British Columbia general election, 1953

The British Columbia general election of 1953 was the 24th 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 April 10, 1953, and held on June 9, 1953. The new legislature met for the first time on September 15, 1953.

The minority government

Minority government

A minority government or a minority cabinet is a cabinet of a parliamentary system formed when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament but is sworn into government to break a Hung Parliament election result. It is also known as a...

formed in 1952 by the conservative Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

of Premier W.A.C. Bennett

W.A.C. Bennett

William Andrew Cecil Bennett, PC, OC was the 25th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia. With just over 20 years in office, Bennett was and remains the longest-serving premier in British Columbia history. He was usually referred to as W.A.C...

lasted only nine months before new elections were called. Social Credit was re-elected with a 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 to a second term in government with almost 38% of the popular vote.

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...

formed the official opposition with the only significant opposition caucus (14 seats).

The British Columbia Liberal Party

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...

lost two of its six seats despite maintaining its 23% share of the popular vote.

The Progressive 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...

lost three of its four seats in the legislature, as its share of the popular vote fell from almost 17% to under 6%.

One seat was won by a Labour candidate.

Results

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party	Party leader	# of candidates	1952 British Columbia general election, 1952 The British Columbia general election, 1952 was the 23rd 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 10, 1952, and held on June 12, 1952. The new legislature met for the...	Elected	% Change	First count	%	Change	Final count	%	Social Credit British Columbia Social Credit Party The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...	W.A.C. Bennett W.A.C. Bennett William Andrew Cecil Bennett, PC, OC was the 25th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia. With just over 20 years in office, Bennett was and remains the longest-serving premier in British Columbia history. He was usually referred to as W.A.C...	48	19	28	+47.4%	274,771	37.75%	+10.55%	300,372	45.54%	CCF 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...	Arnold Webster Arnold Webster Arnold Alexander Webster was a Canadian politician and served as Leader of the Opposition and leader of the BC Co-operative Commonwealth Federation . He returned to politics as a Member of Parliament for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1960s.-Biography:Webster was born in Vancouver and...	47	18	14	-22.2%	224,513	30.85%	+0.07%	194,414	29.48%	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...	Arthur Laing Arthur Laing Arthur Laing, PC was a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons from Vancouver, British Columbia....	48	6	4	-33.3%	171,671	23.59%	+0.13%	154,090	23.36%	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...	Deane Finlayson Deane Finlayson Douglas Deane Finlayson was a British Columbia politician and land developer.Though he was unable to win a seat in the 1952 provincial election, he became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia following the resignation of Herbert Anscomb and led the party through the...	39	4	1	-75.0%	40,780	5.60%	-11.24%	7,326	1.11%	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	-	1,601	0.22%	+0.06%	1,793	0.27%	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....	25	-	-	-	7,496	1.03%	+0.70%	816	0.12%	Christian Democratic Christian Democratic Party Christian democratic parties are those political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching, and it continues to be influential in Europe and...	14	-	-	-	5,036	0.69%	-0.24%	752	0.12%	Independents	6	-	-	-	1,951	0.27%	0.10%	-	-	People's	1	*	-	*	20	x	*	-	-
Total		229	48	48	-	727,839	100%	-	659,563	100%
Source: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote.

Results by riding

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|align="center"|William Ralph Talbot Chetwynd

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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...

CCF
|align="center"|Stanley John Squire

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|align="center"|William Kenneth Kiernan

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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.-...

CCF
|align="center"|Frank Calder

Frank Calder

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|align="center"|Richard Orr Newton

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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...

CCF
|align="center"|Ernest Edward Winch

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|align="center"|Thomas Irwin

Thomas Irwin (Canadian politician)

Thomas James Irwin was a Canadian politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and the Canadian House of Commons....

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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...

CCF
|align="center"|William Campbell Moore
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|align="center"|Lyle Wicks

Lyle Wicks

Lyle Wicks was a British Columbia politician.Born in Calgary, Wicks graduated from McLean High School in Haney, British Columbia, Canada in 1930...

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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 :...

CCF
|align="center"|Robert Martin Strachan²
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|align="center"|Llewllyn Leslie King

|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 :...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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....

CCF
|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"|Philip Arthur Gaglardi

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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...

CCF
|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 Joseph Bruch
|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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"...

CCF
|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"|Wesley Drewett Black

|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....

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

|align="center"|Anthony John Gargrave
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|align="center"|Lorne Hugh Shantz

Lorne Hugh Shantz

Lorne Hugh Shantz is a former politician in British Columbia, Canada. He represented North Okanagan in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1963 as a Social Credit member....

|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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|align="center" |New Westminster
CCF
|align="center"|Rae Eddie

Rae Eddie

John McRae Eddie was a Canadian politician, who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1969, representing the riding of New Westminster. He was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which became the New Democratic Party.-References:...

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|align="center"|George Henry Tomlinson Jr.
|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...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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|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...

CCF
|align="center"|Vincent Segur
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|align="center"|Cyril Morley Shelford
|align="center" |Omineca
Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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|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...

CCF
|align="center"|Frank Howard

Frank Howard (politician)

Frank Howard was a Canadian trade unionist and politician.Howard was born in Kimberley, British Columbia. After a career as a logger and labour union organizer, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a BC CCF MLA in 1953...

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|align="center"|Charles William Parker

|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 :...

Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

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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...

CCF
|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"|Robert Edward Sommers

|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|align="center"|Arnold Alexander Webster
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|align="center"|John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle
|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit 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...

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"|James Allan Reid

|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit 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...

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...

|align="center"|James Gordon Gibson
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|align="center"|Frank Richter, Jr.

|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|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...

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...

|align="center"|Philip Archibald Gibbs
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|align="center"|William Andrew Cecil Bennett¹
|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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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...

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...

|align="center"|Arthur Bruce Brown
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|align="center"|Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin

|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....

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|align="center" |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...

Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

|align="center"|Arthur Laing

Arthur Laing

Arthur Laing, PC was a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons from Vancouver, British Columbia....

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|align="center"|Bert Price

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|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...

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...

|align="center"|Lorenzo Giovando

Lorenzo Giovando

Lorenzo Giovando was twice MLA in British Columbia's Legislative Assembly for the Conservative Party of British Columbia for the seat of Nanaimo and the Islands...

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|align="center"|Alexander Small Matthew
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver Centre
Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|align="center"|George Churchill Moxham
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|align="center"|Thomas Audley Bate

|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Point Grey

Vancouver-Point Grey

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|align="center"|Robert William Bonner

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|align="center"|Lydia Arsens

Lydia Arsens

Lydia Augusta Arsens was a Canadian politician. She served as MLA for the Victoria City riding in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1953 to 1956, as a member of the British Columbia Social Credit Party....

|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|align="center"|William Neelands Chant
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|align="center"|Walter Percival Wright
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|align="center"|Irvine Finlay Corbett

|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...

Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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|align="center"|² Leader of the Opposition
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Results

Results by riding

See also