October 25 1945 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1945-10-25
Writ Date 1945-08-31
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 3,899
Invalid Votes 2,602
Total Electors 476,222
Turnout Rate 62
Valid Ballots 295,683
Valid Votes 467,747

Notes

  • Sources: Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986. Prepared by Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library (ISBN 0-7718-8677-2).
  • Note: "Extra-provincial active service electors in Canada voted on 18-20 October 1945 and in Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 13, 15 and 16 October 1945." (Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1886, p. 209)

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 48 10 20.83% 37.62%
Coalition 47 37 77.08% 55.83%
Democratic Party of Canada 1 0 0.00% 0.09%
Independent 2 0 0.00% 0.33%
Independent Liberal 1 0 0.00% 0.04%
Independent Progressive Conservative 2 0 0.00% 0.16%
Labour Progressive Party 21 0 0.00% 3.52%
Labour/Independent Party 2 1 2.08% 0.30%
People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 2 0 0.00% 0.60%
Progressive Liberal 1 0 0.00% 0.01%
Social Credit 16 0 0.00% 1.42%
Socialist Labour Party 3 0 0.00% 0.06%
Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) 1 0 0.00% 0.02%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Royal Lethington Maitland Coalition Vancouver-Point Grey 22,843 ✅
James Alexander Paton Coalition Vancouver-Point Grey 22,281 ✅
Tilly Jean Rolston Coalition Vancouver-Point Grey 22,152 ✅
George Moir Weir Coalition Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 14,938 ✅
Donald Cameron Brown Coalition Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 14,711 ✅
Harold Edward Winch Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver East (BC) 13,421 ✅
Arthur James Turner Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver East (BC) 12,300 ✅
Allan James McDonell Coalition Vancouver Centre (BC) 10,976 ✅
Gordon Sylvester Wismer Coalition Vancouver Centre (BC) 10,878 ✅
John Hart Coalition Victoria City (BC) 10,757 ✅
Nancy Hodges Coalition Victoria City (BC) 10,518 ✅
William Thomas Straith Coalition Victoria City (BC) 10,278 ✅
Winona Grace MacInnis Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,150 ❌
Charles Grant MacNeil Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,071 ❌
Albert Thomas Alsbury Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 9,837 ❌
Frederick John Hume Coalition Vancouver East (BC) 9,816 ❌
Henry Edwards Coalition Vancouver East (BC) 9,164 ❌
Francis James McKenzie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 8,556 ❌
George Alfred Isherwood Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver-Point Grey 8,466 ❌
Laura Emma Mashall Jamieson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,549 ❌
Wallis Walter Lefeaux Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,451 ❌
Murray D Bryce Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 6,485 ❌
John Henry Cates Coalition North Vancouver (BC) 5,912 ✅
Ernest Edward Winch Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Burnaby (BC) 5,905 ✅
Alexander Campbell Hope Coalition Delta 5,859 ✅
Norman William Whittaker Coalition Saanich 5,414 ✅
Frederick James Bevis Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 5,288 ❌
May Campbell Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Victoria City (BC) 5,093 ❌
Leonard Alec Shepherd Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Delta 5,063 ❌
Byron Ingemar Johnson Coalition New Westminster (BC) 4,900 ✅
Vernon James Lewis Coalition Burnaby (BC) 4,733 ❌
Herbert Anscomb Coalition Oak Bay (BC) 4,598 ✅
Roderick Charles MacDonald Coalition Dewdney 4,586 ✅
Dorothy Gretchen Steeves Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Vancouver (BC) 4,070 ❌
William Leonard Hartley Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Dewdney 3,953 ❌
Leslie Harvey Eyres Coalition Chilliwack 3,804 ✅
Samuel Guthrie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cowichan-Newcastle 3,768 ✅
William Andrew Cecil Bennett Coalition South Okanagan 3,706 ✅
Reginald Robert Laird Coalition Similkameen 3,447 ✅
Herbert John Welch Coalition Comox 3,432 ✅
Martin Anton Neilson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Saanich 3,431 ❌
Colin Cameron Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Comox 3,362 ❌
James Lockhart Webster Coalition Rossland-Trail 3,171 ✅
George Sharratt Pearson Coalition Nanaimo and the Islands 3,124 ✅
Frank Putnam Coalition Nelson-Creston 3,055 ✅
Macgregor Fullarton Macintosh Coalition Cowichan-Newcastle 3,042 ❌
Kenneth MacDonald Coalition North Okanagan 2,990 ✅
Clifford Augustine Greer Co-operative Commonwealth Federation New Westminster (BC) 2,967 ❌
Herbert Gargrave Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Mackenzie (BC) 2,961 ✅
Robert Henry Carson Coalition Kamloops (BC) 2,804 ✅
Bernard George Webber Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Similkameen 2,591 ❌
Charles Taschereau Beard Coalition Esquimalt 2,568 ✅
Joseph White Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nanaimo and the Islands 2,547 ❌
William Vernon Thomson Coalition Mackenzie (BC) 2,313 ❌
William Thomas Richardson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Chilliwack 2,295 ❌
James Mowat Coalition Alberni 2,135 ✅
Nigel Morgan Labour Progressive Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 2,101 ❌
Frank William Green Coalition Cranbrook 2,077 ✅
Gladys Adelia Webster Co-operative Commonwealth Federation South Okanagan 2,062 ❌
William Cunningham People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Rossland-Trail 2,060 ❌
Henry George Webber Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Esquimalt 1,989 ❌
Henry Gammon Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cranbrook 1,965 ❌
George Richmond Williams Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kamloops (BC) 1,893 ❌
William Henry Brett Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Prince Rupert 1,873 ✅
Maurice Rush Labour Progressive Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,866 ❌
John McInnis Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fort George 1,726 ✅
Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Peace River (BC) 1,682 ✅
Leonard Warner Wood Co-operative Commonwealth Federation North Okanagan 1,582 ❌
Arthur Brown Ritchie Coalition Salmon Arm 1,560 ✅
Harold James Pritchett Labour Progressive Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,541 ❌
Henry George Thomas Perry Coalition Fort George 1,371 ❌
Louis LeBourdais Coalition Cariboo (BC) 1,370 ✅
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo Independent Prince Rupert 1,348 ❌
Thomas Aubert Uphill Labour/Independent Party Fernie 1,289 ✅
Thomas Speakman Barnett Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Alberni 1,258 ❌
Charles MacGregor Stewart Labour Progressive Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,257 ❌
Howard Phillips Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nelson-Creston 1,249 ❌
Ernest Crawford Carson Coalition Lillooet 1,143 ✅
Howard Guthrie Atkinson Coalition Peace River (BC) 1,117 ❌
Randolph Harding Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Kaslo-Slocan 1,098 ✅
William James Johnson Coalition Revelstoke 1,089 ✅
John Joseph Alban Gillis Coalition Yale (BC) 1,077 ✅
Janet Jean Mason Labour Progressive Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 1,042 ❌
George Faulds Stirling Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Salmon Arm 1,040 ❌
Vincent Segur Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Revelstoke 1,039 ❌
Kenny Nash Stewart Coalition Fernie 1,018 ❌
Charles Archibald Thomas Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cariboo (BC) 995 ❌
Clare Nulalinda McAllister Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Oak Bay (BC) 988 ❌
Sidney Percy Zlotnik Labour Progressive Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 988 ❌
Charles Sidney Leary Coalition Kaslo-Slocan 969 ❌
Rupert Williams Haggen Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Rossland-Trail 933 ❌
Edward Fraser Rowland Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Omineca 932 ✅
Edward Tourtellote Kenney Coalition Skeena (BC) 901 ✅
Alexander Lorenzo Gordon Labour Progressive Party Vancouver-Point Grey 878 ❌
Mark Matthew Connelly Coalition Omineca 875 ❌
John Goss Labour Progressive Party Vancouver-Point Grey 830 ❌
Charles Radcliffe Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Lillooet 823 ❌
William John Gordon Martin Labour Progressive Party Vancouver-Point Grey 764 ❌
Elizabeth Wilson Labour Progressive Party Burnaby (BC) 744 ❌
Andrew Henry Jukes Social Credit Victoria City (BC) 743 ❌
Kenneth Claude Minifie Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Fernie 742 ❌
Thomas Alexander McEwen Labour Progressive Party Comox 729 ❌
Peter Stewart Beatt People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Nelson-Creston 726 ❌
Margaret Teresa Lally Murray Social Credit Peace River (BC) 716 ❌
Thomas Alfred Love Coalition Grand Forks-Greenwood 707 ✅
Thomas King Coalition Columbia 671 ✅
Peer Vernon Paynter Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 668 ❌
Austin E Delany Labour Progressive Party North Vancouver (BC) 646 ❌
Floyd Forester Frank Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Skeena (BC) 634 ❌
Claude Delbert Powell Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 625 ❌
Charles MacGregor Stewart Labour Progressive Party New Westminster (BC) 595 ❌
Thomas James Alton Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Columbia 588 ❌
Alfred Dewhurst Labour Progressive Party Alberni 559 ❌
James William Wardrop Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 551 ❌
Bruce Edmon Mickleburgh Labour Progressive Party Prince Rupert 538 ❌
Angus Hugh McIssac Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Yale (BC) 536 ❌
Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 511 ❌
Ellen Hart Independent Progressive Conservative Victoria City (BC) 473 ❌
John Townley Rezeau Lawrence Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Grand Forks-Greenwood 461 ❌
Carl J Julson Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 448 ❌
Robert Joseph Kerr Labour Progressive Party Victoria City (BC) 436 ❌
Oswald Scheir Social Credit North Okanagan 430 ❌
William Richard Smith Democratic Party of Canada Vancouver-Point Grey 423 ❌
Arthur C Rowe Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 372 ❌
Gordon Victor Towle Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 333 ❌
Lyle Campbell Social Credit Burnaby (BC) 298 ❌
William Duncan Smith Coalition Atlin 297 ✅
Stephen Coray Campbell Labour Progressive Party Mackenzie (BC) 293 ❌
Norman Cunningham Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Atlin 292 ❌
Stanley Earl Wilcox Social Credit North Vancouver (BC) 280 ❌
Loudon Hope MacQueen Independent Progressive Conservative Saanich 275 ❌
Horton George Layton Social Credit Rossland-Trail 261 ❌
William Broadhurst White Labour Progressive Party Saanich 239 ❌
William Raymond McKay Independent Liberal Vancouver Centre (BC) 199 ❌
John Fossmark Jacobsen Social Credit Lillooet 196 ❌
William Brown Labour Progressive Party Cranbrook 193 ❌
Frank Frisby Independent Nelson-Creston 184 ❌
Charles Herbert Cook Labour Progressive Party Kamloops (BC) 156 ❌
Horace Warner Socialist Labour Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 122 ❌
John Alexander Fedoruk Socialist Labour Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 107 ❌
Charles Westley Clark Labour/Independent Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 106 ❌
Weldon Forest Mulligan Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 106 ❌
Raymond Harold MacLeod Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver Centre (BC) 105 ❌
George Henry Broughton Social Credit Nanaimo and the Islands 89 ❌
Allan Conway Clapp Labour Progressive Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 84 ❌
George Matheson Murray Progressive Liberal Lillooet 61 ❌
Robert Gordon McQuillan Socialist Labour Party Vancouver East (BC) 56 ❌

Districts

Alberni
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 28 elections (1890–1996)

James Mowat · Coalition

2,135 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

William Duncan Smith · Coalition

297 votes
Burnaby (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Ernest Edward Winch · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

5,905 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Louis LeBourdais · Coalition

1,370 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

Leslie Harvey Eyres · Coalition

3,804 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Herbert John Welch · Coalition

3,432 votes
Cranbrook
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Frank William Green · Coalition

2,077 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Alexander Campbell Hope · Coalition

5,859 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Roderick Charles MacDonald · Coalition

4,586 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Charles Taschereau Beard · Coalition

2,568 votes
Fernie
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas Aubert Uphill · Labour/Independent Party

1,289 votes
Fort George
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1916–1975)

John McInnis · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

1,726 votes
Grand Forks-Greenwood
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Thomas Alfred Love · Coalition

707 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

Robert Henry Carson · Coalition

2,804 votes
Kaslo-Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Randolph Harding · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

1,098 votes
Lillooet
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Ernest Crawford Carson · Coalition

1,143 votes
Mackenzie (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1924–1986)

Herbert Gargrave · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

2,961 votes
Nelson-Creston
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1933–2020)

Frank Putnam · Coalition

3,055 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

Byron Ingemar Johnson · Coalition

4,900 votes
North Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1916–1986)

Kenneth MacDonald · Coalition

2,990 votes
North Vancouver (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1916–1963)

John Henry Cates · Coalition

5,912 votes
Oak Bay (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1941–1975)

Herbert Anscomb · Coalition

4,598 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Edward Fraser Rowland · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

932 votes
Peace River (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1933–1953)

Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

1,682 votes
Prince Rupert
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

William Henry Brett · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

1,873 votes
Rossland-Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1924–1996)

James Lockhart Webster · Coalition

3,171 votes
Salmon Arm
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Arthur Brown Ritchie · Coalition

1,560 votes
Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Reginald Robert Laird · Coalition

3,447 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

Edward Tourtellote Kenney · Coalition

901 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

William Andrew Cecil Bennett · Coalition

3,706 votes
Vancouver-Burrard (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1933–2005)

George Moir Weir · Coalition

14,938 votes
Vancouver Centre (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Gordon Sylvester Wismer · Coalition

10,878 votes
Vancouver East (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Harold Edward Winch · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

13,421 votes
Vancouver-Point Grey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 26 elections (1933–2024)

Tilly Jean Rolston · Coalition

22,152 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas King · Coalition

671 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

John Joseph Alban Gillis · Coalition

1,077 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

John Hart · Coalition

10,757 votes
Cowichan-Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Samuel Guthrie · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

3,768 votes
Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

William James Johnson · Coalition

1,089 votes
Nanaimo and the Islands
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 8 elections (1941–1963)

George Sharratt Pearson · Coalition

3,124 votes
Saanich
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Norman William Whittaker · Coalition

5,414 votes

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