British Columbia general election, 1920

The British Columbia general election of 1920 was the fifteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....

. The election was called on October 23, 1920, and held on December 1, 1920. The new legislature met for the first time on February 8, 1921.

Although it lost eleven seats in the legislature, and fell from 50% of the popular vote to under 38%, the governing Liberal Party was able to hold on to a slim majority

Majority government

A majority government is when the governing party has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system. This is as opposed to a minority government, where even the largest party wins only a plurality of seats and thus must constantly bargain for support from...

in the legislature for its second consecutive term in government.

The Conservative Party

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

also lost a significant share of its popular vote, but won six additional seats for a total of fifteen, and formed the Official Opposition.

Almost a third of the vote and seven seats were won by independents and by a wide variety of fringe parties.

Results

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party	Party leader	# of candidates	1916	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Liberal¹	John Oliver John Oliver (politician) John Oliver was a politician and farmer in British Columbia, Canada.Oliver was involved in local politics when he won a seat in the provincial legislature in the 1900 election, and became leader of the opposition. He lost his seat in the 1909 election...	45	36	25	-30.6%	134,167	37.89%	-12.11%	Conservative British Columbia Conservative Party The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...	William John Bowser William John Bowser William John Bowser was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. He served as Premier of British Columbia from 1915 to 1916....	42	9	15	+66.7%	110,475	31.20%	-9.32%	Independent²	18	1	3	+200%	36,736	10.37%	+7.63%	Federated Labour³	14	*	3	*	32,230	9.10%	*	People's	1	*	1	*	1,354	0.38%	*	Socialist Socialist Party of Canada There have been two different but related political parties in Canada that called themselves the Socialist Party of Canada . The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada... ⁴	7	-	-	-	12,386	3.50%	+2.33%	Soldier-Farmer/Soldier-Labour⁵	11	*	-	*	10,780	3.04%	*	Grand Army of United Veterans⁶	2	*	-	*	5,441	1.54%	*	Independent Liberal	3	-	-	-	3,433	0.97%	+0.13%	United Farmers of British Columbia United Farmers of British Columbia The United Farmers of British Columbia was a union of farmers established in 1917. Unlike some of their sibling United Farmers organizations in other provinces, the United Farmers of British Columbia were never directly incorporated as a full political party in their own right, although two...	2	*	-	*	3,178	0.90%	*	Independent Conservative	2	-	-	-	1,602	0.45%	-1.23%	Independent Soldier	2	*	-	*	907	0.26%	*	Independent Farmer	3	*	-	*	526	0.15%	*	Liberal/Conservative	1	*	-	*	424	0.12%	*	Independent Socialist	1	1	-	-100%	419	0.12%	-0.62%	Independent Labour	1	-	-	-	30	0.01%	-1.65%
Total		155	47	47	-	354,088	100%
Source: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

¹ Liberals: One member elected by acclamation. One candidate, J. Oliver, who contested and was elected in both Delta and Victoria City is counted twice.

² Includes Liberty League of B.C., Vancouver Ratepayers Association, and Women's Freedom League candidates.

³ Includes those candidates not directly nominated by, but supported by the Federated Labour Party.

⁴ Includes the Prince Rupert Labour candidate running on a Socialist Party platform.

⁵ Sometimes referred to as a triple alliance of "Farmer-Labour-Soldier" with Soldier-Farmer candidates running in rural Districts (five candidates, 3361 votes) and Soldier-Labour candidates running in urban ones (six candidates, 7419 votes).

⁶ Some GAUV candidates ran on a joint Soldier-Labour ticket.

Results by riding

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|align="center" |Herbert Frederick Kergin

Herbert Frederick Kergin

Herbert Frederick Kergin was a master mariner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Atlin from 1920 to 1933 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as Liberal....

|align="center" |Atlin

Atlin (electoral district)

Atlin was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the 10th provincial general election in 1903 and last appeared in the 34th provincial general election in 1986, after which it was merged with the Skeena riding.-...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...

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|align="center" |Dewdney

Dewdney (electoral district)

Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney, which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding, which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|John Alexander Catherwood

John Alexander Catherwood

John Alexander Catherwood was a fruit grower, bee keeper and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Dewdney from 1920 to 1928 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative....

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|align="center" |John MacKay Yorston

John MacKay Yorston

John MacKay Yorston was a Scottish-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1907 to 1909 and from 1916 to 1924 as a Liberal....

|align="center" |Cariboo

Cariboo (provincial electoral district)

Cariboo was one of the twelve original electoral districts created when British Columbia became a Canadian province in 1871. Roughly corresponding to the old colonial electoral administrative district of the same name, it was a three-member riding until the 1894 election, when it was reduced...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Esquimalt

Esquimalt (electoral district)

Esquimalt was a provincial electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of the province's first twelve ridings upon its entry into Confederation. It was originally a two-member riding...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|Robert Henry Pooley

Robert Henry Pooley

Robert Henry Pooley was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Esquimalt from 1912 to 1937 as a Conservative. Pooley was interim leader of the party from August 1924 to November 1926....

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|align="center" |Edward Dodsley Barrow

Edward Dodsley Barrow

Edward Dodsley Barrow was a Canadian politician.Born in Ringwood, Hampshire, England, the son of Stephen and Sarah Barrow, Barrow emigrated to Chilliwack, British Columbia in 1892. A farmer, he was President of the Chilliwack Creamery Association and President of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers'...

|align="center" |Chilliwack

Chilliwack (electoral district)

Chilliwack was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1916. It was the successor riding to the Chilliwhack riding, which used the older spelling of the name and had slightly different boundaries...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Kaslo

Kaslo (electoral district)

Kaslo was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance in the election of 1903 and its last in the general election of 1920...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|Fred W. Lister

Fred W. Lister

Fred W. Lister was an English-born fruit rancher and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Kaslo from 1920 to 1924 and Creston from 1924 to 1933 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.Born in Wigtoft, the son of Frederick Lister and Elizabeth Bower, he was...

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|align="center" |John Andrew Buckham

John Andrew Buckham

John Andrew Buckham was a druggist and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented the riding of Columbia in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1916 to 1933 as a Liberal....

|align="center" |Columbia

Columbia (electoral district)

Columbia was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903. It lasted until the 1928 election, after which the revised riding was renamed Columbia River...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Lillooet

Lillooet (electoral district)

The Lillooet electoral district was a riding in the Canadian province of British Columbia, centred on the town of the same name and with various boundaries...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|Archibald McDonald

Archibald McDonald (Canadian politician)

Archibald McDonald was a general merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Lillooet in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1903 to 1907 and from 1909 to 1924 as a Conservative....

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|align="center" |James Horace King

James Horace King

James Horace King, PC was a physician and Canadian parliamentarian.Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, James King was the son of George Gerald King, a businessman and Canadian politician in his own right...

|align="center" |Cranbrook

Cranbrook (electoral district)

Cranbrook was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Cranbrook in the southern Rockies and including nearby Kimberley and other towns in the southern end of the Rocky Mountain Trench....

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Nelson

Nelson (electoral district)

Nelson was a federal electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1935. It covered northern Manitoba, Canada, a vast wilderness area dotted with small municipalities and First Nations reserves....

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|William Oliver Rose
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|align="center"|John Oliver

John Oliver (politician)

John Oliver was a politician and farmer in British Columbia, Canada.Oliver was involved in local politics when he won a seat in the provincial legislature in the 1900 election, and became leader of the opposition. He lost his seat in the 1909 election...

|align="center" |Delta

Delta (provincial electoral district)

Delta was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia based on the municipality of Delta at the mouth of the Fraser River between the city of Vancouver and the US border...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Richmond

Richmond (British Columbia provincial electoral district)

Richmond was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|Thomas Pearson
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|align="center"|Henry George Thomas Perry

Henry George Thomas Perry

Henry George Thomas "Harry" Perry was an English-born real estate and insurance broker, journalist and political figure in British Columbia, Canada...

|align="center" |Fort George

Fort George (electoral district)

Fort George was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1916 to 1975. Its successor ridings were Prince George South and Prince George North.- Demographics :- Electoral history :...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Rossland

Rossland (electoral district)

Rossland was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia located in the West Kootenay region. It is named after the town of Rossland, near Trail, B.C.. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1916...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|William Kemble Esling
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|align="center"|Ezra Churchill Henniger
|align="center" |Grand Forks

Grand Forks (electoral district)

Grand Forks was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Grand Forks, in the Boundary Country between the Okanagan and Kootenay Countries...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Similkameen

Similkameen (electoral district)

Similkameen was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia formed around the historic mining district of the same name. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|William Alexander McKenzie

William Alexander McKenzie

William Alexander McKenzie was a builder and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Similkameen in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1918 to 1933 as a Conservative....

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|align="center"|John Duncan MacLean

John Duncan MacLean

John Duncan MacLean was a teacher, physician, politician and the 20th Premier of British Columbia, Canada....

|align="center" |Greenwood

Greenwood (provincial electoral district)

Greenwood was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was located in the Boundary Country west of Grand Forks around the city of Greenwood. It first appeared on the hustings in the large redistribution prior to the 1903 election...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |South Okanagan

South Okanagan

South Okanagan was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1916. Following the 1975 election boundary revisions accompanied the riding's renaming to Okanagan South...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|James William Jones

James William Jones

James William Jones was a merchant, realtor and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented South Okanagan from 1916 to 1933 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative....

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|align="center"|Malcolm Bruce Jackson

Malcolm Bruce Jackson

Malcolm Bruce Jackson was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented The Islands from 1916 to 1924 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal....

|align="center" |The Islands

The Islands

The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new riding Nanaimo and The Islands as of the 1941 election.- Demographics :-Notable MLAs:This...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Trail

Trail (electoral district)

Trail was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia located in the West Kootenay region. It is named after the town of Trail, B.C.. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1916...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|James Hargrave Schofield

James Hargrave Schofield

James Hargrave Schofield was a lumberman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Ymir from 1907 to 1916, Trail from 1916 to 1924 and Rossland-Trail from 1924 to 1933 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.He was born in Brockville, Ontario, the son of...

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|align="center"|Frederick William Anderson

Frederick William Anderson

Frederick William Anderson was a civil engineer, rancher and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Kamloops in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1916 to 1924 as a Liberal....

|align="center" |Kamloops

Kamloops (provincial electoral district)

Kamloops was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 1903 to 2009. The provincial constituency should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Kamloops, which encompassed a much larger area.For other ridings named Kamloops...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Vancouver City

Vancouver City (electoral district)

Vancouver City was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was a multiple member riding based in the newly-created city of Vancouver....

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|William John Bowser

William John Bowser

William John Bowser was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. He served as Premier of British Columbia from 1915 to 1916....

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|align="center"|David Whiteside
|align="center" |New Westminster
Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Victoria City

Victoria City (provincial electoral district)

Victoria City was one of the first twelve provincial electoral districts in the province of British Columbia, Canada, upon its entry into Confederation that year. It was originally a four-member riding, and elected to the Legislature several prominent Members of the Legislative Assembly and...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|Joshua Hinchcliffe

Joshua Hinchcliffe

Joshua Hinchcliffe was an English-born Anglican clergyman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1920 to 1933 as a Conservative....

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|align="center"|Frederick Arthur Pauline

Frederick Arthur Pauline

Frederick Arthur Pauline was an English-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Saanich in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1916 to 1924 as a Liberal....

|align="center" |Saanich

Saanich (electoral district)

Saanich was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance in the election of 1903 and its last in the general election of 1963 after which it was combined with parts of the former Nanaimo and the Islands riding to form Saanich and the...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Yale

Yale (provincial electoral district)

Yale was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia 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...

Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|align="center"|John McRae
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|align="center"|William Hunter

William Hunter (Canadian politician)

William Hunter was a businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Slocan from 1907 to 1916 and from 1920 to 1924 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative....

|align="center" |Slocan

Slocan (electoral district)

Slocan was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance in the election of 1903 and its last in the general election of 1920...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Comox

Comox (electoral district)

Comox was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was one of the first twelve ridings representing that province upon its joining Confederation, and was a one-member constituency...

People's Party
|align="center"|Thomas Menzies
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|align="center"|John Wallace deBeque Farris
|align="center" rowspan=5 |Vancouver City

Vancouver City (electoral district)

Vancouver City was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was a multiple member riding based in the newly-created city of Vancouver....

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |Fernie

Fernie (electoral district)

Fernie was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Fernie in the southern Rockies. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903...

Federated Labour
|align="center"|Thomas Aubert Uphill
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|align="center"|Malcolm Archibald Macdonald

Malcolm Archibald Macdonald

Malcolm Archibald Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of British Columbia....

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|align="center" |Newcastle

Newcastle (electoral district)

Newcastle was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia to the south and including some of the city of Nanaimo. It appeared in the 1916 and 1920 elections only. In 1924, portions of it were incorporated into the new Cowichan-Newcastle riding...

Federated Labour
|align="center"|Samuel Guthrie

Samuel Guthrie (politician)

Samuel "Sam" Guthrie was a Scottish-born miner, farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Newcastle from 1920 to 1924 as a Federated Labour member and Cowichan-Newcastle from 1933 to 1949 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member in the Legislative Assembly of British...

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|align="center"|Ian Alistair MacKenzie

Ian Alistair Mackenzie

Ian Alistair Mackenzie, PC was a Canadian parliamentarian.Born in Assynt, Scotland, Mackenzie entered politics by winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 1920 BC election...

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|align="center" |South Vancouver

South Vancouver (electoral district)

South Vancouver was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1916 ....

Federated Labour
|align="center"|Robert Henry Neelands
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|align="center"|James Ramsay

James Ramsay (Canadian politician)

James Ramsay was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1920 to 1924 as a Liberal....

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|align="center" |Alberni

Alberni (electoral district)

Alberni was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originally appeared in the British Columbia general election, 1890 and then, after being merged into Cowichan-Alberni for the 1894 election, was renamed Alberni riding in the election of 1898. The riding...

Independent
|align="center"|Richard John Burde
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|align="center"|Mary Ellen Smith

Mary Ellen Smith

Mary Ellen Spear Smith was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. She was the first female Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and both the first female cabinet minister and the first female Speaker in the British Empire.She was born in England...

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|align="center" |Cowichan

Cowichan (electoral district)

Cowichan was one of the first twelve electoral districts created when British Columbia became a Canadian province in 1871. It was located on southern Vancouver Island. It was a one-member riding only . Its last appearance on the husting was in 1920...

Independent
|align="center"|Kenneth Forrest Duncan

Kenneth Forrest Duncan

Kenneth Forrest Duncan was a public servant, farmer, financial agent and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cowichan in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1919 to 1924 as an Independent member.He was born in Duncan, British Columbia, which was named after his...

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|align="center"|William Sloan

William Sloan

William Sloan was a Canadian businessman and Liberal politician. He was Member of Parliament for Comox-Atlin from 1904 until 1909, when he resigned to provide a seat for William Templeman....

|align="center" |Nanaimo
Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center" |North Vancouver

North Vancouver (provincial electoral district)

North Vancouver was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in 1916 and at the time of its creation included West Vancouver as well as North Vancouver...

Independent
|align="center"|George Samuel Hanes

George Samuel Hanes

George Samuel Hanes was an engineer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented North Vancouver from 1916 to 1924 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal and then as an Independent....

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|align="center"|Kenneth Cattanch MacDonald
|align="center" |North Okanagan

North Okanagan

North Okanagan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1916. Following the 1975 election boundary revisions accompanied the riding's renaming to Okanagan North...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center"|Alexander Malcolm Manson

Alexander Malcolm Manson

Alexander Malcolm Manson was a British Columbia judge and politician in the Liberal Party. Positions he held included Speaker, Minister of Labour and Attorney General. He was later appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia....

|align="center" |Omineca
Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center"|Thomas Dufferin Pattullo

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo was the 22nd Premier of British Columbia, Canada from 1933 to 1941. The Pattullo Bridge is named in his honour as well as Prince Rupert's Pattullo Park....

|align="center" |Prince Rupert

Prince Rupert (electoral district)

Prince Rupert was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1916 and its last in the 1986 election...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center"|William Henry Sutherland

William Henry Sutherland

William Henry Sutherland was a physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Revelstoke from 1916 to 1933 and Columbia-Revelstoke from 1933 to 1937 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal.He was born in Sea View, Prince Edward Island, the son of Robert...

|align="center" |Revelstoke

Revelstoke (electoral district)

Revelstoke was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903 and lasted until the 1928 election, after which the revised riding was merged with the Slocan riding to form Revelstoke-Slocan...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center"|Joseph Badenoch Clearihue
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Victoria City

Victoria City (provincial electoral district)

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

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|align="center"|John Hart

John Hart (Canadian politician)

John Hart was the 23rd Premier of British Columbia, Canada, from December 9, 1941 to December 29, 1947....

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|align="center"|John Oliver

John Oliver (politician)

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Results

Results by riding

See also

Further reading & references