Nelson-Creston

Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding.

Nelson-Creston

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Brittny Anderson New Democratic
First contested	1933
Last contested	2017
Demographics
Population (2001)	44,131
Area (km²)	21,795
Pop. density (per km²)	2
Census division(s)	Regional District of Central Kootenay
Census subdivision(s)	Ainsworth Hot Springs, Creston, Kaslo, Nelson

Historically, the riding was consistently held by the "free enterprise" party of the era. Until 1952, this alternated between the BC Liberals and the Coalition, while after the election in 1952, Social Credit won every election until the BC NDP victory in 1972.

Since 1972, the NDP has won all but two elections: in the 1986 election, Social Credit won the riding along with many others in the Interior and in 2001, prominent NDP Cabinet minister Corky Evans was defeated in an election that saw all but two NDP MLAs suffer defeat. Since the 2005 election, the NDP has won the riding by wide margins.

Demographics

Population, 2001	44,131
Population change, 1996–2001	−2.2%
Area (km^2)	21,795
Population density (people per km^2)	2.0

Geography

As of the 2020 provincial election, Nelson-Creston comprises the eastern portion of the Regional District of Central Kootenay. It is located in southeastern British Columbia and is bordered by the United States to the south. Communities in the electoral district consist of Nelson, Creston, Salmo, and Kaslo.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
18th	1933–1937		Frank Putnam	Liberal
19th	1937–1941
20th	1941–1945
21st	1945–1949			Coalition
22nd	1949–1952		Walter Hendricks
23rd	1952–1953		Wesley Drewett Black	Social Credit
24th	1953–1956
25th	1956–1960
26th	1960–1963
27th	1963–1966
28th	1966–1969
29th	1969–1972
30th	1972–1975		Lorne Nicolson	New Democratic
31st	1975–1979
32nd	1979–1983
33rd	1983–1986
34th	1986–1991		Howard Dirks	Social Credit
35th	1991–1996		Corky Evans	New Democratic
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005		Blair Suffredine	Liberal
38th	2005–2009		Corky Evans	New Democratic
39th	2009–2013		Michelle Mungall
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–2020
42nd	2020–present		Brittny Anderson

Election results

2020 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Brittny Anderson	7,296	41.78	−0.41	$33,391.05
	Green	Nicole Charlwood	5,611	32.13	+3.97	$41,086.42
	Liberal	Tanya Finley	4,171	23.89	−4.04	$13,163.07
	Libertarian	Terry Tiessen	384	2.20	–	$0.00
Total valid votes			17,462	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC[2][3]

2017 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Michelle Mungall	7,685	42.19	−8.54	$26,935
	Green	Kim Charlesworth	5,130	28.16	+7.21	$7,119
	Liberal	Tanya Rae Wall	5,087	27.93	−0.39	$51,781
	Independent	Jesse O'Leary	164	0.90	–	$1,332
	Independent	Tom Prior	149	0.82	–	$402
Total valid votes			18,215	100.00
Total rejected ballots			67	0.37
Turnout			18,282	64.20
Source: Elections BC[4]

2013 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Michelle Mungall	8,200	50.73	-4.68	$58,838
	Liberal	Greg Garbula	4,577	28.32	-2.12	$47,428
	Green	Sjeng Derkx	3,387	20.95	+13.81	$18,928
Total valid votes			16,164	100.00
Total rejected ballots			122	0.75
Turnout			16,286	57.63
Source: Elections BC[5]

BC General Election 2009: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Michelle Mungall	9,060	55.83%	−3.97	$52,366
	Liberal	Josh Smienk	5,191	31.42%	+4.69	$77,586
	Green	Sean Kubara	1,189	7.20%	−5.22	$3,800
	Conservative	David Duncan	1,083	6.55%	+6.55	$2,676
Total valid votes			16,523	100%
Total rejected ballots			98	0.6%
Turnout			16,621	60%

BC General Election 2005: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Corky Evans	12,896	58.80%	+26.98	$59,942
	Liberal	Blair Suffredine	5,862	26.73%	−12.27	$52,434
	Green	Luke Crawford	2,724	12.42%	−9.11	$10,212
	Marijuana	Philip McMillan	276	1.26%	–	$100
	Bloc	Brian Taylor	173	–	0.79%	$215
Total valid votes			21,931
Total rejected ballots			137	0.62%
Turnout			22,068	67.88%

BC General Election 2001: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Blair Suffredine	8,558	39.00%	+7.53	$53,478
	NDP	Corky Evans	6,981	31.82%	−13.08	$46,070
	Green	Colleen McCrory	4,723	21.53%	+10.37	$33,223
	Unity	Stephen Cox	1,108	5.05%		$3,216
	Marijuana	Dan Loehndorf	570	2.60%		$1,400
Total valid votes			21,940	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			79	0.36%
Turnout			22,019	75.32%

BC General Election 1996: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Corky Evans	9,179	44.90%	−2.01	$42,880
	Liberal	Howard Dirks	6,434	31.47%	+12.29	$41,078
	Green	Andy Shadrack	2,282	11.16%	+8.61	$18,611
	Reform	Brian Dale Gaschnitz	2,114	10.34%
	Family Coalition	Brian John Zacharias	360	1.76%	–	$4,489
	Natural Law	Ruth Anne Taves	73	0.36%		$398
Total valid votes			20,442	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			82	0.40%
Turnout			20,524	75.20%

BC General Election 1991: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Corky Evans	8,583	46.91%		$33,620
	Social Credit	Howard Dirks	5,739	31.36%	–	$52,253
	Liberal	Barry L. Neufeld	3,510	19.18%		$863
	Green	Andrea Wright	467	2.55%	–	$1,082
Total valid votes			18,299	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			428	2.29%
Turnout			18,727	80.60%

28th BC General Election 1966: Nelson-Creston[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Wesley Drewett Black	4683	59.3%	–
	NDP	Munro	2324	29.4%
	Liberal	A. M. M. Vogel	892	11.3%
Total valid votes			7899	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			91	1.1%
Turnout			7990	69.2%

27th BC General Election 1963: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Wesley Drewett Black	4047	44.6%	–
	NDP	Askevold	1943	21.4%
	Liberal	A. M. M. Vogel	1600	17.7%
	Progressive Conservative	Shorthouse	1474	16.3%
Total valid votes			9064	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			53	0.6%
Turnout			9117	75.2%

26th BC General Election 1960: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Wesley Drewett Black	4501	49.4%	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	McNevin	2664	29.2%
	Liberal	Oliver	1222	13.4%
	Progressive Conservative	Taylor	730	8.0%
Total valid votes			9117	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			106	1.1%
Turnout			9223	76.0%

25th BC General Election 1956: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Wesley Drewett Black	4190	51.0%	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Affleck	2331	28.4%
	Liberal	White	1622	19.7%
	Labour Progressive	Mountford	70	0.9%
Total valid votes			8213	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			86	1.0%
Turnout			8299?	71.0%

1953 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Social Credit	Wesley Drewett Black	3,450	39.4	4,199	55.2
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Simms	2,636	30.1	3,404	44.8
	Liberal	Tees	1,803	20.6
	Progressive Conservative	Shorthouse	772	8.8
	Labor–Progressive	Mountford	99	1.1
Total valid votes			8,760	100.00	7,603	100
Total rejected ballots			455
Turnout			88.1
Note: Preferential ballot. First and last counts only shown.

1952 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Social Credit	Wesley Drewett Black	2,975	33.8	4,265	56.0
	Liberal	Walter Hendricks	2,572	29.2	3,351	44.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Simms	2,473	28.1
	Progressive Conservative	Stibbs	774	8.8
Total valid votes			8,794	100.00	7,616	100.00
Total rejected ballots			413	4.5
Turnout			75.2
Note: Preferential ballot. First and last counts only shown.

22nd BC General Election 1949: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Walter Hendricks	4783	60.0%	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Drew	2675	33.6%
	Social Credit	Horne	508	6.4%	–
Total valid votes			7966	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			151	1.9%
Turnout			8117	79.6%

21st BC General Election 1945: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Coalition	Frank Putnam	3055	58.6%	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Phillips	1249	24.0%
	People's Co-operative Commonwealth	Peter Stuart Beatt	726	13.9%
	Independent	Frisby	184	3.5%
Total valid votes			5214	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			39	0.7%
Turnout			5253	65.0%

20th BC General Election 1941: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Frank Putnam	2144	33.5%
	Conservative	Donaldson	2140	33.4%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Frisby	2124	33.1%
Total valid votes			6408	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			89	1.4%
Turnout			6497	76.9%

19th BC General Election 1937: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Frank Putnam	2149	39.2%
	Conservative	Horswill	1901	34.6%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Bayliss	1121	20.4%
	Social Credit	Howe	177	3.2%	–
	Independent	Mulholland	139	2.5%
Total valid votes			5487	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			61	1.1%
Turnout			5548	74.5%

18th BC General Election 1933: Nelson-Creston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Frank Putnam	2489	49.2%
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	Fred W. Lister	1302	25.7%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Walley	1161	22.9%
	United Front (Workers and Farmers)	Mountford	108	2.1%
Total valid votes			5060	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			102	2.0%
Turnout			5162	74.0%

References

1. "Nelson-Creston Electoral District" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
2. "2020 Provincial General Election Final Voting Results". electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
3. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
4. "Statement of Votes – 41st Provincial General Election – May 9, 2017" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
5. "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
6. British Columbia Chief Electoral Officer (1969). SUMMARIES OF PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND BY-ELECTIONS, BRITISH COLUMBIA 1928 TO 1969. McMaster University Government Publications.

External links

• BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia