September 11 1875 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1875-09-11
Writ Date	1875-08-30

Attributes
Federal Jurisdiction	❌
Provincial Jurisdiction	✅
Province	British Columbia
By-Election	❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	3,180
Turnout Rate	12
Valid Ballots	389
Valid Votes	5,656

Notes

Sources: Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library [of British Columbia], An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986, Victoria, BC: n.d. ISBN 0771886772.
Note: Election held over the period 11 September 1875 to 25 October 1875.

Results

Party	Candidates	Seats Contested	Seats %	Vote %
Government	16	4	16.00%	29.23%
Independent	9	2	8.00%	13.53%
Independent Opposition	2	2	8.00%	6.58%
Independent Reform Caucus	1	0	0.00%	4.12%
Independent/Government	7	4	16.00%	16.65%
Opposition	2	1	4.00%	7.44%
Reform Caucus	18	12	48.00%	22.45%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
Robert	Beaven	Government	Victoria City (BC)	428	✅
James	Trimble	Independent/Government	Victoria City (BC)	405	✅
Andrew	Charles Elliott	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	383	✅
James	W Douglas	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	382	✅
Simeon	Duck	Government	Victoria City (BC)	319	❌
George	Anthony Boomer Walkem	Government	Cariboo (BC)	254	✅
Thomas	Harris	Independent Reform Caucus	Victoria City (BC)	233	❌
Alexander	Edmund Batson Davie	Independent Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	199	✅
John	Evans	Independent Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	173	✅
Ebenezer	Brown	Independent/Government	New Westminster (BC)	154	✅
William	James Armstrong	Government	New Westminster (BC)	153	✅
John	Andrew Mara	Reform Caucus	Yale (BC)	130	✅
John	Bryden	Reform Caucus	Nanaimo (BC)	128	✅
Forbes	George Vernon	Reform Caucus	Yale (BC)	125	✅
Edward	Pearson	Government	Cariboo (BC)	117	❌
Donald	McGillivray	Reform Caucus	New Westminster (BC)	117	❌
Robert	Smith	Independent/Government	Yale (BC)	117	✅
David	William Gordon	Independent	Nanaimo (BC)	116	❌
Jeremiah	Rogers	Reform Caucus	New Westminster (BC)	111	❌
John	F Allison	Reform Caucus	Yale (BC)	100	❌
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Independent/Government	Yale (BC)	94	❌
Thomas	Basil Humphreys	Reform Caucus	Victoria (BC)	89	✅
William	Smithe	Reform Caucus	Cowichan	78	✅
Edwin	Pimbury	Reform Caucus	Cowichan	72	✅
John	Johnston Robertson	Government	Cariboo (BC)	68	❌
Gideon	C Gerow	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	67	❌
William	Fraser Tolmie	Reform Caucus	Victoria (BC)	65	✅
Robert	Dickinson	Independent/Government	New Westminster City	59	✅
James	Robinson	Independent/Government	Yale (BC)	59	❌
William	Fisher	Independent	Esquimalt	58	✅
William	M Campbell	Government	New Westminster (BC)	54	❌
William	Henry Lomas	Independent/Government	Cowichan	54	❌
William	M Brown	Reform Caucus	Lillooet	53	✅
Frederick	W Williams	Reform Caucus	Esquimalt	52	✅
William	Reay	Independent	Victoria (BC)	51	❌
William	Morrison	Reform Caucus	Lillooet	48	✅
Noah	Shakespeare	Independent	Victoria (BC)	48	❌
William	Saul	Government	Lillooet	46	❌
Robert	Weir	Government	Esquimalt	43	❌
John	Paton Booth	Government	Cowichan	42	❌
Samuel	Walker	Government	Cariboo (BC)	41	❌
Henry	Holbrook	Opposition	New Westminster City	38	❌
John	Ash	Government	Comox	36	✅
John	Martley	Reform Caucus	Lillooet	33	❌
Ninian	Frederick Foster	Government	Esquimalt	25	❌
Robert	Taylor Williams	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	24	❌
George	Dunne	Reform Caucus	Lillooet	21	❌
Robert	Leslie Thomas Galbraith	Reform Caucus	Kootenay	16	❌
Charles	Gallagher	Reform Caucus	Kootenay	16	✅
Arthur	Wellesley Vowell	Reform Caucus	Kootenay	16	✅
William	Cosgrove Milby	Government	Kootenay	15	❌
Michael	Baker	Independent	Victoria (BC)	12	❌
James	Robb	Government	Comox	10	❌
James	ROSS	Independent	Yale (BC)	7	❌
Joseph	Ferguson	Government	Nanaimo (BC)	2	❌