British Columbia general election, 1909
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The British Columbia general election of 1909 was the twelfth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on October 20, 1909, and held on November 25, 1909. The new legislature met for the first time on January 20, 1910.
The governing Conservative Party won its third consecutive term in government with over half of the popular vote and all but four of the 42 seats in the legislature, effectively a rout for the popular incumbent Premier, Sir Richard McBride.
Despite winning almost one-third of the popular vote, the Liberal Party own only two seats, the same number won by the Socialist Party with only 11.5% of the vote.
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[edit] Results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | |||||
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| 1907 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Conservative 1 | Richard McBride | 42 | 26 | 38 | +46.2% | 53,074 | 52.33% | +3.63% | |
| Liberal 1 | James Alexander MacDonald | 36 | 13 | 2 | -84.6% | 33,675 | 33.21% | -3.94% | |
| Socialist | 20 | 3 | 2 | -33.3% | 11,665 | 11.50% | +2.63% | ||
| Independent | 3 | - | - | - | 2,625 | 2.59% | +2.36% | ||
| Canadian Labour 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 165 | 0.16% | -3.79% | ||
| Independent Conservative | 1 | * | - | * | 154 | 0.15% | * | ||
| Independent Labour | 1 | - | - | - | 57 | 0.06% | -0.71% | ||
| Total | 104 | 42 | 42 | - | 101,415 | 100% | |||
| Sources: Elections BC | |||||||||
Notes:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
1 Two candidates are counted twice: R. McBride (Conservative), who contested and was elected in both Victoria City and Yale, and J. Oliver (Liberal) who contested but was defeated in both Delta and Victoria City.
2 Organized in 1906. Not the same as the CLP that contested the 1924 election.
[edit] Results by Riding
| Results of British Columbia general election, 1909 | |||||||||||||
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| Government | Opposition | ||||||||||||
| Member | Riding & party |
Riding & party |
Member | ||||||||||
| Henry Esson Young | Atlin Conservative |
Alberni Liberal |
Harlan Carey Brewster | ||||||||||
| Michael Callanan | Cariboo Conservative |
Esquimalt Liberal |
John Jardine | ||||||||||
| John Anderson Fraser | Nanaimo City Socialist |
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite | |||||||||||
| Samuel Arthur Cawley | Chilliwhack Conservative |
Newcastle Socialist |
Parker Williams | ||||||||||
| Henry George Parson | Columbia Conservative |
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| Michael Manson | Comox Conservative |
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| William Henry Hayward | Cowichan Conservative |
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| Thomas Donald Caven | Cranbrook Conservative |
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| Francis James Anderson MacKenzie | Delta Conservative |
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| William J. Manson | Dewdney Conservative |
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| William Roderick Ross | Fernie Conservative |
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| Ernest Miller | Grand Forks Conservative |
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| John Robert Jackson | Greenwood Conservative |
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| Albert Edward McPhillips | The Islands Conservative |
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| James Pearson Shaw | Kamloops Conservative |
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| Neil Franklin MacKay | Kaslo Conservative |
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| Archibald MacDonald | Lillooet Conservative |
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| Harry Wright | Nelson City Conservative |
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| Thomas Gifford | New Westminster City Conservative |
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| Price Ellison | Okanagan Conservative |
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| Thomas Taylor | Revelstoke Conservative |
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| Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Richmond Conservative |
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| William Robert Braden | Rossland City Conservative |
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| David McEwen Eberts | Saanich Conservative |
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| Lytton Wilmot Shatford | Similkameen Conservative |
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| William Manson | Skeena Conservative |
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| William Hunter | Slocan Conservative |
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| William John Bowser | Vancouver City Conservative |
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| Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan | |||||||||||||
| George Albert McGuire | |||||||||||||
| Charles Edward Tisdall | |||||||||||||
| Henry Holgate Watson | |||||||||||||
| Henry Frederick William Behnsen | Victoria City Conservative |
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| Frederick Davey | |||||||||||||
| Richard McBride 1 Premier |
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| Henry Broughton Thomson | |||||||||||||
| Richard McBride Premier1 |
Yale Conservative |
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| James Hargrave Schofield | Ymir Conservative |
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| 1 Elected simultaneously in Yale and Victoria City. | |||||||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | |||||||||||||
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading & references
- In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974). Despite its title, a fairly thorough account of the politicians and electoral politics in early BC.
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