Fraser Valley (electoral district)

Fraser Valley
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1997
District abolished	2004
First contested	1997
Last contested	2000

Fraser Valley was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1968 and from 1997 to 2004.

History[edit]

This electoral district has existed twice. It was first created in 1919 from Westminster District. In 1966, it was abolished when it was redistributed into Fraser Valley East, Fraser Valley West and Coast Chilcotin ridings.

It was reformed in 1996 from Fraser Valley East and Fraser Valley West ridings.

It was again abolished in 2003 when it was divided between Abbotsford and Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon ridings.

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Westminster District
14th	1921–1925	Elgin Albert Munro	Liberal
15th	1925–1926	Harry James Barber	Conservative
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945	George Cruickshank	Liberal
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957	Alexander Bell Patterson	Social Credit
23rd	1957–1958	Alexander Bell Patterson	Social Credit
24th	1958–1962	William Harold Hicks	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Alexander Bell Patterson	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Fraser Valley East, Fraser Valley West and Coast Chilcotin
Riding re-created from Fraser Valley East and Fraser Valley West
36th	1997–2000	Chuck Strahl	Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2001		Alliance
	2001–2002		Democratic Representative
	2002–2003		Alliance
	2003–2004		Conservative
Riding dissolved into Abbotsford and Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Chuck Strahl	38,509	69.97	+7.12	$60,527
	Liberal	Hal H. Singleton	8,965	16.28	-5.68	$36,188
	New Democratic	Rob Lees	3,185	5.78	-3.10	$2,392
	Progressive Conservative	Rocky Nenka	2,330	4.23	+0.98	$2,582
	Marijuana	Norm Siefken	811	1.47	–
	Green	Carol Battaglio	528	0.95	+0.31
	Canadian Action	Debbie Anderson	425	0.77	–
	Independent	Ed Van Woudenberg	212	0.38	–	$1,798
	Communist	Chris Bolster	69	0.12	–	$189
Total valid votes			55,034	100.0
Total rejected ballots			164	0.30
Turnout			55,198	63.70
	Alliance hold		Swing		+6.40
Change for the Canadian Alliance is based on the Reform Party.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Reform	Chuck Strahl	33,101	62.85	$57,306
	Liberal	John Les	11,569	21.96	$63,061
	New Democratic	Rob Lees	4,680	8.88	$21,339
	Progressive Conservative	Harry Wiens	1,714	3.25	$6,999
	Christian Heritage	Rodger N. Brown	1,047	1.98	$23,870
	Green	Carol Battaglio	342	0.64
	Natural Law	Patrick Boylan	118	0.22	$5
	Independent	Sa Tan	95	0.18
Total valid votes			52,666	100.0
Total rejected ballots			182	0.34
Turnout			52,848	67.02
This riding was re-created from Fraser Valley East and Fraser Valley West, both of which elected a Reform Party candidate. Chuck Strahl was the incumbent from Fraser Valley East.

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	A.B. Patterson	9,970	27.86	+4.33
	New Democratic	William Leonard Hartley	8,896	24.86	+6.86
	Progressive Conservative	Harold Hicks	8,562	23.93	-20.16
	Liberal	Walter Richard Ferguson	8,357	23.35	+8.87
Total valid votes			35,785	100.0
	Social Credit gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-1.26
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Harold Hicks	13,890	44.09	+19.98
	Social Credit	Alexander Bell Patterson	7,414	23.53	-15.16
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wesley N. Watson	5,640	17.90	-0.95
	Liberal	Thomas Foster Isherwood	4,562	14.48	-3.87
Total valid votes			31,506	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		+17.57

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Alexander Bell Patterson	9,618	41.64	–
	Liberal	George Cruickshank	9,318	40.34	-15.17
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Hampson Wilde	3,527	15.27	-9.31
	Labor–Progressive	Carl Christian Hilland	635	2.75	–
Total valid votes			23,098	100.0
	Social Credit gain from Liberal		Swing		+28.40

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Alexander Cruickshank	6,638	42.21	+15.45
	National Government	Harry James Barber	6,211	39.50	+5.00
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Warren Penberthy	2,877	18.29	-10.45
Total valid votes			15,726	100.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+5.22

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harry James Barber	5,751	56.18	+7.46
	Liberal	Elgin Albert Munro	4,485	43.82	-7.46
Total valid votes			10,236	100.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+7.46

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Elgin Albert Munro	4,307	51.28
	Conservative	Frank Bainard Stacey	4,092	48.72
Total valid votes			8,399	100.0
This riding was created from Westminster District, where Unionist Frank Bainard Stacey was the incumbent.