# Richmond (British Columbia provincial electoral district)

Richmond was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903. It lasted until the 1920 election, after which it lost some territory to the new South Vancouver riding, and became the new riding of Richmond-Point Grey. There was again an electoral district called Richmond from 1966 through the 1986 provincial elections.
For other Richmond-area ridings, and other ridings in the Lower Mainland, please see New Westminster (electoral districts). For ridings in the City of Vancouver or on the North Shore, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).

## History of MLAs
### Single-member district

| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| 10th | 1903–1907 | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Conservative |
| 11th | 1907–1909 | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Conservative |
| 12th | 1909–1912 | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Conservative |
| 13th | 1912–1916 | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Conservative |
| 14th | 1916–1920 | Gerry McGeer | Conservative |
| 15th | 1920–1924 | Thomas Pearson | Conservative |
| Riding dissolved into Richmond-Point Grey and South Vancouver |||||
| Riding re-created from Delta |||||
| 26th | 1966–1969 | Ernest LeCours | Social Credit |
| 27th | 1969–1972 | Ernest LeCours | Social Credit |
| 28th | 1972–1975 | Harold Steves | NDP |
| 29th | 1975–1979 | Jim Nielsen | Social Credit |
| 30th | 1979–1983 | Jim Nielsen | Social Credit |
| 31st | 1983–1986 | Jim Nielsen | Social Credit |

### Dual-member district

| Assembly | Years | Seat 1 | Seat 1 | Seat 1 | Seat 2 | Seat 2 | Seat 2 |
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | Party | Member | Party | Party |
| 34th | 1986–1991 | Bill Vander Zalm | | Social Credit | Nick Loenen | | Social Credit |
| Riding re-dissolved into Richmond Centre, Richmond East, Richmond-Steveston. ||||||||

## Electoral history

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
1903 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | 460 | 58.97% |
| | Liberal | John Cunningham Brown | 320 | 41.03% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 780 | 100.00% |
1907 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | 417 | 48.04% |
| | Liberal | John Walter Weart | 403 | 46.43% |
| | Socialist | Charles Edward Kilby | 48 | 5.53% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 868 | 100.00% |
1909 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | 918 | 57.92% |
| | Liberal | John Wallace deBeque Farris | 667 | 42.08% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 1,585 | 100.00% |
1912 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Acclaimed | -.-% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | n/a | -.-% |
1916 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Gerry McGeer | 1,441 | 54.07% |
| | Conservative | William Joseph Baird | 1,189 | 44.52% |
| | Independent Conservative | Robert McBride | 35 | 1.31% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 2,665 | 100.00% |
1920 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Thomas Pearson | 2,863 | 37.89% |
| | Liberal | Hiram Perry McCraney | 2,712 | 35.89% |
| | Federated Labour Party | Charles Smith Cassidy | 1,499 | 19.84% |
| | Independent Farmer | Reginald Abbott | 272 | 3.60% |
| | Independent | Robert McBride | 210 | 2.78% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 7,556 | 100.00% |
1966 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Social Credit | Ernest LeCours | 6,521 | 43.33% |
| | New Democratic | Robert McMath | 6,149 | 40.85% |
| | Liberal | John McKeman | 2,381 | 15.82% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 15,051 | 100.00% |
1969 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Social Credit | Ernest LeCours | 9,521 | 45.36% |
| | New Democratic | Robert McMath | 8,099 | 38.58% |
| | Liberal | John McKeman | 3,372 | 16.06% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 20,992 | 100.00% |
1972 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | New Democratic | Harold Steves | 12,845 | 45.36% |
| | Social Credit | Ernest LeCours | 7,221 | 38.58% |
| | Progressive Conservative | William Wright | 3,573 | 13.37% |
| | Liberal | Allen Cowen | 3,084 | 11.54% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 26,723 | 100.00% |
1975 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Social Credit | Jim Nielsen | 17,932 | 52.81% |
| | New Democratic | Harold Steves | 12,598 | 35.10% |
| | Liberal | Dave Williams | 2,665 | 7.85% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Madeline Noble | 755 | 2.11% |
| | Independent | Frederick Sim | 44 | 0.13% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 33,994 | 100.00% |
1979 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Social Credit | Jim Nielsen | 18,783 | 51.14% |
| | New Democratic | Harold Steves | 15,549 | 42.33% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Barry Wright | 2,400 | 6.53% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 36,732 | 100.00% |
1983 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Social Credit | Jim Nielsen | 26,261 | 55.30% |
| | New Democratic | Harold Steves | 18,575 | 39.12% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Sam Nazaruk | 1,751 | 3.69% |
| | Liberal | Russel Timothy Emes | 897 | 1.89% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 47,484 | 100.00% |
1986 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected |
| | Social Credit | Bill Vander Zalm | 29,762 | 58.28 | Y |
| | Social Credit | Nick Loenen | 25,983 | 50.88 | Y |
| | New Democratic | Doug Sandberg | 16,542 | 32.39 |
| | New Democratic | Arthur Kube | 15,580 | 30.51 |
| | Liberal | David Chambers | 4,028 | 7.89 |
| | Liberal | Steve Mullan | 3,830 | 7.50 |
| | Independent | Clinton Davy | 822 | 1.61 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 51,071 | 100.00 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 1,670 |