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 | |||||
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| 1924 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Conservative | Simon Fraser Tolmie | 48 | 17 | 35 | +105.9% | 192,867 | 53.30% | +23.85% | |
| Liberal | John Duncan MacLean | 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 | |||||||||||||
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| 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 |
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| Ernest Crawford Carson | Lillooet Conservative |
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| Michael Manson | Mackenzie Conservative |
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| Lorris E. Borden | Nelson Conservative |
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| William Farris Kennedy | North Okanagan Conservative |
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| Samuel Lyness Howe | Richmond-Point Grey Conservative |
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| James Hargrave Schofield | Rossland-Trail Conservative |
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| Simon Fraser Tolmie 1 | Saanich Conservative |
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| Rolf Wallgren Bruhn | Salmon Arm Conservative |
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| William Alexander McKenzie | Similkameen Conservative |
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| James William Jones | South Okanagan Conservative |
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| Jonathan Webster Cornett | South Vancouver Conservative |
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| William Dick | Vancouver City Conservative |
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| Thomas Henry Kirk | |||||||||||||
| Robert Lethington Maitland | |||||||||||||
| William Curtis Shelly | |||||||||||||
| Nelson Spencer | |||||||||||||
| George Alexander Walkem | |||||||||||||
| James Harry Beatty | Victoria City Conservative |
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| Reginald Hayward | |||||||||||||
| Joshua Hinchcliffe | |||||||||||||
| Harold Despard Twigg | |||||||||||||
| 1 Premier-Elect | |||||||||||||
| 2 Leader of the Opposition | |||||||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | |||||||||||||
[edit] See also
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