Kootenay East

Kootenay East
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1976
District abolished	1996
First contested	1979
Last contested	1993

Kootenay East (also known as Kootenay East—Revelstoke) was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968 and from 1979 to 1997.

This riding was created as "Kootenay East" in 1914 from parts of Kootenay riding.

It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Kootenay West and Okanagan—Kootenay ridings.

It initially consisted of the provincial electoral districts of Cranbrook, Fernie and Columbia.

Its boundaries were adjusted in 1924, 1933, and 1947.

It was recreated in 1976 as "Kootenay East" from parts of Kootenay West and Okanagan—Kootenay ridings, and consisted of:

the East Kootenay Regional District;
the southeast part of the Central Kootenay Regional District; and
the eastern part of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District lying east of Electoral Areas C and E.

The name of the electoral district was changed in 1977 to "Kootenay East—Revelstoke".

The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into a new Kootenay East riding and Kootenay West—Revelstoke.

The new Kootenay East riding consisted of:

the East Kootenay Regional District;
Electoral Areas A, B and C of the Central Kootenay Regional District;
the Town of Creston;
Electoral Area A of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District; and
the town of Golden.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed into Kootenay—Columbia.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Kootenay East Riding created from Kootenay
13th	1917–1921	Saul Bonnell	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1922	Robert Ethelbert Beattie	Liberal
14th	1922–1925	James Horace King	Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1930	Michael Dalton McLean	Conservative
17th	1930–1935	Henry Herbert Stevens	Conservative
18th	1935–1938		Reconstruction
18th	1938–1940		Conservative
19th	1940–1945	George MacKinnon	National Government
20th	1945–1949	James Herbert Matthews	Co-operative Commonwealth
21st	1949–1953	James Allen Byrne	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962	Murray McFarlane	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	James Allen Byrne	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Kootenay West and Okanagan—Kootenay
Kootenay East—Revelstoke Riding re-created from Kootenay West and Okanagan—Kootenay
31st	1979–1980	Stan Graham	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984	Sid Parker	New Democratic
33rd	1984–1988	Stan Graham	Progressive Conservative
Kootenay East
34th	1988–1993	Sid Parker	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997	Jim Abbott	Reform
Riding dissolved into Kootenay—Columbia

Election results

Kootenay East, 1988–1997

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Jim Abbott	16,883	48.51	+44.46
	Liberal	Jim S. Wavrecan	7,812	22.45	+10.39
	New Democratic	Sid Parker	5,041	14.48	-38.09
	Progressive Conservative	Jake McInnis	3,780	10.86	-27.66
	National	Hilda Bechler	576	1.66	–
	Green	Rhonda Smith	288	0.83	–
	Christian Heritage	Gerald Lionel Brinders	193	0.55	-1.60
	Natural Law	Ruth Anne Taves	156	0.45	–
	Canada Party	Lelannd Haver	73	0.21	–
Total valid votes			34,802	100.0
	Reform gain from New Democratic		Swing		+17.04

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Sid Parker	14,904	43.22	+11.77
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Graham	13,284	38.52	-7.97
	Liberal	Bob Wilson-Smith	4,159	12.06	+0.58
	Reform	Minnie Pearl Wilder	1,398	4.05	–
	Christian Heritage	Gerald L. Brinders	742	2.15	–
Total valid votes			34,487	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+9.87

Kootenay East—Revelstoke, 1979–1988

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Graham	18,129	46.49	+8.51
	New Democratic	Sid Parker	15,908	40.80	+0.93
	Liberal	Richard Fonger	4,477	11.48	-10.66
	Independent	David R. Gildea	479	1.23	–
Total valid votes			38,993	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+3.79

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Sid Parker	13,299	39.87	+4.80
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Graham	12,668	37.98	-2.77
	Liberal	Joe Conroy	7,386	22.14	-2.04
Total valid votes			33,353	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+3.78

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Graham	12,904	40.75
	New Democratic	Sid Parker	11,107	35.07
	Liberal	Joe Conroy	7,658	24.18
Total valid votes			31,669	100.0
This riding was re-created from parts of Kootenay West and Okanagan—Kootenay, both of which elected Progressive Conservative candidates in the previous election.

Kootenay East, 1917–1968

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	5,574	31.67	-1.95
	New Democratic	James Patterson	4,825	27.42	-2.00
	Social Credit	James E. Kennelly	4,370	24.83	+9.56
	Progressive Conservative	Murray McFarlane	2,830	16.08	-5.61
Total valid votes			17,599	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.02

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	6,165	33.62	+2.03
	New Democratic	William Basil Mundy	5,395	29.42	+2.72
	Progressive Conservative	Murray McFarlane	3,977	21.69	-4.42
	Social Credit	Allan Wood Hunter	2,800	15.27	-0.33
Total valid votes			18,337	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.34

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	5,414	31.59	+3.62
	New Democratic	William B. Mundy	4,576	26.70	+1.70
	Progressive Conservative	Murray McFarlane	4,475	26.11	-7.35
	Social Credit	Douglas Sadler	2,673	15.60	+2.03
Total valid votes			17,138	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+0.96
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Murray McFarlane	5,363	33.46	+19.45
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	4,483	27.97	-3.47
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David E. Bjerstedt	4,006	25.00	-2.07
	Social Credit	James R. R. Chabot	2,174	13.57	-13.91
Total valid votes			16,026	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+11.46

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	4,670	31.44	-6.65
	Social Credit	James R. Chabot	4,082	27.48	-2.10
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Howard William Day	4,022	27.07	-0.97
	Progressive Conservative	Murray McFarlane	2,082	14.01	–
Total valid votes			14,856	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.28

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	4,988	38.09	-2.40
	Social Credit	Lorne George McLean	3,874	29.58	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald Cameron MacDonald	3,672	28.04	-11.73
	Labor–Progressive	Samuel English	563	4.30	–
Total valid votes			13,097	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-15.99

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Allen Byrne	5,546	40.49	+15.55
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Herbert Matthews	5,448	39.77	+2.92
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Tindale Richardson	2,704	19.74	-0.91
Total valid votes			13,698	100.0
	Liberal gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+6.32

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Herbert Matthews	4,712	36.85	+3.42
	Liberal	John Joseph O'Neill	3,189	24.94	-6.67
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Kent Archibald	2,640	20.65	-14.31
	Labor–Progressive	Harvey Murphy	1,632	12.76	–
	Social Credit	Joseph Arthur Horne	613	4.79	–
Total valid votes			12,786	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth gain from National Government		Swing		+5.04

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Government	George E.L. MacKinnon	4,395	34.96	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Herbert Matthews	4,202	33.43	+17.99
	Liberal	Edwin K. Stewart	3,974	31.61	-1.59
Total valid votes			12,571	100.0
	National Government gain from Reconstruction		Swing		+8.48

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reconstruction	Henry Herbert Stevens	3,904	38.81	–
	Liberal	Robert Randolph Bruce	3,339	33.20	-15.67
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Bayard Ormand Iverson	1,553	15.44	–
	Social Credit	Ernest William Sjodin	1,262	12.55	–
Total valid votes			10,058	100.0
	Reconstruction gain from Conservative		Swing		+27.24

Canadian federal by-election, 25 August 1930 On Michael McLean's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 7 August 1930
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	acclaimed

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Dalton McLean	4,674	51.13	+11.53
	Liberal	Joseph-Francis Guimont	4,468	48.87	+5.94
Total valid votes			9,142	100.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+2.80

Canadian federal by-election, 9 November 1926 On James King's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 11 October 1926
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James Horace King	acclaimed

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Horace King	3,547	42.93	-13.06
	Conservative	John Wesley Rutledge	3,272	39.60	-4.41
	Labour	James Sims	1,444	17.48	–
Total valid votes			8,263	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.32

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Horace King	4,446	55.99	-6.40
	Conservative	John Wesley Rutledge	3,495	44.01	–
Total valid votes			7,941	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-25.20

Canadian federal by-election, 14 March 1922 On Robert Beattie's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 8 February 1922
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Horace King	3,223	62.39	+24.25
	Progressive	Thomas Harold Bronsdon	1,943	37.61	–
Total valid votes			5,166	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-6.68

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Ethelbert Beattie	2,339	38.14	+9.35
	Conservative	Saul Bonnell	2,203	35.92	-27.23
	Progressive	William Scott MacDonald	1,591	25.94	–
Total valid votes			6,133	100.0
	Liberal gain from Government (Unionist)		Swing		+18.29

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	Saul Bonnell	3,398	63.15
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Robert Beattie	1,549	28.79
	Labour	Thomas Biggs	434	8.07
Total valid votes			5,381	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Kootenay, which elected a Conservative candidate in the previous election.

External links

Riding history from the] Library of Parliament