Whitewood (electoral district)
Whitewood, was a territorial electoral district in the Northwest Territories of Canada from 1887 to 1905. The district was created from the former district of Broadview, prior to the 1888 general election.
This district was the first to use a secret ballot. During the 1894 By-election, ballots were first used in this electoral district. The territory went to using colored pencils on paper to count ballots, except someone forgot the pencil for the Candidate William Clements at the Fairmede polling station, and one had to be sent out from the Chief electoral office in Regina. Fred Chamberlain, the local liveryman, drove his horse and carriage twenty-five miles through a raging blizzard to deliver a new pencil and arrived just before the polls opened.[1]
After the province of Saskatchewan split from the Northwest Territories in 1905, Whitewood continued to exist as a district in Saskatchewan until 1908.
Election results
1894 – 1902
| 1894 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Archibald Beaton Gillis | 300 | 51.64% | |||||
| Independent | Walter Claude Thorburn | 281 | 48.36% | |||||
| 1898 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Independent | Archibald Beaton Gillis | Acclaimed | ||||||
| 1902 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | Archibald Beaton Gillis | Acclaimed | ||||||
1888 – 1894
| 1894 by-election Results | 1891 Results | 1888 Results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Joseph Clementson | 187 | ?% | Daniel Campbell | 197 | 45.92% | Alexander Thorburn | 166 | 38.88% |
| James Sumner | 25 | ?% | Alexander Thorburn | 178 | 41.49% | Thomas Lyons | 158 | 37.00% |
| Allan B. Potter | 69 | ?% | John Hawkes | 54 | 12.59% | John Hawkes | 103 | 26.12% |
| William Clements | 41 | ?% | ||||||
Note: Vote returns not complete for the 1894 By-election. Returns only include the polls from Whitewood and Broadview, they do not include the rural stations. As reported in the Lethbridge Herald February 22, 1894. The Broadview and Whitewood polls were announced by the returning officer on February 16, 1894, and the rural vote was announced February 17, 1894 but was not printed.
By-election reasons
- February 16, 1894: Daniel Campbell's expulsion from the Council after he was accused of forgery and embezzlement, and fled the country.[2]
References
- MacEwan, Grant (1966). Poking into politics. Edmonton, Alberta: The Institute of Applied Art. pp. 57–59. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- Thomas, Lewis H. (1978). The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories, 1870-97 (2nd ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-4875-7499-4.