BRITISH COLUMBIA GENERAL ELECTION, 1920

The 'British Columbia general election of 1920' was the fifteenth 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 23 1920, and held on December 1 1920. The new legislature met for the first time on February 8 1921.
Although it lost eleven seats in the legislature, and fell from 50% of the popular vote to under 38%, the governing Liberal Party was able to hold on to a slim majority in the legislature for its second consecutive term in government.
The Conservative Party also lost a significant share of its popular vote, but won six additional seats for a total of fifteen, and formed the official opposition.
Almost a third of the vote and seven seats were won by independents and by a wide variety of fringe parties.

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Results

Results by Riding

See also

Further reading & references

Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1916	'Elected'	% Change	#	%	% Change	Liberal1		45	36	'25'	-30.6%	134,167	37.89%	-12.11%	Conservative		42	9	'15'	+66.7%	110,475	31.20%	-9.32%	Independent2		18	1	'3'	+200%	36,736	10.37%	+7.63%	Federated Labour3		14	★	'3'	★	32,230	9.10%	★	People's		1	★	'1'	★	1,354	0.38%	★	Socialist4		7	-	-	-	12,386	3.50%	+2.33%	Soldier-Farmer/Soldier-Labour5		11	★	-	★	10,780	3.04%	★	Grand Army of United Veterans6		2	★	-	★	5,441	1.54%	★	Independent Liberal		3	-	-	-	3,433	0.97%	+0.13%	United Farmers		2	★	-	★	3,178	0.90%	★	Independent Conservative		2	-	-	-	1,602	0.45%	-1.23%	Independent Soldier		2	★	-	★	907	0.26%	★	Independent Farmer		3	★	-	★	526	0.15%	★	Liberal/Conservative		1	★	-	★	424	0.12%	★	Independent Socialist		1	1	-	-100%	419	0.12%	-0.62%	Independent Labour		1	-	-	-	30	0.01%	-1.65%
'Total'			155	47	47	-	354,088	100%
'Source:' Elections BC

'Notes:'

★ Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
¹ Liberals: One member elected by acclamation. One candidate, J. Oliver, who contested and was elected in both Delta and Victoria City is counted twice.
² Includes Liberty League of B.C., Vancouver Ratepayers Association, and Women's Freedom League candidates.
³ Includes those candidates not directly nominated by, but supported by the Federated Labour Party.
⁴ Includes the Prince Rupert Labour candidate running on a Socialist Party platform.
⁵ Sometimes referred to as a triple alliance of "Farmer-Labour-Soldier" with Soldier-Farmer candidates running in rural Districts (five candidates, 3361 votes) and Soldier-Labour candidates running in urban ones (six candidates, 7419 votes).
⁶ Some GAUV candidates ran on a joint Soldier-Labour ticket.

Results by Riding

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|align="center" |Herbert Frederick Kergin
|align="center" |Atlin
Liberal
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|align="center" |Dewdney
Conservative
|align="center"|John Alexander Catherwood
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|align="center" |John MacKay Yorston
|align="center" |Cariboo
Liberal
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|align="center" |Esquimalt
Conservative
|align="center"|Robert Henry Pooley
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|align="center" |Edward Dodsley Barrow
|align="center" |Chilliwack
Liberal
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|align="center" |Kaslo
Conservative
|align="center"|Fred W. Lister
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|align="center" |John Andrew Buckham
|align="center" |Columbia
Liberal
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|align="center" |Lillooet
Conservative
|align="center"|Archibald McDonald
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|align="center" |James Horace King
|align="center" |Cranbrook
Liberal
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|align="center" |Nelson
Conservative
|align="center"|William Oliver Rose
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|align="center"|John Oliver
|align="center" |Delta
Liberal
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|align="center" |Richmond
Conservative
|align="center"|Thomas Pearson
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|align="center"|Henry George Thomas Perry
|align="center" |Fort George
Liberal
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|align="center" |Rossland
Conservative
|align="center"|William Kemble Esling
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|align="center"|Ezra Churchill Henniger
|align="center" |Grand Forks
Liberal
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|align="center" |Similkameen
Conservative
|align="center"|William Alexander McKenzie
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|align="center"|John Duncan MacLean
|align="center" |Greenwood
Liberal
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|align="center" |South Okanagan
Conservative
|align="center"|James William Jones
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|align="center"|Malcolm Bruce Jackson
|align="center" |The Islands
Liberal
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|align="center" |Trail
Conservative
|align="center"|James Hargrave Schofield
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|align="center"|Frederick William Anderson
|align="center" |Kamloops
Liberal
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|align="center" |Vancouver City
Conservative
|align="center"|William John Bowser
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|align="center"|David Whiteside
|align="center" |New Westminster
Liberal
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|align="center" |Victoria City
Conservative
|align="center"|Joshua Hinchcliffe
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|align="center"|Frederick Arthur Pauline
|align="center" |Saanich
Liberal
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|align="center" |Yale
Conservative
|align="center"|John McRae
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|align="center"|William Hunter
|align="center" |Slocan
Liberal
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|align="center" |Comox
People's Party
|align="center"|Thomas Menzies
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|align="center"|John Wallace deBeque Farris
|align="center" rowspan=5 |Vancouver City
Liberal
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|align="center" |Fernie
Federated Labour
|align="center"|Thomas Aubert Uphill
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|align="center"|Malcolm Archibald MacDonald
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|align="center" |Newcastle
Federated Labour
|align="center"|Samuel Guthrie
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|align="center"|Ian Alistair MacKenzie
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|align="center" |South Vancouver
Federated Labour
|align="center"|Robert Henry Neelands
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|align="center"|James Ramsay
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|align="center" |Alberni
Independent
|align="center"|Richard John Burde
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|align="center"|Mary Ellen Smith
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|align="center" |Cowichan
Independent
|align="center"|Kenneth Forrest Duncan
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|align="center"|William Sloan
|align="center" |Nanaimo
Liberal
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|align="center" |North Vancouver
Independent
|align="center"|George Samuel Hanes
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|align="center"|Kenneth Cattanch MacDonald
|align="center" |North Okanagan
Liberal
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|align="center"|Alexander Malcolm Manson
|align="center" |Omineca
Liberal
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|align="center"|Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
|align="center" |Prince Rupert
Liberal
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|align="center"|William Henry Sutherland
|align="center" |Revelstoke
Liberal
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|align="center"|Joseph Badenoch Clearihue
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Victoria City
Liberal
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|align="center"|John Hart
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|align="center"|John Oliver ¹
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|align="center"|¹ Incumbent and Premier-Elect
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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.