Sources : Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library [of British Columbia], An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986, Victoria, BC: n.d. ISBN 0771886772.
Note : "Extra-provincial active service electors in Canada voted on 14-16 October 1941 and in Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 9-11
October 1941." (Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986, p. 199)
Results
Districts
Charts
Legislature
Result
Total Electors
Valid Ballots
Valid Votes
Invalid Votes
Turnout Rate
417,607
299,104
453,893
2,874
71.62%
Party
Candidates
Seats Won
% of Seats Won
% of Vote
British Columbia Liberal Party
48
21
43.75%
32.94%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
45
14
29.17%
33.36%
British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945
43
12
25.00%
30.91%
Labour Party
4
1
2.08%
0.66%
Official Conservative
1
0
0%
0.48%
Victory Without Debt Party
1
0
0%
0.05%
Socialist Labour Party
4
0
0%
0.21%
Religious Political Brotherhood
1
0
0%
0.02%
Independent Labour
2
0
0%
0.86%
Emancipation Party
1
0
0%
0.06%
Independent
4
0
0%
0.36%
Independent Farmer
1
0
0%
0.09%
Independent Socialist
1
0
0%
0.01%
Additional information for British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945
Note : Conservative candidates ran under this party name until the 1941 election, except in 1933 when hen the party chose to field no candidates, despite being in government. Local association were free to choose candidates who ran as Independents or Independent Conservatives.
Candidates for the Liberal and Conservative parties of BC shared the 'Coalition' label in the 1945 and 1949 provincial elections.
After the coalition dissolved, the party reformed as the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party (reflecting the name change of the national Conservative party in 1942), contesting elections from 1951 to 1986. It reverted back to the British Columbia Conservative Party for the 1991 election.
Party Founding : Founded in 1900 but contested its first election in 1903. It was preceded by Conservative-BC in the 1900 election.
Note :
After Joshua Hinchliffe's nomination papers had been submitted and accepted, he disagreed with the Conservative party over its roads policy and was repudiated by party leader R.L Maitland.
Alfred Bayne, a supporter of Conservative party policy, ran in opposition to Hinchcliffe as 'Official Conservative' in an attempt to indicate that he was the 'real' Conservative candidate.
Citation :
See note 3, page 199, of AN ELECTORAL HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 1871-1986.BC Elections and the BC Legislature Library, 1986.
