Colin Buchanan Sword
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Colin Buchanan Sword | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly for Westminster-Dewdney Westminster (1890–1894) | |
| In office November 7, 1890 – July 9, 1898 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1842 |
| Died | May 6, 1928 (aged 86) |
| Party | Non-partisan democracy |
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. Sword won the subsequent by-election on November 7, 1890. | ||||||||
| 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] | ||||||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, December 28, 1898: Cowichan | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
| Opposition | William Russell Robertson | 187 | 58.99 | | ||||
| Government | Colin Buchanan Sword | 130 | 41.01 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 317 | – | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[4] | ||||||||
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.
- ↑ "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections BC. 1988. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
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