British Columbia general election, 1949
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The British Columbia general election of 1949 was the 22nd 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 April 16, 1949, and held on June 15, 1949. The new legislature met for the first time on February 14, 1950.
The centre-right coalition formed by the Liberal and Conservative parties in order to defeat the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1945 election increased its share of the vote and its majority in the legislature.
Three different social credit groupings nominated or endorsed candidates in the election: the Social Credit Party, the Social Credit League, and the Union of Electors.
[edit] Results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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| 1945 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | |||||
| Liberal | Coalition | Byron Ingemar Johnson | 48 | 37 | 39 | +5.4% | 428,773 | 61.35% | +5.52% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Royal Maitland | |||||||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Harold Winch | 48 | 10 | 7 | -30.0% | 245,284 | 35.10% | -2.52% | ||
| Independent | 7 | - | 1 | 5,163 | 0.74% | +0.41% | ||||
| Labour | Tom Uphill | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1,483 | 0.21% | -0.07% | ||
| Social Credit Party1 | 7 | * | - | * | 8,464 | 1.21% | * | |||
| Social Credit League1 | 9 | * | - | * | 3,072 | 0.44% | * | |||
| Union of Electors1 | 12 | * | - | * | 2,790 | 0.40% | * | |||
| Labour Progressive | 2 | - | - | - | 1,660 | 0.24% | -3.28% | |||
| (Independent) Conservative2 | 1 | * | - | * | 1,241 | 0.18% | * | |||
| People's CCF | 1 | - | - | - | 470 | 0.07% | -0.53% | |||
| Socialist Labour | 1 | - | - | - | 286 | 0.04% | -0.02% | |||
| People's | 1 | * | - | * | 137 | 0.02% | * | |||
| Total | 138 | 48 | 48 | - | 698,823 | 100% | ||||
| Sources: Elections BC | ||||||||||
Notes:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
1 Various social credit groups nominated 16 candidates in the 1945 election as part of a Social Credit "alliance". These candidates won 6,627 votes, 1.42% of the popular vote in that election.
2 The candidate, running independently from the Liberal-PC Coalition, is listed as "Conservative" rather than "Progressive Conservative" in the Statement of Votes.
[edit] Results by Riding
| Results of British Columbia general election, 1949 | |||||||||||||
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| Government | Opposition | ||||||||||||
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Riding & party |
Member | ||||||||||
| Angus MacLean | Cariboo Coalition |
Atlin Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Frank Arthur Calder | ||||||||||
| Leslie Harvey Eyres | Chilliwack Coalition |
Burnaby Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Ernest Edward Winch | ||||||||||
| Thomas King | Columbia Coalition |
Cranbrook Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Leo Thomas Nimsick | ||||||||||
| Andrew Mowatt Whisker | Cowichan-Newcastle Coalition |
Grand Forks-Greenwood Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Rupert Williams Haggen | ||||||||||
| Herbert John Welch | Comox Coalition |
Kaslo-Slocan Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Randolph Harding | ||||||||||
| Alexander Campbell Hope | Delta Coalition |
Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Arthur James Turner | ||||||||||
| Roderick Charles MacDonald | Dewdney Coalition |
Harold Edward Winch2 | |||||||||||
| Charles Taschereau Beard | Esquimalt Coalition |
Fernie Labour (Party) |
Thomas Aubert Uphill | ||||||||||
| Henry Robson Bowman | Fort George Coalition |
Alberni Independent |
James Mowat | ||||||||||
| Sidney John Smith | Kamloops Coalition |
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| Ernest Crawford Carson | Lillooet Coalition |
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| Battleman Milton MacIntyre | Mackenzie Coalition |
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| George Sharratt Pearson | Nanaimo and the Islands Coalition |
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| Walter Hendricks | Nelson-Creston Coalition |
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| Byron Ingemar Johnson | New Westminster Coalition |
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| Charles William Morrow | North Okanagan Coalition |
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| John Henry Cates | North Vancouver Coalition |
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| Herbert Anscomb | Oak Bay Coalition |
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| Roert Cecil Steele | Omineca Coalition |
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| Glen Everton Braden | Peace River Coalition |
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| John Duncan McRae | Prince Rupert Coalition |
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| Arvid Waldemar Lundell | Revelstoke Coalition |
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| Alexander Douglas Turnbull | Rossland-Trail Coalition |
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| Arthur James Richard Ash | Saanich Coalition |
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| Maurice Patrick Finnerty | Similkameen Coalition |
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| Edward Tourtelotte Kenney | Skeena Coalition |
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| William Andrew Cecil Bennett | South Okanagan Coalition |
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| Donald Cameron Brown | Vancouver-Burrard Coalition |
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| John Groves Gould | |||||||||||||
| Donald Cameron Brown | Vancouver-Burrard Coalition |
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| John Groves Gould | |||||||||||||
| Allan James McDonell | Vancouver Centre Coalition |
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| Gordon Sylvester Wismer | |||||||||||||
| Albert Reginald MacDougall | Vancouver-Point Grey Coalition |
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| Tilly Jean Rolston | |||||||||||||
| Leigh Forbes Stevenson | |||||||||||||
| Nancy Hodges | Victoria City Coalition |
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| Daniel John Proudfoot | |||||||||||||
| William Thomas Straith | |||||||||||||
| John Joseph Alban Gillis | Yale Coalition |
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| 1 Premier-Elect and Incumbent | |||||||||||||
| 2 Leader of the Opposition | |||||||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | |||||||||||||
[edit] See also
| Preceded by: 1945 |
British Columbia general elections | Succeeded by: 1952 |
