British Columbia general election, 1907

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The British Columbia general election of 1907 was the eleventh general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election called on December 24, 1906, and held on February 2, 1907. The new legislature met for the first time on March 7, 1907.

The governing Conservative party won a second term in government, with almost half the popular vote, and a majority of the seats in the legislature, increasing its number of seats by 4 to 26.

The Liberal Party lost 4 seats in the legislature, despite winning about the same share of the popular vote that it had in the 1903 election.

The Socialist Party won one additional seat to bring its total to three.

1 Results
2 Results by Riding
3 See also
4 Further reading & references

[edit] Results

Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	1903	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Conservative ¹		42	22	26	+18.2%	307,816	48.70%	+2.27%
	Liberal		40	17	13	-23.5%	234,816	37.15%	-0.63%
	Socialist		20	2	3	+50.0%	5,603	8.87%	+0.91%
	Canadian Labour ²		6	1	-	-100%	2,495	3.95%	-3.41%
	Independent Labour³		2	*	-	*	487	0.77%	-
	Independent Socialist		1	*	-	*	211	0.33%	*
	Independent		1	*	-	*	147	0.23%	*
Total			112	42	42	-	632,056	100%
Sources: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

¹ One Conservative candidate, R. McBride, who contested and was elected in both Dewdney and Victoria City, is counted twice.

² Organized in 1906. Not the same as the Canadian Labour Party of B.C. which contested the 1924 election. Sometimes referred to as "Independent Labour Party" by the newspapers which creates some confusion with the situation in Nanaimo City and Newcastle.

³ Although the candidates in Nanaimo City and Newcastle called themselves "Independent Labour" candidates, the Conservative press described them as "Liberal-Labour" candidates. They did have Liberal support in both cases and no Liberals were nominated for either District. They were also repudiated by the Victoria branch of the Canadian Labour Party of BC.

[edit] Results by Riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1907
Government			Opposition
	Member	Riding & party	Riding & party		Member
	Henry Esson Young	Atlin Conservative		Alberni Liberal	Harlan Carey Brewster
	Robert Grant	Comox Conservative		Cariboo Liberal	Harry Jones
	Richard McBride ¹ Premier	Dewdney Conservative		Cariboo Liberal	John MacKay Yorston
	Henry George Parson	Columbia Conservative		Chilliwhack Liberal	Charles William Munro
	William Henry Hayward	Cowichan Conservative		Esquimalt Liberal	John Jardine
	William Roderick Ross	Fernie Conservative		Lillooet Liberal	Mark Robert Eagleson
	Albert Edward McPhillips	The Islands Conservative		Nelson City Liberal	George Arthur Benjamin Hall
	Frederick John Fulton	Kamloops Conservative		Cranbrook Liberal	James Horace King
	Neil Franklin MacKay	Kaslo Conservative		Delta Liberal	John Oliver
	Thomas Gifford	New Westminster City Conservative		Greenwood Liberal	George Ratcliffe Naden
	Price Ellison	Okanagan Conservative		The Islands Liberal	Thomas Wilson Paterson
	Thomas Taylor	Revelstoke Conservative		Skeena Liberal	William Thomas Kergin
	Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton	Richmond Conservative		Yale Liberal	Stuart Alexander Henderson
	David McEwen Eberts	Saanich Conservative		Grand Forks Socialist	John McInnis
	Lytton Wilmot Shatford	Similkameen Conservative		Nanaimo City Socialist	James Hurst Hawthornthwaite
	William Hunter	Slocan Conservative		Newcastle Socialist	Parker Williams
	Charles William John Bowser	Vancouver City Conservative
	James Ford Garden
	Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan
	George Albert McGuire
	Robert Garnet Tatlow
	Henry Frederick William Behnsen	Victoria City Conservative
	Frederick Davey
	Richard McBride ¹ Premier
	Henry Broughton Thomson
	James Hargrave Schofield	Ymir Conservative
	¹ Elected simultaneously in Dewdney and Victoria City.
Source: Elections BC

[edit] See also

[edit] Further reading & references

In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974). Despite its title, a fairly thorough account of the politicians and electoral politics in early BC.