Template:1972 Canadian federal election/Vancouver Centre
| 1972 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Ron Basford | 19,341 | 41.35 | −14.75 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | John McDonald | 14,156 | 30.26 | +11.89 | ||||
| New Democratic | Ron K. Johnson | 12,470 | 26.66 | +2.05 | ||||
| Social Credit | Nicholas Zambus | 632 | 1.35 | – | ||||
| Independent | Arnold August | 77 | 0.16 | – | ||||
| Independent | Ray Dodge | 55 | 0.12 | – | ||||
| Independent | Daniel Ivan Fedoruk | 46 | 0.10 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 46,777 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | −13.32 | ||||||