British Columbia general election, 1949
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The British Columbia general election of 1949 was the 22nd 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 April 16, 1949, and held on June 15, 1949. The new legislature met for the first time on February 14, 1950.
The centre-right coalition formed by the Liberal and Conservative
parties in order to defeat the social democratic
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
in the 1945 election
increased its share of the vote and its majority in the legislature.
Three different social credit
groupings nominated or endorsed candidates in the election: the Social Credit Party, the Social Credit League, and the Union of Electors.
Notes:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
1 Various social credit groups nominated 16 candidates in the 1945 election as part of a Social Credit "alliance". These candidates won 6,627 votes, 1.42% of the popular vote in that election.
2 The candidate, running independently from the Liberal-PC Coalition, is listed as "Conservative" rather than "Progressive Conservative" in the Statement of Votes.
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|align="center" |Angus Maclean
|align="center" |Cariboo
Coalition
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|align="center" |Atlin
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Frank Arthur Calder
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|align="center" |Leslie Harvey Eyres
|align="center" |Chilliwack
Coalition
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|align="center" |Burnaby
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Ernest Edward Winch
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|align="center" |Thomas King
|align="center" |Columbia
Coalition
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|align="center" |Cranbrook
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Leo Thomas Nimsick
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|align="center" |Andrew Mowatt Whisker
|align="center" |Cowichan-Newcastle
Coalition
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|align="center" |Grand Forks-Greenwood
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Rupert Haggen
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|align="center" |Herbert John Welch
|align="center" |Comox
Coalition
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|align="center" |Kaslo-Slocan
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Randolph Harding
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|align="center" |Alexander Campbell Hope
|align="center" |Delta
Coalition
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|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver East
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Arthur James Turner
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|align="center" |Roderick Charles MacDonald
|align="center" |Dewdney
Coalition
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|align="center" |Harold Edward Winch
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|align="center" |Charles Taschereau Beard
|align="center" |Esquimalt
Coalition
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|align="center" |Fernie
Labour (Party)
|align="center" |Thomas Aubert Uphill
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|align="center" |Henry Robson Bowman
|align="center" |Fort George
Coalition
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|align="center" |Alberni
Independent
|align="center" |James Mowat
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|align="center" |Sidney John Smith
|align="center" |Kamloops
Coalition
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|align="center" |Ernest Crawford Carson
|align="center" |Lillooet
Coalition
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|align="center" |Battleman Milton MacIntyre
|align="center" |Mackenzie
Coalition
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|align="center" |George Sharratt Pearson
|align="center" |Nanaimo and the Islands
Coalition
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|align="center" |Walter Hendricks
|align="center" |Nelson-Creston
Coalition
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|align="center" |Byron Ingemar Johnson
|align="center" |New Westminster
Coalition
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|align="center" |Charles William Morrow
|align="center" |North Okanagan
Coalition
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|align="center" |John Henry Cates
|align="center" |North Vancouver
Coalition
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|align="center" |Herbert Anscomb
|align="center" |Oak Bay
Coalition
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|align="center" |Roert Cecil Steele
|align="center" |Omineca
Coalition
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|align="center" |Glen Everton Braden
|align="center" |Peace River
Coalition
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|align="center" |John Duncan McRae
|align="center" |Prince Rupert
Coalition
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|align="center" |Arvid Waldemar Lundell
|align="center" |Revelstoke
Coalition
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|align="center" |Alexander Douglas Turnbull
|align="center" |Rossland-Trail
Coalition
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|align="center" |Arthur James Richard Ash
|align="center" |Saanich
Coalition
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|align="center" |Maurice Patrick Finnerty
|align="center" |Similkameen
Coalition
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|align="center" |Edward Tourtelotte Kenney
|align="center" |Skeena
Coalition
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|align="center" |William Andrew Cecil Bennett
|align="center" |South Okanagan
Coalition
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|align="center" |Donald Cameron Brown
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Burrard
Coalition
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|align="center" |John Groves Gould
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|align="center" |Donald Cameron Brown
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Burrard
Coalition
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|align="center" |John Groves Gould
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|align="center" |Allan James McDonell
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver Centre
Coalition
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|align="center" |Gordon Sylvester Wismer
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|align="center" |Albert Reginald MacDougall
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Vancouver-Point Grey
Coalition
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|align="center" |Tilly Rolston
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|align="center" |Leigh Forbes Stevenson
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|align="center" |Nancy Hodges
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Victoria City
Coalition
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|align="center" |Daniel John Proudfoot
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|align="center" |William Thomas Straith
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|align="center" |John Joseph Alban Gillis
|align="center" |Yale
Coalition
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|align="center"|1 Premier-Elect and Incumbent
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|align="center"|2 Leader of the Opposition
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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 April 16, 1949, and held on June 15, 1949. The new legislature met for the first time on February 14, 1950.
The centre-right coalition 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...
in the 1945 election
British Columbia general election, 1945
The British Columbia general election of 1945 was the twenty-first 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 August 31, 1945, and held on October 25, 1945...
increased its share of the vote and its majority in the legislature.
Three different social credit
Social Credit
Social Credit is an economic philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas , a British engineer, who wrote a book by that name in 1924. Social Credit is described by Douglas as "the policy of a philosophy"; he called his philosophy "practical Christianity"...
groupings nominated or endorsed candidates in the election: the Social Credit Party, the Social Credit League, and the Union of Electors.
Results
Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
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Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change |
Liberal | Coalition | 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... |
48 | 37 | 39 | +5.4% | 428,773 | 61.35% | +5.52% |
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... |
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... |
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 | 10 | 7 | -30.0% | 245,284 | 35.10% | -2.52% |
Independent | 7 | - | 1 | 5,163 | 0.74% | +0.41% |
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 | - | 1,483 | 0.21% | -0.07% |
Social Credit Party1 | 7 | * | - | * | 8,464 | 1.21% | * |
Social Credit League1 | 9 | * | - | * | 3,072 | 0.44% | * |
Union of Electors1 | Andrew Henry Jukes | 12 | * | - | * | 2,790 | 0.40% | * |
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.... |
2 | - | - | - | 1,660 | 0.24% | -3.28% |
(Independent) Conservative2 | 1 | * | - | * | 1,241 | 0.18% | * |
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.... |
1 | - | - | - | 470 | 0.07% | -0.53% |
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... |
1 | - | - | - | 286 | 0.04% | -0.02% |
People's | 1 | * | - | * | 137 | 0.02% | * | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 138 | 48 | 48 | - | 698,823 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes:
1 Various social credit groups nominated 16 candidates in the 1945 election as part of a Social Credit "alliance". These candidates won 6,627 votes, 1.42% of the popular vote in that election.
2 The candidate, running independently from the Liberal-PC Coalition, is listed as "Conservative" rather than "Progressive Conservative" in the Statement of Votes.
Results by riding
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|align="center" |Angus Maclean
|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...
Coalition
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|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.-...
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Frank Arthur Calder
Frank Arthur Calder
Frank Arthur Calder, was a Nisga'a politician in Canada, the first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada....
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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...
Coalition
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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" |Thomas King
Thomas King (Canadian politician)
Thomas King was a merchant, farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Columbia in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1931 to 1933 and from 1937 to 1952 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...
Coalition
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|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....
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Leo Thomas Nimsick
Leo Thomas Nimsick
Leo Thomas Nimsick was a miner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cranbrook from 1949 to 1966 and Kootenay from 1966 to 1975 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then New Democratic Party member.He was born in Rossland,...
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|align="center" |Andrew Mowatt Whisker
|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 :...
Coalition
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|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...
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|align="center" |Rupert Haggen
Rupert Haggen
Rupert Williams Haggen was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Grand Forks-Greenwood in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1949 to 1956. He was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.He was born in New Zealand and came to Canada in 1901...
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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...
Coalition
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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" |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...
Coalition
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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" |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...
Coalition
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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" |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...
Coalition
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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 (Party)
|align="center" |Thomas Aubert 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" |Henry Robson Bowman
Henry Robson Bowman
Henry Robson Bowman was a political figure in British Columbia. He represented Fort George in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1949 to 1952 as a Liberal....
|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 :...
Coalition
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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" |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....
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|align="center" |Sidney John Smith
|align="center" |Kamloops
Kamloops (electoral district)
Kamloops was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968, and from 1988 to 2004. From 1998 to 2004, it was known as Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys.-History:...
Coalition
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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...
Coalition
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|align="center" |Battleman Milton MacIntyre
|align="center" |Mackenzie
Mackenzie (provincial electoral district)
|-|Social Credit|Isabel Pearl Dawson|align="right"|4945|align="right"|52.7%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|New Democrat|Anthony Gargrave|align="right"|3586|align="right"|38.2%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Benner...
Coalition
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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...
Coalition
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|align="center" |Walter Hendricks
|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....
Coalition
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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
Coalition
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|align="center" |Charles William Morrow
Charles William Morrow
Charles William Morrow was a lawyer, judge and political figure in British Columbia. He represented North Okanagan in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1945 to 1952 as a Liberal....
|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...
Coalition
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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...
Coalition
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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...
Coalition
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|align="center" |Roert Cecil Steele
|align="center" |Omineca
Coalition
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|align="center" |Glen Everton Braden
Glen Everton Braden
Glen Everton Braden was a merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Peace River in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1937 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1952 as a Liberal....
|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 :...
Coalition
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|align="center" |John Duncan McRae
|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...
Coalition
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|align="center" |Arvid Waldemar Lundell
Arvid Waldemar Lundell
Arvid Waldemar Lundell was a newspaper owner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Revelstoke in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1949 to 1952 as a Conservative and from 1956 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1966 as a Social Credit member.He was born in Revelstoke,...
|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...
Coalition
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|align="center" |Alexander Douglas Turnbull
Alexander Douglas Turnbull
Alexander Douglas Turnbull was an engineer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Rossland-Trail from 1949 to 1952 as a Liberal....
|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...
Coalition
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|align="center" |Arthur James Richard Ash
Arthur James Richard Ash
Arthur James Richard Ash was a merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Saanich in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1948 to 1952 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...
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|align="center" |Maurice Patrick Finnerty
|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 Tourtelotte Kenney
|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" |John Groves Gould
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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" |John Groves Gould
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|align="center" |Allan James McDonell
|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" |Albert Reginald MacDougall
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Vancouver-Point Grey
Vancouver-Point Grey
Vancouver-Point Grey is 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 Centre and Vancouver East, were...
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|align="center" |Tilly Rolston
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|align="center" |Leigh Forbes Stevenson
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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...
|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" |Daniel John Proudfoot
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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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See also
- List of British Columbia political parties