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. The new legislature met for the first time on February 20, 1934.
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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:
- 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.
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. The following changes were made:
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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. William Henry Sutherland was declared the MLA for Revelstoke, and Thomas King (Liberal) was acclaimed in Columbia in the subsequent byelection.
Results
| Political party | Party leader | MLAs | Votes | |||||||
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| Candidates | 1928 | 1933 | ± | # | ± | % | ± (pp) | |||
| Liberal | Duff Pattullo | 47 | 12 | 34 | 22 | 159,131 | 14,259 | 41.74 | 1.70 | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Robert Connell | 46 | – | 7 | 7 | 120,185 | 120,185 | 31.53 | New | |
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| █ Non-Partisan Independent Group | William John Bowser | 30 | 2 | 38,836 | 10.19 | |||||
| █ Unionist | Simon Fraser Tolmie | 12 | 1 | 15,445 | 4.05 | |||||
| █ Independent Conservative | 6 | – | 7,114 | 1.87 | ||||||
| █ Independent | 4 | – | 2,193 | 0.58 | ||||||
| █ Oxford Group | 1 | 1 | 1,655 | 0.43 | ||||||
| All Conservative factions | 53 | 35 | 4 | 31 | 65,243 | 128,688 | 17.12 | 36.18 | ||
| Independent | 24 | – | 1 | 1 | 25,658 | 22,000 | 6.73 | 5.72 | ||
| Labour (all factions) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2,357 | 15,867 | 0.62 | 4.42 | |||
| United Front (Workers and Farmers) | 20 | – | – | – | 4,584 | 4,584 | 1.20 | New | ||
| Independent Co-operative Commonwealth | 8 | – | – | – | 2,266 | 2,266 | 0.59 | New | ||
| Independent Liberal | 2 | – | – | – | 1,076 | 75 | 0.28 | – | ||
| Socialist | 5 | – | – | – | 370 | 370 | 0.10 | Returned | ||
| Progressive Liberal | 1 | – | – | – | 353 | 353 | 0.09 | New | ||
| Total | 210 | 48 | 47 | 381,223 | 100.00% | |||||
| Rejected ballots | 3,380 | 121 | ||||||||
| Actual voters who voted | 236,415 | 61,481 | 73.07% | 1.74 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 323,540 | 78,300 | ||||||||
- Incomplete
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| █ Liberal | 34 / 47 | 1.70 | |||
| █ Co-operative Commonwealth | 7 / 47 | 31.53 | |||
| █ Conservative (all factions) | 4 / 47 | -36.18 | |||
| █ Independent | 1 / 47 | 5.72 | |||
| █ Labour | 1 / 47 | -4.42 | |||
| █ Other | 0 / 47 | 1.65 | |||
MLAs elected
| Alberni-Nanaimo: George Sharratt Pearson Atlin: William James Asselstine Burnaby: Ernest Winch Cariboo: Donald Morrison MacKay Chilliwack: Edward Dodsley Barrow Columbia-Revelstoke: William Henry Sutherland Comox: Laurence Arnold Hanna Cowichan-Newcastle: Hugh Savage (OG) Cranbrook: Frank Mitchell MacPherson Delta: Robert Swailes Dewdney: David William Strachan Esquimalt: Robert Henry Pooley Fernie: Thomas Aubert Uphill (ILP) Fort George: Henry George Thomas Perry Grand Forks-Greenwood: Dougald MacPherson The Islands: Alexander McDonald | Kamloops: Robert Henry Carson Kaslo-Slocan: Charles Sidney Leary Lillooet: George Murray Mackenzie: Ernest Bakewell Nelson-Creston: Frank Putnam New Westminster: Wells Gray North Okanagan: Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald North Vancouver: Harley Anderson Omineca: Alexander Malcolm Manson Peace River: Clive Planta Prince Rupert: Duff Pattullo Rossland-Trail: Richard Ronald Burns Saanich: Norman William Whittaker Salmon Arm: Rolf Wallgren Bruhn Similkameen: Charles H. P. Tupper Skeena: Edward Tourtellotte Kenney | South Okanagan: Joseph Allen Harris Vancouver-Burrard: Gerry McGeer Vancouver-Burrard: Helen Douglas Smith Vancouver Centre: Gordon McGregor Sloan Vancouver Centre: Gordon Sylvester Wismer Vancouver East: John Price Vancouver East: Harold Winch Vancouver-Point Grey: George Moir Weir Vancouver-Point Grey: Stanley McKeen Vancouver-Point Grey: Robert Wilkinson Victoria City: John Hart Victoria City: Boss Johnson Victoria City: Robert Connell Victoria City: Herbert Anscomb Yale: John Joseph Alban Gillis
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Synopsis of results
| Riding | Winning party | Votes | |||||||||||||||
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| Name | 1928 | Party | Votes | Share | Margin # | Margin % | Lib | CCF | NP | Un | O-C | UF | Ind | Oth | Total | ||
| Alberni-Nanaimo | New | Lib | 3,146 | 47.47% | 793 | 11.96% | 3,146 | 2,353 | 781 | – | – | 185 | 162 | – | 6,627 | ||
| Atlin | Lib | Lib | 419 | 32.63% | 111 | 8.64% | 419 | 308 | – | – | 136 | – | 421 | – | 1,284 | ||
| Burnaby | Con | CCF | 4,548 | 39.27% | 528 | 4.55% | 4,020 | 4,548 | 519 | 1,051 | – | 694 | 22 | 726 | 11,580 | ||
| Cariboo | Con | Lib | 1,089 | 54.50% | 578 | 28.92% | 1,089 | 398 | 511 | – | – | – | – | – | 1,998 | ||
| Chilliwack | Con | Lib | 2,273 | 44.96% | 618 | 12.23% | 2,273 | 1,655 | 1,128 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,056 | ||
| Columbia-Revelstoke | New | Lib | 1,947 | 72.27% | 1,200 | 44.54% | 1,947 | 747 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2,694 | ||
| Comox | Con | Lib | 2,204 | 49.94% | 614 | 13.91% | 2,204 | 1,590 | – | – | – | 259 | 84 | 276 | 4,413 | ||
| Cowichan-Newcastle | Con | OG | 1,655 | 40.88% | 367 | 9.06% | 520 | 1,288 | – | – | 2,240 | – | – | – | 4,048 | ||
| Cranbrook | Lib | Lib | 2,951 | 69.53% | 1,720 | 40.52% | 2,951 | 1,231 | – | – | – | 62 | – | – | 4,244 | ||
| Delta | Con | CCF | 2,631 | 36.95% | 538 | 7.55% | 2,093 | 2,631 | – | – | 612 | 49 | 1,735 | – | 7,120 | ||
| Dewdney | Con | Lib | 1,235 | 30.34% | 166 | 4.08% | 1,235 | 967 | 1,069 | – | – | 127 | 673 | – | 4,071 | ||
| Esquimalt | Con | Un | 1,466 | 39.03% | 59 | 1.57% | 1,407 | 525 | 358 | 1,466 | – | – | – | – | 3,756 | ||
| Fernie | ILP | ILP | 1,693 | 56.58% | 394 | 13.16% | 1,299 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1,693 | 2,992 | ||
| Fort George | Con | Lib | 1,577 | 56.32% | 952 | 34.00% | 1,577 | 625 | 310 | – | – | 192 | – | 96 | 2,800 | ||
| Grand Forks-Greenwood | Con | Lib | 1,034 | 58.55% | 523 | 29.61% | 1,034 | 221 | 511 | – | – | – | – | – | 1,766 | ||
| The Islands | Con | Lib | 726 | 35.35% | 57 | 2.78% | 726 | 400 | 233 | – | 669 | – | 26 | – | 2,054 | ||
| Kamloops | Con | Lib | 1,836 | 44.76% | 476 | 11.61% | 1,836 | 1,360 | 906 | – | – | – | – | – | 4,102 | ||
| Kaslo-Slocan | Con | Lib | 1,250 | 45.05% | 299 | 10.78% | 1,250 | 574 | 951 | – | – | – | – | – | 2,775 | ||
| Lillooet | Con | Lib | 927 | 44.06% | 222 | 10.55% | 927 | 472 | 705 | – | – | – | – | – | 2,104 | ||
| Mackenzie | Con | CCF | 2,071 | 43.61% | 685 | 14.42% | 1,386 | 2,071 | 1,292 | – | – | – | – | – | 4,749 | ||
| Nelson-Creston | New | Lib | 2,489 | 49.19% | 1,187 | 23.46% | 2,489 | 1,161 | 1,302 | – | – | 125 | – | – | 5,060 | ||
| New Westminster | Lib | Lib | 2,694 | 46.98% | 1,218 | 21.24% | 2,694 | 1,476 | – | – | – | 125 | 1,439 | – | 5,734 | ||
| North Okanagan | Con | Lib | 2,322 | 48.01% | 676 | 13.97% | 2,322 | 868 | 1,646 | – | – | – | – | – | 4,836 | ||
| North Vancouver | Lib | CCF | 2,427 | 35.19% | 643 | 9.32% | 1,636 | 2,427 | 1,784 | – | – | 132 | 7 | 911 | 6,897 | ||
| Omineca | Lib | Lib | 1,079 | 52.23% | % | 1,079 | 538 | 355 | – | – | – | 94 | – | 2,066 | |||
| Peace River | New | NP | 957 | 37.31% | 157 | 6.12% | 749 | 800 | 957 | – | – | 59 | – | – | 2,565 | ||
| Prince Rupert | Lib | Lib | 1,725 | 64.90% | 1,060 | 39.88% | 1,725 | 665 | – | – | – | 268 | – | – | 2,658 | ||
| Rossland-Trail | Con | Lib | 1,729 | 43.84% | 415 | 10.52% | 1,729 | 901 | 1,314 | – | – | – | – | – | 3,944 | ||
| Saanich | Con | Lib | 2,171 | 37.97% | 348 | 6.09% | 2,171 | 1,216 | 508 | 1,823 | – | – | – | – | 5,718 | ||
| Salmon Arm | Con | NP | 1,351 | 44.82% | 463 | 15.36% | 888 | 603 | 1,351 | – | – | 172 | – | – | 3,014 | ||
| Similkameen | Con | Lib | 1,765 | 43.23% | 379 | 9.28% | 1,765 | 730 | 1,386 | – | – | – | 202 | – | 4,083 | ||
| Skeena | Lib | Lib | 902 | 56.34% | 451 | 28.17% | 902 | 451 | – | – | – | – | 248 | – | 1,601 | ||
| South Okanagan | Con | Lib | 1,636 | 36.66% | 191 | 4.28% | 1,636 | 1,382 | – | – | 1,445 | – | – | – | 4,463 | ||
| Yale | Lib | Lib | 1,193 | 68.64% | 881 | 50.69% | 1,193 | 233 | 312 | – | – | – | – | – | 1,738 | ||
- The incumbent Herbert Frederick Kergin received 267 votes.
- The incumbent Cyril Francis Davie received 585 votes.
- The incumbent John Walter Berry received 447 votes.
- Jack Loutet had been elected as a Conservative in a 1930 byelection
- 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
| Riding | Winning party | Votes | ||||||||||
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| Name | MLAs | 1928 | 1933 | Lib | CCF | NP | Un | O-C | UF | Ind | Oth | Total |
| Vancouver-Burrard | 2 | New | 2 | 19,139 | 12,857 | 5,642 | 1,733 | – | 235 | – | 616 | 40,222 |
| Vancouver Centre | 2 | New | 2 | 13,648 | 10,454 | – | – | 2,741 | 646 | – | 834 | 28,323 |
| Vancouver East | 2 | New | 2 | 14,171 | 21,991 | 2,450 | 404 | – | 1,002 | 418 | 656 | 41,092 |
| Vancouver-Point Grey | 3 | New | 3 | 31,436 | 22,330 | 10,555 | 6,152 | – | 174 | 902 | 111 | 71,660 |
| Victoria City | 4 | 4 | 2 1 1 | 24,420 | 15,138 | – | 2,816 | 3,119 | 95 | 19,225 | 503 | 65,316 |
- = election day deferred
See also
- List of British Columbia political parties
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