Notable Elections
Because of its small electorate, battles over spoiled ballots were critical in Atlin's electoral history:
- The 1928 election saw a 567/542/32 three-way split in favour of Herbert Frederick Kergin of the BC Liberal Party, with 22 rejected ballots
- The 1945 election saw a 297/292 split in favour of William Duncan Smith of the Liberal-Conservative Coalition, with no rejected ballots
- The 1949 election saw a 376/370 split in favour of Frank Calder, then a candidate for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) - with 190 rejected ballots.
- The 1956 election saw a 450/360/131 split in favour of William James Asselstine of the Social Credit, with 59 rejected ballots.
- the 1979 election saw a 750/749 split in favour of Alan Lawrence Passarell of the New Democratic Party over Frank Calder, who had switched sides to Social Credit in the British Columbia general election, 1975 - with 39 rejected ballots
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