Nelson-Creston

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Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding.

For other current and historical ridings in the Kootenay region please see Kootenay (electoral districts).

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Population, 2001 44,131
Population Change, 1996-2001 -2.2%
Area (km2) 21,795
Pop. Density (people per km2) 2.0

Its MLA is Corky Evans. He was first elected in 1991. He represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

B.C. General Election 2005 Nelson-Creston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     NDP Corky Evans 12,896 58.80%
     BC Liberal Blair F. Suffredine 5,862 26.73%
     Green Luke Crawford 2,724 12.42%
     Marijuana Philip McMillan 276 1.26%
     Bloc BC Brian Taylor 173 0.79%
Total 21,931 100.00%
B.C. General Election 2001: Nelson-Creston
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
     BC Liberal Blair F. Suffredine 8,558 39.00% $53,478
     NDP Corky Evans 6,981 31.82% $46,070
     Green Colleen McCrory 4,723 21.53% $33,223
     Unity Stephen Cox 1,108 5.05% $3,216
     Marijuana Dan Loehndorf 570 2.60% $1,400
Total Valid Votes 21,940 100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots 79 0.36%
Turnout 22,019 75.32%
B.C. General Election 1996: Nelson-Creston
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
     NDP Corky Evans 9,179 44.90% $42,880
     BC Liberal Howard L. Dirks 6,434 31.47% $41,078
     Green Andy Shadrack 2,282 11.16% $18,611
     BC Reform Brian Dale Gaschnitz 2,114 10.34%
     Family Coalition Brian John Zacharias 360 1.76% $4,489
     Natural Law Ruth Anne Taves 73 0.36% $398
Total Valid Votes 20,442 100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots 82 0.40%
Turnout 20,524 75.20%
B.C. General Election 1991: Nelson-Creston
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
     NDP Corky Evans 8,583 46.91% $33,620
     Social Credit Howard L. Dirks 5,739 31.36% $52,253
     BC Liberal Barry L. Neufeld 3,510 19.18% $863
     Green Andrea Wright 467 2.55% $1,082
Total Valid Votes 18,299 100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots 428 2.29%
Turnout 18,727 80.60%


British Columbia provincial electoral districts
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North / Central: Bulkley Valley-Stikine | Cariboo North | Cariboo South | North Coast | Peace River North | Peace River South | Powell River-Sunshine Coast | Prince George-Mount Robson | Prince George North | Prince George-Omineca | Skeena
Southern Interior: Columbia River-Revelstoke | Kamloops | Kamloops-North Thompson | Kelowna-Lake Country | Kelowna-Mission | Nelson-Creston | Okanagan-Westside | Okanagan-Vernon | Penticton-Okanagan Valley | Shuswap | West Kootenay-Boundary | Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley and South GVRD: Abbotsford-Clayburn | Abbotsford-Mount Lehman | Chilliwack-Kent | Chilliwack-Sumas | Delta North | Delta South | Fort Langley-Aldergrove | Langley | Maple Ridge-Mission | Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows | Richmond Centre | Richmond East | Richmond-Steveston | Surrey-Cloverdale | Surrey-Green Timbers | Surrey-Newton | Surrey-Panorama Ridge | Surrey-Tynehead | Surrey-Whalley | Surrey-White Rock
Vancouver: Burnaby-Edmonds | Burnaby North | Burnaby-Willingdon | Burquitlam | Coquitlam-Maillardville | New Westminster | North Vancouver-Lonsdale | North Vancouver-Seymour | Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain | Port Moody-Westwood | Vancouver-Burrard | Vancouver-Fairview | Vancouver-Fraserview | Vancouver-Hastings | Vancouver-Kensington | Vancouver-Kingsway | Vancouver-Langara | Vancouver-Mount Pleasant | Vancouver-Point Grey | Vancouver-Quilchena | West Vancouver-Capilano | West Vancouver-Garibaldi
Vancouver Island: Alberni-Qualicum | Comox Valley | Cowichan-Ladysmith | Esquimalt-Metchosin | Malahat-Juan de Fuca | Nanaimo | Nanaimo-Parksville | North Island | Oak Bay-Gordon Head | Saanich North and the Islands | Saanich South | Victoria-Beacon Hill | Victoria-Hillside
See also: List of British Columbia general elections | 2005 general election | Defunct districts
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