September 12 1960 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1960-09-12
Writ Date 1960-08-03
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 9,862
Invalid Votes 4,924
Total Electors 874,267
Turnout Rate 71
Valid Ballots 618,271
Valid Votes 996,404

Notes

  • References: Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986. Prepared by Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library (ISBN 0-7718-8677-2).

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Liberal Party 50 4 7.69% 20.90%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 52 16 30.77% 32.73%
Communist Party of Canada 19 0 0.00% 0.57%
Independent 5 0 0.00% 0.26%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 52 0 0.00% 6.72%
Social Credit 52 32 61.54% 38.83%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Alexander Barrett Macdonald Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver East (BC) 25,610 ✅
Arthur James Turner Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver East (BC) 25,580 ✅
Robert William Bonner Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 24,273 ✅
Thomas Audley Bate Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 23,950 ✅
Buda Hosmer Brown Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 23,583 ✅
Camille Mildred Mather Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Delta 21,839 ✅
James Henry Rhodes Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Delta 21,559 ✅
Nehemiah George Massey Social Credit Delta 21,011 ❌
Cedric Cox Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Burnaby (BC) 17,659 ✅
Gordon Hudson Dowding Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Burnaby (BC) 17,522 ✅
Francis Cecil Boyes British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 17,438 ❌
Donald H Riggan Social Credit Delta 17,291 ❌
Frederick Morton Sharp Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 16,622 ❌
Raymond McCarthy Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 16,379 ❌
Samuel Joseph Dumaresq British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 15,107 ❌
Leslie Charles Way British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 14,827 ❌
Raymond Joseph Perrault British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 14,408 ✅
Hilliard Harold William Beyerstein Social Credit Burnaby (BC) 13,469 ❌
Thomas James Irwin Social Credit Burnaby (BC) 13,394 ❌
James Gordon Gibson British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 13,287 ✅
Newton Phillips Steacy Social Credit North Vancouver (BC) 12,804 ❌
Clifford Augustine Greer Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 12,702 ❌
David Barrett Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Dewdney 12,637 ✅
Bruce Benjamin Knowlton Social Credit North Vancouver (BC) 12,276 ❌
George Nelson Gibson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 12,158 ❌
Thomas Walter Thomasen Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 11,538 ❌
Lyle Wicks Social Credit Dewdney 10,713 ❌
Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,642 ✅
Bert Price Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,231 ✅
John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle Social Credit Saanich 10,165 ✅
William Kenneth Kiernan Social Credit Chilliwack 10,051 ✅
William Neelands Chant Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 9,864 ✅
Charles Patrick Neal Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,505 ❌
Frederick Justin Vulliamy Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,333 ❌
John Donald Smith Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 8,855 ✅
Waldo McTavish Skillings Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 8,671 ✅
Arthur R Helps British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 8,529 ❌
C Douglas Morris British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 8,517 ❌
Leslie Raymond Peterson Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 8,516 ✅
Alexander Small Matthew Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 8,227 ✅
William Andrew Cecil Bennett Social Credit South Okanagan 8,058 ✅
Graham B Ladner British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby (BC) 7,601 ❌
George Frederick Thompson Gregory British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 7,278 ❌
William Lindsay British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby (BC) 7,111 ❌
Reginald Atherton Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 6,774 ❌
Orville Garfield Braaten Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Vancouver (BC) 6,746 ❌
Hugh Clifford Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Vancouver (BC) 6,720 ❌
Thomas Rodney Berger Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,530 ❌
Patrick Holman Thomas Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Saanich 6,512 ❌
John McRae Eddie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation New Westminster (BC) 6,496 ✅
Desmond Fife Kidd Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 6,453 ❌
William James Dennison Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,378 ❌
Robert Martin Strachan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cowichan-Newcastle 6,261 ✅
Daniel Robert John Campbell Social Credit Comox 6,100 ✅
Geoffrey Innes Edgelow British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,083 ❌
Frederick Charles Wood Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Comox 6,072 ❌
Harold Appleton British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 5,906 ❌
Joseph Charles Bryant British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 5,828 ❌
Kenneth Redmond Vaughan Lyon British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 5,744 ❌
Francis Joseph Kearney British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 5,715 ❌
Donald Leslie Brothers Social Credit Rossland-Trail 5,562 ✅
Forrest Linden Shaw British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 5,464 ❌
Ray Gillis Williston Social Credit Fort George 5,066 ✅
Stanley Desmond Kermeen Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 5,041 ❌
Anthony John Gargrave Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Mackenzie (BC) 4,952 ✅
Francis Xavier Richter Social Credit Similkameen 4,797 ✅
Philip Arthur Gaglardi Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 4,777 ✅
Earle Cathers Westwood Social Credit Nanaimo and the Islands 4,599 ✅
May Campbell Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 4,598 ❌
Alan Brock Macfarlane British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay (BC) 4,558 ✅
Lorne Hugh Shantz Social Credit North Okanagan 4,553 ✅
Colin Cameron Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nanaimo and the Islands 4,548 ❌
Neil John McGregor Hindle Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 4,516 ❌
Walter Raymond Thompson British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 4,512 ❌
Wesley Drewett Black Social Credit Nelson-Creston 4,501 ✅
Frank W Greive British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 4,451 ❌
Herbert Joseph Bruch Social Credit Esquimalt 4,429 ✅
Rhoda Erickson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 4,262 ❌
Leslie Malcolm Walker Tetlock Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Chilliwack 4,123 ❌
Stanley John Squire Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Alberni 4,093 ✅
Mary Helen Poaps Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 4,029 ❌
George Murdoch Social Credit Oak Bay (BC) 3,780 ❌
Charles Jordan-Knox British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 3,726 ❌
Henry Greer Castillou British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 3,724 ❌
Geoffrey Harris Mitchell Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Esquimalt 3,383 ❌
Douglas Deane Finlayson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver (BC) 3,260 ❌
Vincent Hartley Bracewell Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 3,167 ❌
Frank Wilson British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 3,163 ❌
Francis Douglas Stuart Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Similkameen 3,151 ❌
Stanley Carnell Social Credit South Peace River 3,133 ✅
William Collins Speare Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 3,091 ✅
Hazal Viola Fee Social Credit Cowichan-Newcastle 3,033 ❌
Isabella B Pothecary Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Okanagan 3,028 ❌
Eric Frederick Duncan Social Credit Alberni 2,966 ❌
Walter Ratzlaff Co-operative Commonwealth Federation South Okanagan 2,902 ❌
Ronald Edmund Green Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kamloops (BC) 2,828 ❌
Leo Thomas Nimsick Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cranbrook 2,786 ✅
William Wallace Baikie British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 2,759 ❌
John Alexander McNevin Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nelson-Creston 2,664 ❌
David A Sturdy Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 2,611 ❌
Kenneth William Gaylor Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Rossland-Trail 2,536 ❌
Samuel Thomas Dare British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 2,519 ❌
Robert Reid Maitland Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver (BC) 2,397 ❌
Dudley George Little Social Credit Skeena (BC) 2,379 ✅
William Harvey Murray Social Credit Prince Rupert 2,367 ✅
William Kenneth Rutherford Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fort George 2,336 ❌
George Francis Crowe Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 2,280 ❌
Charles A P Murison Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 2,236 ❌
George Wilfred Whittaker British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 2,165 ❌
Dalton O Jones Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 2,159 ❌
Angus Macphee Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Prince Rupert 2,139 ❌
Monty Alton Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Skeena (BC) 2,137 ❌
Felix Rudolf Kohnke British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 2,073 ❌
Francis William McCloskey British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 2,058 ❌
Michael Eugene Krause British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 2,034 ❌
Gordon Lionel Gibson Independent Delta 2,010 ❌
Willis Franklin Jefcoat Social Credit Salmon Arm 1,979 ✅
Clive D Campbell Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 1,959 ❌
Harry F Thomas Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 1,904 ❌
Stanley Doubleday Crowe Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cariboo (BC) 1,842 ❌
John A Davis British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 1,817 ❌
Victor Ernest Virgin Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Saanich 1,782 ❌
Douglas Sadler Social Credit Cranbrook 1,700 ❌
Donald Frederick Robinson Social Credit Lillooet 1,695 ✅
Frederick Craig Munroe Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia New Westminster (BC) 1,691 ❌
Kenneth Carr Haines Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Salmon Arm 1,667 ❌
Jacob Francis Huhn Social Credit North Peace River 1,651 ✅
Cyril Morley Shelford Social Credit Omineca 1,633 ✅
Theodore H Cressy Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 1,543 ❌
Jack Glennie British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 1,475 ❌
Johannes Joseph Winkelaar British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 1,454 ❌
Thomas Palmer Wilson British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 1,437 ❌
Patrick Lockhart Reid Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,421 ❌
George Hobbs Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Revelstoke 1,417 ✅
Holger Enemark British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,416 ❌
Lawrence Smith Eckardt Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,411 ❌
Peter John Millward Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Kamloops (BC) 1,374 ❌
John Close Co-operative Commonwealth Federation South Peace River 1,339 ❌
John Kendrick Macey Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Lillooet 1,331 ❌
John Alexander McKenzie British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 1,305 ❌
Randolph Harding Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kaslo-Slocan 1,298 ✅
Herbert Stuart Harrison Smith Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia South Okanagan 1,256 ❌
Josepth M Barre British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 1,238 ❌
Robert Bain Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson-Creston 1,222 ❌
James Arthur George Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Oak Bay (BC) 1,212 ❌
John Joseph Kerrone Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cowichan-Newcastle 1,206 ❌
Douglas Grant Burton Taylor Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Chilliwack 1,173 ❌
Henry Cartmell McKay British Columbia Liberal Party Fernie 1,126 ✅
Ivan Everett Holmes Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Omineca 1,119 ❌
Lois Mabel Haggen Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Grand Forks-Greenwood 1,115 ✅
Richard Orr Newton Social Credit Columbia 1,115 ✅
Irvine Finlay Corbett Social Credit Yale (BC) 1,103 ✅
John M Kosty Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Okanagan 1,098 ❌
Arthur Bruce Brown British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,087 ❌
Norman Gareth Dent Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver East (BC) 1,080 ❌
Florence B Zucco Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby (BC) 1,075 ❌
Evan Donald MacDougall Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Yale (BC) 1,074 ❌
Malcolm Fitzgerald Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby (BC) 1,069 ❌
Hugh Basil Heath British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo and the Islands 1,036 ❌
Madeline Barbara Dent Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver East (BC) 999 ❌
James F Bryant Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Esquimalt 991 ❌
John Allan Collett British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 964 ❌
John William Belesaigne Baker British Columbia Liberal Party North Peace River 958 ❌
Arvid Waldemar Lundell Social Credit Revelstoke 945 ❌
Frank Joseph Butala Social Credit Fernie 927 ❌
Cyril Clyde Keyes British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 923 ❌
Lloyd Phillips Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fernie 864 ❌
William Donald Stickney British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 848 ❌
Winnifred Odetta Mathias Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Similkameen 840 ❌
James Ross Gulloch Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Dewdney 803 ❌
Robert Beverly Harris Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Columbia 775 ❌
John Gordon Curtis Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Peace River 769 ❌
Joseph Clinton Armstrong Social Credit Grand Forks-Greenwood 752 ❌
Henry Edgar Parkyn Social Credit Kaslo-Slocan 733 ❌
Ernest Gordon Taylor Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Nelson-Creston 730 ❌
Nigel Morgan Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 718 ❌
Francis Harris Mitchell Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Oak Bay (BC) 701 ❌
Alan Gray Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Comox 653 ❌
Torquil MacLeod Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Salmon Arm 613 ❌
John Wilberforce Loader Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Rossland-Trail 608 ❌
Edward Drewry Strongitharm Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Nanaimo and the Islands 607 ❌
John Phillips Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 598 ❌
Herbert Alexander Blakley British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 593 ❌
Walter Hardman British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke 585 ❌
Frank Martin British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 564 ❌
Celian Orvin Tingley Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cariboo (BC) 552 ❌
Marguerite Clarice Deeder British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 529 ❌
Ronald George Lyon Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Alberni 514 ❌
Homer John Stevens Communist Party of Canada Delta 505 ❌
Peter Runkle Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia South Peace River 500 ❌
David Angus Moon Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Mackenzie (BC) 487 ❌
Donald Edmund Nunn British Columbia Liberal Party Salmon Arm 481 ❌
Frank Arthur Calder Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Atlin 444 ✅
Maurice Rush Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 420 ❌
Guy Ronald Williams Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Skeena (BC) 411 ❌
Harold James Pritchett Communist Party of Canada Burnaby (BC) 409 ❌
George Lakusta Communist Party of Canada Delta 408 ❌
Joseph William Lauder Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Yale (BC) 390 ❌
Sonia Rutka Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 380 ❌
John Anthony Coates Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Fort George 346 ❌
Willie Harvey Webber Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cranbrook 345 ❌
Lionel Frank Edwards Communist Party of Canada Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 339 ❌
George M Behrner Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Lillooet 336 ❌
Thomas Melville Leask British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo-Slocan 303 ❌
Joseph H Lowes British Columbia Liberal Party South Peace River 303 ❌
Karl Peter Frederiksen Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Omineca 278 ❌
Roy Alexander Samuelson Communist Party of Canada Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 271 ❌
William James Asselstine Social Credit Atlin 267 ❌
Hamilton Sanders McFadden Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Revelstoke 265 ❌
John Verdner Humphries Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Kaslo-Slocan 244 ❌
William Angus Stewart Communist Party of Canada North Vancouver (BC) 242 ❌
Carl Christian Hilland Communist Party of Canada Dewdney 233 ❌
Norman Baker Independent Delta 220 ❌
Mark Fulmore Mosher Communist Party of Canada Alberni 207 ❌
John Higgin Communist Party of Canada Comox 207 ❌
Yasushi Sugimoto Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Grand Forks-Greenwood 202 ❌
Horace L G Kelly Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Prince Rupert 199 ❌
Francis J Ramage Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Fernie 191 ❌
Gregory Bruce Yorke Communist Party of Canada North Vancouver (BC) 191 ❌
Hjalmar Peter Bergren Communist Party of Canada Cowichan-Newcastle 170 ❌
Albert Dunn Independent Vancouver East (BC) 159 ❌
Gordon Truls Rad Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Columbia 150 ❌
Albert James Warrington Communist Party of Canada Rossland-Trail 141 ❌
Charles Jewell Brown Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Atlin 122 ❌
Wilbert Daniel Bowes Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Peace River 114 ❌
Nicholas Klim Communist Party of Canada North Okanagan 91 ❌
Irving Simpson Finkleman Independent Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 87 ❌
Robert Lyle Angus Independent North Peace River 81 ❌
Ernest Leon Knott Communist Party of Canada Saanich 73 ❌
Irving Floyd Mortenson Communist Party of Canada Nanaimo and the Islands 72 ❌

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