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1928 British Columbia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1928 British Columbia general election
party3
seats1	35
seats2	12
seats3	1
leaders_seat1	Saanich
leaders_seat2	Victoria City
party1
party2
colour1
image2	BCLP
colour3
colour2
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
seats_for_election	48 seats to the 17th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
elected_members	17th Parliament of British Columbia#Members of the 17th General Assembly
outgoing_members	16th Parliament of British Columbia#Members of the 16th General Assembly
election_date	July 18, 1928
before_election	John Duncan MacLean
after_election	Simon Fraser Tolmie
after_party
image3	ILP
image1	[[File:Simon Fraser Tolmie (cropped).png	x100px]]
type	parliamentary
last_election2	23 seats, 31.34%
ongoing	No
previous_election	1924 British Columbia general election
previous_year	1924
next_election	1933 British Columbia general election
next_year	1933
country	British Columbia
leader1	Simon Fraser Tolmie
leader2	John Duncan MacLean
last_election1	17 seats, 29.45%
last_election3	Did not contest
popular_vote1	192,867
seat_change2	11
popular_vote3	17,908
popular_vote2	144,872
percentage1	53.30%
percentage2	40.04%
percentage3	4.95%
swing1	23.85pp
swing2	8.70pp
swing3	Did not contest
seat_change1	18
seat_change3	1
before_party

25 seats were needed for a majority The 1928 British Columbia general election was the seventeenth 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 June 7, 1928, and held on July 18, 1928. The new legislature met for the first time on January 22, 1929.

The Conservative Party defeated the governing Liberal Party, taking over half the popular vote, and 35 of the 48 seats in the legislature. The Liberals' popular vote also increased significantly, but because of the disappearance of the Provincial Party and the Canadian Labour Party, which had won over 35% of the vote together in the previous election, the Liberals were defeated. To date this remains the final election in British Columbia history where the Conservative Party would achieve power in its own right.

Results

|- ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=4 | MLAs ! colspan=4 | Votes |- ! Candidates 1924 !1928 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp) | 48 || 17 || 35 || 18 || 192,867 || 91,102 || 53.30 || 23.85 | 45 || 23 || 12 || 11 || 144,872 || 36,549 || 40.04 || 8.70 | 10 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 18,224 || 20,820 || 5.04 || 6.26 | || – || 3 || – || 3 || – || 83,517 || – || 24.16 | || 2 || 2 || – || 2 || 1,001 || 2,548 || 0.28 || 0.75 | || 9 || – || – || – || 3,658 || 1,138 || 1.01 || 0.28 | || 2 || – || – || – || 1,064 || 982 || 0.29 || 0.30 | || 1 || – || – || – || 128 || 128 || 0.04 ||New |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 117 | 48 ! colspan="2"| 48 ! colspan="2"|361,814 ! colspan="2"| 100.00% |- ! colspan="2"|3,259 ! colspan="2"| |- ! colspan="2"|174,934 ! colspan="2"| 71.33% |- ! colspan="2"|245,240 ! colspan="2"| |}

Party	Change (pp)
	{{bartable	23.85
	{{bartable	8.70
/Canadian Labour	{{bartable	-6.26
	{{bartable	-24.16
	{{bartable	-1.26
	{{bartable	-0.87

MLAs elected

Synopsis of results

Riding	Votes	1924	Party	Votes	Share	Margin #	Margin %	Con	Lib	ILP	Ind	Oth
Alberni	I-Lib	Lib	1,208	48.71%	186	7.50%	1,022	1,208	250	–	–	2,480
Atlin	Lib	Lib	587	50.56%	45	3.88%	542	587	–	32	–	1,161
Burnaby	CLP	Con	2,144	40.81%	365	6.94%	2,144	1,779	1,330	–	–	5,253
Cariboo	Prov	Con	623	44.00%	223	15.75%	623	400	–	393	–	1,416
Chilliwack	Lib	Con	2,595	55.51%	515	11.02%	2,595	2,080	–	–	–	4,675
Columbia	Lib	Lib	659	50.23%	32	2.44%	627	659	–	26	–	1,312
Comox	I-Lib	Con	2,058	53.85%	561	14.68%	2,058	1,497	267	–	–	3,822
Cowichan-Newcastle	Con	Con	2,360	58.17%	753	18.56%	2,360	–	1,607	90	–	4,057
Cranbrook	Con	Lib	1,833	52.46%	172	4.92%	1,661	1,833	–	–	–	3,494
Creston	Con	Con	1,184	54.76%	206	9.52%	1,184	978	–	–	–	2,162
Delta	Lib	Con	2,562	55.73%	527	11.46%	2,562	2,035	–	–	–	4,597
Dewdney	Con	Con	2,751	58.57%	805	17.14%	2,751	1,946	–	–	–	4,697
Esquimalt	Con	Con	1,806	62.10%	729	25.06%	1,806	1,077	–	–	25	2,908
Fernie	CLP	ILP	1,639	59.80%	537	19.60%	1,102	–	1,639	–	–	2,741
Fort George	Lib	Con	1,487	51.61%	93	3.22%	1,487	1,394	–	–	–	2,881
Grand Forks-Greenwood	Con	Con	888	52.92%	98	5.84%	888	790	–	–	–	1,678
The Islands	Con	Con	1,148	62.70%	465	25.40%	1,148	683	–	–	–	1,831
Kamloops	Lib	Con	1,531	50.25%	15	0.50%	1,531	1,516	–	–	–	3,047
Kaslo-Slocan	Lib	Con	1,169	51.23%	56	2.46%	1,169	1,113	–	–	–	2,282
Lillooet	Lib	Con	1,237	54.61%	209	9.22%	1,237	1,028	–	–	–	2,265
Mackenzie	Con	Con	1,266	51.03%	51	2.06%	1,266	1,215	–	–	–	2,481
Nanaimo	Lib	Lib	1,366	40.67%	65	1.94%	1,301	1,366	585	107	–	3,359
Nelson	Lib	Con	1,338	53.07%	155	6.14%	1,338	1,183	–	–	–	2,521
New Westminster	Lib	Lib	3,262	56.16%	716	12.32%	2,546	3,262	–	–	–	5,808
North Okanagan	Lib	Con	2,361	54.03%	480	10.99%	2,361	1,881	–	–	128	4,370
North Vancouver	Lib	Lib	2,498	46.60%	32	0.60%	2,466	2,498	–	397	–	5,361
Omineca	Lib	Lib	889	57.21%	224	14.42%	665	889	–	–	–	1,554
Prince Rupert	Lib	Lib	1,370	51.78%	94	3.56%	1,276	1,370	–	–	–	2,646
Revelstoke	Lib	Lib	1,170	56.36%	264	12.72%	906	1,170	–	–	–	2,076
Richmond-Point Grey	Prov	Con	5,414	62.16%	2,118	24.32%	5,414	3,296	–	–	–	8,710
Rossland-Trail	Con	Con	1,686	58.12%	471	16.24%	1,686	1,215	–	–	–	2,901
Saanich	Con	Con	2,379	56.44%	543	12.88%	2,379	1,836	–	–	–	4,215
Salmon Arm	Con	Con	1,706	73.25%	1,083	46.50%	1,706	623	–	–	–	2,329
Similkameen	Con	Con	2,079	55.53%	414	11.06%	2,079	1,665	–	–	–	3,744
Skeena	Lib	Lib	910	54.33%	145	8.66%	765	910	–	–	–	1,675
South Okanagan	Con	Con	2,145	56.08%	465	12.16%	2,145	–	–	1,680	–	3,825
South Vancouver	CLP	Con	2,452	47.45%	471	9.12%	2,452	696	1,981	39	–	5,168
Yale	Lib	Lib	1,514	57.22%	382	14.44%	1,132	1,514	–	–	–	2,646

: = open seat : = turnout is above provincial average : = winning candidate was in previous Legislature : = incumbent had switched allegiance : = previously incumbent in another riding : = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature : = incumbency arose from byelection gain : = other incumbents renominated : = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada : = multiple candidates

Party	Vancouver City	Victoria City	Votes	Share	Change		Votes	Share	Change	Total	180,209	100.00%	57,457	100.00%	Seats won	Incumbents returned	–
98,382	54.59%	30.51%	30,105	52.40%	7.74%	70,602	39.18%	8.47%	25,078	43.65%	14.24%	Independent Labour	10,249	5.69%	-9.94%

Notes

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