July 07 1886 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1886-07-07
Writ Date	1886-06-03

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

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	6,819
Turnout Rate	164
Valid Ballots	11,211
Valid Votes	11,211

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	28	19	70.37%	50.00%
Independent	9	0	0.00%	5.62%
Labour Party	4	0	0.00%	3.95%
Opposition	27	8	29.63%	40.42%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
Robert	Beaven	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	540	✅
Edward	Gawlor Prior	Government	Victoria City (BC)	540	✅
John	Herbert Turner	Government	Victoria City (BC)	472	✅
Theodore	Davie	Government	Victoria City (BC)	463	✅
Simeon	Duck	Government	Victoria City (BC)	456	❌
John	Robson	Government	New Westminster (BC)	420	✅
Robert	Taylor Williams	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	413	❌
Robert	Dunsmuir	Government	Nanaimo (BC)	366	✅
William	Henry Ladner	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	365	✅
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Opposition	Yale (BC)	364	✅
Robert	Lipsett	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	362	❌
James	Orr	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	358	✅
Herbert	John Kirkland	Government	New Westminster (BC)	348	❌
Donald	McGillivray	Opposition	New Westminster (BC)	331	❌
Joseph	Wriglesworth	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	321	❌
Forbes	George Vernon	Government	Yale (BC)	290	✅
George	Bohun Martin	Government	Yale (BC)	283	✅
William	Raybould	Government	Nanaimo (BC)	267	✅
Allen	Casey Wells	Government	New Westminster (BC)	250	❌
William	Norman Bole	Opposition	New Westminster City	212	✅
Andrew	Johnston Smith	Labour Party	Victoria City (BC)	208	❌
Archibald	Irwin	Government	Yale (BC)	196	❌
Robert	Stuart Brock O'Brian	Independent	Nanaimo (BC)	192	❌
Robert	Franklin John	Government	Victoria (BC)	166	✅
Charles	Edward Pooley	Government	Esquimalt	150	✅
Lewis	Arthur Agassiz	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	142	❌
Colin	Campbell McKenzie	Opposition	Nanaimo (BC)	134	❌
George	William Anderson	Government	Victoria (BC)	134	✅
John	Mayfield Duval	Labour Party	Victoria City (BC)	127	❌
Joseph	Mason	Government	Cariboo (BC)	125	✅
David	Williams Higgins	Government	Esquimalt	123	✅
Robert	McLeese	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	113	✅
Thomas	Basil Humphreys	Opposition	Victoria (BC)	113	❌
George	Cowan	Government	Cariboo (BC)	111	✅
James	A Baker	Government	Kootenay	111	✅
Alexander	Edmund Batson Davie	Government	Lillooet	93	✅
Henry	Nicholson	Opposition	Yale (BC)	93	❌
George	Ferguson	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	90	❌
Charles	Wilson	Government	Cariboo (BC)	90	❌
George	Thomson	Independent	Nanaimo (BC)	90	❌
Denis	Murphy	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	88	❌
Thomas	Roadley	Opposition	Yale (BC)	88	❌
John	Watts Sluggett	Opposition	Victoria (BC)	82	❌
James	Lewis	Labour Party	Nanaimo (BC)	78	❌
William	M Brown	Opposition	Kootenay	74	❌
John	Roland Hett	Opposition	Esquimalt	72	❌
Hans	Lars Helgesen	Opposition	Esquimalt	70	❌
Edward	Allen	Government	Lillooet	65	✅
Samuel	Walker	Independent	Cariboo (BC)	61	❌
William	Morrison	Independent	Lillooet	57	❌
Joseph	Westrop Carey	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	53	❌
William	Saul	Opposition	Lillooet	49	❌
William	Livingston	Opposition	Lillooet	45	❌
Anthony	Maitland Stenhouse	Opposition	Comox	45	✅
William	Munro Dingwall	Government	Comox	40	❌
Neil	R Campbell	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	39	❌
Robert	Lauderdale Shaw	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	38	❌
William	Douglas Ferris	Government	New Westminster City	37	❌
James	Robb	Opposition	Comox	33	❌
Samuel	Henry Myers	Labour Party	Nanaimo (BC)	30	❌
William	Isaac	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	17	❌
Henry	Dawson	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	11	❌
Stafford	McKelvey	Government	Comox	10	❌
James	Buckham Kennedy	Independent	New Westminster (BC)	7	❌
John	Dempsey	Government	Cassiar	0	❌
John	Grant (BC)	Opposition	Cassiar	0	✅
Henry	Croft	Government	Cowichan	0	✅
William	Smithe	Government	Cowichan	0	✅