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Colin Buchanan Sword | |
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| MLA for Westminster-Dewdney | |
| In office 1890–1898 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1842 |
| Died | May 6, 1928 (aged 86) |
| Party | Opposition |
Colin Buchanan Sword (February 1842 – May 6, 1928) was a Canadian politician. After being defeated in the June 1890 provincial election, he served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from a November 1890 byelection until the 1898 provincial election from the electoral district of Westminster (1890 to 1894) and then Westminster-Dewdney (1894 to 1898). Although not a candidate in the July 1898 provincial election, he did run unsuccessfully later that year in a December byelection in the electoral district of Cowichan. Following that defeat, he never sought provincial office again.[1]
Electoral history
[edit]| 1890 British Columbia general election: Westminster | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
| Government | John Robson | 506 | 17.66 |  | ||||
| Opposition | Thomas Edwin Kitchen | 503 | 17.55 | | ||||
| Independent | James Punch | 484 | 16.89 | | ||||
| Independent | Colin Buchanan Sword | 461 | 16.08 | |||||
| Government | John A. Kirkland | 420 | 14.65 | |||||
| Government | John Calvin Henderson | 349 | 12.18 | |||||
| Independent | Arthur Herring | 81 | 2.83 | |||||
| Opposition | Marshall Sinclair | 62 | 2.16 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,866 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[2] | ||||||||
| Note: Robson also won the seat of Cariboo in the 1890 general election, and resigned his Westminster seat prior to the first session of the new legislature. | ||||||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, November 7, 1890: Westminster Resignation of John Robson | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
| Independent | Colin Buchanan Sword | 472 | 49.68 | | ||||
| Independent | William Henry Ladner | 286 | 30.11 | |||||
| Independent | Livingston Thompson | 134 | 14.11 | |||||
| Independent | Samuel Greer | 58 | 6.11 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 950 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[3] | ||||||||
| 1894 British Columbia general election: Westminster-Dewdney | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
| Opposition | Colin Buchanan Sword | 327 | 59.35 | | ||||
| Government | John Matthew Lefevre | 224 | 40.65 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 551 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[2] | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ↑ Normandin, P.G.; Normandin, A.L. (1891). The Canadian Parliamentary Companion. Citizen Print. and Publishing Company. p. 375. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
- 1 2 "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections BC. 1988. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections BC. 1988. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
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