BRITISH COLUMBIA GENERAL ELECTION, 1909

The 'British Columbia general election of 1909' was the twelfth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on October 20 1909, and held on 'November 25 1909'. The new legislature met for the first time on January 20 1910.
The governing Conservative Party won its third consecutive term in government with over half of the popular vote and all but four of the 42 seats in the legislature, effectively a rout for the popular incumbent Premier, Sir Richard McBride.
Despite winning almost one-third of the popular vote, the Liberal Party own only two seats, the same number won by the Socialist Party with only 11.5% of the vote.

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Results

Results by Riding

See also

Further reading & references

Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1907	'Elected'	% Change	#	%	% Change	Conservative 1		42	26	'38'	+46.2%	53,074	52.33%	+3.63%	Liberal 1		36	13	'2'	-84.6%	33,675	33.21%	-3.94%	Socialist		20	3	'2'	-33.3%	11,665	11.50%	+2.63%	Independent		3	-	-	-	2,625	2.59%	+2.36%	Canadian Labour 2		1	-	-	-	165	0.16%	-3.79%	Independent Conservative		1	★	-	★	154	0.15%	★	Independent Labour		1	-	-	-	57	0.06%	-0.71%
'Total'			104	42	42	-	101,415	100%
'Sources:' Elections BC

'Notes:'

★ Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
¹ Two candidates are counted twice: R. McBride (Conservative), who contested and was elected in both Victoria City and Yale, and J. Oliver (Liberal) who contested but was defeated in both Delta and Victoria City.
² Organized in 1906. Not the same as the CLP that contested the 1924 election.

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"|Michael Callanan
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Cariboo
Conservative
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|align="center" |Esquimalt
Liberal
|align="center"|John Jardine
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|align="center"|John Anderson Fraser
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|align="center" |Nanaimo City
Socialist
|align="center"|James Hurst Hawthornthwaite
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|align="center"|Samuel Arthur Cawley
|align="center" |Chilliwhack
Conservative
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|align="center" |Newcastle
Socialist
|align="center"|Parker Williams
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|align="center"|Henry George Parson
|align="center" |Columbia
Conservative
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|align="center"|Michael Manson
|align="center" |Comox
Conservative
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|align="center"|William Henry Hayward
|align="center" |Cowichan
Conservative
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|align="center"|Thomas Donald Caven
|align="center" |Cranbrook
Conservative
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|align="center"|Francis James Anderson MacKenzie
|align="center" |Delta
Conservative
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|align="center"|William J. Manson
|align="center" |Dewdney
Conservative
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|align="center"|William Roderick Ross
|align="center" |Fernie
Conservative
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|align="center"|Ernest Miller
|align="center" |Grand Forks
Conservative
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|align="center"|John Robert Jackson
|align="center" |Greenwood
Conservative
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|align="center"|Albert Edward McPhillips
|align="center" |The Islands
Conservative
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|align="center"|James Pearson Shaw
|align="center" |Kamloops
Conservative
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|align="center"|Neil Franklin MacKay
|align="center" |Kaslo
Conservative
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|align="center"|Archibald MacDonald
|align="center" |Lillooet
Conservative
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|align="center"|Harry Wright
|align="center" |Nelson City
Conservative
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|align="center"|Thomas Gifford
|align="center" |New Westminster City
Conservative
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|align="center"|Price Ellison
|align="center" |Okanagan
Conservative
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|align="center"|Thomas Taylor
|align="center" |Revelstoke
Conservative
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|align="center"|Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton
|align="center" |Richmond
Conservative
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|align="center"|William Robert Braden
|align="center" |Rossland City
Conservative
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|align="center"|David McEwen Eberts
|align="center" |Saanich
Conservative
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|align="center"|Lytton Wilmot Shatford
|align="center" |Similkameen
Conservative
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|align="center"|William Manson
|align="center" |Skeena
Conservative
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|align="center"|William Hunter
|align="center" |Slocan
Conservative
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|align="center"|William John Bowser
|align="center" rowspan=5 |Vancouver City
Conservative
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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"|Charles Edward Tisdall
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|align="center"|Henry Holgate Watson
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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"|Richard McBride
Premier¹
|align="center" |Yale
Conservative
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|align="center"|James Hargrave Schofield
|align="center" |Ymir
Conservative
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See also

★ List of British Columbia political parties

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.