Nanaimo—Alberni

For other ridings named Nanaimo, see Nanaimo (electoral districts).

Nanaimo—Alberni was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988. It was subsequently recreated and was represented in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2015.

Nanaimo—Alberni

British Columbia electoral district
Nanaimo—Alberni in relation to other Vancouver Island federal electoral districts
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1996
District abolished	2013
First contested	1997
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	127,275
Electors (2011)	95,882
Area (km²)[2]	8,324.98
Census subdivision(s)	Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo E, Nanaimo F, Nanaimo G, Nanaimo H, Lantzville, Alberni-Clayoquot E,

Demographics

Population, 2001	112,972
Electors	87,088
Area (km2)	8,324.98
Population density (people per km2)	15.3

Nanaimo—Alberni has the highest median age of all federal electoral districts in Canada (50.1 years of age).^[3]

Geography

From 1979 to 1988, it consisted of:

• the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District,
• the Nanaimo Regional District,
• (Lasqueti Island and the adjacent smaller islands in the Powell River Regional District,
• the northwest part of Electoral Area H of the Cowichan Valley Regional District.

The present district includes Lasqueti Island, the Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot, and all of the Regional District of Nanaimo except the extreme southeastern part, including but the extreme northern part of Nanaimo. The southern part of Nanaimo is part of the Nanaimo—Cowichan electoral district.

History

This electoral district was originally created in 1976 from parts of Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands ridings.

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan. It was then re-created in 1996 from those two ridings.

The 2012 electoral redistribution will see this riding dissolved into the new ridings of Courtenay—Alberni and Nanaimo—Ladysmith for the 2015 election.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands
31st	1979–1980		Edward Allan Miller	New Democratic
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Ted Schellenberg	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan
Riding re-created from Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan
36th	1997–2000		Bill Gilmour	Reform
	2000–2000			Alliance
37th	2000–2003		James Lunney
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
	2015–2015			Independent
Riding dissolved into Courtenay—Alberni and Nanaimo—Ladysmith

Election results

Nanaimo—Alberni, 1997–2015

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Lunney	30,469	46.42	-0.26
	New Democratic	Zenaida Maartman	25,165	38.34	+6.59
	Liberal	Renée Miller	4,984	7.59	-4.44
	Green	Myron Jespersen	4,482	6.83	-0.15
	Pirate	Jesse Schroeder	363	0.55	–
	Christian Heritage	Frank Wagner	94	0.14	-0.14
	Marxist–Leninist	Barbara Biley	81	0.12	-0.13
Total valid votes			65,638	100.0
Total rejected ballots			165	0.25	+0.05
Turnout			65,803	67.38
Eligible voters			97,661
	Conservative hold		Swing		-3.42

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	James Lunney	28,930	46.68	+5.32	$76,199
	New Democratic	Zeni Maartman	19,680	31.75	-0.47	$47,561
	Green	John Fryer	7,457	12.03	+6.68	$22,852
	Liberal	Richard Pesik	5,578	9.00	-10.05	$4,791
	Christian Heritage	Frank Wagner	176	0.28	+0.11
	Marxist–Leninist	Barbara Biley	155	0.25	+0.11
Total valid votes/Expense limit			61,976	100.0		$95,019
Total rejected ballots			124	0.20	-0.04
Turnout			62,100
	Conservative hold		Swing		+2.90

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	James Lunney	26,102	41.36	+2.30	$86,796
	New Democratic	Manjeet Uppal	20,335	32.22	-0.08	$78,268
	Liberal	Jim Stewart	12,023	19.05	-0.80	$25,983
	Green	David Wright	3,379	5.35	-2.00	$1,469
	Independent	R.L. Dusty Miller	920	1.45	–
	Christian Heritage	Diana E. Lifton	136	0.17	–	$230
	Canadian Action	Jen Fisher-Bradley	113	0.17	-0.16	$1,312
	Marxist–Leninist	Barbara Biley	94	0.14	+0.01
Total valid votes			63,102	100.0
Total rejected ballots			149	0.24	-0.04
Turnout			63,251	68.80
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.19

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	James Lunney	23,158	39.06	−21.55	$62,241
	New Democratic	Scott Fraser	19,152	32.30	+17.78	$54,710
	Liberal	Hira Chopra	11,770	19.85	−0.84	$29,462
	Green	David Wright	4,357	7.35	–	$9,530
	Marijuana	Michael Mann	560	0.94	−1.20
	Canadian Action	Diana E. Lifton	201	0.33	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Barbara Biley	80	0.13	–
Total valid votes			59,278	100.00
Total rejected ballots			169	0.28
Turnout			59,447	68.26
	Conservative hold		Swing		−19.66
Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	James Lunney	26,516	50.45	+0.59	$42,263
	Liberal	Hira Chopra	10,877	20.69	-0.21	$39,235
	New Democratic	Bill Holdom	7,635	14.52	-7.68	$7,246
	Progressive Conservative	Bill McCullough	5,340	10.16	+4.99	$8,619
	Marijuana	Donald Lavallee	1,125	2.14	–	$9
	Independent	Brunie Brunie	830	1.57	–	$616
	Natural Law	Marty Howe	235	0.44	-0.12
Total valid votes			52,558	100.0
Total rejected ballots			163	0.31	-0.05
Turnout			52,721	64.94	-2.19
	Alliance hold		Swing		+0.40
Canadian Alliance change is compared to the Reform Party in the 1997 election.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Reform	Bill Gilmour	25,069	49.86	$36,473
	New Democratic	Bill Holdom	11,162	22.20	$35,683
	Liberal	David Lobay	10,513	20.90	$52,031
	Progressive Conservative	Garry Shepp	2,602	5.17	$18,929
	Green	David Martin	650	1.29
	Natural Law	Cliff Brown	282	0.56	$120
Total valid votes			50,278	100.0
Total rejected ballots			181	0.36
Turnout			50,459	67.13
This riding was created from parts of Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan, both of which elected a Reform Party candidate in the previous election. Bill Gilmour was the incumbent from Comox—Alberni.

Nanaimo—Alberni, 1979–1988

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Schellenberg	27,410	45.81	+11.00
	New Democratic	Ted Miller	25,659	42.88	-6.31
	Liberal	Joe Martin	5,922	9.90	-4.39
	Green	Aileen Fletcher	529	0.88	–
	Communist	Mark F. Mosher	231	0.39	+0.03
	Independent	Louis J. Lesosky	83	0.14	–
Total valid votes			59,834	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+8.66

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Ted Miller	24,082	49.20	+5.22
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Van Alstine	17,040	34.81	+0.79
	Liberal	Cecile McKinnon	6,994	14.29	-7.15
	Rhinoceros	Frank Tee Pee Red Coffey	591	1.21	–
	Communist	Gary William Swann	173	0.35	-0.06
	Marxist–Leninist	Allan H. Bezanson	69	0.14	-0.01
Total valid votes			48,949	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+2.22

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Ted Miller	21,304	43.98
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Van Alstine	16,478	34.02
	Liberal	Hugh Anderson	10,385	21.44
	Communist	Mark F. Mosher	199	0.41
	Marxist–Leninist	Katie Fraser	74	0.15
Total valid votes			48,440	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands, which elected a Liberal and a New Democrat, respectively, in the previous election. Hugh Alan Anderson was the incumbent from Comox—Alberni.

See also

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