Quick links

returning officer†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

See 1945 quote.

Quotations

1793

An Act to provide for the appointment of Returning Officers for the several Counties within this Province.

1945

The returning officer in each constituency . . . must arrange for polling stations, must appoint a deputy returning officer to conduct the election and count the votes in each polling station, and when he receives the statement of votes from each deputy returning officer he must add them up and proclaim which candidate is elected.

1963

Among them are Chief Electoral Officer Nelson Castonguay and the returning officers in the 263 electoral districts.