Peace River North

Peace River North is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was created under the name North Peace River by the Constitution Amendment Act, 1955, which split the old riding of Peace River into northern and southern portions for the 1956 BC election. Its current name has been in use since 1991.

Peace River North

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Dan Davies Liberal
District created	1955
First contested	1956
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Population (2001)	32,353
Area (km²)	160,485
Pop. density (per km²)	0.2

Peace River North has been represented by a variety of British Columbia Political parties over the years. The riding has consistently elected political parties that come from the right side of the political spectrum. For many years the riding was represented by the BC Social Credit Party. Currently, the riding is represented by the centre-right BC Liberal Party. The left of centre New Democratic party has never been successful in electing a candidate to the BC Legislature, despite fielding numerous candidates since the 1950s.

Geography

As of the 2020 provincial election, Peace River North comprises the entire area of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and the northern portion of the Peace River Regional District, located in northeastern British Columbia. The electoral district is bordered by Alberta in the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. Communities in the electoral district consist of Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Taylor and Hudson's Hope.^[1]

Member of Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

History

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
North Peace River prior to 1991
35th	1991–1994		Richard Neufeld	Social Credit
	1994–1996			Reform
36th	1996–1997
	1997–2001			Liberal
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2011		Pat Pimm
	2011			Independent
	2011–2013			Liberal
40th	2013–2016
	2016–2017			Independent
41st	2017–2020		Dan Davies	Liberal
42nd	2020–present

Election results

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dan Davies	6,746	55.76	−10.51	$32,293.82
	Conservative	Trevor Bolin	4,150	34.30	–	$0.00
	New Democratic	Danielle Monroe	1,202	9.94	+3.37	$739.00
Total valid votes			10,480	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC^[2]^[3]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dan Davies	9,707	66.27	+7.33	$53,883
	Independent	Bob Fedderly	2,785	19.01	–	$31,928
	New Democratic	Robert Dempsey	962	6.57	-3.27	$1,739
	Independent	Rob Fraser	917	6.27	–	$25,354
	Independent	Jeff Richert	275	1.88	–	$1,064
Total valid votes			14,646	100.00
Total rejected ballots			65	0.44
Turnout			14,711	56.74
Source: Elections BC^[4]

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pat Pimm	7,905	58.94	+15.79	$115,737
	Independent	Arthur Austin Hadland	3,287	24.51	–6.82	$40,752
	New Democratic	Judy Ann Fox-McGuire	1,319	9.84	–4.14	$36,341
	Conservative	Wyeth Sigurdson	900	6.71	–	$882
Total valid votes			13,411	100.00
Total rejected ballots			44	0.33
Turnout			13,455	51.47
	Liberal hold		Swing		+11.30
Source: Elections BC^[5]

2009 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Pat Pimm	3,992	43.15	–16.22	$55,563
	Independent	Arthur Hadland	2,899	31.33	–	$17,962
	New Democratic	Jackie Allen	1,293	13.98	–13.14	$17,855
	Green	Liz Logan	1,010	10.92	+4.03	$26,218
	Refederation	Sue Arntson	58	0.63	–	$260
Total valid votes			9,252	100.0
Total rejected ballots			52	0.6
Turnout			9,304	40
	Liberal hold		Swing		–23.78

2005 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Richard Neufeld	5,498	59.37	–13.85	$97,647
	New Democratic	Brian Churchill	2,511	27.12	+15.56	$21,975
	Green	Clarence G. Apsassin	638	6.89	–	$200
	Independent	Leonard Joseph Seigo	613	6.62	–	$3,829
Total valid votes			9,260	100.0
Total rejected ballots			61	0.66
Turnout			9,321	47.4
	Liberal hold		Swing		–14.70

2001 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Richard Neufeld	6,629	73.22	+44.56 +24.81	$37,046
	New Democratic	Brian Churchill	1,047	11.56	–6.48	$9,796
	Marijuana	Paul Renaud	810	8.95	–	$3,199
	Unity	Roy Daniel Stange	568	6.27	–	$867
Total valid votes			9,054	100.0
Total rejected ballots			55	0.61
Turnout			9,109	55.12
	Liberal gain from Reform		Swing		+25.52

1996 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Richard Neufeld	5,299	48.41	–6.38	$23,557
	Liberal	Ben Knutson	3,137	28.66	+9.17	$20,370
	New Democratic	Brian Churchill	1,975	18.04	–4.29	$27,682
	Social Credit	Dave Bodnar	240	2.19	–52.60	$3,978
	Progressive Democrat	Neil Bitterman	169	1.54	–	$425
	Independent	Brent Hoar	125	1.14	–	$100
Total valid votes			10,945	100.0
Total rejected ballots			43	0.39
Turnout			10,988	60.49
	Reform gain from Social Credit		Swing		+19.62

1991 British Columbia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Richard Neufeld	5,758	54.79	–12.42	$23,852
	New Democratic	A. Jean Leahy	2,347	22.33	–2.13	$34,828
	Liberal	Vincent R. Rodriguez	2,048	19.49	+16.56	$2,305
	Green	Clarence G. Apsassin	303	2.88	–	$1,895
	Independent	Dorothy L. Folk	54	0.51	–	$925
Total valid votes			10,510	100.0
Total rejected ballots			277	2.57
Turnout			10,787	70.01
	Social Credit hold		Swing		–5.14

Citations

1. "Peace River North Electoral District" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
2. "2020 Provincial General Election Final Voting Results". Retrieved November 9, 2020.
3. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
4. "Statement of Votes – 41st Provincial General Election – May 9, 2017" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
5. (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

References

• Results of 2013 election (pdf)
• BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia