Victoria City (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Victoria City (provincial electoral district). For other electoral districts with the name Victoria, or for electoral districts in the area of Victoria, British Columbia, see List of electoral districts in Greater Victoria. For the city, see Victoria, British Columbia.

Victoria City

British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1903
District abolished	1924
First contested	1904
Last contested	1921

Victoria City was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1924. This riding was created in 1903 from Victoria riding. It was identical at the time of its creation to the provincial electoral district of the same name. It was abolished in 1924 into a new Victoria riding.

The district elected its MP through First past the post voting system.

Geography

It covered the City of Victoria.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Victoria
10th	1904–1906		George Riley	Liberal
	1906–1908		William Templeman	Liberal
11th	1908–1911		George Henry Barnard	Conservative
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1919		Simon Fraser Tolmie	Government (Unionist)
	1919–1921
14th	1921–1925			Conservative
Riding dissolved into Victoria

Election results

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Fraser Tolmie	7,485	59.79	+1.12
	Liberal	William McKinnon Ivel	5,033	40.21	–
Total valid votes			12,518	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-19.54

Canadian federal by-election, 1919 On Simon Tolmie being appointed Minister of Agriculture
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government (Unionist)	Simon Fraser Tolmie	7,219	58.67	-19.62
	Independent	Thomas Albert Barnard	5,085	41.33	–
Total valid votes			12,304	100.0
	Government (Unionist) hold		Swing		-30.48

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government (Unionist)	Simon Fraser Tolmie	11,365	78.29	+26.51
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Stuart Henderson	2,601	17.92	-24.96
	Unknown	Albert Samuel Wells	551	3.80	–
Total valid votes			14,517	100.0
	Government (Unionist) hold		Swing		+25.74

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Henry Barnard	2,816	51.78	+1.63
	Liberal	William Templeman	2,332	42.88	-6.97
	Socialist	Gordon Brown	290	5.33	–
Total valid votes			5,438	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+4.30

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Henry Barnard	2,179	50.15	+18.62
	Liberal	William Templeman	2,166	49.85	-7.29
Total valid votes			4,345	100.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+12.96

Canadian federal by-election, 1906 On the resignation of George Riley
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	W. Templeman	1,553	57.14	+4.59
	Conservative	J.L. Beckwith	857	31.53	-5.49
	Independent	W.H. Marcon	308	11.33	–
Total valid votes			2,718	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.04

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	George Riley	1,692	52.55
	Conservative	Edward G. Prior	1,192	37.02
	Socialist	James C. Watters	336	10.43
Total valid votes			3,220	100.0
This riding was created from parts of the multi-member riding of Victoria, which elected a Liberal and a Conservative in the last election. George Riley was one of the incumbents.

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada
• Elections Canada historical returns