July 07 1894 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1894-07-07
Writ Date	1894-06-02

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

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	23,368
Turnout Rate	133
Valid Ballots	31,085
Valid Votes	31,085

Notes

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 %
Government	36	21	63.64%	56.78%
Independent	2	0	0.00%	0.81%
Labour Party	3	0	0.00%	2.16%
Opposition	23	12	36.36%	40.25%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
Robert	Paterson Rithet	Government	Victoria City (BC)	2,504	✅
John	Herbert Turner	Government	Victoria City (BC)	2,361	✅
Henry	Dallas Helmcken	Government	Victoria City (BC)	2,286	✅
John	Braden	Government	Victoria City (BC)	2,160	✅
Adolphus	Williams	Opposition	Vancouver City	1,911	✅
Robert	MacPherson	Opposition	Vancouver City	1,766	✅
Francis	Lovett Carter-Cotton	Opposition	Vancouver City	1,736	✅
Robert	Garnett Tatlow	Government	Vancouver City	979	❌
Robert	Alexander Anderson	Government	Vancouver City	920	❌
George	Lawson Milne	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	828	❌
Robert	Beaven	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	793	❌
William	George Cameron	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	664	❌
Arthur	Howard Dutton	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	661	❌
Edward	Odlum	Government	Vancouver City	607	❌
James	Buckham Kennedy	Opposition	New Westminster City	594	✅
David	Samuel Curtis	Government	New Westminster City	574	❌
Thomas	William Forster	Opposition	Westminister-Delta Riding	545	✅
James	McGregor	Government	Nanaimo City	431	✅
Donald	Graham	Opposition	Yale-East Riding	417	✅
Thomas	Keith	Labour Party	Nanaimo City	411	❌
John	Bryden	Government	North Nanaimo	411	✅
Forbes	George Vernon	Government	Yale-East Riding	404	❌
John	Frederick Hume	Opposition	West Kootenay-South Riding	401	✅
Thomas	Kidd	Opposition	Westminister-Richmond Riding	368	✅
Colin	Buchanan Sword	Opposition	Westminister-Dewdney Riding	327	✅
Thomas	Edwin Kitchen	Opposition	Westminister-Chilliwhack Riding	325	✅
James	Punch	Government	Westminister-Delta Riding	317	❌
George	Bohun Martin	Government	Yale-North Riding	312	✅
Samuel	Arthur Cawley	Government	Westminister-Chilliwhack Riding	303	❌
Charles	Stanford Douglas	Government	Westminister-Richmond Riding	290	❌
David	McEwen Eberts	Government	South Victoria	274	✅
George	Buchanan	Government	West Kootenay-South Riding	258	❌
James	A Baker	Government	East Kooteney	250	✅
Joseph	Hunter	Government	Comox	239	✅
Hugh	McCutcheon	Opposition	Yale-North Riding	227	❌
John	Matthew Lefevre	Government	Westminister-Dewdney Riding	224	❌
James	M Kellie	Government	West Kootenay-North Riding	217	✅
Samuel	Greer	Independent	Vancouver City	208	❌
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Opposition	Yale-West Riding	198	✅
Samuel	Augustus Rogers	Government	Cariboo (BC)	167	✅
Nicolai	Christian Schou	Opposition	East Kooteney	166	❌
William	Adams	Government	Cariboo (BC)	147	✅
William	Wymond Walkem	Government	South Nanaimo	146	✅
Robert	McLeese	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	142	❌
Ralph	Smith	Labour Party	North Nanaimo	139	❌
Hugh	Watt	Government	Cariboo (BC)	138	❌
John	Paton Booth	Government	North Victoria	136	✅
Percy	Fremlin Scharschmidt	Government	Comox	129	❌
William	M Brown	Opposition	West Kootenay-North Riding	125	❌
James	Wardle	Government	Yale-West Riding	122	❌
Tully	Boyce	Labour Party	South Nanaimo	120	❌
Horatio	John Robertson	Opposition	North Victoria	103	❌
John	Irving	Government	Cassiar	102	✅
Joseph	Westrop Carey	Government	South Victoria	100	❌
John	Charlton Kinchant	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	95	❌
James	Douglas Prentice	Opposition	Lillooet-East Riding	83	✅
David	Alexander Stoddart	Government	Lillooet-East Riding	82	❌
Alfred	Wellington Smith	Government	Lillooet-West Riding	61	✅
William	Dalby	Independent	Cassiar	45	❌
William	H Keatley	Opposition	Lillooet-West Riding	36	❌
Theodore	Davie	Government	Cowichan-Alberni	0	✅
James	Mitchell Mutter	Government	Cowichan-Alberni	0	✅
David	Williams Higgins	Government	Esquimalt	0	✅
Charles	Edward Pooley	Government	Esquimalt	0	✅