| 1953 British Columbia general election: Kamloops | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count |
% | Votes final count |
% | |||
| Social Credit | Philip Arthur Gaglardi | 4,037 | 49.33 | 4,171 | 51.44 | |||
| Liberal | Robert Gordon Carson5 | 2,272 | 27.75 | 2,503 | 30.87 | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Pete Wright | 1,368 | 16.72 | 1,434 | 17.69 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Gilbert Smith | 427 | 5.22 | |||||
| Labor–Progressive | Robert Gordon Carson5[citation needed] | 80 | 0.98 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 8,184 | 100.00 | 8,108 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 356 | |||||||
| Note: Preferential ballot. First and second of two counts only shown. | ||||||||
| 5 Son of Robert Henry Carson, previous Liberal MLA for this riding. | ||||||||
