British Columbia general election, 1928

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The British Columbia general election of 1928 was the seventeenth 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 June 7, 1928, and held on July 18, 1928. The new legislature met for the first time on January 22, 1929.

The Conservative Party defeated the governing Liberal Party, taking over half the popular vote, and 35 of the 48 seats in the legislature. The Liberals' popular vote also increased significantly, but because of the disappearance of the Provincial Party and the Canadian Labour Party, which had won over 35% of the vote together in the previous election, the Liberals were defeated.

[edit] Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	1924	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Conservative		48	17	35	+105.9%	192,867	53.30%	+23.85%
	Liberal		45	23	12	-47.8%	144,872	40.04%	+8.70%
	Independent Labour Party		9	*	1	*	17,908	4.95%	*
	Independent		9	-	-	-	3,658	1.01%	+0.28%
	Independent Conservative		2	-	-	-	1,064	0.29%	-0.30%
	Independent Liberal		2	2	-	-100%	1,001	0.28%	-0.75%
	Independent Labour		1	*	-	*	316	0.09%	*
	Independent Farmer		1	*	-	*	128	0.04%	*
Total			117	48	48	-	361,814	100%
Source: Elections BC

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

[edit] Results by Riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1928
Government			Opposition
	Member	Riding & party	Riding & party		Member
	William Robert Rutledge	Burnaby Conservative		Alberni Liberal	Laurence Arnold Hanna
	Roderick MacKenzie	Cariboo Conservative		Atlin Liberal	Herbert Frederick Kergin
	William Atkinson	Chilliwack Conservative		Columbia Liberal	John Andrew Buckham
	George Kerr McNaughton	Comox Conservative		Cranbrook Liberal	Frank Mitchell MacPherson
	Cyril Francis Davie	Cowichan-Newcastle Conservative		Nanaimo Liberal	George Sharratt Pearson
	Fred W. Lister	Creston Conservative		New Westminster Liberal	Arthur Wellesly Gray
	John Walter Berry	Delta Conservative		North Vancouver Liberal	Ian Alistair MacKenzie
	Nelson Seymour Lougheed	Dewdney Conservative		Omineca Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson
	Robert Henry Pooley	Esquimalt Conservative		Prince Rupert Liberal	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo²
	Frederick Parker Burden	Fort George Conservative		Revelstoke Liberal	William Henry Sutherland
	Charles Morgan Kingston	Grand Forks-Greenwood Conservative		Skeena Liberal	Horace Cooper Wrinch
	Cyrus Wesley Peck	The Islands Conservative		Yale Liberal	John Joseph Alban Gillis
	John Ralph Michell	Kamloops Conservative		Fernie Independent Labour Party	Thomas Aubert Uphill
	James Fitzsimmon	Kaslo-Slocan Conservative
	Ernest Crawford Carson	Lillooet Conservative
	Michael Manson	Mackenzie Conservative
	Lorris E. Borden	Nelson Conservative
	William Farris Kennedy	North Okanagan Conservative
	Samuel Lyness Howe	Richmond-Point Grey Conservative
	James Hargrave Schofield	Rossland-Trail Conservative
	Simon Fraser Tolmie ¹	Saanich Conservative
	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	Salmon Arm Conservative
	William Alexander McKenzie	Similkameen Conservative
	James William Jones	South Okanagan Conservative
	Jonathan Webster Cornett	South Vancouver Conservative
	William Dick	Vancouver City Conservative
	Thomas Henry Kirk
	Robert Lethington Maitland
	William Curtis Shelly
	Nelson Spencer
	George Alexander Walkem
	James Harry Beatty	Victoria City Conservative
	Reginald Hayward
	Joshua Hinchcliffe
	Harold Despard Twigg
	¹ Premier-Elect
	² Leader of the Opposition
Source: Elections BC