Cariboo (federal electoral district)

Cariboo
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914
District abolished	1966
First contested	1917
Last contested	1965

Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1871 to 1892.

This riding was first created as Cariboo District following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation 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. In 1914, Yale—Cariboo was redistributed and Yale 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:

The Chilcotin region of the riding, west of the Fraser River, was from 1966 to 1976 part of the Coast Chilcotin riding.

The original form of the riding was the whole of the Cariboo Plateau and both Cariboo and Lillooet Land Districts. Its southern boundary was on the northern edge of the New Westminster riding, and later the Burrard riding, then the North Vancouver riding, with near-coastal localities such as Pemberton, Squamish, Britannia Beach and Port Douglas all politically part of "Cariboo".

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

A major redistribution in 1947 took away the southern half of the Cariboo district, with a southern boundary at 52 degrees 30 minutes north, just excluding Williams Lake and the south bank of Quesnel Lake. The rest of the riding extended to the Little Rancheria River and the border with Yukonand the Northwest Territories, therefore including the Omineca, Prince George and Peace River districts.

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

Coast Chilcotin (1966 - 1976)
Kamloops—Cariboo (1966 - 1976)
Prince George—Peace River (1966 - 1976)
Skeena (1914 - 2003)

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Cariboo District
2nd	1872–1874	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal–Conservative
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1880†
4th	1881–1882	James Reid	Liberal–Conservative
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1888
6th	1888–1891	Frank Stillman Barnard	Conservative
7th	1891–1896	Frank Stillman Barnard	Conservative
Riding dissolved into Yale—Cariboo
Riding re-created from Yale—Cariboo
13th	1917–1921	Frederick John Fulton	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925	Thomas George McBride	Progressive
15th	1925–1926	John Fraser	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	James Gray Turgeon	Liberal
19th	1940–1945	James Gray Turgeon	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	William Irvine	Co-operative Commonwealth
21st	1949–1953	George Matheson Murray	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957	Bert Leboe	Social Credit
23rd	1957–1958	Bert Leboe	Social Credit
24th	1958–1962	Walter Henderson	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Bert Leboe	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Coast Chilcotin, Kamloops—Cariboo, Prince George—Peace River and Skeena

Election results

Cariboo, 1917–1968

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Leboe	12,344	37.59	+7.13
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Runkle	7,756	23.62	-3.48
	Liberal	Art McLellan	7,144	21.76	-6.12
	New Democratic	Fred Atkinson	5,594	17.04	+2.48
Total valid votes			32,838	100.0
	Social Credit hold		Swing		+5.30

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Leboe	9,335	30.46	+0.03
	Liberal	Charles E. Graham	8,543	27.88	+0.04
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Runkle	8,304	27.10	+2.45
	New Democratic	Bill Close	4,461	14.56	-2.52
Total valid votes			30,643	100.0
	Social Credit hold		Swing		±0

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Leboe	8,435	30.43	+3.52
	Liberal	Charles E. Graham	7,715	27.84	+12.65
	Progressive Conservative	Walter Henderson	6,830	24.65	-18.55
	New Democratic	Ken Rutherford	4,732	17.08	+2.38
Total valid votes			21,592	100.0
	Social Credit gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-4.56
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Walter Henderson	9,327	43.20	+21.52
	Social Credit	Bert Leboe	5,811	26.91	-15.71
	Liberal	Gordon Douglas Bryant	3,279	15.19	-6.44
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William M. Close	3,175	14.70	+0.63
Total valid votes			21,592	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		+18.62

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Leboe	8,292	42.62	+5.63
	Progressive Conservative	William Dow Ferry	4,217	21.68	–
	Liberal	Angus Carmichael	4,208	21.63	-12.69
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Marshall Close	2,737	14.07	-14.62
Total valid votes			19,454	100.0
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-8.02

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Bert Leboe	5,562	36.99	–
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray	5,160	34.32	-21.21
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Irvine	4,314	28.69	-15.78
Total valid votes			15,036	100.0
	Social Credit gain from Liberal		Swing		+29.10

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Matheson Murray	7,330	55.53	+21.40
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Irvine	5,870	44.47	+3.77
Total valid votes			13,200	100.0
	Liberal gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+8.82

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Irvine	5,773	40.70	+3.11
	Liberal	James Gray Turgeon	4,841	34.13	-10.82
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Jamieson	2,490	17.55	+0.10
	Social Credit	Volney Lane Phillips	1,080	7.61	–
Total valid votes			14,184	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth gain from Liberal		Swing		+6.96

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Gray Turgeon	6,063	44.95	+4.06
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Irvine	5,070	37.59	+1.37
	National Government	Frederick Herbert Stephens	2,354	17.45	-0.50
Total valid votes			13,487	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.34

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Gray Turgeon	4,222	40.89	-8.13
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John McInnis	3,740	36.22	–
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	1,853	17.95	-33.03
	Reconstruction	Frederick Clarke	510	4.94	–
Total valid votes			10,325	100.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		-22.18

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	8,548	50.98	-2.02
	Liberal	Henry George Thomas Perry	8,220	49.02	+2.02
Total valid votes			16,768	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-2.02

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	7,200	53.00	-0.74
	Liberal	Joseph Graham	6,386	47.00	–
Total valid votes			13,586	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-23.87

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Anderson Fraser	6,430	53.74	+18.68
	Progressive	Thomas George McBride	5,534	46.26	-18.68
Total valid votes			11,964	100.0
	Conservative gain from Progressive		Swing		+18.68

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas George McBride	7,185	64.94	–
	Conservative	John Thomas Robinson	3,879	35.06	-33.13
Total valid votes			11,064	100.0
	Progressive gain from Government (Unionist)		Swing		+49.04

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	Frederick John Fulton	6,010	68.19
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Raymond Findlay Leighton	2,804	31.81
Total valid votes			8,814	100.0
This riding was re-created from Yale—Cariboo, which elected a Conservative in the previous election.

Cariboo, 1872–1896

1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	F.S. Barnard	223	53.48	+14.22
	Liberal	Hugh Watt	194	46.52	–
Total valid votes			417	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-16.15

Canadian federal by-election, 22 November 1888 On the appointment of James Reid to the Senate
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frank Stillman Barnard	117	39.26	-18.74
	Independent	R. McLeese	95	31.88	–
	Independent	? Rogers	86	28.86	–
Total valid votes			298	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-25.31
Rogers' first name does not appear in the historical records.

1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal–Conservative	James Reid	145	58.00
	Liberal	D. Ferguson	105	42.00
Total valid votes			250	100.0

1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	James Reid	acclaimed

Canadian federal by-election, 31 March 1881 On the death of Joshua Spencer Thompson, 20 December 1880
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal–Conservative	James Reid	179	42.32
	Unknown	? Monroe	104	24.59
	Unknown	? Ball	78	18.44
	Unknown	Archibald Greig	62	14.66
Total valid votes			423	100.0
Neither Ball's nor Monroe's first names are given in the historical records.

1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joshua Spencer Thompson	acclaimed

1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal–Conservative	Joshua Spencer Thompson	192	82.76
	Unknown	S. Walker	40	17.24
Total valid votes			232	100.0

1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Joshua Spencer Thompson	acclaimed

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament: