Vancouver City (federal electoral district)

Vancouver City
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1904
District abolished	1917
First contested	1904
Last contested	1911

Vancouver City was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1917.

This riding was created in 1903 from parts of Burrard riding. It was abolished in 1914 when it was redistributed into Burrard, Vancouver Centre and Vancouver South ridings.

Members of Parliament[edit]

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Burrard
10th	1904–1908	Robert George Macpherson	Liberal
11th	1908–1911	George Henry Cowan	Conservative
12th	1911–1917	Henry Herbert Stevens	Conservative
Riding dissolved into Burrard, Vancouver Centre and Vancouver South

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	6,902	58.72	+16.61
	Liberal	John Harold Senkler	3,796	32.80	+5.11
	Socialist	Eugene Thornton Kingsley	1,056	9.12	–
Total valid votes			11,754	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+5.75
Socialist candidate Eugene Kingsley lost 1.76 percentage points from his 1908 performance as an Independent.

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Henry Cowan	4,621	42.11	+6.30
	Liberal	Wm. Wallace Burns McInnes	3,039	27.69	-22.89
	Independent	Joseph Martin	2,120	19.31	–
	Independent	Eugene T. Kingsley	1,194	10.88	–
Total valid votes			10,974	100.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+14.60

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert George Macpherson	2,938	50.58
	Conservative	R.B. Ellis	2,080	35.81
	Socialist	J.T. Mortimer	741	12.76
	Socialist	J. McGeer	50	0.86
Total valid votes			5,809	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Burrard, where Liberal Robert George Macpherson was the incumbent.