced...

. It was a three-member riding whose first representatives included George Anthony Boomer Walkem

George Anthony Walkem

George Anthony "Boomer" Walkem was a British Columbian politician and jurist.Born in Newry, Ireland, Walkem moved to then Colony of British Columbia in 1862 and served as a member of the appointed Legislative Council of British Columbia from 1864 to 1870 and was a supporter of Canadian confederation...

, later 3rd and 5th holder of the office of Premier of British Columbia

Premier of British Columbia

The Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...

. It was one of the province's first twelve electoral constituencies.

Election results

Note: Winners in each election are in bold

|-

|Liberal-Conservative
Liberal-Conservative Party
The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives prior to 1873...

|Joshua Spencer Thompson

Joshua Spencer Thompson

Joshua Spencer Thompson was a Canadian journalist and politician.Born in Belfast, Ireland, Thompson emigrated to British Columbia in 1858. Thompson was a journalist and accountant prior to becoming an MP...

|align="right"|acclaimed
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|n/a
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-

|Liberal-Conservative

Liberal-Conservative Party

The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives prior to 1873...

|Joshua Spencer Thompson
Joshua Spencer Thompson
Joshua Spencer Thompson was a Canadian journalist and politician.Born in Belfast, Ireland, Thompson emigrated to British Columbia in 1858. Thompson was a journalist and accountant prior to becoming an MP...

|align="right"|192
|align="right"|82.76%
|align="right"|
|-

|Unknown
|S. Walker
|align="right"|40
|align="right"|17.24%
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|232
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|-

|Liberal-Conservative

Liberal-Conservative Party

|Joshua Spencer Thompson
Joshua Spencer Thompson
Joshua Spencer Thompson was a Canadian journalist and politician.Born in Belfast, Ireland, Thompson emigrated to British Columbia in 1858. Thompson was a journalist and accountant prior to becoming an MP...

|align="right"|Accl.
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|n/a
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-

|Liberal-Conservative
Liberal-Conservative Party
The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives prior to 1873...

|James Reid

James Reid (Canadian politician)

James Reid was a Canadian entrepreneur and parliamentarian from British Columbia.Reid was born in Wakefield, Lower Canada, the son of James Reid and Ann Maxwell, and was educated in Hull, Quebec and Ottawa. He moved to British Columbia in 1862, with a cousin, nearly perishing on the trip to the...

|align="right"|179
|align="right"|42.32%
|align="right"|
|-

|Unknown
|Monroe ²
|align="right"|104
|align="right"|24.59%
|align="right"|
|-

|Unknown
|Ball ²
|align="right"|78
|align="right"|18.44%
|align="right"|
|-

|Unknown
|Archibald Greig
|align="right"|62
|align="right"|14.66%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|423
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=7|¹ By-Election: On Mr. Thompson'death, December 20, 1880.
|-
!align="left" colspan=7|² Neither Ball's nor Monroe's first names are given in the historical records of this riding.
|}
|-

|Liberal-Conservative
Liberal-Conservative Party
The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives prior to 1873...

|James Reid

James Reid (Canadian politician)

|align="right"|Accl.
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|n/a
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-

|Liberal-Conservative

Liberal-Conservative Party

|James Reid
James Reid (Canadian politician)
James Reid was a Canadian entrepreneur and parliamentarian from British Columbia.Reid was born in Wakefield, Lower Canada, the son of James Reid and Ann Maxwell, and was educated in Hull, Quebec and Ottawa. He moved to British Columbia in 1862, with a cousin, nearly perishing on the trip to the...

|align="right"|145
|align="right"|58.00%
|align="right"|

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|D. Ferguson
|align="right"|105
|align="right"|42.00%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|250
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

Robert McLeese

Robert McLeese was an Irish-born hotel keeper, store owner, owner of a sternwheel river boat and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1882 to 1888.He was born near Coleraine, the son of John McLeese and Jennie McArthur,...

Barnard's Express

Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921....

, premier freight company on the Cariboo Wagon Road. Francis Stillman Barnard was later 10th Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia) and was a Knight by the time of his appointment.
|-
!align="left" colspan=7|⁵ Rogers' first name does not appear in the historical records or this riding.
|}
|-
|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

Liberal Party of Canada

|Hugh Watt

Hugh Watt (Canadian politician)

Hugh Watt was a physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1892 to 1894....

|align="right"|194
|align="right"|46.52%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|417
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}

Under the Representation Act of 1892, the constituencies of Yale and Cariboo were united to form Yale—Cariboo

Yale—Cariboo

Yale—Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1917....

. In 1914 that riding was broken up and the Yale and Cariboo riding-names were restored, although the new constituencies were considerably smaller than before. The restored Yale riding included the Boundary Country around Grand Forks and Greenwood, but the Kootenay was now a separate riding and the town of Yale itself was not in the restored Yale riding, but in the new riding of Westminster District

Westminster District

Westminster District was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1921....

. The first election using the new boundaries was in 1917. "Government" and "Opposition" were used during the wartime campaign to designate the governing Conservatives vs the Opposition Liberals.
|-

|Government

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

Liberal Party of Canada

|Raymond Findlay Leighton
|align="right"|2,804
|align="right"|31.81%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|8,814
!align="right"|100%
!align="right"|
|}
|Progressive
Progressive Party of Canada
The Progressive Party of Canada was a political party in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s. It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba...

|Thomas George McBride

Thomas George McBride

Thomas George McBride was a Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Keady, Ireland and became a farmer....

|align="right"|7,185
|align="right"|64.94%
|align="right"|
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

|John Thomas Robinson
|align="right"|3,879
|align="right"|35.06%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|11,064
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

|John Anderson Fraser
|align="right"|6,430
|align="right"|53.74%
|align="right"|
|-

|Progressive

Progressive Party of Canada

The Progressive Party of Canada was a political party in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s. It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba...

|Thomas George McBride

Thomas George McBride

Thomas George McBride was a Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Keady, Ireland and became a farmer....

|align="right"|5,534
|align="right"|46.26%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|11,964
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

|John Anderson Fraser
|align="right"|7,200
|align="right"|53.00%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Joseph Graham
|align="right"|6,386
|align="right"|47.00%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|13,586
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

|John Anderson Fraser
|align="right"|8,548
|align="right"|50.98%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Henry George Thomas Perry

Henry George Thomas Perry

Henry George Thomas "Harry" Perry was an English-born real estate and insurance broker, journalist and political figure in British Columbia, Canada...

|align="right"|8,220
|align="right"|49.02%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|16,768
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|James Gray Turgeon

James Gray Turgeon

James Gray Turgeon was a broker, soldier and a provincial and federal level politician from Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1921 sitting with the Alberta Liberal caucus in government. During that time he also served in World War I.Turgeon had a...

|align="right"|4,222
|align="right"|40.89%
|align="right"|
|-

|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

Reconstruction Party of Canada

The Reconstruction Party was a Canadian political party founded by Henry Herbert Stevens, a long-time Conservative Member of Parliament . Stevens served as Minister of Trade in the Arthur Meighen government of 1921, and as Minister of Trade and Commerce from 1930 to 1934 in the Depression-era...

|Frederick Clarke
|align="right"|510
|align="right"|4.94%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|10,325
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|James Gray Turgeon

James Gray Turgeon

|align="right"|6,063
|align="right"|44.95%
|align="right"|
|-

|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|William Irvine

William Irvine (Canadian politician)

William Irvine was a Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. He served in the Canadian House of Commons on three different occasions, as a representative of Labour, the United Farmers of Alberta and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...

|align="right"|5,070
|align="right"|37.59%
|align="right"|
|-

|National Government
|Frederick Herbert Stephens
|align="right"|2,354
|align="right"|17.45%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|13,487
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

|William Irvine

William Irvine (Canadian politician)

|align="right"|5,773
|align="right"|40.70%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|James Gray Turgeon

James Gray Turgeon

|align="right"|4,841
|align="right"|34.13%
|align="right"|
|-
|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Thomas Jamieson

Thomas Jamieson

Thomas Francis Jamieson was a Scottish scientist most associated with his studies of sea level and glacial isostasy during the Quaternary....

|align="right"|2,490
|align="right"|17.55%
|align="right"|
|-

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Volney Lane Phillips
|align="right"|1,080
|align="right"|7.61%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|14,184
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|George Matheson Murray

George Matheson Murray

George Matheson Murray, known publicly as George Murray, was a publisher and politician in British Columbia in the first half of the 20th century. Originally a reporter for the Ottawa Citizen he was schooled informally in politics by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with whom he rode the...

|align="right"|7,330
|align="right"|55.53%
|align="right"|
|-

|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|William Irvine

William Irvine (Canadian politician)

Cariboo

The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. The name is a reference to the woodland caribou that were once abundant in the region...

district, with a southern boundary at 52 degrees 30 minutes north, just excluding Williams Lake

Williams Lake, British Columbia

Williams Lake, is a city in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the central part of a region known as the Cariboo, it is the largest urban centre between Kamloops and Prince George, with a population of 11,150 in city limits....

and the south bank of Quesnel Lake

Quesnel Lake

Quesnel Lake is a glacial lake or fjord in British Columbia, Canada, and is the origin of the Quesnel River. With a maximum depth of 610 meters , it is the deepest lake in British Columbia, though not the deepest lake in Canada, as is often claimed. That distinction belongs to Great Slave Lake...

. The rest of the riding extended to the Little Rancheria River and the border with Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

and the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...

, therefore including the Omineca, Prince George and Peace River districts.

|Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Bert Leboe

Bert Leboe

Bert Raymond Leboe was a Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd....

|align="right"|5,562
|align="right"|36.99%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|George Matheson Murray

George Matheson Murray

|align="right"|5,160
|align="right"|34.32%
|align="right"|
|-

|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|WIlliam Irvine

William Irvine (Canadian politician)

|align="right"|4,314
|align="right"|28.69%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|15,036
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-
|}
|Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Bert Leboe

Bert Leboe

Bert Raymond Leboe was a Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd....

|align="right"|8,292
|align="right"|42.62%
|align="right"|
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

Liberal Party of Canada

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|William Marshall Close
|align="right"|2,737
|align="right"|14.07%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|19,454
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-
|}
|Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Walter Henderson

Walter Henderson (politician)

Walter Clarence Henderson was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Carberry, Manitoba and became a farmer by career....

|align="right"|9,327
|align="right"|43.20%
|align="right"|
|-

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Bert Leboe

Bert Leboe

Bert Raymond Leboe was a Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd....

|align="right"|5,811
|align="right"|26.91%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|William M. Close
|align="right"|3,175
|align="right"|14.70%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|21,592
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-
|}
|Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Bert Leboe

Bert Leboe

Bert Raymond Leboe was a Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd....

|align="right"|8,435
|align="right"|30.43%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Walter Henderson

Walter Henderson (politician)

Walter Clarence Henderson was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Carberry, Manitoba and became a farmer by career....

|align="right"|6,830
|align="right"|24.65%
|align="right"|
|-

|New Democrat

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

|Ken Rutherford
|align="right"|4,732
|align="right"|17.08%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|21,592
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-
|}
|Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Bert Leboe

Bert Leboe

Bert Raymond Leboe was a Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd....

|align="right"|9,335
|align="right"|30.46%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

New Democratic Party

|Bill Close
|align="right"|4,461
|align="right"|14.56%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|30,643
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-
|}
|Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Bert Leboe

Bert Leboe

Bert Raymond Leboe was a Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Bawlf, Alberta, he was a lumberman by career, becoming director of Leboe Brothers Sawmills Ltd....

|align="right"|12,344
|align="right"|37.59%
|align="right"|
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

Liberal Party of Canada

New Democratic Party

|Fred Atkinson
|align="right"|5,594
|align="right"|17.04%
|align="right"|
|-
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|32,838
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|-
|}

The Cariboo electoral district was abolished in 1966. Successor ridings were:

Coast Chilcotin
Coast Chilcotin
Coast Chilcotin was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of British Columbia.- Geography :...

(1966 - 1976)
Kamloops—Cariboo
Kamloops—Cariboo
Kamloops–Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Cariboo and Kamloops ridings....

(1966 - 1976)
Prince George—Peace River
Prince George—Peace River
Prince George—Peace River is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.-Geography:...

(1966 - 1976)
Skeena
Skeena (electoral district)
Skeena was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 2004.-Geography:This was a rural, mostly wilderness, riding in northwestern B.C...

(1914 - 2003)

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Library of Parliament

The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada...

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Election results

See also

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