British Columbia general election, 1912
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The British Columbia general election of 1912 was the thirteenth 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 February 27, 1912, and held on March 28, 1912. The new legislature met for the first time on January 16, 1913.
The governing Conservative Party increased its share of the popular vote to almost 60%, and swept all but 3 of the 42 seats in the legislature. Of the remaining three, one (Harold Ernest Forster in Columbia) was formally listed as an Independent but was a Conservative who had missed the filing date. He campaigned and sat in full support of the McBride government.
The Liberal Party's share of the vote fell from one-third to one-quarter, and it lost both of its seats in the legislature.
The remaining two seats were won by the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party in the coal-mining ridings of Nanaimo City and Newcastle.
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[edit] Results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
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| 1909 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Conservative 1 | Richard McBride | 42 | 38 | 39 | +2.6% | 50,423 | 59.65% | +7.32% | |
| Socialist | 17 | - | 1 | - | 9,366 | 11.08% | -0.42% | ||
| Independent Conservative | 7 | - | 1 | - | 1,163 | 1.37% | +1.22% | ||
| Social Democratic | 1 | * | 1 | * | 621 | 0.74% | * | ||
| Liberal | Harlan Carey Brewster | 19 | 2 | - | -100% | 21,443 | 25.37% | -7.84% | |
| Independent | 2 | - | - | - | 1,513 | 1.79% | -0.80% | ||
| Total | 88 | 42 | 42 | - | 84,529 | 100% | |||
| Source: Elections BC | |||||||||
Notes:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
1 Since 9 Conservatives were elected by acclamation, i.e., without any polling of votes, the total votes for the Conservative Party and the overall total as well as the popular vote are somewhat misleading. A potential 14,086 voters did not have the opportunity to exercise their franchise. Given a voter turnout of almost 50% in other ridings, the total number of votes could have been about 7,000 more.
[edit] Results by Riding
| Results of British Columbia general election, 1912 | |||||||||||||
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Riding & party |
Member | ||||||||||
| Henry Esson Young | Atlin Conservative |
Nanaimo City Social Democrat |
John Thomas Wilmot Place | ||||||||||
| John George Corry Wood | Alberni Liberal |
Newcastle Socialist |
Parker Williams | ||||||||||
| Michael Callanan | Cariboo Conservative |
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| John Anderson Fraser | |||||||||||||
| Samuel Arthur Cawley | Chilliwhack Conservative |
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| Henry George Parson 1 | Columbia Independent 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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| Robert Henry Pooley | Esquimalt Liberal |
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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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| William Ross MacLean | 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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| Lorne Argyle Campbell | 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 2 Premier |
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| Henry Broughton Thomson | |||||||||||||
| Alexander Lucas | Yale Conservative |
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| James Hargrave Schofield | Ymir Conservative |
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| 1 Identified as a Conservative but listed by the Chief Electoral Officer as an Independent. When he failed to obtain the official nomination, Forster ran as an Independent Conservative but in full support of the McBride government. | 2 Incumbent Premier. | ||||||||||||
| 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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