BRITISH COLUMBIA GENERAL ELECTION, 1907

The 'British Columbia general election of 1907' was the eleventh general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election called on December 24 1906, and held on 'February 2 1907'. The new legislature met for the first time on March 7 1907.
The governing Conservative party won a second term in government, with almost half the popular vote, and a majority of the seats in the legislature, increasing its number of seats by 4 to 26.
The Liberal Party lost 4 seats in the legislature, despite winning about the same share of the popular vote that it had in the 1903 election.
The Socialist Party won one additional seat to bring its total to three.

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Results

Results by Riding

See also

Further reading & references

Results

Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
				1903	'Elected'	% Change	#	%	% Change	Conservative 1		42	22	'26'	+18.2%	307,816	48.70%	+2.27%	Liberal		40	17	'13'	-23.5%	234,816	37.15%	-0.63%	Socialist		20	2	'3'	+50.0%	5,603	8.87%	+0.91%	Canadian Labour 2		6	1	-	-100%	2,495	3.95%	-3.41%	Independent Labour3		2	★	-	★	487	0.77%	-	Independent Socialist		1	★	-	★	211	0.33%	★	Independent		1	★	-	★	147	0.23%	★
'Total'			112	42	42	-	632,056	100%
'Sources:' Elections BC

'Notes:'

★ Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
¹ One Conservative candidate, R. McBride, who contested and was elected in both Dewdney and Victoria City, is counted twice.
² Organized in 1906. Not the same as the Canadian Labour Party of B.C. which contested the 1924 election. Sometimes referred to as "Independent Labour Party" by the newspapers which creates some confusion with the situation in Nanaimo City and Newcastle.
³ Although the candidates in Nanaimo City and Newcastle called themselves "Independent Labour" candidates, the Conservative press described them as "Liberal-Labour" candidates. They did have Liberal support in both cases and no Liberals were nominated for either District. They were also repudiated by the Victoria branch of the Canadian Labour Party of BC.

Results by Riding

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|align="center" |Henry Esson Young
|align="center" |Atlin
Conservative
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|align="center" |Alberni
Liberal
|align="center"|Harlan Carey Brewster
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|align="center"|Robert Grant
|align="center" |Comox
Conservative
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|align="center" |Cariboo
Liberal
|align="center"|Harry Jones
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|align="center"|Richard McBride ¹
Premier
|align="center" |Dewdney
Conservative
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|align="center" |Cariboo
Liberal
|align="center"|John MacKay Yorston
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|align="center"|Henry George Parson
|align="center" |Columbia
Conservative
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|align="center" |Chilliwhack
Liberal
|align="center"|Charles William Munro
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|align="center"|William Henry Hayward
|align="center" |Cowichan
Conservative
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|align="center" |Esquimalt
Liberal
|align="center"|John Jardine
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|align="center"|William Roderick Ross
|align="center" |Fernie
Conservative
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|align="center" |Lillooet
Liberal
|align="center"|Mark Robert Eagleson
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|align="center"|Albert Edward McPhillips
|align="center" |The Islands
Conservative
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|align="center" |Nelson City
Liberal
|align="center"|George Arthur Benjamin Hall
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|align="center"|Frederick John Fulton
|align="center" |Kamloops
Conservative
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|align="center" |Cranbrook
Liberal
|align="center"|James Horace King
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|align="center"|Neil Franklin MacKay
|align="center" |Kaslo
Conservative
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|align="center" |Delta
Liberal
|align="center"|John Oliver
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|align="center"|Thomas Gifford
|align="center" |New Westminster City
Conservative
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|align="center" |Greenwood
Liberal
|align="center"|George Ratcliffe Naden
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|align="center"|Price Ellison
|align="center" |Okanagan
Conservative
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|align="center" |The Islands
Liberal
|align="center"|Thomas Wilson Paterson
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|align="center"|Thomas Taylor
|align="center" |Revelstoke
Conservative
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|align="center" |Skeena
Liberal
|align="center"|William Thomas Kergin
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|align="center"|Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton
|align="center" |Richmond
Conservative
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|align="center" |Yale
Liberal
|align="center"|Stuart Alexander Henderson
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|align="center"|David McEwen Eberts
|align="center" |Saanich
Conservative
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|align="center" |Grand Forks
Socialist
|align="center"|John McInnis
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|align="center"|Lytton Wilmot Shatford
|align="center" |Similkameen
Conservative
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|align="center" |Nanaimo City
Socialist
|align="center"|James Hurst Hawthornthwaite
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|align="center"|William Hunter
|align="center" |Slocan
Conservative
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|align="center" |Newcastle
Socialist
|align="center"|Parker Williams
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|align="center"|Charles William John Bowser
|align="center" rowspan=5 |Vancouver City
Conservative
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|align="center"|James Ford Garden
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|align="center"|Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan
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|align="center"|George Albert McGuire
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|align="center"|Robert Garnet Tatlow
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|align="center"|Henry Frederick William Behnsen
|align="center" rowspan=4 |Victoria City
Conservative
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|align="center"|Frederick Davey
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|align="center"|Richard McBride ¹
Premier
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|align="center"|Henry Broughton Thomson
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|align="center"|James Hargrave Schofield
|align="center" |Ymir
Conservative
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|align-left"|¹ Elected simultaneously in Dewdney and Victoria City.
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See also

★ List of British Columbia political parties

★ Richard McBride

Further reading & references

★ ''In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia'', Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974). Despite its title, a fairly thorough account of the politicians and electoral politics in early BC.