May 22 1878 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1878-05-22
Writ Date	1878-04-12

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

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	4,300
Turnout Rate	130
Valid Ballots	5,589
Valid Votes	6,377

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.

Results

Party	Candidates	Seats Contested	Seats %	Vote %
Government	16	7	28.00%	31.90%
Independent	3	0	0.00%	6.40%
Opposition	27	18	72.00%	61.71%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
Robert	Beaven	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	417	✅
William	Wilson	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	396	✅
James	Smith Drummond	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	380	✅
John	William Williams	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	351	✅
Andrew	Charles Elliott	Government	Victoria City (BC)	338	❌
Roderick	Finlayson	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	318	❌
James	Trimble	Government	Victoria City (BC)	301	❌
George	Anthony Boomer Walkem	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	252	✅
George	Cowan	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	238	✅
John	Evans	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	230	✅
Donald	McGillivray	Government	New Westminster (BC)	202	✅
James	Atkinson Abrams	Opposition	Nanaimo (BC)	184	✅
John	Andrew Mara	Opposition	Yale (BC)	172	✅
Wellington	John Harris	Government	New Westminster (BC)	171	✅
David	William Gordon	Government	Nanaimo (BC)	167	❌
Preston	Bennett	Government	Yale (BC)	158	✅
Forbes	George Vernon	Government	Yale (BC)	158	✅
James	Orr	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	153	❌
Henry	Mathers	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	130	❌
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Opposition	Yale (BC)	120	❌
James	Thomas McIlmoyl	Opposition	Victoria (BC)	102	✅
Thomas	Basil Humphreys	Opposition	Victoria (BC)	99	✅
William	Smithe	Government	Cowichan	97	✅
William	McCormack	Opposition	Yale (BC)	93	❌
Dixon	Joseph Lauder	Opposition	Yale (BC)	87	❌
Edwin	Pimbury	Government	Cowichan	84	✅
Ebenezer	Brown	Government	New Westminster City	82	✅
William	M Brown	Opposition	Lillooet	78	✅
Frederick	W Williams	Opposition	Esquimalt	78	✅
William	Saul	Opposition	Lillooet	77	✅
Hans	Lars Helgesen	Opposition	Esquimalt	70	✅
Jonathan	Nutt	Government	Cariboo (BC)	68	❌
John	Paton Booth	Opposition	Cowichan	66	❌
William	James Armstrong	Opposition	New Westminster City	64	❌
William	Fraser Tolmie	Government	Victoria (BC)	62	❌
William	Morrison	Government	Lillooet	47	❌
Thomas	Lee	Independent	Victoria (BC)	46	❌
William	Beaumont	Opposition	Cowichan	45	❌
James	Buckham Kennedy	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	44	❌
John	Martley	Government	Lillooet	39	❌
William	Fisher	Government	Esquimalt	39	❌
John	Ash	Opposition	Comox	31	✅
Joseph	Westrop Carey	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	22	❌
Reginald	Terry Carwithen	Government	Comox	21	❌
Robert	Leslie Thomas Galbraith	Opposition	Kootenay	0	✅
Charles	Gallagher	Opposition	Kootenay	0	✅