Fraser Valley East

Fraser Valley East
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1996
First contested	1968
Last contested	1993

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

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Fraser Valley, Kamloops and Okanagan Boundary ridings.

It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into the Fraser Valley riding.

It initially consisted of:

the Fraser-Cheam Regional District; and
the part of the Central Fraser Valley Regional District lying east of Bradner Road in Matsqui District Municipality.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of:

the Fraser-Cheam Regional District;
the part of Central Fraser Regional District lying east of a line drawn from the north boundary of the regional district south to Glenmore Road, along that road and the British Columbia Hydro & Power Railway right-of-way to the south boundary of Matsqui District Municipality, and west and south along that boundary to the southeast corner of Matsqui.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Fraser Valley, Kamloops and Okanagan Boundary
28th	1968–1972	Jerry Pringle	Liberal
29th	1972–1974	Alexander Bell Patterson	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988	Ross Belsher	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	Ross Belsher	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Chuck Strahl	Reform
Riding dissolved into Fraser Valley

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Chuck Strahl	23,492	46.00	+42.90
	Liberal	Hal Singleton	15,672	30.69	+9.52
	Progressive Conservative	Ross Belsher	6,650	13.02	-25.77
	New Democratic	Rollie Keith	2,729	5.34	-22.67
	Christian Heritage	Bill Boesterd	1,158	2.27	-6.03
	National	Ernie Pope	851	1.67	–
	Green	Richard Steven Kisby	243	0.48	–
	Natural Law	Estelle Rachel Brooke	206	0.40	–
	Canada Party	Croft Egan	67	0.13	–
Total valid votes			51,068	100.0
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+16.69

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ross Belsher	16,631	38.79	-21.13
	New Democratic	Don Olds	12,011	28.01	+4.14
	Liberal	Janet Chisholm	9,076	21.17	+6.33
	Christian Heritage	Ron Gray	3,560	8.30	–
	Reform	Ray Renwick	1,329	3.10	–
	Rhinoceros	B.J. Wills	272	0.63	–
Total valid votes			42,879	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-12.64

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ross Belsher	32,073	59.92	+10.21
	New Democratic	David C. Menzies	12,779	23.87	-0.31
	Liberal	John H. Vollebregt	7,942	14.84	-6.62
	Libertarian	J. Wayne Marsden	735	1.37	–
Total valid votes			53,529	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+5.26

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Alex Patterson	21,989	49.71	-7.36
	New Democratic	Harry W. Fontaine	10,695	24.18	+2.80
	Liberal	Jack Suderman	9,490	21.46	+0.59
	Independent	John Pankratz	2,057	4.65	–
Total valid votes			44,231	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-5.08

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Alex Patterson	24,363	57.07	+10.74
	New Democratic	Harry W. Fontaine	9,126	21.38	+5.37
	Liberal	Johann Joe Erickson	8,910	20.87	-16.79
	Not affiliated	Ken Brownlee	293	0.69	–
Total valid votes			42,692	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+2.68

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Alex B. Patterson	18,780	46.33	+11.59
	Liberal	Jerry Pringle	15,268	37.66	+8.58
	New Democratic	David Carstairs Menzies	6,489	16.01	-7.68
Total valid votes			40,537	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+1.50

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Alex B. Patterson	12,302	34.74	+22.14
	Liberal	Jerry Pringle	10,297	29.08	-5.66
	New Democratic	Walt Heinrich	8,390	23.69	-0.17
	Social Credit	Cyril Shelford	4,426	12.50	-16.31
Total valid votes			35,415	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+13.90
Progressive Conservative candidate Alexander Bell Patterson gained 5.93 percentage points from the 1968 election, when he ran as a Social Credit.

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jerry Pringle	9,689	34.74
	Social Credit	Alex B. Patterson	8,035	28.81
	New Democratic	Glenn C. Haddrell	6,654	23.86
	Progressive Conservative	Oscar Dayton	3,514	12.60
Total valid votes			27,892	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Fraser Valley, Kamloops and Okanagan Boundary, which elected two Progressive Conservatives and a Social Credit (Fraser Valley) in the last election. Alexander Bell Patterson was the incumbent from Fraser Valley.