November 25 1909 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1909-11-25
Writ Date 1909-10-20
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 0
Invalid Votes 0
Total Electors 73,606
Turnout Rate 138
Valid Ballots 101,415
Valid Votes 101,415

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

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 42 38 90.48% 52.33%
British Columbia Liberal Party 36 2 4.76% 33.21%
Canadian Labour Party of British Columbia 1 0 0.00% 0.16%
Independent 3 0 0.00% 2.59%
Independent Conservative 1 0 0.00% 0.15%
Independent Labour 1 0 0.00% 0.06%
Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) 20 2 4.76% 11.50%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
William John Bowser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,441 ✅
Henry Holgate Watson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,202 ✅
Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,190 ✅
Charles Edward Tisdall British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,051 ✅
George Albert McGuire British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 4,826 ✅
John Harold Senkler British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 4,110 ❌
George Ernest MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 3,984 ❌
Frederick Coate Wade British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 3,942 ❌
James Stables British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 3,356 ❌
John Bell Campbell British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 3,227 ❌
Richard McBride British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,856 ✅
Frederick Davey British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,503 ✅
Henry Frederick William Behnsen British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,497 ✅
Henry Broughton Thomson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,465 ✅
Alfred James Morley Independent Victoria City (BC) 2,218 ❌
John Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 2,216 ❌
Robert Low Drury British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 2,031 ❌
Eugene Thornton Kingsley Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,883 ❌
William Kyle Houston British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 1,875 ❌
Price Ellison British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Okanagan 1,538 ✅
Richard Parmenter Pettipiece Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,428 ❌
William Murray MacKenzie Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,231 ❌
Peter Garvie Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,227 ❌
Moses McGregor Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,218 ❌
Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Richmond (BC) 918 ✅
Thomas Gifford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 New Westminster City 881 ✅
James Pearson Shaw British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kamloops (BC) 872 ✅
William Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Skeena (BC) 822 ✅
William Roderick Ross British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fernie 795 ✅
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Nanaimo City 786 ✅
Francis James Anderson MacKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Delta 765 ✅
Thomas Donald Caven British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cranbrook 761 ✅
Thomas Taylor British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Revelstoke 758 ✅
Francis Richard Edwin DeHart British Columbia Liberal Party Okanagan 741 ❌
James Hargrave Schofield British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Ymir 699 ✅
John Wallace deBeque Farris British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 667 ❌
George Oliver Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Victoria City (BC) 659 ❌
John David Harrington Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Fernie 649 ❌
William J Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Dewdney 625 ✅
John Joseph Johnson British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster City 617 ❌
Samuel Arthur Cawley British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Chilliwack 604 ✅
Harry Wright British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nelson City 565 ✅
John Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 551 ❌
Ernest Miller British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Grand Forks 516 ✅
Charles William Munro British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 513 ❌
Malcolm Archibald Macdonald British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 501 ❌
Henry Maxwell Vasey British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 482 ❌
Albert Edward Planta British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nanaimo City 464 ❌
Richard McBride British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Yale (BC) 455 ✅
Michael Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Comox 451 ✅
Lytton Wilmot Shatford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Similkameen 440 ✅
John Jardine British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 436 ✅
David McEwen Eberts British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Saanich 412 ✅
Alexander Ingram Fisher British Columbia Liberal Party Fernie 405 ❌
Parker Williams Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Newcastle 379 ✅
William Thomas Kergin British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 377 ❌
Alexander M Oliver Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Ymir 366 ❌
William Henry Hayward British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cowichan 365 ✅
Henry Dallas Helmcken British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Esquimalt 362 ❌
Charles Frederick Lindmark Independent Revelstoke 340 ❌
John McInnis Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Grand Forks 334 ❌
Edward Albert Crease British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson City 323 ❌
William Hunter British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Slocan 309 ✅
Thomas Brydon British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 303 ❌
Alister Thompson British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 302 ❌
Harlan Carey Brewster British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 293 ✅
Neil Franklin MacKay British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kaslo 293 ✅
John Stewart British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Newcastle 274 ❌
Michael Callanan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 273 ✅
Albert Edward McPhillips British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 The Islands 270 ✅
John Anderson Fraser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 267 ✅
Stuart Alexander Henderson British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 265 ❌
Henry George Parson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Columbia 262 ✅
John Robert Jackson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Greenwood 260 ✅
Arthur David Morgan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Alberni 256 ❌
John Andrew Buckham British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 245 ❌
William Robert Braden British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Rossland City 237 ✅
John M English British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland City 217 ❌
Percy Purvis British Columbia Liberal Party The Islands 207 ❌
James Cartwright Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Comox 206 ❌
Richard Elmhirst British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 205 ❌
George Heatherton Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Greenwood 204 ❌
James Foulds Johnson Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Okanagan 188 ❌
John Newell Evans British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan 175 ❌
James McKelvey Forrest British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 172 ❌
John William Bennett Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Slocan 172 ❌
Archibald McDonald British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Lillooet 167 ✅
Walter Dodd Canadian Labour Party of British Columbia New Westminster City 165 ❌
Thomas Y McKay Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Skeena (BC) 163 ❌
George Bernard Casey Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Rossland City 160 ❌
Harry Jones British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 159 ❌
John Mackay Yorston British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 158 ❌
William Duncan Independent Conservative Comox 154 ❌
Alexander MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party Greenwood 154 ❌
Daniel Patterson British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks 150 ❌
John Henry Matheson Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Nelson City 148 ❌
John William Fitch Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Cranbrook 143 ❌
John Keen British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo 134 ❌
Henry Kempster Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Revelstoke 121 ❌
Mark Robert Eagleson British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 117 ❌
Henry Eson Young British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Atlin 107 ✅
David James Thomas Independent Newcastle 67 ❌
John Irving British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 65 ❌
Joseph Colebrook Harris Independent Labour Slocan 57 ❌

Districts

Alberni
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 28 elections (1890–1996)

Harlan Carey Brewster · British Columbia Liberal Party

293 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Henry Eson Young · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

107 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

John Anderson Fraser · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

267 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

Samuel Arthur Cawley · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

604 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Michael Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

451 votes
Cranbrook
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas Donald Caven · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

761 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Francis James Anderson MacKenzie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

765 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

William J Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

625 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

John Jardine · British Columbia Liberal Party

436 votes
Fernie
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

William Roderick Ross · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

795 votes
Grand Forks
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Ernest Miller · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

516 votes
Greenwood
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

John Robert Jackson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

260 votes
The Islands
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1890–1937)

Albert Edward McPhillips · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

270 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

James Pearson Shaw · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

872 votes
Kaslo
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Neil Franklin MacKay · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

293 votes
Lillooet
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Archibald McDonald · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

167 votes
Nanaimo City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 8 elections (1890–1912)

James Hurst Hawthornthwaite · Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia)

786 votes
Nelson City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1903–1912)

Harry Wright · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

565 votes
New Westminster City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1871–1912)

Thomas Gifford · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

881 votes
Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Parker Williams · Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia)

379 votes
Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1903–1912)

Price Ellison · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,538 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

918 votes
Saanich
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

David McEwen Eberts · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

412 votes
Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Lytton Wilmot Shatford · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

440 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

William Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

822 votes
Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

William Hunter · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

309 votes
Vancouver City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1890–1928)

Henry Holgate Watson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

5,202 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

Henry Broughton Thomson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,465 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Richard McBride · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

455 votes
Ymir
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1903–1912)

James Hargrave Schofield · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

699 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

Henry George Parson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

262 votes
Cowichan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1871–1920)

William Henry Hayward · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

365 votes
Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas Taylor · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

758 votes
Rossland City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1903–1912)

William Robert Braden · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

237 votes

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