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.

[edit] Results

Party			Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
					1945	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Liberal	Coalition	Byron Ingemar Johnson	48	37	39	+5.4%	428,773	61.35%	+5.52%
	Progressive Conservative		Royal Maitland
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.		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	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			12	*	-	*	2,790	0.40%	*
	Labour Progressive			2	-	-	-	1,660	0.24%	-3.28%
	(Independent) Conservative2			1	*	-	*	1,241	0.18%	*
	People's CCF			1	-	-	-	470	0.07%	-0.53%
	Socialist Labour			1	-	-	-	286	0.04%	-0.02%
	People's			1	*	-	*	137	0.02%	*
Total				138	48	48	-	698,823	100%
Sources: Elections BC

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.

[edit] Results by Riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1949
Government				Opposition
	Member	Riding & party		Riding & party		Member
	Angus MacLean	Cariboo Coalition			Atlin Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Frank Arthur Calder
	Leslie Harvey Eyres	Chilliwack Coalition			Burnaby Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch
	Thomas King	Columbia Coalition			Cranbrook Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Leo Thomas Nimsick
	Andrew Mowatt Whisker	Cowichan-Newcastle Coalition			Grand Forks-Greenwood Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Rupert Williams Haggen
	Herbert John Welch	Comox Coalition			Kaslo-Slocan Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Randolph Harding
	Alexander Campbell Hope	Delta Coalition			Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Arthur James Turner
	Roderick Charles MacDonald	Dewdney Coalition				Harold Edward Winch2
	Charles Taschereau Beard	Esquimalt Coalition			Fernie Labour (Party)	Thomas Aubert Uphill
	Henry Robson Bowman	Fort George Coalition			Alberni Independent	James Mowat
	Sidney John Smith	Kamloops Coalition
	Ernest Crawford Carson	Lillooet Coalition
	Battleman Milton MacIntyre	Mackenzie Coalition
	George Sharratt Pearson	Nanaimo and the Islands Coalition
	Walter Hendricks	Nelson-Creston Coalition
	Byron Ingemar Johnson	New Westminster Coalition
	Charles William Morrow	North Okanagan Coalition
	John Henry Cates	North Vancouver Coalition
	Herbert Anscomb	Oak Bay Coalition
	Roert Cecil Steele	Omineca Coalition
	Glen Everton Braden	Peace River Coalition
	John Duncan McRae	Prince Rupert Coalition
	Arvid Waldemar Lundell	Revelstoke Coalition
	Alexander Douglas Turnbull	Rossland-Trail Coalition
	Arthur James Richard Ash	Saanich Coalition
	Maurice Patrick Finnerty	Similkameen Coalition
	Edward Tourtelotte Kenney	Skeena Coalition
	William Andrew Cecil Bennett	South Okanagan Coalition
	Donald Cameron Brown	Vancouver-Burrard Coalition
	John Groves Gould
	Donald Cameron Brown	Vancouver-Burrard Coalition
	John Groves Gould
	Allan James McDonell	Vancouver Centre Coalition
	Gordon Sylvester Wismer
	Albert Reginald MacDougall	Vancouver-Point Grey Coalition
	Tilly Jean Rolston
	Leigh Forbes Stevenson
	Nancy Hodges	Victoria City Coalition
	Daniel John Proudfoot
	William Thomas Straith
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale Coalition
	1 Premier-Elect and Incumbent
	2 Leader of the Opposition
Source: Elections BC

[edit] See also

• List of British Columbia political parties

Preceded by: 1945

British Columbia general elections

Succeeded by: 1952