Английская Википедия:Greenwood (British Columbia electoral district)
Шаблон:About Greenwood was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was located in there Boundary Country west of Grand Forks around the city of Greenwood. It first appeared on the hustings in the large redistribution prior to the 1903 election. For the 1924 election it was merged with the Grand Forks riding to form Grand Forks-Greenwood.
For other historical and current provincial electoral districts in the Kootenay region, please see Kootenay (electoral districts).
Political geography and history
When the Greenwood riding was formed the Boundary and Slocan mining districts were booming and Greenwood was not a city in name only (as it is today, proudly retaining the city status as official vestige of its wealthy past). Like other ridings in the West Kootenay created in advance of the 1903 election out of the West Kootenay South, during the glory days of the Kootenay and Boundary silver and galena booms. Slocan, Kaslo, Rossland, Grand Forks, Nelson City, Ymir and other ridings were also created at this time out of the former West Kootenay South.
The need for extra ridings ended when the mining era did, and so as the population of Greenwood and neighbouring towns dwindled the Greenwood riding made its last appearance in the 1924 election and was merged with Grand Forks riding into Grand Forks-Greenwood.
Grand Forks-Greenwood remained on the hustings until 1966 when even lower populations resulted in a merger with the valley of the Similkameen river, also a mining district in decline and represented by Similkameen, which was combined with the smelter and railway towns of the Grand Forks-Greenwood area and the southern end of the Okanagana to form the new riding of Boundary-Similkameen.
For other historical and current electoral districts in the West Kootenay region, see List of electoral districts in the Kootenays.
Demographics
| Population, 1901 | ||
| Population change, 1901–1921 | Population Grand Forks-Greenwood 1926-1966 | Population Boundary-Similkameen 1966-1986 |
| Area (km²) | ||
| Population density (people per km²) |
Political geography
Notable elections
Notable MLAs
- Bill Barlee, BC historian, TV host and folk pundit (ret.)
Electoral history
Note: Winners in each election are in bold. Шаблон:Election FPTP begin Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Liberal |John Robert Brown 1 |align="right"|238 |align="right"|36.73% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown Шаблон:CANelec Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Conservative |James Ernest Spankie |align="right"|181 |align="right"|27.93% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|648 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=7|The Vancouver Province newspaper gave 380, 332, and 265 respectively. |}
Шаблон:Election FPTP begin Шаблон:CANelec Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Liberal |George Ratcliffe Naden |align="right"|217 |align="right"|37.22% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Conservative |Edward George Warren |align="right"|190 |align="right"|32.59% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|583 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=7|8 Sixteenth Premier of British Columbia. |}
Шаблон:Election FPTP begin Шаблон:CANelec Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Conservative |John Robert Jackson |align="right"|260 |align="right"|42.07% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Liberal |Alexander MacDonald |align="right"|154 |align="right"|24.92% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|618 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |}
Шаблон:Election FPTP begin Шаблон:CANelec Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Conservative |John Robert Jackson |align="right"|364 |align="right"|78.11% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|466 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |}
Шаблон:Election FPTP begin Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Conservative |John Robert Jackson |align="right"|205 |align="right"|29.45% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown Шаблон:Canadian party colour |Liberal |John Duncan MacLean |align="right"|491 |align="right"|70.55% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|696 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |}
Шаблон:1920 British Columbia general election/Greenwood
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