Delta (provincial electoral district)

Delta was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia based on the municipality of Delta at the mouth of the Fraser River between the city of Vancouver and the Canada–United States border. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903 and its last in the election of 1986, after which it was succeeded by Delta North and Delta South, which are the current ridings in the area.

Assembly	Years	Member
Riding created from Westminster-Delta
10th	1903–1907	John Oliver	Liberal
11th	1907–1909	John Oliver	Liberal
12th	1909–1912	Francis James Anderson MacKenzie	Conservative
13th	1912–1916
14th	1916–1920
15th	1920–1924	John Oliver	Liberal
16th	1924–1928	Alexander McDonald Paterson	Liberal
17th	1928–1933	John Walter Berry	Conservative
18th	1933–1937	Robert Swailes	CCF
19th	1937–1941	Leonard Alec Shepherd
20th	1941–1945	Leonard Alec Shepherd
21st	1945–1949	Alexander Campbell Hope	Coalition (PC)
22nd	1949–1952		Coalition (PC)
22nd	1952		PC
23rd	1952–1953	Thomas Irwin	Social Credit
24th	1953–1956	Thomas Irwin	Social Credit
Became a dual-member district between 1956–1966
28th	1966–1969	Robert Wenman	Social Credit
29th	1969–1972	Robert Wenman	Social Credit
30th	1972–1975	Carl Liden	NDP
31st	1975–1979	Kenneth Walter Davidson	Social Credit
32nd	1979–1983
33rd	1983–1986

Assembly	Years	Seat 1			Seat 2
Assembly	Years	Member	Party		Member	Party
25th	1956–1957	Thomas Irwin		Social Credit	Nehemiah George Massey		Social Credit
25th	1957–1960	Gordon Lionel Gibson		Social Credit	Nehemiah George Massey		Social Credit
26th	1960–1961	Camille Mather		CCF	James Henry Rhodes		CCF
26th	1961–1963	Camille Mather		NDP	James Henry Rhodes		NDP
27th	1963–1966	Hunter Vogel		Social Credit	Ernest LeCours		Social Credit
Became a single-member district again between 1966–1986
34th	1986–1991	John Savage		Social Credit	Walter Davidson		Social Credit
Riding dissolved into Delta North* and Delta South.*

1903 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Oliver	447	59.13%
	Conservative	William Henry Ladner	309	40.87%
Total valid votes			756	100.00%

1907 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Oliver	430	62.23%
	Conservative	Francis James Anderson MacKenzie	261	37.77%
Total valid votes			691	100.00%

1909 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Francis James Anderson MacKenzie	765	58.13%
	Liberal	John Oliver	551	41.87%
Total valid votes			1,316	100.00%

Delta (provincial electoral district)

Single-member district

Dual-member district

Electoral history

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1952 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	%
	Social Credit League	Thomas Irwin	11,759	37.22	14,805	52.69
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Leonard Alec Shepherd	10,853	34.35	13,295	47.31
	Progressive Conservative	Alexander Campbell Hope	4,688	18.84
	Liberal	Donald Alexander Sutherland Lanskail	4,293	13.59
Total valid votes			31,593	100.00	28,100	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,172
Note: Preferential ballot; first and final of three (3) counts only shown.

v t e 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

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River Kamloops Kootenay Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke-Slocan Rossland-Trail South Okanagan Shuswap Yale-Lillooet
Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Dewdney Langley New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Richmond Surrey Vancouver-Burrard (2) 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 Mackenzie Nanaimo Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1966 general election 1969 general election 1972 general election 1975 general election Defunct districts

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1941–1956)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George Omineca Peace River Prince Rupert Skeena
Southern Interior	Columbia Cranbrook Fernie Grand Forks-Greenwood Kamloops Kaslo-Slocan Lillooet Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke Rossland-Trail Shuswap Similkameen South Okanagan Yale
Lower Mainland	Burnaby Chilliwack Delta Dewdney New Westminster North Vancouver Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver Centre Vancouver East Vancouver-Point Grey
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Newcastle Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo and the Islands Oak Bay Saanich Victoria City
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1941 general election 1945 general election 1949 general election 1952 general election 1953 general election Defunct districts

1924 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Alexander McDonald Paterson	1,677	46.13%
	Conservative	Archibald Woodbury McLelan	1,253	34.47%
	Provincial	Saul A. Bonnell	633	17.42%
	Independent Liberal	Hugh Williams	72	1.98%
Total valid votes			3,635	100.00%

British Columbia provincial by-election, 1957
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Social Credit	Gordon Lionel Gibson	9,989	39.41%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Leonard Alec Shepherd	8,379	33.06%
	Progressive Conservative	Craig Frazer	5,388	21.26%
	Liberal	William Wilson	1,266	4.99%
	Labor–Progressive	Peter Gidora	217	0.86
	Independent	Peter Wolanski	109	0.43
Total valid votes			25,348	100.00%

1960 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Camille Mather	21,839	39.65	Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Henry Rhodes	21,559	39.14	Y
	Social Credit	Nehemiah George Massey	21,011	38.15
	Social Credit	Donald H. Riggan	17,291	31.40
	Liberal	Arthur R. Helps	8,529	15.49
	Liberal	C. Douglas Morris	8,517	15.46
	Progressive Conservative	George Francis Crowe	2,280	4.14
	Progressive Conservative	Dalton O. Jones	2,159	3.92
	Independent	Gordon Lionel Gibson	2,010	3.65
	Communist	Homer Stevens	505	0.92
	Communist	George Lakusta	408	0.74
	Independent	Norman Baker	220	0.40
Total valid votes			55,073	100.00
Total rejected ballots			834

1963 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Social Credit	Hunter Bertram Vogel	22,504	41.78	Y
	Social Credit	Ernest LeCours	22,067	40.97	Y
	New Democratic	Camille Mather	18,690	34.70
	New Democratic	James Henry Rhodes	17,661	32.79
	Liberal	J.T. "Jock" Smith	5,553	10.31
	Liberal	Harry Lewis Huff	5,342	9.92
	Progressive Conservative	Theodore Kuhn	4,461	8.28
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas Horan	4,049	7.52
	Communist	Homer Stevens	505	0.94
Total valid votes			53,860	100.00
Total rejected ballots			473