September 30 1963 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1963-09-30
Writ Date 1963-08-22
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 6,132
Invalid Votes 2,475
Total Electors 873,140
Turnout Rate 69
Valid Ballots 602,530
Valid Votes 967,675

Notes

  • Title: Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986. Prepared by Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library (ISBN 0-7718-8677-2).
  • Citation: Return of writ 16 December, 1963.

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Liberal Party 51 5 9.62% 19.98%
Communist Party of Canada 4 0 0.00% 0.09%
Independent 1 0 0.00% 0.02%
New Democratic Party 52 14 26.92% 27.80%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 44 0 0.00% 11.27%
Social Credit 52 33 63.46% 40.83%
Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) 1 0 0.00% 0.01%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Patrick Lucey McGeer British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 25,592 ✅
Robert William Bonner Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 23,172 ✅
Hunter Bertram Vogel Social Credit Delta 22,504 ✅
Ernest A LeCours Social Credit Delta 22,067 ✅
Ralph Raymond Loffmark Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 20,962 ✅
Alexander Barrett Macdonald New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 20,424 ✅
Arthur James Turner New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 20,292 ✅
Thomas Audley Bate Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 20,267 ❌
Camille Mildred Mather New Democratic Party Delta 18,690 ❌
James Henry Rhodes New Democratic Party Delta 17,661 ❌
William George Rathie British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 17,641 ❌
James Morris Kennedy Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 17,031 ❌
Earl Vance Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 16,867 ❌
Arthur Phillips British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 16,510 ❌
Raymond Joseph Perrault British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 16,153 ✅
Harry Purdy Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 15,719 ❌
Gordon Hudson Dowding New Democratic Party Burnaby (BC) 14,750 ✅
Charles Willoughby MacSorley Social Credit Burnaby (BC) 14,650 ✅
Cedric Cox New Democratic Party Burnaby (BC) 14,409 ❌
Hilliard Harold William Beyerstein Social Credit Burnaby (BC) 14,070 ❌
James Gordon Gibson British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 14,068 ✅
Harold Peter Capozzi Social Credit North Vancouver (BC) 13,215 ❌
Frederick Morton Sharp Social Credit North Vancouver (BC) 11,883 ❌
David Barrett New Democratic Party Dewdney 11,625 ✅
Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 11,181 ✅
John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle Social Credit Saanich 10,657 ✅
Bert Price Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,612 ✅
Richard Egerton Lester Social Credit Dewdney 10,506 ❌
Thomas Rodney Berger New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,345 ❌
William Kenneth Kiernan Social Credit Chilliwack 10,031 ✅
William Neelands Chant Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 9,736 ✅
Waldo McTavish Skillings Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 9,347 ✅
John Donald Smith Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 9,118 ✅
Charles Patrick Neal New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 8,998 ❌
John Kendrick Macey New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 8,663 ❌
William Andrew Cecil Bennett Social Credit South Okanagan 8,485 ✅
Amy Dalgleish New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 8,072 ❌
Leslie Raymond Peterson Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 8,060 ✅
William James Whitney New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 8,018 ❌
Ernest James Broome Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 7,643 ❌
Alexander Small Matthew Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,594 ✅
H Richardson Malkin Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 7,213 ❌
Daniel Robert John Campbell Social Credit Comox 6,598 ✅
Frederick Sidney Williams New Democratic Party Comox 6,238 ❌
John M Norris New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 5,806 ❌
Fred Phillips British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 5,798 ❌
Peter Samuel Faminow New Democratic Party North Vancouver (BC) 5,764 ❌
Philip Arthur Gaglardi Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 5,669 ✅
Ronald William Fairclough British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby (BC) 5,641 ❌
J T Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 5,553 ❌
Frederick Justin Vulliamy New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 5,538 ❌
Donald Leslie Brothers Social Credit Rossland-Trail 5,474 ✅
Edward Marshall Bauder British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby (BC) 5,472 ❌
Robert Martin Strachan New Democratic Party Cowichan-Newcastle 5,422 ✅
Hugh Clifford New Democratic Party North Vancouver (BC) 5,409 ❌
Harry Lewis Huff British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 5,342 ❌
Ray Gillis Williston Social Credit Fort George 5,308 ✅
Nick Mussallem British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 5,291 ❌
Francis Xavier Richter Social Credit Similkameen 5,093 ✅
John McRae Eddie New Democratic Party New Westminster (BC) 5,035 ✅
Herbert Joseph Bruch Social Credit Esquimalt 4,951 ✅
John Windsor New Democratic Party Saanich 4,778 ❌
Edith Maud Corrigan Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 4,717 ❌
Edmund Davie Fulton Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Kamloops (BC) 4,473 ❌
Theodore Kuhn Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 4,461 ❌
Alan Brock Macfarlane British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay (BC) 4,457 ✅
Michael Griffin (BC) British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 4,440 ❌
Elizabeth Forbes British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 4,355 ❌
Anthony John Gargrave New Democratic Party Mackenzie (BC) 4,323 ✅
Bruce Humber British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 4,302 ❌
David Daniel Stupich New Democratic Party Nanaimo and the Islands 4,278 ✅
Earle Cathers Westwood Social Credit Nanaimo and the Islands 4,259 ❌
Stanley John Squire New Democratic Party Alberni 4,249 ✅
George William McLeod Social Credit North Okanagan 4,157 ✅
Wilfred Robert Jack British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 4,051 ❌
Thomas Horan Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 4,049 ❌
Wesley Drewett Black Social Credit Nelson-Creston 4,047 ✅
John Joseph Fedyk British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 3,996 ❌
Isabel Pearl Dawson Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 3,920 ❌
Lloyd Bruce Little British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 3,901 ❌
Charles McGregor Ennals Social Credit Oak Bay (BC) 3,770 ❌
Donald Christopher Morton Social Credit Cowichan-Newcastle 3,576 ❌
John Patrick Nowlan Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver (BC) 3,567 ❌
Alfred W Toone New Democratic Party Victoria City (BC) 3,557 ❌
Eric Frederick Duncan Social Credit Alberni 3,506 ❌
Thomas Warnett Kennedy British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 3,477 ❌
Alexander Forst British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 3,467 ❌
Gerald Coultas Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 3,457 ❌
Stanley Carnell Social Credit South Peace River 3,365 ✅
Henry A L Fanthorpe New Democratic Party Victoria City (BC) 3,324 ❌
David Phillip Reimer New Democratic Party Victoria City (BC) 3,275 ❌
Gordon Lee Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Saanich 3,180 ❌
Leslie Malcolm Walker Tetlock New Democratic Party Chilliwack 3,125 ❌
Ronald Clifton Bray Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver (BC) 3,088 ❌
Ian Hugh Stewart British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 3,049 ❌
William Collins Speare Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 3,015 ✅
Colin Ashdown Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 2,975 ❌
Dudley George Little Social Credit Skeena (BC) 2,963 ✅
Geoffrey Harris Mitchell New Democratic Party Esquimalt 2,806 ❌
Harold G Haggart Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 2,741 ❌
Robert Charles Maddocks New Democratic Party Rossland-Trail 2,646 ❌
Francis Douglas Stuart New Democratic Party Similkameen 2,636 ❌
Arthur L Johnson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 2,588 ❌
Leo Thomas Nimsick New Democratic Party Cranbrook 2,563 ✅
William Charles Gelling Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 2,528 ❌
James Marshall Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia South Okanagan 2,488 ❌
William Harvey Murray Social Credit Prince Rupert 2,357 ✅
Christopher John McKin Thomson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby (BC) 2,343 ❌
George Herbert Barrett British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 2,335 ❌
Jacob Francis Huhn Social Credit North Peace River 2,310 ✅
Gladys Guy Chong Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver East (BC) 2,308 ❌
Theodore H Cressy Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 2,282 ❌
Esmond Sibley Gladwin Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby (BC) 2,263 ❌
William Dronsfield Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver East (BC) 2,260 ❌
John Wilberforce Loader Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 2,253 ❌
John Fife Spencer British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 2,252 ❌
Francis William McCloskey British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 2,147 ❌
Frank F Becker British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 2,076 ❌
Willis Franklin Jefcoat Social Credit Salmon Arm 2,058 ✅
Isabella B Pothecary New Democratic Party North Okanagan 2,008 ❌
Richard Toynbee New Democratic Party Skeena (BC) 1,975 ❌
Sigurd Askevold New Democratic Party Nelson-Creston 1,943 ❌
Cyril Morley Shelford Social Credit Omineca 1,936 ✅
William Toderas New Democratic Party Prince Rupert 1,918 ❌
Harry W Byatt Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Okanagan 1,765 ❌
Oscar Murray Dayton Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Chilliwack 1,757 ❌
Hugh Larratt Henderson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Oak Bay (BC) 1,726 ❌
William Kenneth Rutherford New Democratic Party Fort George 1,725 ❌
Barbara Sydney Bedell New Democratic Party South Okanagan 1,707 ❌
William Leonard Hartley New Democratic Party Yale (BC) 1,697 ✅
Irvine Finlay Corbett Social Credit Yale (BC) 1,691 ❌
Leonard Terrence O'Neill New Democratic Party Salmon Arm 1,645 ❌
Robert Owen Jones Social Credit Cranbrook 1,633 ❌
Richard Hunter Vogel British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson-Creston 1,600 ❌
John Alfred Vernon Cade Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cariboo (BC) 1,551 ❌
Lyn Morrow Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Dewdney 1,532 ❌
William Otis Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cranbrook 1,526 ❌
Stanley Doubleday Crowe New Democratic Party Cariboo (BC) 1,482 ❌
Duncan McIntyre Fraser Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Comox 1,475 ❌
Thomas Stanley Shorthouse Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Nelson-Creston 1,474 ❌
Alan J G McCulloch Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Rossland-Trail 1,470 ❌
Donald Frederick Robinson Social Credit Lillooet 1,425 ✅
Alwyn Day Coleman Washington British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 1,423 ❌
Maurice Charles Simard British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 1,398 ❌
Neil Fergus MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,328 ❌
G Basil Raikes Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia New Westminster (BC) 1,316 ❌
James Roland Chabot Social Credit Columbia 1,305 ✅
Evelyn Annie McElroy Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Similkameen 1,303 ❌
Lance Randle New Democratic Party Kamloops (BC) 1,297 ❌
David Alexander Elrix British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 1,259 ❌
Randolph Harding New Democratic Party Kaslo-Slocan 1,242 ✅
Henry Cartmell McKay British Columbia Liberal Party Fernie 1,226 ✅
Arvid Waldemar Lundell Social Credit Revelstoke 1,176 ✅
John Basil Varcoe British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 1,139 ❌
Felix Rudolf Kohnke British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 1,134 ❌
Clare Skatfeld New Democratic Party Lillooet 1,116 ❌
Robin James Dunsmuir Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Esquimalt 1,099 ❌
Burton Peter Campbell Social Credit Kaslo-Slocan 1,093 ❌
Alvin Walter John Trott Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Columbia 1,092 ❌
Edward John Luckhurst Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Alberni 1,071 ❌
Margaret Frances Hobbs New Democratic Party Revelstoke 1,071 ❌
Ezner De Anna New Democratic Party Fernie 1,037 ❌
James Churchill Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Salmon Arm 1,005 ❌
Henry Greer Castillou British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 977 ❌
Thomas Raymond Cullinane British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 961 ❌
William Ivor Donald British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 961 ❌
Robert Clayton Weir British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo and the Islands 960 ❌
Lois Mabel Haggen New Democratic Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 919 ✅
George Wilfred Whittaker British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan-Newcastle 904 ❌
Cyril Craig Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cowichan-Newcastle 840 ❌
Lloyd James Hoole British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 835 ❌
John Close New Democratic Party South Peace River 825 ❌
Robert Fred Langford New Democratic Party Omineca 779 ❌
Milo Joseph McGarry British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 766 ❌
Dudley Erwin Sawley Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Fort George 739 ❌
Daniel Dominic Geronazzo Social Credit Grand Forks-Greenwood 705 ❌
Thomas William Meagher Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Lillooet 702 ❌
William Arthur McClellan British Columbia Liberal Party South Peace River 700 ❌
Maurice J O'Rourke Social Credit Fernie 679 ❌
Arthur Parsons Dawe British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 642 ❌
Daniel Gilchrist Murray British Columbia Liberal Party North Peace River 603 ❌
John Allan Collett British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 599 ❌
John Willison Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Yale (BC) 584 ❌
Cornelia Petronella Adriana Wildman Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Nanaimo and the Islands 582 ❌
Henry Maxwell Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 580 ❌
Frank Arthur Calder New Democratic Party Atlin 549 ✅
Richard M McCallum British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 528 ❌
Robert Wayne Harrigan New Democratic Party Oak Bay (BC) 469 ❌
Robert Beverly Harris New Democratic Party Columbia 467 ❌
Douglas George Pomeroy New Democratic Party North Peace River 414 ❌
Robert Keenleyside British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 392 ❌
William James Burnett British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke 385 ❌
William James Asselstine Social Credit Atlin 308 ❌
Onni Matt Maja British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo-Slocan 301 ❌
Philip Pickering Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Omineca 271 ❌
Ronald J Forkin Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 266 ❌
Byron O S Johnson British Columbia Liberal Party Salmon Arm 245 ❌
William Evans Stewart Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 240 ❌
Albert Dunn Independent Vancouver East (BC) 215 ❌
Owen Orlando Williams Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Revelstoke 211 ❌
Maurice Rush Communist Party of Canada North Vancouver (BC) 190 ❌
Ernest Leon Knott Communist Party of Canada Victoria City (BC) 153 ❌
Cyril Felix Dopson British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 151 ❌
Donald Walter Williams Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Kaslo-Slocan 120 ❌
John George Jenkins Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Saanich 75 ❌

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