Central Fraser Valley (electoral district)

Central Fraser Valley was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1979 to 1986. For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster (electoral districts) and/or Vancouver (electoral districts).

Demographics

Population, 1966
Population change, 1966–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jan Bakker	4,653	25.88%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Eva Viola Barton	1,362	7.57%		unknown
	Social Credit	William Samuel Ritchie	11,967	66.55%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			17,982	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			279
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Harry Wilfred Fontaine	6,628	25.05%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McNeil	3,399	12.85%		unknown
	Social Credit	William Samuel Ritchie	16,032	60.59%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Jacob Victor Suderman	399	1.51%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			26,458	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			419
Turnout			%

34th British Columbia election, 1986¹
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Violet Bergen	6,805	13.44%		unknown
	Social Credit	Harry H. De Jong	15,900	31.41%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	Peter Albert Dueck	16,961	33.51%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	James Alexander McNeil	4,900	9.68%		unknown
	New Democratic	J. Steven Mohr	6,052	11.96%		unknown
Total valid votes			50,618	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			627
Turnout			%
¹ Seat increased to two members from one.

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)

North / Central	Atlin Cariboo ‡ North Peace River Omineca Prince George North Prince George South Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ Columbia River Kamloops ‡ Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan North Okanagan South ‡ Rossland-Trail Shuswap-Revelstoke Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ Chilliwack Delta ‡ Dewdney ‡ Langley ‡ Richmond ‡ Surrey (2) †

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Moody Maillardville-Coquitlam New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt-Port Renfrew Mackenzie Nanaimo ‡ North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands ‡ Victoria (2)

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1979 general election 1983 general election 1986 general election Defunct districts

‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies Surrey-Guildford-Whalley Surrey-Newton Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

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