March 28 1912 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1912-03-28
Writ Date 1912-02-27
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 0
Invalid Votes 0
Total Electors 79,596
Turnout Rate 106
Valid Ballots 84,529
Valid Votes 84,529

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 39 92.86% 59.65%
British Columbia Liberal Party 19 0 0.00% 25.37%
Independent 2 0 0.00% 1.79%
Independent Conservative 7 1 2.38% 1.38%
Social Democratic Party 1 1 2.38% 0.73%
Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) 17 1 2.38% 11.08%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
George Albert McGuire British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,114 ✅
William John Bowser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,101 ✅
Charles Edward Tisdall British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,085 ✅
Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,061 ✅
Henry Holgate Watson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 4,977 ✅
Ralph Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 3,257 ❌
Richard McBride British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 3,223 ✅
Charles William Enright British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 2,947 ❌
William Maxwell Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 2,744 ❌
William Smith Cameron British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 2,716 ❌
Henry Broughton Thomson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,641 ✅
Joseph Nealon Ellis British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 2,619 ❌
Frederick Davey British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,471 ✅
Henry Frederick William Behnsen British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,392 ✅
Harlan Carey Brewster British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 2,049 ❌
Richard Thomas Elliott British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 1,979 ❌
Price Ellison British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Okanagan 1,388 ✅
John Amos MacDonald Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,263 ❌
John Reid Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,156 ❌
William Bennett Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,134 ❌
Joseph Patrick Lord Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,133 ❌
William Arthur Pritchard Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,081 ❌
William Roderick Ross British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fernie 1,067 ✅
James Hargrave Schofield British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Ymir 1,024 ✅
Thomas Gifford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 New Westminster City 1,004 ✅
William Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Skeena (BC) 940 ✅
James Pearson Shaw British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kamloops (BC) 931 ✅
Samuel Greer Independent Vancouver City 897 ❌
William J Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Dewdney 803 ✅
William Davidson Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Fernie 763 ❌
Francis James Anderson MacKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Delta 748 ✅
Michael Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Comox 694 ✅
Victor Rainsford Midgley Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Victoria City (BC) 663 ❌
John Thomas Wilmot Place Social Democratic Party Nanaimo City 621 ✅
Bernard Joseph Perry Independent Victoria City (BC) 616 ❌
Albert Edward Planta British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nanaimo City 578 ❌
William Ross MacLean British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nelson City 527 ✅
Alexander Lucas British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Yale (BC) 524 ✅
Alexander Malcolm Manson British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 520 ❌
William Henry Hayward British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cowichan 441 ✅
Robert Henry Pooley British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Esquimalt 398 ✅
Raymond Findlay Leighton British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 397 ❌
David McEwen Eberts British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Saanich 392 ✅
Parker Williams Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Newcastle 386 ✅
George KENNEDY British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster City 385 ❌
Henry (Harry) Shepherd British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo City 375 ❌
Roy Branwood Dier British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Newcastle 373 ❌
William Hunter British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Slocan 373 ✅
John Robert Jackson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Greenwood 364 ✅
Wallis Walter Lefeaux Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Comox 355 ❌
Albert Edward McPhillips British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 The Islands 345 ✅
Lorne Argyle Campbell British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Rossland City 336 ✅
John Anderson Fraser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 335 ✅
Michael Callanan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 310 ✅
John Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 308 ❌
George Faulds Stirling Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Okanagan 297 ❌
Harold Ernest Foster Independent Conservative Columbia 282 ✅
John P McConnell British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 279 ❌
William Montgomery Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Skeena (BC) 277 ❌
Henry George Parson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Columbia 263 ❌
Richard Parmenter Pettipiece Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Ymir 261 ❌
Archibald McDonald British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Lillooet 200 ✅
Anthony Shilland Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Slocan 198 ❌
John Higginson McNeice Independent Conservative Dewdney 194 ❌
Harry Wright Independent Conservative Nelson City 188 ❌
Henry Dallas Helmcken Independent Conservative Esquimalt 186 ❌
John Holt British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 182 ❌
Arthur Westbrook Harrod Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Nelson City 177 ❌
William Noble British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 176 ❌
Louis Denison Taylor British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland City 168 ❌
Malcolm Bruce Jackson British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 151 ❌
Percy Winch Independent Conservative The Islands 111 ❌
Alexander Agnew Belford Herd British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan 110 ❌
William Barratt Clayton Independent Conservative Skeena (BC) 106 ❌
George Heatherton Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Greenwood 102 ❌
John Jardine Independent Conservative Esquimalt 96 ❌
George Bernard Casey Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Rossland City 95 ❌
Stuart Alexander Henderson British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 81 ❌
George Oliver Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Esquimalt 25 ❌
John George Corry Wood British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Alberni 0 ✅
Henry Eson Young British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Atlin 0 ✅
Samuel Arthur Cawley British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Chilliwack 0 ✅
Thomas Donald Caven British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cranbrook 0 ✅
Ernest Miller British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Grand Forks 0 ✅
Neil Franklin MacKay British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kaslo 0 ✅
Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Richmond (BC) 0 ✅
Lytton Wilmot Shatford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Similkameen 0 ✅
Thomas Taylor British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Revelstoke 0 ✅

Districts

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

John George Corry Wood · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Henry Eson Young · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

John Anderson Fraser · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Samuel Arthur Cawley · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Michael Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Thomas Donald Caven · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Francis James Anderson MacKenzie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William J Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Robert Henry Pooley · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William Roderick Ross · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,067 votes
Grand Forks
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Ernest Miller · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

John Robert Jackson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Albert Edward McPhillips · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

James Pearson Shaw · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Neil Franklin MacKay · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Archibald McDonald · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

John Thomas Wilmot Place · Social Democratic Party

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

William Ross MacLean · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Thomas Gifford · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,004 votes
Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Parker Williams · Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia)

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

Price Ellison · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,388 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

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

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

David McEwen Eberts · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Lytton Wilmot Shatford · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William Hunter · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Henry Holgate Watson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

4,977 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

Henry Broughton Thomson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,641 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Alexander Lucas · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

James Hargrave Schofield · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,024 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

Harold Ernest Foster · Independent Conservative

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

William Henry Hayward · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Thomas Taylor · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Lorne Argyle Campbell · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

336 votes

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