October 21 1941 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1941-10-21
Writ Date 1941-09-09
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 4,735
Invalid Votes 2,874
Total Electors 417,607
Turnout Rate 72
Valid Ballots 299,104
Valid Votes 453,893

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.
  • Note: "Extra-provincial active service electors in Canada voted on 14-16 October 1941 and in Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 9-11 October 1941." (Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986, p. 199)

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 43 12 25.00% 30.91%
British Columbia Liberal Party 48 21 43.75% 32.94%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 45 14 29.17% 33.36%
Emancipation Party 1 0 0.00% 0.06%
Independent 4 0 0.00% 0.36%
Independent Farmer 1 0 0.00% 0.09%
Independent Labour 2 0 0.00% 0.86%
Independent Socialist 1 0 0.00% 0.01%
Labour Party 4 1 2.08% 0.66%
Official Conservative 1 0 0.00% 0.48%
Religious Political Brotherhood 1 0 0.00% 0.02%
Socialist Labour Party 4 0 0.00% 0.21%
Victory Without Debt Party 1 0 0.00% 0.05%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Royal Lethington Maitland British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver-Point Grey 14,668 ✅
James Alexander Paton British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver-Point Grey 14,148 ✅
Tilly Jean Rolston British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver-Point Grey 13,584 ✅
Harold Edward Winch Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver East (BC) 13,571 ✅
George Moir Weir British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 11,073 ❌
Arthur James Turner Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver East (BC) 9,757 ✅
Charles Grant MacNeil Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,596 ✅
Mary Louise Bollert British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 9,470 ❌
Winona Grace MacInnis Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,402 ✅
Harold Elsdale Molson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 8,503 ❌
Donald Cameron Brown British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 8,283 ❌
George Clark Miller British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 8,281 ❌
Helena Rose Gutteridge Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 8,183 ❌
William Ewart Turner Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 7,662 ❌
Albert Dawson Gordon Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 7,603 ❌
John Howard Forester British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 7,505 ❌
Laura Emma Mashall Jamieson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,434 ✅
Wallis Walter Lefeaux Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,371 ✅
Helen Douglas Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 7,276 ❌
Gordon Sylvester Wismer British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,865 ❌
Edward Allan Jamieson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,858 ❌
John Hart British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,637 ✅
Ernest Edward Winch Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Burnaby (BC) 6,444 ✅
Montague Gregory Caple British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,325 ❌
William Thomas Straith British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,280 ✅
Albert DeBurdo McPhillips British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,198 ❌
Nancy Hodges British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 5,854 ✅
Joseph Douglas Hunter British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 5,220 ❌
Leonard Alec Shepherd Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Delta 5,153 ✅
John Henderson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 4,938 ❌
Duncan Douglas McTavish British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 4,657 ❌
Theodore Roosvelt Burnett British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 4,557 ❌
Dorothy Gretchen Steeves Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Vancouver (BC) 4,209 ✅
Waldo McTavish Skillings British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 4,150 ❌
William Wilfred Derpak British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver East (BC) 3,770 ❌
Aubrey Charles Peck British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby (BC) 3,762 ❌
Arthur Wellesley Gray British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 3,694 ✅
James Lyle Telford Independent Labour Vancouver East (BC) 3,665 ❌
Herbert Wilfred Herridge Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Rossland-Trail 3,621 ✅
George Wilkinson Hubbard British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver East (BC) 3,562 ❌
Arthur Laing British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 3,554 ❌
Alexander Campbell Hope British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Delta 3,478 ❌
Clare Nulalinda McAllister Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 3,380 ❌
William Baxter Caird Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 3,358 ❌
Colin Cameron Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Comox 3,126 ✅
Norman William Whittaker British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 3,017 ✅
Harold Oscar Simpson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 2,998 ❌
Roderick Charles MacDonald British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Dewdney 2,995 ✅
Francis Austin Walker British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 2,945 ❌
Macgregor Fullarton Macintosh British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Saanich 2,939 ❌
Herbert Gargrave Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Mackenzie (BC) 2,909 ✅
Samuel Guthrie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cowichan-Newcastle 2,757 ✅
Charles Clare Bell British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Burnaby (BC) 2,707 ❌
Leslie Harvey Eyres British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Chilliwack 2,704 ✅
Herbert Anscomb British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Oak Bay (BC) 2,676 ✅
Frederick Alexander Menzies British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 2,644 ❌
Bernard George Webber Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Similkameen 2,601 ✅
Thomas Greer MacKenzie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Dewdney 2,539 ❌
David William Strachan British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 2,532 ❌
Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 2,508 ✅
Stanley Blake Co-operative Commonwealth Federation New Westminster (BC) 2,387 ❌
Martin Anton Neilson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Saanich 2,385 ❌
Gordon Lindsay British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Okanagan 2,320 ❌
George Sharratt Pearson British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo and the Islands 2,175 ✅
Alfred Hugh Bayne Official Conservative North Vancouver (BC) 2,161 ❌
William Edward Mantle British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 2,158 ❌
Frank Putnam British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson-Creston 2,144 ✅
Martin Cathcart Donaldson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nelson-Creston 2,140 ❌
Frank Frisby Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nelson-Creston 2,124 ❌
Manfred McGeer British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 2,079 ❌
James Mowat British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 2,067 ✅
William Andrew Cecil Bennett British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Okanagan 2,009 ✅
Charles Herbert Percy Tupper British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 1,965 ❌
Robert Henry Carson British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 1,933 ✅
Mary Dorothea McBride British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 New Westminster (BC) 1,923 ❌
Charles Jospeh Michell Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Alberni 1,903 ❌
Charles Frederick Daly British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Rossland-Trail 1,883 ❌
Eric Symonds Flowerdew Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Chilliwack 1,810 ❌
Richard Ronald Burns British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 1,789 ❌
Cecil Robert Bull British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 1,769 ❌
Thomas F Daly British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Similkameen 1,753 ❌
Arnold Christmas Flett British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan-Newcastle 1,739 ❌
Thomas Aubert Uphill Labour Party Fernie 1,719 ✅
Charles Edward Scanlan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kamloops (BC) 1,712 ❌
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,681 ✅
Edward Roger Richardson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Comox 1,615 ❌
Frank William Green British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cranbrook 1,615 ✅
Thomas O'Connor Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nanaimo and the Islands 1,615 ❌
George William Weaver Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Prince Rupert 1,563 ❌
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Salmon Arm 1,561 ✅
Elmer Victor Finland British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Esquimalt 1,554 ✅
Felicia Snowsell Co-operative Commonwealth Federation South Okanagan 1,552 ❌
Oscar Albin Eliason Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cranbrook 1,548 ❌
Everett Stanley Farr British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay (BC) 1,520 ❌
Glen Everton Braden British Columbia Liberal Party Peace River (BC) 1,436 ✅
Louis LeBourdais British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 1,429 ✅
Arnold Joseph McGrath British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 1,405 ❌
George Alexander Young British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Mackenzie (BC) 1,370 ❌
Charles Taschereau Beard British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 1,348 ❌
Edmund William Neel British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cowichan-Newcastle 1,343 ❌
Henry George Thomas Perry British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,334 ✅
Harry Wilfred Colgan British Columbia Liberal Party Fernie 1,214 ❌
Victor Birch Harrison British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nanaimo and the Islands 1,208 ❌
John Joseph Alban Gillis British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 1,148 ✅
Nathaniel Nye British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kamloops (BC) 1,138 ❌
Gordon Daniel Herbert Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Okanagan 1,071 ❌
Harry Johnston British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke 1,065 ✅
Joshua Hinchliffe British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Vancouver (BC) 1,056 ❌
Ernest Crawford Carson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Lillooet 1,017 ✅
Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Peace River (BC) 983 ❌
Andrew Henry Jukes Independent Victoria City (BC) 963 ❌
Henry George Webber Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Esquimalt 943 ❌
Charles Sidney Leary British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo-Slocan 941 ✅
James Penberthy Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fort George 928 ❌
Edward Tourtellote Kenney British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 877 ✅
Edward Charles Mills Labour Party New Westminster (BC) 845 ❌
Harry Grenfell Archibald Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Lillooet 841 ❌
Mark Matthew Connelly British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 839 ✅
George Matheson Murray British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 791 ❌
Arthur Ewart Jukes British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kaslo-Slocan 754 ❌
Francis James McKenzie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Revelstoke 678 ❌
Thomas King British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 648 ✅
Thomas Alfred Love British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Grand Forks-Greenwood 642 ✅
Ezra Churchill Henniger British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 637 ❌
Alexander Rennie Ross Craig British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Yale (BC) 616 ❌
Geoffrey LeGallais Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Oak Bay (BC) 593 ❌
John William Tordoff Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Salmon Arm 563 ❌
William David Menzies Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Omineca 554 ❌
William John O'Neill British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Skeena (BC) 540 ❌
Hugh Earl Nelson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kaslo-Slocan 536 ❌
James Herbert Matthews Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Columbia 487 ❌
Arthur Fancett Barton British Columbia Liberal Party Salmon Arm 468 ❌
William James Asselstine British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 454 ✅
William James Johnson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Revelstoke 427 ❌
Christy McDevitt British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 421 ❌
Truman Charles Docherty Independent Cariboo (BC) 404 ❌
Eric Thomas Reaville Socialist Labour Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 393 ❌
Thomas Jamieson Independent Farmer Peace River (BC) 388 ❌
Leonard G Gaddes British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Columbia 384 ❌
John Scott Labour Party Atlin 374 ❌
Alan Conway Clapp Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Grand Forks-Greenwood 365 ❌
Alexander McBain Young British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fort George 346 ❌
Richmond Charles Biss Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cariboo (BC) 338 ❌
Albert Kenzie Hemstreet British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Omineca 302 ❌
James Lancaster Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fernie 287 ❌
Robert Gordon McQuillan Socialist Labour Party Vancouver East (BC) 271 ❌
John Alexander Fedoruk Socialist Labour Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 267 ❌
Catherine Emily Ling Emancipation Party Vancouver-Point Grey 265 ❌
John Hargreaves Independent Cariboo (BC) 257 ❌
Alex Harvey Rowan Independent Labour Alberni 234 ❌
George Henry Broughton Victory Without Debt Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 209 ❌
Archibald Emmanuel Hardy Religious Political Brotherhood Burnaby (BC) 105 ❌
James Whitham Independent Socialist North Vancouver (BC) 56 ❌
Antonio Joseph Vetere Labour Party Rossland-Trail 37 ❌
John Marshall Socialist Labour Party Kamloops (BC) 19 ❌
Walter Unett Homfray Independent Kamloops (BC) 14 ❌

Districts

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

James Mowat · British Columbia Liberal Party

2,067 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

William James Asselstine · British Columbia Liberal Party

454 votes
Burnaby (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Ernest Edward Winch · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

6,444 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Louis LeBourdais · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,429 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

Leslie Harvey Eyres · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,704 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas King · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Colin Cameron · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

3,126 votes
Cowichan-Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Samuel Guthrie · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

2,757 votes
Cranbrook
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Frank William Green · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,615 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Leonard Alec Shepherd · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

5,153 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Roderick Charles MacDonald · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,995 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Elmer Victor Finland · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,554 votes
Fernie
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas Aubert Uphill · Labour Party

1,719 votes
Fort George
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1916–1975)

Henry George Thomas Perry · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,334 votes
Grand Forks-Greenwood
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Thomas Alfred Love · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Robert Henry Carson · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,933 votes
Kaslo-Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Charles Sidney Leary · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Ernest Crawford Carson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,017 votes
Mackenzie (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1924–1986)

Herbert Gargrave · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

2,909 votes
Nelson-Creston
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1933–2020)

Frank Putnam · British Columbia Liberal Party

2,144 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

Arthur Wellesley Gray · British Columbia Liberal Party

3,694 votes
North Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1916–1986)

Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald · British Columbia Liberal Party

2,508 votes
North Vancouver (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1916–1963)

Dorothy Gretchen Steeves · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

4,209 votes
Oak Bay (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1941–1975)

Herbert Anscomb · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,676 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Mark Matthew Connelly · British Columbia Liberal Party

839 votes
Peace River (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1933–1953)

Glen Everton Braden · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,436 votes
Prince Rupert
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,681 votes
Rossland-Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1924–1996)

Herbert Wilfred Herridge · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

3,621 votes
Saanich
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Norman William Whittaker · British Columbia Liberal Party

3,017 votes
Salmon Arm
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Rolf Wallgren Bruhn · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,561 votes
Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Bernard George Webber · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

2,601 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

Edward Tourtellote Kenney · British Columbia Liberal Party

877 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

William Andrew Cecil Bennett · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,009 votes
Vancouver Centre (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Wallis Walter Lefeaux · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

7,371 votes
Vancouver East (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Harold Edward Winch · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

13,571 votes
Vancouver-Burrard (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1933–2005)

Charles Grant MacNeil · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

9,596 votes
Vancouver-Point Grey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 26 elections (1933–2024)

Tilly Jean Rolston · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

13,584 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

William Thomas Straith · British Columbia Liberal Party

6,280 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

John Joseph Alban Gillis · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,148 votes
Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

Harry Johnston · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,065 votes
Nanaimo and the Islands
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 8 elections (1941–1963)

George Sharratt Pearson · British Columbia Liberal Party

2,175 votes

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