September 12 1966 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1966-09-12
Writ Date 1966-08-05
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

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Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 7,479
Invalid Votes 4,722
Total Electors 873,927
Turnout Rate 69
Valid Ballots 606,029
Valid Votes 751,876

Notes

  • References: Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986. Prepared by Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library (ISBN 0-7718-8677-2).

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Liberal Party 53 6 10.91% 20.24%
Communist Party of Canada 6 0 0.00% 0.15%
Independent 6 0 0.00% 0.23%
New Democratic Party 55 16 29.09% 33.62%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 3 0 0.00% 0.19%
Social Credit 55 33 60.00% 45.59%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Patrick Lucey McGeer British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 17,400 ✅
Garde Basil Gardom British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 13,507 ✅
William Neelands Chant Social Credit Victoria (BC) 13,068 ✅
Alexander Barrett Macdonald New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 12,502 ✅
Leslie Raymond Peterson Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 12,380 ✅
Ralph Raymond Loffmark Social Credit Vancouver South 12,259 ✅
Robert Arthur Williams New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 12,185 ✅
Waldo McTavish Skillings Social Credit Victoria (BC) 12,156 ✅
Thomas Audley Bate Social Credit Vancouver South 11,740 ✅
Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 11,566 ✅
Robert William Bonner Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 11,494 ❌
Thomas Rodney Berger New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,849 ✅
David Barrett New Democratic Party Coquitlam 9,517 ✅
Raymond Parkinson New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,498 ✅
Lawrence Edward Ranta Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 9,284 ❌
Norman Levi New Democratic Party Vancouver South 9,067 ❌
Joseph Harold Warnock New Democratic Party Vancouver South 8,843 ❌
William Andrew Cecil Bennett Social Credit South Okanagan 8,747 ✅
James Morris Kennedy Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 8,644 ❌
Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 8,620 ❌
Allan Edward Morgan Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 8,593 ❌
Robert Eugene Clair New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 8,523 ❌
Louis Allan Williams British Columbia Liberal Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 8,346 ✅
Harold Peter Capozzi Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 8,157 ✅
Alan Brock Macfarlane British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay (BC) 8,118 ✅
Evan Maurice Wolfe Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,938 ✅
Robert Lloyd Wenman Social Credit Delta 7,768 ✅
William Kenneth Kiernan Social Credit Chilliwack 7,703 ✅
Albert Thomas Alsbury Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 7,584 ❌
Bert Price Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 7,584 ❌
Paul A Phillip New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,257 ❌
John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle Social Credit Saanich and the Islands (BC) 7,237 ✅
Richard Hunter Vogel Social Credit Langley 7,206 ✅
Ernest Hall New Democratic Party Surrey 7,039 ✅
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly New Democratic Party Burnaby North 6,984 ✅
F C Christopher Huddlestan New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 6,871 ❌
Francis Xavier Richter Social Credit Boundary-Similkameen 6,547 ✅
Ernest A LeCours Social Credit Richmond (BC) 6,521 ✅
George Mussallem Social Credit Dewdney 6,507 ✅
Raymond Joseph Perrault British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Capilano 6,426 ✅
Ray Gillis Williston Social Credit Fort George 6,282 ✅
Roderick Anthony Archer Social Credit Surrey 6,254 ❌
Frederick Justin Vulliamy New Democratic Party Burnaby-Willingdon 6,153 ✅
Robert Alexander McMath New Democratic Party Richmond (BC) 6,149 ❌
Jack Howard Thomas New Democratic Party Delta 6,078 ❌
Herbert Joseph Bruch Social Credit Esquimalt 6,075 ✅
René Jules Gamache Social Credit Coquitlam 6,065 ❌
Howard Richmond McDiarmid Social Credit Alberni 6,039 ✅
Charles McGregor Ennals Social Credit Oak Bay (BC) 5,808 ❌
Philip Arthur Gaglardi Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 5,753 ✅
John McRae Eddie New Democratic Party New Westminster (BC) 5,751 ✅
Gordon Hudson Dowding New Democratic Party Burnaby-Edmonds 5,748 ✅
James Ronald Grant British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 5,698 ❌
Richard Gordon Hepworth British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 5,675 ❌
Robert Martin Strachan New Democratic Party Cowichan-Malahat 5,646 ✅
Charles Willoughby MacSorley Social Credit Burnaby-Willingdon 5,629 ❌
David Daniel Stupich New Democratic Party Nanaimo (BC) 5,625 ✅
Donald Leslie Brothers Social Credit Rossland-Trail 5,600 ✅
Frank James Ney Social Credit Nanaimo (BC) 5,580 ❌
Edith Maud Corrigan Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 5,552 ❌
Lawrence Smith Eckardt Social Credit West Vancouver-Howe Sound 5,499 ❌
Daniel Robert John Campbell Social Credit Comox 5,449 ✅
Harold Tuttle Allen New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 5,304 ❌
Barrie Aird Clarke British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Seymour 5,301 ✅
Dorcas Blair New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 5,175 ❌
Inez Louise Whiffin Social Credit Burnaby North 5,105 ❌
Isabel Pearl Dawson Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 4,945 ✅
John W Porteous British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 4,774 ❌
Wesley Drewett Black Social Credit Nelson-Creston 4,683 ✅
Edward Charles Sweeney British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 4,681 ❌
John Andrew Ferris Playfair Social Credit Burnaby-Edmonds 4,630 ❌
Murdo Frazer Social Credit North Vancouver-Seymour 4,607 ❌
Frank D Preston British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 4,597 ❌
William R Franklin New Democratic Party Dewdney 4,528 ❌
Patrick James Rogers Social Credit Cowichan-Malahat 4,412 ❌
Stanley John Squire New Democratic Party Alberni 4,321 ❌
Neville Shanks New Democratic Party Comox 4,308 ❌
Jean Marguerite Crowley British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 4,270 ❌
William Griffiths Black British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 4,147 ❌
Willis Franklin Jefcoat Social Credit Shuswap 3,995 ✅
Kenwood Pugsley Social Credit North Vancouver-Capilano 3,976 ❌
Martin Thomas New Democratic Party Langley 3,899 ❌
William Leonard Hartley New Democratic Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 3,885 ✅
Patricia Jane Jordan Social Credit North Okanagan 3,841 ✅
William Collins Speare Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 3,830 ✅
Edwin Wallace Haw New Democratic Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 3,821 ❌
Phillip James Lipp British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 3,803 ❌
Lois Mabel Haggen New Democratic Party Boundary-Similkameen 3,669 ❌
Leo Thomas Nimsick New Democratic Party Kootenay 3,605 ✅
Anthony John Gargrave New Democratic Party Mackenzie (BC) 3,586 ❌
John E Bartanus New Democratic Party Esquimalt 3,445 ❌
James McGeer Campbell British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 3,401 ❌
Lance Randle New Democratic Party Kamloops (BC) 3,237 ❌
Robert Brennan British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 3,190 ❌
Harry Greene New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Seymour 3,137 ❌
Irvine Finlay Corbett Social Credit Yale-Lillooet (BC) 3,131 ❌
William Kerr New Democratic Party Chilliwack 3,081 ❌
Robert Owen Jones Social Credit Kootenay 3,070 ❌
Dudley George Little Social Credit Skeena (BC) 3,046 ✅
Eduard Marcus Lavalle New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 2,934 ❌
Donald Garth Brown New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 2,853 ❌
Patrick Ivan McConnell Denton New Democratic Party Fort George 2,802 ❌
Frederick Higgs British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 2,681 ❌
William Harvey Murray Social Credit Prince Rupert 2,647 ✅
Alver Birger Holm New Democratic Party Shuswap 2,595 ❌
Donald McGray Phillips Social Credit South Peace River 2,585 ✅
Hartley Douglas Dent New Democratic Party Cariboo (BC) 2,530 ❌
Edward B Campbell New Democratic Party Rossland-Trail 2,453 ❌
Frank F Becker British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 2,408 ❌
John A McKernan British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 2,381 ❌
Cyril Morley Shelford Social Credit Omineca 2,337 ✅
John James Munro New Democratic Party Nelson-Creston 2,324 ❌
Randolph Harding New Democratic Party Revelstoke-Slocan 2,158 ✅
Henry Cartmell McKay British Columbia Liberal Party Kootenay 2,123 ❌
James Martin Clark British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Willingdon 2,053 ❌
Burton Peter Campbell Social Credit Revelstoke-Slocan 2,020 ❌
Nickolas Harvey Kalyk British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 2,000 ❌
James William C McKenzie New Democratic Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 1,975 ❌
Charles Samuel Fowler British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 1,960 ❌
Ralph Wolloschuk British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby North 1,957 ❌
George Garrett British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 1,954 ❌
Thomas Rose New Democratic Party South Okanagan 1,936 ❌
David Alexander Elrix British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 1,867 ❌
Martin Sidney Toren New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Capilano 1,816 ❌
John E Lennox New Democratic Party Prince Rupert 1,813 ❌
Dean Edward Smith Social Credit North Peace River 1,799 ✅
Ronald Douglas New Democratic Party Skeena (BC) 1,742 ❌
Eileen Marguerite Ripley British Columbia Liberal Party Coquitlam 1,658 ❌
John Joseph Fedyk British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,637 ❌
John Victor Hyde Wilson British Columbia Liberal Party Boundary-Similkameen 1,594 ❌
Harry Pedrini British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,583 ❌
Robert James Cooper British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 1,577 ❌
James Roland Chabot Social Credit Columbia River 1,563 ✅
James McAnulty New Democratic Party North Okanagan 1,535 ❌
David Maurice Mercier British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Edmonds 1,423 ❌
Lillian Louise Lancaster British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 1,411 ❌
Henry Allan Hope British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,313 ❌
Joseph J Cvetkovich British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 1,276 ❌
Leo Joseph Matte British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 1,274 ❌
Roy Leslie McConnell British Columbia Liberal Party Langley 1,260 ❌
Renaldo Angelo Masi British Columbia Liberal Party Surrey 1,234 ❌
Thomas H Davison British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 1,146 ❌
Cornelius Bergen New Democratic Party Omineca 994 ❌
Mira V Yarwood New Democratic Party Oak Bay (BC) 976 ❌
Philip Govan Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 921 ❌
Anne MacRae MacLeod Vogel British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson-Creston 892 ❌
Vera Daphne Peel Phillips British Columbia Liberal Party South Peace River 888 ❌
Joseph L Benner British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 855 ❌
Raymond Clarence Cowan New Democratic Party South Peace River 851 ❌
Joseph Haddock British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan-Malahat 783 ❌
Donald Sherwood McTavish British Columbia Liberal Party Shuswap 760 ❌
Ronald Charles Mackey British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 719 ❌
William Ivor Donald British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 711 ❌
Robert Keenleyside British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia River 634 ❌
Jacob Francis Huhn Independent North Peace River 583 ❌
Frank Arthur Calder New Democratic Party Atlin 572 ✅
Leith Douglas Boulter British Columbia Liberal Party North Peace River 565 ❌
George Wilfred Laforme British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke-Slocan 548 ❌
Neil Fergus MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 544 ❌
Robert Paul Goseltine British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 516 ❌
George McLean British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 511 ❌
Douglas George Pomeroy New Democratic Party North Peace River 511 ❌
Howard Leonard Faulkner Independent Vancouver South 502 ❌
Chris Madson New Democratic Party Columbia River 477 ❌
Homer John Stevens Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 377 ❌
Thomas James Kirkwood Social Credit Atlin 261 ❌
Donald Clarke Paterson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver-Capilano 261 ❌
Robert Lyle Angus Independent North Peace River 256 ❌
James William Beynon Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 253 ❌
Ernest Leon Knott Communist Party of Canada Victoria (BC) 241 ❌
Robert H Wood Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver-Seymour 227 ❌
Gerard A Goeujon Independent Vancouver Centre (BC) 144 ❌
Robin Roy Dalziel British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 125 ❌
Ellwood Charles Rice Independent North Okanagan 121 ❌
Maurice Rush Communist Party of Canada North Vancouver-Seymour 110 ❌
David Roy Collier Independent Revelstoke-Slocan 105 ❌
Jean Maryl McLaren Communist Party of Canada Surrey 77 ❌
Orville Blake Mowers Communist Party of Canada Shuswap 39 ❌

Districts

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

Howard Richmond McDiarmid · Social Credit

6,039 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Frank Arthur Calder · New Democratic Party

572 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

William Collins Speare · Social Credit

3,830 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

William Kenneth Kiernan · Social Credit

7,703 votes
Columbia River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

James Roland Chabot · Social Credit

1,563 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Daniel Robert John Campbell · Social Credit

5,449 votes
Cowichan-Malahat
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Robert Martin Strachan · New Democratic Party

5,646 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Robert Lloyd Wenman · Social Credit

7,768 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

George Mussallem · Social Credit

6,507 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Herbert Joseph Bruch · Social Credit

6,075 votes
Fort George
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1916–1975)

Ray Gillis Williston · Social Credit

6,282 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

Philip Arthur Gaglardi · Social Credit

5,753 votes
Mackenzie (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1924–1986)

Isabel Pearl Dawson · Social Credit

4,945 votes
Nanaimo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1871–2020)

David Daniel Stupich · New Democratic Party

5,625 votes
Nelson-Creston
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1933–2020)

Wesley Drewett Black · Social Credit

4,683 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

John McRae Eddie · New Democratic Party

5,751 votes
North Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1916–1986)

Patricia Jane Jordan · Social Credit

3,841 votes
North Peace River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1986)

Dean Edward Smith · Social Credit

1,799 votes
Oak Bay (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1941–1975)

Alan Brock Macfarlane · British Columbia Liberal Party

8,118 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Cyril Morley Shelford · Social Credit

2,337 votes
Prince Rupert
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

William Harvey Murray · Social Credit

2,647 votes
Revelstoke-Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1966–1975)

Randolph Harding · New Democratic Party

2,158 votes
Rossland-Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1924–1996)

Donald Leslie Brothers · Social Credit

5,600 votes
Saanich and the Islands (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle · Social Credit

7,237 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

Dudley George Little · Social Credit

3,046 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

William Andrew Cecil Bennett · Social Credit

8,747 votes
South Peace River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1986)

Donald McGray Phillips · Social Credit

2,585 votes
Vancouver Centre (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Evan Maurice Wolfe · Social Credit

7,938 votes
Vancouver East (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Robert Arthur Williams · New Democratic Party

12,185 votes
Vancouver-Burrard (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1933–2005)

Raymond Parkinson · New Democratic Party

9,498 votes
Vancouver-Point Grey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 26 elections (1933–2024)

Patrick Lucey McGeer · British Columbia Liberal Party

17,400 votes
Victoria (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1871–1986)

Waldo McTavish Skillings · Social Credit

12,156 votes
Yale-Lillooet (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1966–2005)

William Leonard Hartley · New Democratic Party

3,885 votes
Boundary-Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1966–2024)

Francis Xavier Richter · Social Credit

6,547 votes
Burnaby-Edmonds
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 15 elections (1966–2020)

Gordon Hudson Dowding · New Democratic Party

5,748 votes
Burnaby North
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 16 elections (1966–2024)

Eileen Elizabeth Dailly · New Democratic Party

6,984 votes
Burnaby-Willingdon
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1966–2005)

Frederick Justin Vulliamy · New Democratic Party

6,153 votes
Coquitlam
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1966–1975)

David Barrett · New Democratic Party

9,517 votes
Kootenay
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1871–1996)

Leo Thomas Nimsick · New Democratic Party

3,605 votes
Langley
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 15 elections (1966–2020)

Richard Hunter Vogel · Social Credit

7,206 votes
North Vancouver-Capilano
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Raymond Joseph Perrault · British Columbia Liberal Party

6,426 votes
North Vancouver-Seymour
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 16 elections (1966–2024)

Barrie Aird Clarke · British Columbia Liberal Party

5,301 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

Ernest A LeCours · Social Credit

6,521 votes
Surrey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1966–1983)

Ernest Hall · New Democratic Party

7,039 votes
Vancouver-Little Mountain
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1966–2024)

Leslie Raymond Peterson · Social Credit

12,380 votes
Vancouver South
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Ralph Raymond Loffmark · Social Credit

12,259 votes
West Vancouver-Howe Sound
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Louis Allan Williams · British Columbia Liberal Party

8,346 votes
Shuswap
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1966–2020)

Willis Franklin Jefcoat · Social Credit

3,995 votes

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