October 16 1871 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1871-10-16
Writ Date	1871-10-02

Attributes
Federal Jurisdiction	❌
Provincial Jurisdiction	✅
Province	British Columbia
By-Election	❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	0
Turnout Rate	0
Valid Ballots	285
Valid Votes	3,804

Notes

Note: Elections held over the period 16 October 1871 to 15 December 1871
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.

Results

Party	Candidates	Seats Contested	Seats %	Vote %
Independent	46	25	100.00%	100.00%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
John	Foster McCreight	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	373	✅
James	Trimble	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	321	✅
Robert	Beaven	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	301	✅
Simeon	Duck	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	301	✅
George	Anthony Boomer Walkem	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	229	✅
Joseph	Hunter	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	162	✅
Cornelius	Booth	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	155	✅
Amor	De Cosmos	Independent	Victoria (BC)	151	✅
Josiah	Charles Hughes	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	148	✅
John	Spencer Thompson	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	132	❌
William	James Armstrong	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	128	✅
Robert	Taylor Williams	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	124	❌
Arthur	Bunster	Independent	Victoria (BC)	123	✅
John	Evans	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	107	❌
William	Dalby	Independent	Victoria (BC)	103	❌
James	Eliphalet McMillan	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	95	❌
Alexander	Rocke Robertson	Independent	Esquimalt	74	✅
William	Smithe	Independent	Cowichan	58	✅
John	Robson	Independent	Nanaimo (BC)	57	✅
Robert	Smith	Independent	Yale (BC)	53	✅
Hugh	McRoberts	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	47	❌
John	Paton Booth	Independent	Cowichan	47	✅
Thomas	Basil Humphreys	Independent	Lillooet	45	✅
Archibald	Dods	Independent	Cowichan	38	❌
Andrew	Thomas Jamieson	Independent	Lillooet	36	✅
James	Robinson	Independent	Yale (BC)	35	✅
Henry	Cogan	Independent	Esquimalt	34	✅
Joseph	Westrop Carey	Independent	Nanaimo (BC)	33	❌
David	Cameron	Independent	Esquimalt	31	❌
George	Coxon	Independent	Yale (BC)	29	❌
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Independent	Yale (BC)	29	✅
William	Fisher	Independent	Esquimalt	29	❌
Edwin	Pimbury	Independent	Cowichan	24	❌
William	Saul	Independent	Lillooet	21	❌
Thomas	J Skinner	Independent	Cowichan	19	❌
John	Andrew Mara	Independent	Kootenay	17	✅
Moses	Lumby	Independent	Yale (BC)	17	❌
John	Ash	Independent	Comox	16	✅
Charles	Todd	Independent	Kootenay	13	✅
Henry	Fry	Independent	Cowichan	10	❌
William	Cosgrove Milby	Independent	Kootenay	9	❌
Henry	S Caulier	Independent	Esquimalt	9	❌
William	H Kay	Independent	Yale (BC)	8	❌
Robert	Cameron Coleman	Independent	Comox	8	❌
Charles	Berry Brown	Independent	Esquimalt	5	❌
Henry	Holbrook	Independent	New Westminster City	0	✅