July 24 1882 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1882-07-24
Writ Date	1882-06-13

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

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	4,766
Turnout Rate	148
Valid Ballots	7,077
Valid Votes	7,358

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	21	4	16.67%	30.13%
Independent	5	3	12.50%	12.76%
Opposition	29	17	70.83%	57.11%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
Robert	Beaven	Government	Victoria City (BC)	459	✅
Theodore	Davie	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	399	✅
Simeon	Duck	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	368	✅
Montague	William Tyrwhitt-Drake	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	361	✅
Alexander	Wilson	Government	Victoria City (BC)	321	❌
William	Wilson	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	281	❌
James	Trimble	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	280	❌
John	Robson	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	262	✅
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Independent	Yale (BC)	254	✅
John	Andrew Mara	Opposition	Yale (BC)	240	✅
John	William Williams	Government	Victoria City (BC)	237	❌
Robert	Dunsmuir	Opposition	Nanaimo (BC)	229	✅
George	Cowan	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	217	✅
Charles	Wilson	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	195	✅
Preston	Bennett	Opposition	Yale (BC)	194	✅
William	Raybould	Opposition	Nanaimo (BC)	185	✅
Robert	McLeese	Government	Cariboo (BC)	169	✅
James	Orr	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	168	✅
Edward	Quennell	Opposition	Nanaimo (BC)	167	❌
William	Hinksman	Government	Nanaimo (BC)	152	❌
Herbert	John Kirkland	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	127	❌
George	Ferguson	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	117	❌
George	Archibald McTavish	Opposition	Victoria (BC)	113	✅
Robert	Franklin John	Opposition	Victoria (BC)	110	✅
Samuel	Walker	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	107	❌
James	Smith Drummond	Government	Victoria City (BC)	105	❌
William	Smithe	Opposition	Cowichan	102	✅
Thomas	Basil Humphreys	Government	Victoria (BC)	100	❌
Henry	Dodson Green-Armytage	Independent	Yale (BC)	98	❌
Daniel	McKay	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	82	❌
Edward	Pearson	Government	Yale (BC)	78	❌
Hans	Lars Helgesen	Government	Esquimalt	77	✅
William	Henry Ladner	Government	New Westminster (BC)	76	❌
Charles	Edward Pooley	Opposition	Esquimalt	72	✅
John	Roland Hett	Government	Esquimalt	71	❌
Alexander	Edmund Batson Davie	Opposition	Lillooet	69	✅
Gilbert	Malcolm Sproat	Opposition	Yale (BC)	68	❌
William	Munro Dingwall	Government	Comox	67	✅
James	Thomas McIlmoyl	Government	Victoria (BC)	66	❌
Francis	Child Thomas	Opposition	Esquimalt	61	❌
Henry	Dawson	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	60	❌
William	McGirr	Government	Yale (BC)	60	❌
Edward	Allen	Opposition	Lillooet	55	✅
William	Morrison	Opposition	Lillooet	45	❌
Frederick	Foord	Government	Cowichan	41	❌
Charles	Nelson McLellan	Government	Lillooet	40	❌
John	Grant (BC)	Opposition	Cassiar	39	✅
John	George Barnston	Government	Nanaimo (BC)	37	❌
William	M Brown	Government	Lillooet	28	❌
William	V Brown	Government	Cassiar	18	❌
William	Isaac	Government	New Westminster (BC)	15	❌
Andrew	Byron Crawford	Opposition	Comox	14	❌
Thomas	Robson	Independent	Comox	2	❌
Robert	Leslie Thomas Galbraith	Government	Kootenay	0	❌
William	James Armstrong	Opposition	New Westminster City	0	✅