1933 British Columbia general election

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The 1933 British Columbia general election was the eighteenth 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 September 13, 1933, and held on November 2, 1933.[1] The new legislature met for the first time on February 20, 1934.

Quick facts 47 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 24 seats needed for a majority, First party ...
1933 British Columbia general election
← 1928
November 2, 1933
1937 â†’
47 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
24 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Thomas Dufferin Pattullo Robert Connell
Party Liberal Co-operative Commonwealth
Leader since 1928 1933
Leader's seat Prince Rupert Victoria City
Last election 12 pre-creation
Seats won 34 7
Seat change Increase22 Increase7
Popular vote 159,131 120,185
Percentage 41.74% 31.53%
Swing Increase1.70pp pre-creation
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader William John Bowser †[a] Simon Fraser Tolmie
Party Non-Partisan Independent Group Unionist
Leader since 1933 1933
Leader's seat Did not run[a] Saanich (lost re-election)
Last election Did not contest 35[b]
Seats won 2 1
Seat change Increase2 Decrease34[c]
Popular vote 38,836 15,445
Percentage 10.19% 4.05%
Swing new Decrease49.25pp[c]
Premier before election

Simon Fraser Tolmie
Conservative

 Premier after election

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
Liberal

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The Liberal Party won a majority government.

The Official Opposition was formed by the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which was contesting its first election.

Because of internal discord, the provincial executive of the Conservative Party decided not to contest the election officially. Instead, each local association was to act on its own. Some candidates ran as Independents, some as Independent Conservatives. Those supporting the premier, Simon Fraser Tolmie, ran as Unionist Party of British Columbia, and those grouped around William John Bowser, a former premier, ran as the Non-Partisan Independent Group. When Bowser died on October 25, the elections in Vancouver Centre and Victoria City were postponed to November 27, and the following candidates withdrew:[2]

  • in Vancouver Centre, one each from the Unionists, NPIG and United Front
  • in Victoria City, one Unionist, three NPIG and one Independent

Other notable races include the election of Bridge River-Lillooet News publisher George Matheson Murray in Lillooet over Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson. Carson's brother Robert Henry Carson ran as a Liberal, winning Kamloops. Carson and his brother both served as cabinet ministers in later regimes. They were the sons of Robert Carson, an American who was one of the very few survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail and who went on to found one of the early ranches at Pavilion and whose holdings became part of the Diamond S Ranch.[3]

1932 redistribution of ridings

An Act was passed in 1932, providing for a reduction of the seats in the Assembly from 48 to 47 upon the next election.[4] The following changes were made:

More information Abolished ridings, New ridings ...
Abolished ridingsNew ridings
Drawn from other ridings
Merger of districts
Reorganization of districts
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1934 post-election redistribution

A 1934 Act increased the size of the Assembly from 47 to 48, by abolishing the district of Columbia-Revelstoke and reviving the previous districts of Columbia and Revelstoke, with immediate effect.[5] William Henry Sutherland was declared the MLA for Revelstoke,[6] and Thomas King (Liberal) was acclaimed in Columbia in the subsequent byelection.[7]

Results

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Elections to the 18th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1933)[8]
Political party Party leader MLAs Votes
Candidates 1928 1933 ± # ± % ± (pp)
Liberal Duff Pattullo 47123422Increase159,13114,259Increase41.741.70Increase
Co-operative Commonwealth Robert Connell 46–77Increase120,185120,185Increase31.53New
  Conservative fragmentation
█ Non-Partisan Independent Group William John Bowser 30 2 38,836 10.19 
█ Unionist Simon Fraser Tolmie 12115,4454.05
█ Independent Conservative 6–7,1141.87
█ Independent 4–2,1930.58
█ Oxford Group 111,6550.43
All Conservative factions 5335431Decrease65,243128,688Decrease17.1236.18Decrease
Independent 24–11Increase25,65822,000Increase6.735.72Increase
Labour (all factions) 411Steady2,35715,867Decrease0.624.42Decrease
United Front (Workers and Farmers) 20–––4,5844,584Increase1.20New
Independent Co-operative Commonwealth 8–––2,2662,266Increase0.59New
Independent Liberal 2–––1,076750.28–
Socialist 5–––370370Increase0.10Returned
Progressive Liberal 1–––353353Increase0.09New
Total 210 48 47 381,223 100.00%
Rejected ballots[9] 3,380[a 1]121Increase
Actual voters who voted[9] 236,41561,481Increase 73.07%1.74Increase
Registered voters[9] 323,54078,300Increase
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  1. [1]
    Incomplete
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Seats and popular vote by party[8]
PartySeatsVotesChange (pp)
█ Liberal
34 / 47
41.74%
 1.70
 
█ Co-operative Commonwealth
7 / 47
31.53%
 31.53
 
█ Conservative (all factions)
4 / 47
17.12%
 -36.18
 
█ Independent
1 / 47
6.73%
 5.72
 
█ Labour
1 / 47
0.62%
 -4.42
 
█ Other
0 / 47
2.26%
 1.65
 
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MLAs elected

Synopsis of results

More information Riding, Winning party ...
Results by riding - 1933 British Columbia general election (single-member districts)[10]
Riding Winning party Votes
Name 1928 Party Votes Share Margin
#		 Margin
%		 Lib CCF NP Un O-C UF Ind Oth Total
 
Alberni-Nanaimo New Lib 3,14647.47%79311.96%3,1462,353781––185162–6,627
Atlin Lib Lib 41932.63%1118.64%419308––136–421[a 1]–1,284
Burnaby Con CCF 4,54839.27%5284.55%4,0204,5485191,051–6942272611,580
Cariboo Con Lib 1,08954.50%57828.92%1,089398511–––––1,998
Chilliwack Con Lib 2,27344.96%61812.23%2,2731,6551,128–––––5,056
Columbia-Revelstoke New Lib 1,94772.27%1,20044.54%1,947747––––––2,694
Comox Con Lib 2,20449.94%61413.91%2,2041,590–––259842764,413
Cowichan-Newcastle Con OG 1,65540.88%3679.06%5201,288––2,240[a 2]–––4,048
Cranbrook Lib Lib 2,95169.53%1,72040.52%2,9511,231–––62––4,244
Delta Con CCF 2,63136.95%5387.55%2,0932,631––612[a 3]491,735–7,120
Dewdney Con Lib 1,23530.34%1664.08%1,2359671,069––127673–4,071
Esquimalt Con Un 1,46639.03%591.57%1,4075253581,466––––3,756
Fernie ILP ILP 1,69356.58%39413.16%1,299––––––1,6932,992
Fort George Con Lib 1,57756.32%95234.00%1,577625310––192–962,800
Grand Forks-Greenwood Con Lib 1,03458.55%52329.61%1,034221511–––––1,766
The Islands Con Lib 72635.35%572.78%726400233–669–26–2,054
Kamloops Con Lib 1,83644.76%47611.61%1,8361,360906–––––4,102
Kaslo-Slocan Con Lib 1,25045.05%29910.78%1,250574951–––––2,775
Lillooet Con Lib 92744.06%22210.55%927472705–––––2,104
Mackenzie Con CCF 2,07143.61%68514.42%1,3862,0711,292–––––4,749
Nelson-Creston New Lib 2,48949.19%1,18723.46%2,4891,1611,302––125––5,060
New Westminster Lib Lib 2,69446.98%1,21821.24%2,6941,476–––1251,439–5,734
North Okanagan Con Lib 2,32248.01%67613.97%2,3228681,646–––––4,836
North Vancouver Lib CCF 2,42735.19%6439.32%1,6362,4271,784 [a 4]––1327911[a 5]6,897
Omineca Lib Lib 1,07952.23%%1,079538355–––94–2,066
Peace River New NP 95737.31%1576.12%749800957––59––2,565
Prince Rupert Lib Lib 1,72564.90%1,06039.88%1,725665–––268––2,658
Rossland-Trail Con Lib 1,72943.84%41510.52%1,7299011,314–––––3,944
Saanich Con Lib 2,17137.97%3486.09%2,1711,2165081,823––––5,718
Salmon Arm Con NP 1,35144.82%46315.36%8886031,351––172––3,014
Similkameen Con Lib 1,76543.23%3799.28%1,7657301,386–––202–4,083
Skeena Lib Lib 90256.34%45128.17%902451––––248–1,601
South Okanagan Con Lib 1,63636.66%1914.28%1,6361,382––1,445–––4,463
Yale Lib Lib 1,19368.64%88150.69%1,193233312–––––1,738
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  1. [1]
    The incumbent Herbert Frederick Kergin received 267 votes.
  2. [2]
    The incumbent Cyril Francis Davie received 585 votes.
  3. [3]
    The incumbent John Walter Berry received 447 votes.
  4. [4]
    Jack Loutet had been elected as a Conservative in a 1930 byelection
  5. [5]
    John Melvin Bryan Sr., previously elected as a Liberal in 1924, ran as an Independent Liberal and received 846 votes
  = open seat
  = winning candidate was in previous Legislature
  = incumbent had switched allegiance
  = previously incumbent in another riding
  = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
  = incumbency arose from byelection gain
  = other incumbents renominated
  = Conservative factions
  = multiple candidates
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Results by riding - 1933 British Columbia general election (multiple-member districts)[10]
Riding Winning party Votes
Name MLAs 1928 1933 Lib CCF NP Un O-C UF Ind Oth Total
Vancouver-Burrard 2New
  2
 19,13912,8575,6421,733–235–61640,222
Vancouver Centre 2New
  2
 13,64810,454––2,741646–83428,323
Vancouver East 2New
  2
 14,17121,9912,450404–1,00241865641,092
Vancouver-Point Grey 3New
  3
 31,43622,33010,5556,152–17490211171,660
Victoria City 4
  4
  2
  1
  1
 24,42015,138–2,8163,1199519,22550365,316
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  = election day deferred

See also

Notes

  1. [a]
    Bowser died prior to the election.
  2. [b]
    Result for the Conservative Party of British Columbia.
  3. [c]
    Compared to the Conservative Party of British Columbia.

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