August 27 1969 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1969-08-27
Writ Date 1969-07-21
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

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Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 9,011
Invalid Votes 6,687
Total Electors 1,152,598
Turnout Rate 68
Valid Ballots 786,603
Valid Votes 978,356

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 55 5 9.09% 19.04%
Communist Party of Canada 4 0 0.00% 0.05%
Independent 6 0 0.00% 0.08%
New Democratic Party 55 12 21.82% 33.92%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 1 0 0.00% 0.11%
Social Conservative Party 1 0 0.00% 0.01%
Social Credit 55 38 69.09% 46.79%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
William Neelands Chant Social Credit Victoria (BC) 15,899 ✅
Patrick Lucey McGeer British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 15,650 ✅
Waldo McTavish Skillings Social Credit Victoria (BC) 15,443 ✅
Ralph Raymond Loffmark Social Credit Vancouver South 15,154 ✅
Leslie Raymond Peterson Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 14,292 ✅
Agnes Kripps Social Credit Vancouver South 14,233 ✅
Robert Lloyd Wenman Social Credit Delta 14,145 ✅
Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 14,044 ✅
Garde Basil Gardom British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 13,621 ✅
William Andrew Cecil Bennett Social Credit South Okanagan 13,074 ✅
Alexander Barrett Macdonald New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 13,006 ✅
David Barrett New Democratic Party Coquitlam 12,948 ✅
William George Rathie Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 12,811 ❌
Robert Arthur Williams New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 12,768 ✅
Charles Randolph Widman Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 11,820 ❌
William Kenneth Kiernan Social Credit Chilliwack 11,747 ✅
Norman Levi New Democratic Party Vancouver South 11,259 ❌
Harold James Merilees Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,815 ✅
Harold Peter Capozzi Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 10,751 ✅
Evan Maurice Wolfe Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 10,711 ✅
Richard Hunter Vogel Social Credit Langley 10,613 ✅
John Noel Laxton New Democratic Party Vancouver South 10,523 ❌
Bert Price Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,460 ✅
Thomas Rodney Berger New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 10,181 ❌
Ray Gillis Williston Social Credit Fort George 10,152 ✅
Arthur Berg Jacobson Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 9,997 ❌
Max Edward Meyer Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 9,905 ❌
John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle Social Credit Saanich and the Islands (BC) 9,888 ✅
Carl Oswald Liden New Democratic Party Delta 9,855 ❌
Raymond Parkinson New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 9,698 ❌
George Scott Wallace Social Credit Oak Bay (BC) 9,542 ✅
Ernest A LeCours Social Credit Richmond (BC) 9,521 ✅
Emery Oakland Barnes New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 9,446 ❌
William Herbert Deverell New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 9,441 ❌
Ernest Hall New Democratic Party Surrey 9,398 ✅
Richard Melville Rockwell New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 9,020 ❌
Louis Allan Williams British Columbia Liberal Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 8,974 ✅
Francis Xavier Richter Social Credit Boundary-Similkameen 8,944 ✅
Anthony Hatcher Social Credit Surrey 8,921 ❌
Dennis Frank Mulroney New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 8,913 ❌
Herbert Joseph Bruch Social Credit Esquimalt 8,532 ✅
Peter G Bunn New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 8,517 ❌
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly New Democratic Party Burnaby North 8,365 ✅
Frank James Ney Social Credit Nanaimo (BC) 8,252 ✅
George Mussallem Social Credit Dewdney 8,243 ✅
Poul E Hansen Social Credit Coquitlam 8,195 ❌
Harold Leslie Steves New Democratic Party Richmond (BC) 8,099 ❌
James Philip Fawcett New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 8,006 ❌
Daniel Robert John Campbell Social Credit Comox 7,910 ✅
David Daniel Stupich New Democratic Party Nanaimo (BC) 7,790 ❌
Philip Arthur Gaglardi Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 7,572 ✅
James Gibson Lorimer New Democratic Party Burnaby-Willingdon 7,459 ✅
Leonard Joseph Corcoran Social Credit West Vancouver-Howe Sound 7,433 ❌
Robert Martin Strachan New Democratic Party Cowichan-Malahat 7,411 ✅
Dennis Geoffrey Cocke New Democratic Party New Westminster (BC) 7,280 ✅
Barrie Aird Clarke British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Seymour 7,219 ✅
Howard Richmond McDiarmid Social Credit Alberni 7,209 ✅
David Maurice Brousson British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Capilano 7,175 ✅
John Earl Edmondson Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 7,161 ❌
Harry Harris New Democratic Party Comox 7,131 ❌
Charles McGregor Ennals Social Credit Cowichan-Malahat 7,107 ❌
Donald Inge Johannessen New Democratic Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 6,978 ❌
James William Daly Social Credit Burnaby-Willingdon 6,902 ❌
Gordon Hudson Dowding New Democratic Party Burnaby-Edmonds 6,791 ✅
Stanley John Squire New Democratic Party Alberni 6,680 ❌
Edward Alastair Sandy Robertson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 6,670 ❌
Allan Leslie Cox British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay (BC) 6,656 ❌
Patricia Jane Jordan Social Credit North Okanagan 6,610 ✅
Donald Leslie Brothers Social Credit Rossland-Trail 6,230 ✅
Hugh Walker Social Credit Burnaby North 6,180 ❌
Michael Henry Hornby Tytherleigh British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 6,059 ❌
Michael Forrest Angus British Columbia Liberal Party Coquitlam 6,018 ❌
Stuart Malcolm Leggatt New Democratic Party Dewdney 5,980 ❌
Annis Stukus Social Credit North Vancouver-Seymour 5,939 ❌
Wesley Drewett Black Social Credit Nelson-Creston 5,849 ✅
John Robert Chalk Social Credit Burnaby-Edmonds 5,839 ❌
Alexander Vaughn Fraser Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 5,766 ✅
James Henry Gorst New Democratic Party Esquimalt 5,718 ❌
Isabel Pearl Dawson Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 5,687 ✅
Donald Frederick Lockstead New Democratic Party Mackenzie (BC) 5,501 ❌
Glenn C Haddrell New Democratic Party Langley 5,454 ❌
Ian Hugh Stewart British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 5,334 ❌
John Rodney Dickinson New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Seymour 5,325 ❌
Lorne Albert Montaine Social Credit North Vancouver-Capilano 5,084 ❌
Dudley George Little Social Credit Skeena (BC) 5,044 ✅
Peter Hector Pearse British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 4,994 ❌
Neville Langrell Barlee New Democratic Party Boundary-Similkameen 4,957 ❌
Thomas Greer MacKenzie New Democratic Party Rossland-Trail 4,948 ❌
Malcolm Bates Bryson British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 4,860 ❌
Robert Harry Beattie British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 4,851 ❌
Willis Franklin Jefcoat Social Credit Shuswap 4,809 ✅
Kenneth Baird Farris British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 4,630 ❌
Daniel Terence Devlin British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 4,551 ❌
Melville Bertram Couvelier British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 4,497 ❌
Robert Garry Miller British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 4,454 ❌
James Andrew Jacobs New Democratic Party Kamloops (BC) 4,351 ❌
Lorne James Nicolson New Democratic Party Nelson-Creston 4,285 ❌
Leo Thomas Nimsick New Democratic Party Kootenay 4,282 ✅
Alan Frederick Bush New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 4,268 ❌
J Harry Broadhurst Social Credit Kootenay 4,267 ❌
Donald Albert Marshall Social Credit South Peace River 4,267 ✅
John Lucas Whittaker New Democratic Party Fort George 4,196 ❌
Leonard Donald Fong British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 4,171 ❌
James Harold Robertson New Democratic Party Skeena (BC) 4,059 ❌
John Kendrick Macey New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 3,939 ❌
Dean Edward Smith Social Credit North Peace River 3,877 ✅
William Leonard Hartley New Democratic Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 3,799 ✅
Frank Edward Hollins New Democratic Party Chilliwack 3,688 ❌
Bruce Edwin Leggett New Democratic Party Shuswap 3,608 ❌
Doral Hemm British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 3,545 ❌
Irvine Finlay Corbett Social Credit Yale-Lillooet (BC) 3,414 ❌
Thelma Johnstone British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 3,372 ❌
Dennis Douglas George Milne British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 3,368 ❌
Louis Frederick Lindholm British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 3,312 ❌
Cyril Morley Shelford Social Credit Omineca 3,252 ✅
William Harvey Murray Social Credit Prince Rupert 3,114 ✅
Burton Peter Campbell Social Credit Revelstoke-Slocan 3,103 ✅
Eva A Pfeifer New Democratic Party South Okanagan 3,078 ❌
David Walter Gibbons British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Willingdon 3,008 ❌
Kirby Gerald Seabrook New Democratic Party Cariboo (BC) 2,961 ❌
William Basil Mundy New Democratic Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 2,939 ❌
James Douglas Manly New Democratic Party Prince Rupert 2,853 ❌
Harold Kenny Maddison British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby North 2,816 ❌
William Stewart King New Democratic Party Revelstoke-Slocan 2,611 ❌
Henry Nelson British Columbia Liberal Party Kootenay 2,604 ❌
Allan Jarvis Duplissie New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Capilano 2,591 ❌
Donald Grant MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party Boundary-Similkameen 2,575 ❌
Mary Gertrude Gibson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 2,398 ❌
Kenneth Jessiman British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 2,366 ❌
David Zirnhelt British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 2,351 ❌
James Morrison British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 2,320 ❌
Olga Ruth Henrietta Chown British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 2,303 ❌
Colleen Wilhelmina Pringle New Democratic Party North Okanagan 2,278 ❌
Robert Rumley Walsh British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Edmonds 2,162 ❌
Robert Richard Neil British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 2,127 ❌
John Crawford McKenzie New Democratic Party Oak Bay (BC) 2,105 ❌
Peter Macaulay McDonald British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 1,987 ❌
Frederick Henry Phillips British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 1,971 ❌
Robert Dickson Knox British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 1,957 ❌
George Henry Barclay Preston British Columbia Liberal Party Langley 1,951 ❌
James Roland Chabot Social Credit Columbia River 1,818 ✅
Douglas Tynwald Kelly New Democratic Party Omineca 1,607 ❌
Robert Jacobs British Columbia Liberal Party Surrey 1,581 ❌
Peter James Lester British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,488 ❌
Lorne Edward Ross British Columbia Liberal Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 1,460 ❌
Eugene Edward Romaniuk British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 1,424 ❌
Richard Lloyd Askew British Columbia Liberal Party Shuswap 1,371 ❌
Joseph Remesz British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 1,359 ❌
Tex Cyril Enemark British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,291 ❌
Robert Douglas Forrest British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 1,287 ❌
Elden Raymond Adams New Democratic Party South Peace River 1,210 ❌
John Anthony St. Etienne DeWolfe Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 1,087 ❌
Douglas George Pomeroy New Democratic Party North Peace River 933 ❌
James Robert Bigsby British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan-Malahat 916 ❌
Kurt Theodor Kolterhoff British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 748 ❌
William Richard Batten British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia River 726 ❌
Robert Steven Plecas British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 722 ❌
Louis William Freno British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson-Creston 689 ❌
Ian David Jack New Democratic Party Columbia River 687 ❌
Frank Arthur Calder New Democratic Party Atlin 639 ✅
Phillip Sydney Sykes British Columbia Liberal Party South Peace River 590 ❌
Leith Douglas Boulter British Columbia Liberal Party North Peace River 484 ❌
Michael Chunys British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 472 ❌
Douglas Charles Stewart British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke-Slocan 416 ❌
Basil Edward Studer British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 334 ❌
Dell Campbell Valair Independent Rossland-Trail 298 ❌
William Alfred Scott Independent Victoria (BC) 259 ❌
Peter John Curran Social Credit Atlin 230 ❌
Nigel Morgan Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 203 ❌
Ernest Francis Crist Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 159 ❌
Jacob Gerhard Hildebrand Social Conservative Party Shuswap 131 ❌
Suraj Singh Sander Independent Vancouver South 80 ❌
Kenneth Leslie Craig Hasanen Independent Cowichan-Malahat 76 ❌
Roderick Douglas Falconer Independent Prince Rupert 64 ❌
William John Turner Communist Party of Canada Burnaby-Edmonds 63 ❌
Roderick Doran Communist Party of Canada New Westminster (BC) 57 ❌
Lionel Vincent Hodgson Independent Vancouver East (BC) 54 ❌

Districts

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

Howard Richmond McDiarmid · Social Credit

7,209 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Frank Arthur Calder · New Democratic Party

639 votes
Boundary-Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1966–2024)

Francis Xavier Richter · Social Credit

8,944 votes
Burnaby North
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 16 elections (1966–2024)

Eileen Elizabeth Dailly · New Democratic Party

8,365 votes
Burnaby-Edmonds
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 15 elections (1966–2020)

Gordon Hudson Dowding · New Democratic Party

6,791 votes
Burnaby-Willingdon
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1966–2005)

James Gibson Lorimer · New Democratic Party

7,459 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Alexander Vaughn Fraser · Social Credit

5,766 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

William Kenneth Kiernan · Social Credit

11,747 votes
Columbia River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

James Roland Chabot · Social Credit

1,818 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Daniel Robert John Campbell · Social Credit

7,910 votes
Coquitlam
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1966–1975)

David Barrett · New Democratic Party

12,948 votes
Cowichan-Malahat
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Robert Martin Strachan · New Democratic Party

7,411 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Robert Lloyd Wenman · Social Credit

14,145 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

George Mussallem · Social Credit

8,243 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Herbert Joseph Bruch · Social Credit

8,532 votes
Fort George
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1916–1975)

Ray Gillis Williston · Social Credit

10,152 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

Philip Arthur Gaglardi · Social Credit

7,572 votes
Kootenay
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1871–1996)

Leo Thomas Nimsick · New Democratic Party

4,282 votes
Langley
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 15 elections (1966–2020)

Richard Hunter Vogel · Social Credit

10,613 votes
Mackenzie (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1924–1986)

Isabel Pearl Dawson · Social Credit

5,687 votes
Nanaimo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1871–2020)

Frank James Ney · Social Credit

8,252 votes
Nelson-Creston
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1933–2020)

Wesley Drewett Black · Social Credit

5,849 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

Dennis Geoffrey Cocke · New Democratic Party

7,280 votes
North Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1916–1986)

Patricia Jane Jordan · Social Credit

6,610 votes
North Peace River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1986)

Dean Edward Smith · Social Credit

3,877 votes
North Vancouver-Capilano
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

David Maurice Brousson · British Columbia Liberal Party

7,175 votes
North Vancouver-Seymour
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 16 elections (1966–2024)

Barrie Aird Clarke · British Columbia Liberal Party

7,219 votes
Oak Bay (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1941–1975)

George Scott Wallace · Social Credit

9,542 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Cyril Morley Shelford · Social Credit

3,252 votes
Prince Rupert
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

William Harvey Murray · Social Credit

3,114 votes
Revelstoke-Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1966–1975)

Burton Peter Campbell · Social Credit

3,103 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

Ernest A LeCours · Social Credit

9,521 votes
Rossland-Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1924–1996)

Donald Leslie Brothers · Social Credit

6,230 votes
Saanich and the Islands (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle · Social Credit

9,888 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

Dudley George Little · Social Credit

5,044 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

William Andrew Cecil Bennett · Social Credit

13,074 votes
South Peace River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1986)

Donald Albert Marshall · Social Credit

4,267 votes
Surrey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1966–1983)

Ernest Hall · New Democratic Party

9,398 votes
Vancouver Centre (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Evan Maurice Wolfe · Social Credit

10,711 votes
Vancouver East (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Robert Arthur Williams · New Democratic Party

12,768 votes
Vancouver South
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Ralph Raymond Loffmark · Social Credit

15,154 votes
Vancouver-Burrard (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1933–2005)

Bert Price · Social Credit

10,460 votes
Vancouver-Little Mountain
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1966–2024)

Leslie Raymond Peterson · Social Credit

14,292 votes
Vancouver-Point Grey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 26 elections (1933–2024)

Patrick Lucey McGeer · British Columbia Liberal Party

15,650 votes
Victoria (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1871–1986)

Waldo McTavish Skillings · Social Credit

15,443 votes
West Vancouver-Howe Sound
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Louis Allan Williams · British Columbia Liberal Party

8,974 votes
Yale-Lillooet (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1966–2005)

William Leonard Hartley · New Democratic Party

3,799 votes
Shuswap
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1966–2020)

Willis Franklin Jefcoat · Social Credit

4,809 votes

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