British Columbia general election, 1945

The British Columbia general election of 1945 was the twenty-first general election in 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 August 31, 1945, and held on October 25, 1945. The new legislature met for the first time on February 21, 1946.

A centre-right coalition was formed by the Liberal 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...

parties in order to defeat the social democratic

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...

.

Although the Coalition won fewer votes than the Liberal and Conservative parties won in total in the previous election, the Coalition still won over half of the votes, and was able to form a majority government

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...

Results

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party	Party leader	# of candidates	1941 British Columbia general election, 1941 The British Columbia general election, 1941 was the twentieth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on September 9, 1941, and held on October 21, 1941.After the election, a...	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Liberal	Coalition¹	John Hart John Hart (Canadian politician) John Hart was the 23rd Premier of British Columbia, Canada, from December 9, 1941 to December 29, 1947....	47	33	37	+12.1%	261,147	55.83	-8.02%	Progressive 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...	Royal Lethington Maitland	Co-operative Commonwealth fed. New Democratic Party of British Columbia The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...	Harold Winch	48	14	10	-28.6%	175,960	37.62%	+4.26%	Labour	Tom Uphill Tom Uphill Thomas Hubert Uphill was a socialist politician in British Columbia, long time mayor of the town of Fernie and also represented the riding named for the town in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for forty years, most of them as the legislature's sole labour MLA.Uphill was born in 1874 in...	1	1	1	-	1,289	0.28%	-1.29%	Labour Progressive Communist Party of British Columbia The Communist Party of British Columbia is the British Columbia branch of the Communist Party of Canada. Its leader is Sam Hammond.From the 1945 British Columbia election to the 1956 election, it was known as the Labour Progressive Party....	21	*	-	*	16,479	3.52%	*	Social Credit (alliance)²	16	*	-	*	6,627	1.42%	*	People's CCF People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a label used by candidates in elections in the Canadian province of British Columbia who were not endorsed by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, but who were supportive of its policies....	2	*	-	*	2,786	0.60%	*	Independent³	2	-	-	-	1,532	0.33%	-0.03%	Independent Progressive Conservative⁴	2	*	-	*	748	0.16%	*	Democratic Democratic Party of Canada The Democratic Party of Canada was a short-lived political party in Canada.Its leader was William Richard Nathaniel Smith.In the July 11, 1945 federal election, five candidates unsuccessfully sought election in ridings in Vancouver, British Columbia as Democratic Party candidates...	1	*	-	*	423	0.09%	*	Socialist Labour Socialist Labour Party (Canada) The Socialist Labour Party was a political party in Canada that was formed by Canadian supporters of the ideas of American socialist Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America. The party never won any seats...	3	-	-	-	285	0.06%	-0.09%	Independent Liberal	1	*	-	*	199	0.04%	*	Independent Labour	1	*	-	*	106	0.02%	*	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...	1	*	-	*	105	0.02%	*	Progressive Liberal	1	*	-	*	61	0.01%	*
Total		147	48	48	-	467,747	100%			Coalition¹		47	33	37	+12.1%	261,147	55.83	-8.02%
Source: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

¹ Compared to Liberal + Conservative total from previous election

² Various groups joined forces under the Social Credit name to contest the election.

³ 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....

(Prince Rupert), former premier and Liberal Party leader, ran as an Independent, and is included as such.

⁴ Includes L.H. MacQueen (Saanich), classified as an Independent PC since the Progressive Conservative Party, formerly the Conservative Party, was officially running as part of the Coalition and did not consider MacQueen as a legitimate party candidate.

Results by riding

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|align="center" |James Mowat

James Mowat

James Mowat was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Alberni in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1941 to 1952 as a Liberal and then Independent member....

|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...

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|align="center" |Burnaby

Burnaby (provincial electoral district)

Burnaby was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that first appeared on the hustings in the 1924 election...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Ernest Edward Winch
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|align="center" |William Duncan Smith

William Duncan Smith

William Duncan Smith was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War. Later he served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and he died in the second year of the war from the disease yellow fever.-Early life and career:Smith was born in Augusta,...

|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.-...

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|align="center" |Cowichan-Newcastle

Cowichan-Newcastle

Cowichan-Newcastle was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It appeared in two separate eras, the later in the British Columbia elections of 1960 and 1963 elections.- Demographics :- Electoral history :...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|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" |Louis LeBourdais

Louis LeBourdais

Louis LeBourdais was a telegraph operator, life insurance agent and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1937 to 1948 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...

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|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 :...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |John McInnis
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|align="center" |Leslie Harvey Eyres

Leslie Harvey Eyres

Leslie Harvey Eyres was a tire merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Chilliwack in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1937 to 1952 as a Conservative....

|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...

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|align="center" |Kaslo-Slocan

Kaslo-Slocan

Kaslo-Slocan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake as well as the mining towns of the "Silvery Slocan"...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Randolph Harding

Randolph Harding

Randolph Harding was a Canadian politician.Born in Silverton, British Columbia, he was a teacher and a member of the Silverton municipal council...

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|align="center" |Thomas King
|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...

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|align="center" |Mackenzie

Mackenzie (provincial electoral district)

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Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Herbert Gargrave
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|align="center" |Herbert John Welch
|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...

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|align="center" |Omineca
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Edward Fraser Rowland
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|align="center" |Frank William Green
|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....

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|align="center" |Peace River

Peace River (British Columbia electoral district)

Peace River was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance in the general election of 1933, and its last was in 1953.- Demographics :- Electoral history :...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie
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|align="center" |Alexander Campbell Hope

Alexander Campbell Hope

Alexander Campbell "Alex" Hope was a farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Delta in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1945 to 1952 as a Conservative....

|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...

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|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...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |William Henry Brett
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|align="center" |Roderick Charles MacDonald

Roderick Charles MacDonald

Roderick Charles MacDonald was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Dewdney in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1941 to 1952 as a Conservative....

|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...

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|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver East

Vancouver East (electoral district)

Vancouver East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1933. It and the other new Vancouver ridings in this year, Vancouver-Burrard, Vancouver-Point Grey and Vancouver Centre, were...

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Arthur James Turner

Arthur James Turner (politician)

Arthur James Turner was an English-born body repair shop owner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver East in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1941 to 1966 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then New Democratic Party member.He was born in...

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|align="center" |Charles Taschereau Beard

Charles Taschereau Beard

Charles Taschereau Beard was a naval officer and politician in British Columbia. He represented Esquimalt in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1945 to 1948 as a Liberal....

|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...

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|align="center" |Harold Edward Winch

Harold Edward Winch

Harold Edward Winch was a Canadian politician active with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor, the New Democratic Party ....

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|align="center" |Thomas Alfred Love
|align="center" |Grand Forks-Greenwood

Grand Forks-Greenwood

Grand Forks-Greenwood 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. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a merger of...

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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...

Labour (Independent)
|align="center" |Tom Uphill

Tom Uphill

Thomas Hubert Uphill was a socialist politician in British Columbia, long time mayor of the town of Fernie and also represented the riding named for the town in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for forty years, most of them as the legislature's sole labour MLA.Uphill was born in 1874 in...

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|align="center" |Robert Henry Carson

Robert Henry Carson

Robert Henry Carson was a life insurance agent and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Kamloops in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1949 as a Liberal then Liberal-Conservative Coalition member.He was born on Pavilion Farm, British Columbia, the son...

|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...

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|align="center" |Ernest Crawford Carson

Ernest Crawford Carson

Ernest Crawford Carson was a rancher and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Lillooet in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1928 to 1933 and from 1941 to 1953 as a Conservative....

|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...

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|align="center" |George Sharratt Pearson

George Sharratt Pearson

George Sharratt Pearson was an English-born wholesale grocer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Nanaimo from 1928 to 1933, Alberni-Nanaimo from 1933 to 1941 and Nanaimo and the Islands from 1941 to 1952 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal.He was born...

|align="center" |Nanaimo and the Islands

Nanaimo and the Islands

Nanaimo and the Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1941 to 1963. It was formed of parts of the former ridings of Nanaimo and The Islands. In the 1966 election the Nanaimo riding name was restored and the southern part of the riding became...

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|align="center" |Frank Putnam
|align="center" |Nelson-Creston

Nelson-Creston

Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding....

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|align="center" |Byron Ingemar Johnson

Byron Ingemar Johnson

Byron Ingemar "Boss" Johnson , born Björn Ingimar "Bjössi" Jónsson,to family of Icelandic Immigrants,he served as the 24th Premier of the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 1947 to 1952...

|align="center" |New Westminster
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|align="center" |Kenneth Cattanach 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...

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|align="center" |John Henry Cates

John Henry Cates

John Henry Cates was a businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented North Vancouver in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1945 to 1952 as a Liberal....

|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...

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|align="center" |Herbert Anscomb

Herbert Anscomb

Herbert Bertie Anscomb was a Conservative politician and British Columbia cabinet minister.He was born in England and moved to Canada in 1911...

|align="center" |Oak Bay

Oak Bay (electoral district)

Oak Bay was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared in the general election of 1941 and last appeared in the 1975 election. Its successor is the Oak Bay-Gordon Head riding. For other ridings in the area of Victoria, B.C...

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|align="center" |William James Johnson
|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...

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|align="center" |James Lockhart Webster
|align="center" |Rossland-Trail

Rossland-Trail

Rossland-Trail was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the towns of Rossland and Trail, in the West Kootenay. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a redistribution of the former ridings of Greenwood and...

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|align="center" |Norman William Whittaker

Norman William Whittaker

Norman William Whittaker was a lawyer, judge and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Saanich in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1947 as a Liberal member....

|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...

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|align="center" |Arthur Brown Ritchie
|align="center" |Salmon Arm

Salmon Arm (electoral district)

Salmon Arm was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia including on the town of Salmon Arm on Shuswap Lake. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election...

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|align="center" |Reginald Robert Laird
|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...

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|align="center" |Edward Tourtellotte Kenney

Edward Tourtellotte Kenney

Edward Tourtellotte Kenney was a merchant, real estate and insurance agent and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Skeena in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1953 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal.He was born in Clark's Harbour,...

|align="center" |Skeena

Skeena (provincial electoral district)

Skeena is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared in the provincial election or 1924. It should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Skeena, which encompassed a larger area.- Demographics :- Member of...

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|align="center" |William Andrew Cecil Bennett
|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...

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|align="center" |Donald Cameron Brown
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Burrard

Vancouver-Burrard

Vancouver-Burrard was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1933 general election....

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|align="center" |George Moir Weir

George Moir Weir

George Moir Weir was a physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver-Point Grey from 1933 to 1941 and Vancouver-Burrard from 1945 to 1949 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal.He was born in Miami, Manitoba, the son of the Reverend Richard Weir...

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|align="center" |Allan James MacDonell
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver Centre
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|align="center" |Gordon Sylvester Wismer

Gordon Sylvester Wismer

Gordon Sylvester Wismer was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver Centre in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1952 as a Liberal....

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|align="center" |Royal Lethington Maitland
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Vancouver-Point Grey
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|align="center" |James Alexander Paton

James Alexander Paton

James Alexander Paton was a newspaper owner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver-Point Grey in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1937 to 1946 as a Conservative....

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|align="center" |Tilly Rolston
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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....

|align="center" rowspan=3 |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...

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|align="center" |Nancy Hodges

Nancy Hodges

Nancy Hodges was a Canadian journalist, politician and Senator.Born in London, England, she was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 1941 representing the riding of Victoria City and sitting as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party. She was re-elected in 1945...

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|align="center" |William Thomas Straith

William Thomas Straith

William Thomas "Bill" Straith was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1937 to 1953 as a Liberal....

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|align="center" |John Joseph Alban Gillis

John Joseph Alban Gillis

John Joseph Alban Gillis was a physician, surgeon and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Yale in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1928 to 1952 as a Liberal....

|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...

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Results

Results by riding

See also