Yale was a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada from the province's joining Confederation in 1871. It was a 3-member constituency and retained the name Yale until the 1894 election, at which time it was split into three ridings, Yale-East, Yale-North and Yale-West; other ridings in the southeast of the province had previously been split off, e.g., Fernie, Ymir, Grand Forks, which later emerged or were rearranged into the various Kootenay and Okanagan ridings. In 1903 the name Yale (by itself) was revived, this time as a one-member riding only, the new riding largely based upon Yale-West. Its last appearance on the hustings was 1963. In 1966, it was amalgamated into the new riding of Yale-Lillooet, which was extant until 2009, when most of its core area was made part of the new Fraser-Nicola riding.
Geography
The original Yale riding encompassed the whole of today's Kootenay, Okanagan, Similkameen, Thompson and Nicola regions, plus its original core in the Fraser Canyon, south from and including Lytton. The riding's name is from the town of Yale, British Columbia, then still an important centre in the new province and in fact one of the very few actual towns in the riding at the time.
Notable MLAs
Charles Augustus Semlin (12th Premier 1915-1928, first elected 1871) John Andrew Mara Forbes George Vernon (namesake of the city of Vernon) Richard McBride (1909, incumbent/16th Premier 1903-1915) John Duncan MacLean (20th Premier, 1920–1921) William Leonard Hartley
Notable candidates
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, native claims commissioner
Election results
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
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|Independent
|George Coxon 1
|align="right"|29
|align="right"|16.96%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|William H. Kay
|align="right"|8
|align="right"|4.68%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Moses Lumby
|align="right"|17
|align="right"|9.94%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|James Robinson
|align="right"|35
|align="right"|20.47%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Charles Augustus Semlin
|align="right"|29
|align="right"|16.96%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Robert Smith
|align="right"|53
|align="right"|30.99%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|171 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=7|1 The Returning Officer cast the deciding vote for Semlin, who had the same number of votes. |}
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|- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|788 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |}
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|Independent
|Charles Augustus Semlin
|align="right"|254
|align="right"|25.60%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Gilbert Malcolm Sproat
|align="right"|68
|align="right"|6.86%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|992 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |}
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|- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|401 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"| !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=7|2 Death of Preston Bennett August 9, 1882. |}