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1933 British Columbia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1933 British Columbia general election
country	British Columbia
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1928 British Columbia general election
previous_year	1928
next_election	1937 British Columbia general election
next_year	1937
seats_for_election	47 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
majority_seats	24
election_date	November 2, 1933
image1	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo (cropped).jpg
colour1
leader1	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
party1
leader_since1	1928
leaders_seat1	Prince Rupert
last_election1	12
seats1	34
seat_change1	22
popular_vote1	159,131
percentage1	41.74%
swing1	1.70pp
image2	Rev. Robert Connell 1936.jpg
colour2
leader2	Robert Connell
party2
leader_since2	1933
leaders_seat2	Victoria City
last_election2	pre-creation
seats2	7
seat_change2	7
popular_vote2	120,185
percentage2	31.53%
swing2	pre-creation
image4	William John Bowser (cropped).jpg
colour4
leader4	William John Bowser †
party4
leader_since4	1933
leaders_seat4	Did not run
last_election4	Did not contest
seats4	2
seat_change4	2
popular_vote4	38,836
percentage4	10.19%
swing4	new
image5	Simon Fraser Tolmie.png
colour5
leader5	Simon Fraser Tolmie
party5	Unionist
leader_since5	1933
leaders_seat5	Saanich (lost re-election)
last_election5	35
seats5	1
seat_change5	34
popular_vote5	15,445
percentage5	4.05%
swing5	49.25pp
title	Premier
before_election	Simon Fraser Tolmie
before_party
posttitle	Premier after election
after_election	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
after_party
elected_members	18th Parliament of British Columbia
outgoing_members	17th Parliament of British Columbia

The 1933 British Columbia general election was the eighteenth 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 13, 1933, and held on November 2, 1933. The new legislature met for the first time on February 20, 1934.

The Liberal Party won a majority government.

The Official Opposition was formed by the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which was contesting its first election.

Because of internal discord, the provincial executive of the Conservative Party decided not to contest the election officially. Instead, each local association was to act on its own. Some candidates ran as Independents, some as Independent Conservatives. Those supporting the premier, Simon Fraser Tolmie, ran as Unionist Party of British Columbia, and those grouped around William John Bowser, a former premier, ran as the Non-Partisan Independent Group. When Bowser died on October 25, the elections in Vancouver Centre and Victoria City were postponed to November 27, and the following candidates withdrew:

:* in Vancouver Centre, one each from the Unionists, NPIG and United Front :* in Victoria City, one Unionist, three NPIG and one Independent

Other notable races include the election of Bridge River-Lillooet News publisher George Matheson Murray in Lillooet over Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson. Carson's brother Robert Henry Carson ran as a Liberal, winning Kamloops. Carson and his brother both served as cabinet ministers in later regimes. They were the sons of Robert Carson, an American who was one of the very few survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail and who went on to found one of the early ranches at Pavilion and whose holdings became part of the Diamond S Ranch.

1932 redistribution of ridings

An Act was passed in 1932, providing for a reduction of the seats in the Assembly from 48 to 47 upon the next election. The following changes were made:

Abolished ridings	New ridings	Drawn from other ridings	Merger of districts	Reorganization of districts

1934 post-election redistribution

A 1934 Act increased the size of the Assembly from 47 to 48, by abolishing the district of Columbia-Revelstoke and reviving the previous districts of Columbia and Revelstoke, with immediate effect. William Henry Sutherland was declared the MLA for Revelstoke, and Thomas King (Liberal) was acclaimed in Columbia in the subsequent byelection.

Results

|- ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=4 | MLAs ! colspan=4 | Votes |- ! Candidates 1928 !1933 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp) | 47 || 12 || 34 || 22 || 159,131 || 14,259 || 41.74 || 1.70 | 46 || – || 7 || 7 || 120,185 || 120,185 || 31.53 ||New

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30
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12
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6
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4
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1
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53

(all factions)






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! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"
210
48
! colspan="2"
! colspan="2"
! colspan="2"
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3,380Incomplete
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236,415
73.07%
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323,540
}

Party	Change (pp)
	{{bartable	1.70
	{{bartable	31.53
(all factions)	{{bartable	-36.18
	{{bartable	5.72
	{{bartable	-4.42
	{{bartable	1.65

MLAs elected

Synopsis of results

Riding	Winning party	Votes	Name	1928	Party	Votes	Share	Margin
#	Margin
%	Lib	CCF	NP	Un	O-C	UF	Ind	Oth	Total
Alberni-Nanaimo	New		Lib	3,146	47.47%	793	11.96%	3,146	2,353	781	–	–	185	162	–	6,627
Atlin		Lib		Lib	419	32.63%	111	8.64%	419	308	–	–	136	–	421The incumbent Herbert Frederick Kergin received 267 votes.	–	1,284
Burnaby		Con		CCF	4,548	39.27%	528	4.55%	4,020	4,548	519	1,051	–	694	22	726	11,580
Cariboo		Con		Lib	1,089	54.50%	578	28.92%	1,089	398	511	–	–	–	–	–	1,998
Chilliwack		Con		Lib	2,273	44.96%	618	12.23%	2,273	1,655	1,128	–	–	–	–	–	5,056
Columbia-Revelstoke	New		Lib	1,947	72.27%	1,200	44.54%	1,947	747	–	–	–	–	–	–	2,694
Comox		Con		Lib	2,204	49.94%	614	13.91%	2,204	1,590	–	–	–	259	84	276	4,413
Cowichan-Newcastle		Con		OG	1,655	40.88%	367	9.06%	520	1,288	–	–	2,240The incumbent Cyril Francis Davie received 585 votes.	–	–	–	4,048
Cranbrook		Lib		Lib	2,951	69.53%	1,720	40.52%	2,951	1,231	–	–	–	62	–	–	4,244
Delta		Con		CCF	2,631	36.95%	538	7.55%	2,093	2,631	–	–	612The incumbent John Walter Berry received 447 votes.	49	1,735	–	7,120
Dewdney		Con		Lib	1,235	30.34%	166	4.08%	1,235	967	1,069	–	–	127	673	–	4,071
Esquimalt		Con		Un	1,466	39.03%	59	1.57%	1,407	525	358	1,466	–	–	–	–	3,756
Fernie		ILP		ILP	1,693	56.58%	394	13.16%	1,299	–	–	–	–	–	–	1,693	2,992
Fort George		Con		Lib	1,577	56.32%	952	34.00%	1,577	625	310	–	–	192	–	96	2,800
Grand Forks-Greenwood		Con		Lib	1,034	58.55%	523	29.61%	1,034	221	511	–	–	–	–	–	1,766
The Islands		Con		Lib	726	35.35%	57	2.78%	726	400	233	–	669	–	26	–	2,054
Kamloops		Con		Lib	1,836	44.76%	476	11.61%	1,836	1,360	906	–	–	–	–	–	4,102
Kaslo-Slocan		Con		Lib	1,250	45.05%	299	10.78%	1,250	574	951	–	–	–	–	–	2,775
Lillooet		Con		Lib	927	44.06%	222	10.55%	927	472	705	–	–	–	–	–	2,104
Mackenzie		Con		CCF	2,071	43.61%	685	14.42%	1,386	2,071	1,292	–	–	–	–	–	4,749
Nelson-Creston	New		Lib	2,489	49.19%	1,187	23.46%	2,489	1,161	1,302	–	–	125	–	–	5,060
New Westminster		Lib		Lib	2,694	46.98%	1,218	21.24%	2,694	1,476	–	–	–	125	1,439	–	5,734
North Okanagan		Con		Lib	2,322	48.01%	676	13.97%	2,322	868	1,646	–	–	–	–	–	4,836
North Vancouver		Lib		CCF	2,427	35.19%	643	9.32%	1,636	2,427	1,784 Jack Loutet had been elected as a Conservative in a 1930 byelection	–	–	132	7	911John Melvin Bryan Sr., previously elected as a Liberal in 1924, ran as an Independent Liberal and received 846 votes	6,897
Omineca		Lib		Lib	1,079	52.23%		%	1,079	538	355	–	–	–	94	–	2,066
Peace River	New		NP	957	37.31%	157	6.12%	749	800	957	–	–	59	–	–	2,565
Prince Rupert		Lib		Lib	1,725	64.90%	1,060	39.88%	1,725	665	–	–	–	268	–	–	2,658
Rossland-Trail		Con		Lib	1,729	43.84%	415	10.52%	1,729	901	1,314	–	–	–	–	–	3,944
Saanich		Con		Lib	2,171	37.97%	348	6.09%	2,171	1,216	508	1,823	–	–	–	–	5,718
Salmon Arm		Con		NP	1,351	44.82%	463	15.36%	888	603	1,351	–	–	172	–	–	3,014
Similkameen		Con		Lib	1,765	43.23%	379	9.28%	1,765	730	1,386	–	–	–	202	–	4,083
Skeena		Lib		Lib	902	56.34%	451	28.17%	902	451	–	–	–	–	248	–	1,601
South Okanagan		Con		Lib	1,636	36.66%	191	4.28%	1,636	1,382	–	–	1,445	–	–	–	4,463
Yale		Lib		Lib	1,193	68.64%	881	50.69%	1,193	233	312	–	–	–	–	–	1,738

: = open seat : = 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 : = Conservative factions : = multiple candidates

Riding	Winning party	Votes	MLAs	1928	1933	Lib	CCF	NP	Un	O-C	UF
Vancouver-Burrard	2	New	19,139	12,857	5,642	1,733	–	235	–	616	40,222
Vancouver Centre	2	New	13,648	10,454	–	–	2,741	646	–	834	28,323
Vancouver East	2	New	14,171	21,991	2,450	404	–	1,002	418	656	41,092
Vancouver-Point Grey	3	New	31,436	22,330	10,555	6,152	–	174	902	111	71,660
Victoria City	4		24,420	15,138	–	2,816	3,119	95	19,225	503	65,316

: = election day deferred

Notes

References

[https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/11265.html BCGNIS listing "Mount Carson"]
{{Cite canlaw. (1932)
{{Cite canlaw. (1934)
1934 Act, s. 11

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