British Columbia general election, 1933

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The British Columbia general election of 1933 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 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 and the elections in Vancouver Centre and Victoria City were postponed, 4 Non-partisan and 2 Unionist candidates withdrew.

[edit] Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	1928	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Liberal		47	12	34	+183.3%	159,131	41.74%	+1.70%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.		46	*	7	*	120,185	31.53%	*
	Non Partisan Independent Group		30	*	2	*	38,836	10.19%	*
	Independent¹		29	-	2	-	29,506	7.74%	+6.73%
	Unionist²		12	35	1	-97.1%	15,445	4.05%	-49.25%
	Labour/Independent Labour		4	*	1	*	2,357	0.62%	*
	Independent Conservative		6	-	-	-	7,114	1.87%	+1.58%
	United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party³		20	*	-	*	4,584	1.20%	*
	Independent CCF		8	*	-	*	2,266	0.59%	*
	Independent Liberal		2	*	-	*	1,076	0.28%	*
	Socialist		5	*	-	*	370	0.10%	*
	Progressive Liberal		1	*	-	*	353	0.09%	*
Total			210	48	47	-2.1%	381,223	100%
Source: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

¹ Includes Conservatives who ran as Independents.

² Results compared to those of Conservative Party in previous election.

³ One United Front candidate, C.J. McKendrick, ran in two ridings (Dewdney and Vancouver Centre) and is counted as two candidates.

[edit] Results by Riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1933
Government			Opposition
	Member	Riding & party	Riding & party		Member
	George Sharratt Pearson	Alberni-Nanaimo Liberal		Burnaby Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch
	William James Asseltine	Atlin Liberal		Delta Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Robert Blatchford Swailes
	Donald Morrison MacKay	Cariboo Liberal		Mackenzie Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Bakewell
	Edward Dodsley Barrow	Chilliwack Liberal		North Vancouver Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harley Christian Erskine Anderson
	William Henry Sutherland	Columbia-Revelstoke Liberal		Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John Price
	Laurence Arnold Hanna	Comox Liberal		Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harold Edward Winch
	Frank Mitchell MacPherson	Cranbrook Liberal		Victoria City Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Robert Connell ²
	David William Strachan	Dewdney Liberal		Fernie Independent Labour Party	Thomas Aubert Uphill
	Henry George Thomas Perry	Fort George Liberal		Peace River Non-Partisan Independent Group	Robert Henry Pooley
	Dougald MacPherson	Grand Forks-Greenwood Liberal		Salmon Arm Non-Partisan Independent Group	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
	Alexander McDonald	The Islands Liberal		Cowichan-Newcastle Oxford Group Movement	Hugh George Egioke Savage
	Robert Henry Carson	Kamloops Liberal		Esquimalt Unionist	Robert Henry Pooley
	Charles Sidney Leary	Kaslo-Slocan Liberal		Victoria City Independent	Herbert Anscomb
	George Matheson Murray	Lillooet Liberal
	Frank Putnam	Nelson-Creston Liberal
	Arthur Wellesley Gray	New Westminster Liberal
	Kenneth Cattanch MacDonald	North Okanagan Liberal
	Alexander Malcolm Manson	Omineca Liberal
	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo¹	Prince Rupert Liberal
	Richard Ronald Burns	Rossland-Trail Liberal
	Norman William Whittaker	Saanich Liberal
	Charles Herbert Percy Tupper	Similkameen Liberal
	Edward Tourtellotte Kennedy	Skeena Liberal
	Joseph Allen Harris	South Okanagan Liberal
	Gerald Grattan McGeer	Vancouver-Burrard Liberal
	Helen Douglas Smith	Vancouver-Burrard Liberal
	Gordon McGregor Sloan	Vancouver Centre Liberal
	Gordon Sylvester Wismer	Vancouver Centre Liberal
	George Moir Weir	Vancouver-Point Grey Liberal
	Robert Wilkinson	Vancouver-Point Grey Liberal
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale Liberal
	¹ Premier-Elect
	² Leader of the Opposition
Source: Elections BC