Grand Forks-Greenwood was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Grand Forks, in the Boundary Country between the Okanagan and Kootenay Countries. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of Greenwood and Grand Forks, and lasted until the 1963 election. As of 1966 the area was represented by Boundary-Similkameen. The same area is now part of West Kootenay-Boundary.

For other ridings in the Kootenay region, please see Kootenay (electoral districts).

Demographics

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Population, 1961
Population change, 1871–1961
Area (km2)
Population density (people per km2)

Political geography

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Notable elections

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Notable MLAs

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Electoral history

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Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Provincial Arthur Strickland Clinton 331 19.21% unknown
  Liberal Ezra Churchill Henniger 642 37.26% unknown
Conservative John McKie 750 43.53% unknown
Total valid votes 1,723 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
17th British Columbia election, 1928
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative Charles Morgan Kingston 888 52.92 % unknown
  Liberal Dougald McPherson 790 47.08% unknown
Total valid votes 1,678 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 33
Turnout %
18th British Columbia election, 1933 15
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.t Robert Lawson 221 12.51% unknown
Non-Partisan Independent Group Thomas Alfred Love 511 28.94% unknown
  Liberal Dougald McPherson 1,034 58.55% unknown
Total valid votes 1,766 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 1
Turnout %
1 Details of returns were not supplied by the Returning Officer, only the total valid votes for each candidate, so the number of rejected ballots is unknown.
19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Wilbert Richard Braithwaite 164 9.52% unknown
  Liberal Ezra Churchill Henniger 722 41.93% unknown
Conservative Thomas Alfred Love 703 40.82%
Social Constructive Anthony Whitehead 133 7.72%
Total valid votes 1,722 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 29
20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Alan Conway Clapp 365 22.20% unknown
  Liberal Ezra Churchill Henniger 637 38.75% unknown
Conservative Thomas Alfred Love 642 39.05% unknown
Total valid votes 1,644 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 4
Turnout %


1945 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal-Conservative Coalition Thomas Alfred Love 707 52.06
Co-operative Commonwealth John Townely Rezeau Lawrence 461 33.95
Independent Labour Charles Westley Clark 106 7.81
Labor–Progressive Alan Conway Clapp 84 6.19
Total valid votes 1,358 100.00
Total rejected ballots 27
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Rupert Haggen 922 44.14% unknown
Coalition Thomas Alfred Love 873 41.79% unknown
  Independent Edwin Stanley Orris 294 14.07% unknown
Total valid votes 2,089 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 23
Turnout %
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 2
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
% ±%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Rupert Haggen 826 39.79% 1,043 53.08% unknown
  Conservative Cecil Gordon McMynn 706 34.01% 922 46.92% unknown
  Liberal Edwin Stanley Orris 252 12.14% - - % unknown
  B.C. Social Credit League Henry Edgar Parkyn 292 14.07% - - % unknown
Total valid votes 2,076 100.00% 1,965 - %
Total rejected ballots 58
Turnout %
2 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of three (3) shown only.
24th British Columbia election, 1953 3
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
% ±%
  Conservative Ruth Ellen May Euerby 177 8.51% - -.- % unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Rupert Haggen 995 47.86% 1,016 50.12% unknown
Social Credit Gordon Clarke McPhail 583 28.05% 618 30.49%
  Liberal Klaus Scheer 324 15.58% 393 19.39% unknown
Total valid votes 2,079 100.00% 2,027 - %
Total rejected ballots 145
Turnout %
3 Preferential ballot. First and final counts of two (2) shown only.
25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Hilbert Crae Dawson 866 42.04% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Lois Haggen 877 42.57% unknown
  Liberal John Morris Jones 317 15.39% unknown
Total valid votes 2,060 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 34
Turnout %
26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Joseph Clinton Armstrong 752 28.56 % unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Lois Haggen 1,115 42.35% unknown
  Liberal Frank Martin 564 21.42% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Yasushi Sugimoto 202 7.67% unknown
Total valid votes 2,633 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 40
Turnout %
27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Dominic Geronazzo 705 29.50% unknown
New Democratic Lois Haggen 919 38.45% unknown
  Liberal Milo Joseph McGarry 766 32.05% unknown
Total valid votes 2,390 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 20
Turnout %

The Boundary area was redistributed following the 1963 election. The new riding representing the area as of the 1966 election was Boundary-Similkameen.

Sources

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Elections BC Historical Returns

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