July 09 1898 (BC)

Ask Anthonai

Important Dates
Election Date	1898-07-09
Writ Date	1898-06-07

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

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	34,369
Turnout Rate	100
Valid Ballots	34,499
Valid Votes	34,499

Notes

References: 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	38	19	50.00%	49.77%
Independent	3	0	0.00%	3.66%
Labour Party	1	1	2.63%	0.56%
Opposition	34	18	47.37%	46.02%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
Charles	Edward Tisdall	Opposition	Vancouver City	1,798	✅
Robert	MacPherson	Opposition	Vancouver City	1,795	✅
Francis	Lovett Carter-Cotton	Government	Vancouver City	1,667	✅
Joseph	Martin	Opposition	Vancouver City	1,651	✅
Henry	Dallas Helmcken	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,484	✅
John	Herbert Turner	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,352	✅
Richard	Hall	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,274	✅
Albert	Edward McPhillips	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,229	✅
James	Ford Garden	Government	Vancouver City	1,157	❌
Francis	Brooke Gregory	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	1,149	❌
Alexander	Stewart	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	1,065	❌
John	T Carroll	Government	Vancouver City	954	❌
Arthur	Louis Belyea	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	949	❌
Robert	Beaven	Independent	Victoria City (BC)	906	❌
William	John Bowser	Government	Vancouver City	879	❌
William	Seaman McDonald	Government	Vancouver City	735	❌
Robert	Edward McKechnie	Opposition	Nanaimo City	678	✅
James	Morris Martin	Opposition	West Kootenay-Rossland Riding	569	✅
Alexander	Henderson	Government	New Westminster City	555	✅
John	Cunningham Brown	Opposition	New Westminster City	534	❌
Robert	Francis Green	Opposition	West Kootenay-Slocan Riding	525	✅
Price	Ellison	Government	Yale-East Riding	481	✅
Francis	John Deane	Opposition	Yale-North Riding	427	✅
John	Ley Retallack	Government	West Kootenay-Slocan Riding	425	❌
George	Bohun Martin	Government	Yale-North Riding	423	❌
Donald	Graham	Opposition	Yale-East Riding	407	❌
John	McKane	Government	West Kootenay-Rossland Riding	389	❌
James	M Kellie	Opposition	West Kootenay-Revelstoke Riding	371	✅
Thomas	Kidd	Opposition	Westminister-Richmond Riding	357	✅
Thomas	William Forster	Opposition	Westminister-Delta Riding	331	✅
John	Frederick Hume	Opposition	West Kootenay-Nelson Riding	325	✅
Arthur	Stanhope Farwell	Independent	West Kootenay-Nelson Riding	310	❌
Charles	William Munro	Opposition	Westminister-Chilliwhack Riding	301	❌
James	Dunsmuir	Government	Comox	297	✅
William	White	Government	West Kootenay-Revelstoke Riding	295	❌
John	Bryden	Government	North Nanaimo	249	✅
John	Herbert Turner	Government	Westminister-Chilliwhack Riding	246	✅
Richard	McBride	Government	Westminister-Dewdney Riding	239	✅
David	McEwen Eberts	Government	South Victoria	236	✅
Henry	Dean Benson	Government	Westminister-Delta Riding	221	❌
Hans	Lars Helgesen	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	218	✅
Charles	Whetham	Opposition	Westminister-Dewdney Riding	216	❌
Charles	Edward Pooley	Government	Esquimalt	213	✅
James	Stuart Yates	Opposition	South Victoria	210	❌
William	Fitzherbert T Bullen	Government	Esquimalt	208	❌
David	Williams Higgins	Opposition	Esquimalt	206	✅
Charles	Augustus Semlin	Opposition	Yale-West Riding	203	✅
John	Charlton Kinchant	Opposition	Cariboo (BC)	195	✅
Ralph	Smith	Labour Party	South Nanaimo	193	✅
William	Henry Hayward	Opposition	Esquimalt	189	❌
William	Russell Robertson	Government	Cowichan	179	✅
Joseph	Hunter	Government	Cariboo (BC)	173	❌
James	McQueen	Government	Westminister-Richmond Riding	173	❌
Samuel	Augustus Rogers	Government	Cariboo (BC)	172	❌
Archibald	McGregor	Government	Nanaimo City	170	❌
William	James McAllan	Opposition	Comox	162	❌
James	A Baker	Government	East Kootenay-South Riding	159	✅
Walter	James G Hellier	Opposition	North Nanaimo	153	❌
Charles	William Digby Clifford	Government	Cassiar	148	✅
Wilmer	Cleveland Wells	Opposition	East Kootenay-North Riding	148	✅
John	Paton Booth	Government	North Victoria	144	✅
William	Baillie	Opposition	East Kootenay-South Riding	144	❌
Alfred	Wellington Smith	Government	Lillooet-West Riding	133	✅
Thomas	Wilson Paterson	Opposition	North Victoria	129	❌
John	Irving	Government	Cassiar	125	✅
James	Douglas Prentice	Opposition	Lillooet-East Riding	125	✅
William	Herd	Opposition	Cowichan	112	❌
Allan	Webster Neill	Opposition	Alberni	108	✅
David	Alexander Stoddart	Government	Lillooet-East Riding	106	❌
John	James Mackay	Government	Yale-West Riding	88	❌
Eusebius	S Peters	Opposition	Lillooet-West Riding	72	❌
George	Albert Huff	Government	Alberni	70	❌
William	George Neilson	Government	East Kootenay-North Riding	69	❌
William	Wymond Walkem	Government	South Nanaimo	53	❌
Dennis	Reginald Harris	Opposition	Esquimalt	53	❌
George	Simpson McTavish	Independent	Cassiar	45	❌