British Columbia general election, 1941

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The British Columbia general election, 1941 was the twentieth 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 September 9, 1941, and held on October 21, 1941.

After the election, a Coalition government was formed by the Conservative and Liberal members. Liberal Party leader Thomas Dufferin Pattullo objected, stepped down, and sat as a Liberal, giving the Coalition thirty two seats.

[edit] Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	1937	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Liberal	T.D. Pattullo	48	31	21	-32.3%	149,525	32.94%	-4.40%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harold Winch	45	7	14	+100%	151,440	33.36%	+4.79%
	Conservative¹	Royal Maitland	43	8	12	+50.0%	140,282	30.91%	+2.31%
	Labour/Independent Labour		6	1	1	-	7,141	1.57%	+1.14%
	Official Conservative¹		1	*	-	*	2,161	0.48%	*
	Independent		4	1	-	-100%	1,638	0.36%	-1.40%
	Socialist Labour		4	*	-	*	683	0.15%	*
	Independent Farmer		1	*	-	*	388	0.09%	*
	Emancipation		1	*	-	*	265	0.06%	*
	Victory Without Debt		1	*	-	*	209	0.05%	*
	Religious Political Brotherhood		1	*	-	*	105	0.02%	*
	Independent Socialist		1	*	-	*	56	0.01%	*
Total			156	48	48	-	453,893	100%
Source: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

¹ J. Hinchliffe was nominated by the North Vancouver Conservative Association but when he disagreed with the party's road policy, he was repudiated by the party leader, R.L. Maitland. A group called the Conservative Active Club nominated A. H. Bayne who was approved by Maitland. Bayne, however, could not run as a Conservative since Hinchliffe's nomination papers had been filed. Consequently, Hinchliffe's votes are included in the Conservative Party total and Bayne, who ran as an "Official Conservative", is listed separately.

[edit] Results by Riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1941
Government			Opposition
	Member	Riding & party	Riding & party		Member
	James Mowat	Alberni Liberal		Burnaby Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch
	William James Asseltine	Atlin Liberal		Comox Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Colin Cameron
	Louis LeBourdais	Cariboo Liberal		Cowichan-Newcastle Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Samuel Guthrie
	Thomas King	Columbia Liberal		Delta Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Leonard Alec Shepherd
	Henry George Thomas Perry	Fort George Liberal		North Vancouver Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Dorothy Gretchen Steeves
	Robert Henry Carson	Kamloops Liberal		Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	James Lyle Telford
	Charles Sidney Leary	Kaslo-Slocan Liberal		Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harold Edward Winch²
	George Sharratt Pearson	Nanaimo and the Islands Liberal		Similkameen Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Bernard George Webber
	Frank Putnam	Nelson-Creston Liberal		Vancouver-Burrard Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Winona Grace MacInnis
	Arthur Wellesley Gray	New Westminster Liberal		Vancouver-Burrard Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Charles Grant MacNeil
	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	North Okanagan Liberal		Vancouver Centre Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson
	Mark Matthew Connelly	Omineca Liberal		Vancouver Centre Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Wallis Walter LeFeaux
	Glen Everton Braden	Peace River Liberal		Chilliwack	Leslie Harvey Eyres
	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	Prince Rupert Liberal		Cranbrook Conservative	Frank William Green
	Harry Johnston	Revelstoke Liberal		Dewdney Conservative	Roderick Charles MacDonald
	Norman William Whittaker	Saanich Liberal		Esquimalt Conservative	Elmer Victor Finland
	Edward Tourtellotte Kennedy	Skeena Liberal		Grand Forks-Greenwood Conservative	Thomas Alfred Love
	John Hart ¹	Victoria City Liberal		Lillooet Conservative	Enrest Crawford Carson
	Nancy Hodges			South Okanagan Conservative	William Andrew Cecil Bennett
	William Thomas Straith			Vancouver-Point Grey Conservative	Royal Lethington Maitland
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale Liberal			James Alexander Paton
					Tilly Jean Rolston
				Victoria City Conservative	Herbert Anscomb
				Victoria City Conservative	Joseph Douglas Hunter
				Fernie Labour (Party)	Thomas Aubert Uphill
				Salmon Arm Independent	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
	¹ Premier-Elect and Incumbent
	² Leader of the Opposition
Source: Elections BC