British Columbia general election, 1963
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The British Columbia general election of 1963 was the 27th general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on August 22, 1963, and held on September 30, 1963. The new legislature met for the first time on January 23, 1964.
The conservative Social Credit Party of Premier W.A.C. Bennett was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a fifth term in government. The party increased its share of the popular vote and number of seats in the legislature marginally.
The opposition New Democratic Party (formerly the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) had small losses both in popular vote and number of seats.
The Liberals won about 20% of the popular vote, and one additional seat, for a total of five.
The Progressive Conservative Party won no seats in the legislature increasing its share of the popular vote by four-and-half percentage points to over 11%.
[edit] Results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Social Credit | W.A.C. Bennett | 52 | 32 | 33 | +3.1% | 395,079 | 40.83% | +2.00% | |
| New Democrats | Bob Strachan | 52 | 16 | 14 | -12.5% | 269,004 | 27.80% | -4.93% | |
| Liberal | Ray Perrault | 51 | 4 | 5 | +25.0% | 193,363 | 19.98% | -0.92% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Davie Fulton | 44 | - | - | - | 109,090 | 11.27% | +4.55% | |
| Communist | 4 | - | - | - | 849 | 0.09% | -0.48% | ||
| Independent | 1 | - | - | - | 215 | 0.02% | -0.23% | ||
| Socialist | 1 | * | 0 | * | 75 | 0.01% | * | ||
| Total | 205 | 52 | 52 | - | 967,675 | 100% | |||
| Source: Elections BC | |||||||||
Note:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
[edit] Results by riding
| Results of British Columbia general election, 1960 | |||||||||||||
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| Government | Opposition | ||||||||||||
| Member | Riding & party |
Riding & party |
Member | ||||||||||
| William Collins Speare | Cariboo Social Credit |
Alberni New Democrat |
Stanley John Squire | ||||||||||
| William Kenneth Kiernan | Chilliwack Social Credit |
Atlin New Democrat |
Frank Arthur Calder | ||||||||||
| James Roland Chabot | Columbia Social Credit |
Burnaby New Democrat |
Gordon Hudson Dowding | ||||||||||
| Daniel Robert John Campbell | Comox Social Credit |
Charles Willoughby MacSorley | |||||||||||
| Ernest A. LeCours | Delta Social Credit |
Cowichan-Newcastle New Democrat |
Robert Martin Strachan2 | ||||||||||
| Hunter Bertram Vogel | Cranbrook New Democrat |
Leo Thomas Nimsick | |||||||||||
| Herbert Joseph Bruch | Esquimalt Social Credit |
Dewdney New Democrat |
David Barrett | ||||||||||
| Ray Gillis Williston | Fort George Social Credit |
Grand Forks-Greenwood New Democrat |
Lois Mabel Haggen | ||||||||||
| Philip Arthur Gaglardi |
Kamloops Social Credit |
Kaslo-Slocan New Democrat |
Randolph Harding | ||||||||||
| Donald Frederick Robinson | Lillooet Social Credit |
Mackenzie New Democrat |
Anthony John Gargrave | ||||||||||
| Wesley Drewett Black | Nelson-Creston Social Credit |
Nanaimo and the Islands New Democrat |
David Daniel Stupich | ||||||||||
| George William McLeod | North Okanagan Social Credit |
New Westminster New Democrat |
John McRae (Rae) Eddie | ||||||||||
| Jacob Francis Huhn | North Peace River Social Credit |
Vancouver East New Democrat |
Alexander Barrett MacDonald | ||||||||||
| Cyril Morley Shelford | Omineca Social Credit |
Arthur James Turner | |||||||||||
| William Harvey Murray | Prince Rupert Social Credit |
Yale New Democrat |
William Leonard Hartley | ||||||||||
| Arvid Waldemar Lundell | Revelstoke Social Credit |
Fernie Liberal |
Henry Cartmell (Harry) McKay | ||||||||||
| Donald Leslie Brothers | Rossland-Trail Social Credit |
North Vancouver Liberal |
James Gordon Gibson | ||||||||||
| John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle | Saanich Social Credit |
Raymond Joseph Perrault | |||||||||||
| Willis Franklin Jefcoat | Salmon Arm Social Credit |
Oak Bay Liberal |
Alan Brock MacFarlane | ||||||||||
| Francis Xavier Richter |
Similkameen Social Credit |
Vancouver-Point Grey Liberal |
Patrick Lucey McGeer | ||||||||||
| Dudley George Little | Skeena Social Credit |
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| William Andrew Cecil Bennett1 | South Okanagan Social Credit |
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| Stanley Carnell |
South Peace River Social Credit |
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| Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin |
Vancouver-Burrard Social Credit |
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| Bert Price |
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| Alexander Small Matthew | Vancouver Centre Social Credit |
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| Leslie Raymond Peterson | |||||||||||||
| Robert William Bonner | Vancouver-Point Grey Social Credit |
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| Ralph Raymond Loffmark | |||||||||||||
| William Neelands Chant | Victoria City Social Credit |
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| Waldo McTavish Skillings | |||||||||||||
| John Donald Smith | |||||||||||||
| 1 Premier-Elect | 2 Leader of the Opposition | ||||||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | |||||||||||||
[edit] See also
| Preceded by 1960 |
British Columbia general elections | Succeeded by 1966 |
