Fraser Valley West

Fraser Valley West

British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1996
First contested	1968
Last contested	1993

Fraser Valley West was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1997.

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Burnaby—Coquitlam, Fraser Valley and New Westminster ridings.

It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into Langley—Mastqui riding.

It consisted initially of the western part of Matsqui District Municipality and including Crescent Island in the Central Fraser Valley Regional District and part of Surrey District Municipality.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of:

• the City of Langley;
• the northeastern part of Langley District Municipality, lying north and east of the City of Langley, the Fraser Highway and 240th Street; and
• the northwestern part of Matsqui District Municipality, lying north and west of Matsqui Power Railway right-of-way, and the south boundary of Matsqui District Municipality.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Burnaby—Coquitlam, Fraser Valley and New Westminster
28th	1968–1972		Mark Rose	New Democratic
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979		Robert Wenman	Progressive Conservative
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		Randy White	Reform
Riding dissolved into Langley—Mastqui

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Reform	Randy White	30,310	49.06	+45.55
	Liberal	Peter Warkentin	18,289	29.60	+10.00
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Lyle Nundal	6,956	11.26	-34.58
	New Democratic	Lynn Fairall	3,210	5.20	-20.43
	National	Robert J. Billyard	1,279	2.07	–
	Christian Heritage	Edward John van Woudenberg	1,028	1.66	-3.06
	Natural Law	Terry Scarff	331	0.54	–
	Libertarian	Lewis C. Dahlby	247	0.40	-0.30
	Independent	Conan Nagle	132	0.21	–
Total valid votes			61,782	100.0
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+17.78

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert L. Wenman	23,565	45.84	-8.88
	New Democratic	Lynn Fairall	13,178	25.63	-4.60
	Liberal	Tony Wattie	10,079	19.60	+6.90
	Christian Heritage	Edward John van Woudenberg	2,428	4.72	–
	Reform	John Russell Walsh	1,804	3.51	–
	Libertarian	J. Wayne Marsden	358	0.70	+0.06
Total valid votes			51,412	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.14

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Lloyd Wenman	35,984	54.72	+4.10
	New Democratic	Joe Leclair	19,878	30.23	-2.32
	Liberal	Don McKinnon	8,349	12.70	-3.96
	Rhinoceros	Earl Slick	474	0.72	–
	Libertarian	Martin MacDonald	420	0.64	–
	Green	Allan Hurd	277	0.42	–
	Confederation of Regions	Lenard M. Smith	180	0.27	–
	Communist	Viola M. Swann	103	0.16	–
	Not affiliated	Donald I. Knight	94	0.14	–
Total valid votes			65,759	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+3.21

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert L. Wenman	25,770	50.62	-3.59
	New Democratic	Joe Leclair	16,568	32.55	+1.66
	Liberal	Ben B.M. Nowak	8,483	16.66	+2.07
	Marxist–Leninist	Sweg Deol	83	0.16	+0.04
Total valid votes			50,904	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.62

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert L. Wenman	26,892	54.21	+12.82
	New Democratic	Cyril Barkved	15,322	30.89	-1.13
	Liberal	Roland J. Bouwman	7,235	14.59	-9.16
	Communist	Vi Swann	94	0.19	-0.18
	Marxist–Leninist	Kirpal Bains	62	0.12	–
Total valid votes			49,605	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+6.98

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert L. Wenman	22,925	41.39	+10.18
	New Democratic	Mark Rose	17,732	32.02	-15.46
	Liberal	Ralph Gordon Baizley	13,152	23.75	+3.02
	Social Credit	Edward Hibbs	1,205	2.18	–
	Communist	Harold J. Pritchett	204	0.37	–
	Independent	Ronald William Jackson	167	0.30	–
Total valid votes			55,385	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+12.82

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Mark Rose	22,612	47.48	+7.87
	Progressive Conservative	Trevor Armstrong	14,863	31.21	+17.47
	Liberal	Oscar Austring	9,870	20.73	-16.06
	Independent	Dave Charles Kane	275	0.58	–
Total valid votes			47,620	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-4.80

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Mark Rose	14,410	39.61
	Liberal	Edward Patrick Murphy	13,745	36.79
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Lohnes	4,997	13.74
	Social Credit	Bert Price	3,224	8.86
Total valid votes			36,376	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Burnaby—Coquitlam, Fraser Valley and New Westminster, which elected two New Democrats and a Social Credit (Fraser Valley) in the previous election.

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament