June 09 1900 (BC)

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Important Dates
Election Date	1900-06-09
Writ Date	1900-04-24

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

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic	Value
Invalid Ballots	0
Invalid Votes	0
Total Electors	44,069
Turnout Rate	107
Valid Ballots	47,184
Valid Votes	47,184

Notes

Citation: 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 %
Conservative BC	17	5	13.51%	23.87%
Conservative Opposition	2	1	2.70%	0.74%
Government	26	6	16.22%	30.35%
Independent	6	3	8.11%	3.01%
Independent Conservative	1	1	2.70%	0.47%
Independent Labour	3	1	2.70%	1.04%
Independent Opposition	6	3	8.11%	2.77%
Independent/Government	4	0	0.00%	4.51%
Labour Party	4	1	2.70%	5.42%
Opposition	10	9	24.32%	17.29%
Opposition Provincial	2	2	5.41%	1.09%
Provincial Party	11	5	13.51%	7.99%
Socialist	1	0	0.00%	1.45%

Candidates

First Name	Last Name	Party	District	Votes	Elected
James	Ford Garden	Conservative BC	Vancouver City	1,787	✅
Joseph	Martin	Government	Vancouver City	1,737	✅
Henry	Dallas Helmcken	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	1,668	✅
Robert	Garnett Tatlow	Conservative BC	Vancouver City	1,645	✅
Richard	Hall	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	1,597	✅
John	Herbert Turner	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	1,552	✅
Hugh	Bowie Gilmour	Government	Vancouver City	1,465	✅
Charles	Wilson	Conservative BC	Vancouver City	1,457	❌
Albert	Edward McPhillips	Opposition	Victoria City (BC)	1,449	✅
Robert	MacPherson	Independent/Government	Vancouver City	1,435	❌
James	McQueen	Government	Vancouver City	1,391	❌
Joseph	Martin	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,352	❌
William	Henry Wood	Conservative BC	Vancouver City	1,344	❌
Smith	Curtis	Government	West Kootenay-Rossland Riding	1,323	✅
Charles	H Mackintosh	Conservative BC	West Kootenay-Rossland Riding	1,287	❌
John	Graham Brown	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,259	❌
James	Stuart Yates	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,233	❌
John	Leander Beckwith	Government	Victoria City (BC)	1,154	❌
Joseph	Dixon	Labour Party	Vancouver City	853	❌
Francis	Lovett Carter-Cotton	Provincial Party	Vancouver City	802	❌
Ralph	Smith	Labour Party	Nanaimo City	763	✅
John	Houston	Provincial Party	West Kootenay-Nelson Riding	747	✅
Francis	Williams	Labour Party	Vancouver City	716	❌
William	MacClain	Socialist	Vancouver City	683	❌
Robert	Francis Green	Provincial Party	West Kootenay-Slocan Riding	639	✅
John	Cunningham Brown	Government	New Westminster City	628	✅
Price	Ellison	Opposition	Yale-East Riding	619	✅
Robie	Lewis Reid	Conservative BC	New Westminster City	540	❌
Thomas	Taylor	Conservative BC	West Kootenay-Revelstoke Riding	513	✅
Frank	Fletcher	Conservative BC	West Kootenay-Nelson Riding	508	❌
Frederick	John Fulton	Independent Opposition	Yale-North Riding	504	✅
Edwin	Clarke Smith	Government	East Kootenay-South Riding	428	✅
Francis	John Deane	Provincial Party	Yale-North Riding	388	❌
William	Fernie	Independent	East Kootenay-South Riding	383	❌
John	Keen	Conservative BC	West Kootenay-Slocan Riding	373	❌
Alexander	McRae	Independent/Government	West Kootenay-Revelstoke Riding	368	❌
Denis	Murphy	Opposition Provincial	Yale-West Riding	352	✅
William	Jessup Snodgrass	Government	Yale-East Riding	351	❌
Lewis	Alfred Mounce	Opposition	Comox	338	✅
Richard	McBride	Conservative BC	Westminister-Dewdney Riding	338	✅
John	Oliver	Government	Westminister-Delta Riding	324	✅
Charles	William Digby Clifford	Conservative Opposition	Cassiar	318	✅
Joseph	Hunter	Conservative BC	Cariboo (BC)	302	✅
George	Arthur Benjamin Hall	Independent Labour	West Kootenay-Nelson Riding	293	❌
Samuel	Augustus Rogers	Conservative BC	Cariboo (BC)	289	❌
Charles	Whetham	Government	Westminister-Dewdney Riding	285	❌
Joseph	McPhee	Government	Comox	279	❌
James	Stables	Independent	Cassiar	277	✅
William	Henry Hayward	Independent Opposition	Esquimalt	272	✅
Charles	William Munro	Provincial Party	Westminister-Chilliwhack Riding	267	✅
David	McEwen Eberts	Opposition	South Victoria	259	✅
George	Randall Ashwell	Conservative BC	Westminister-Chilliwhack Riding	251	❌
James	Dunsmuir	Opposition	South Nanaimo	249	✅
Wilmer	Cleveland Wells	Independent	East Kootenay-North Riding	246	✅
John	Irving	Independent Opposition	Cassiar	244	❌
William	Wallace Burns McInnes	Independent	North Nanaimo	238	✅
Charles	Edward Pooley	Opposition	Esquimalt	230	✅
John	Radcliffe	Labour Party	South Nanaimo	225	❌
Charles	Herbert Dickie	Independent Conservative	Cowichan	224	✅
Thomas	Kidd	Provincial Party	Westminister-Richmond Riding	222	✅
John	Walter Berry	Conservative BC	Westminister-Delta Riding	215	❌
George	Sangster	Independent/Government	South Victoria	208	❌
Duncan	Rowan	Government	Westminister-Richmond Riding	204	❌
Harry	Jones	Provincial Party	Cariboo (BC)	201	❌
Alexander	Godfrey	Independent	Cassiar	198	❌
John	Bryden	Opposition	North Nanaimo	195	❌
John	Charlton Kinchant	Provincial Party	Cariboo (BC)	177	❌
Thomas	William Forster	Provincial Party	Westminister-Delta Riding	173	❌
John	Ryan Costigan	Conservative BC	East Kootenay-South Riding	171	❌
George	Thomas Kane	Government	West Kootenay-Slocan Riding	170	❌
James	Douglas Prentice	Opposition Provincial	Lillooet-East Riding	164	✅
George	Washington Beebe	Government	Yale-West Riding	149	❌
Alfred	Wellington Smith	Independent Opposition	Lillooet-West Riding	134	✅
Michael	B Wilkinson	Conservative BC	Westminister-Richmond Riding	133	❌
John	Paton Booth	Independent Labour	North Victoria	123	✅
James	Johnstone White	Independent/Government	North Victoria	117	❌
Francis	Patrick Armstrong	Conservative BC	East Kootenay-North Riding	111	❌
David	Williams Higgins	Independent Opposition	Esquimalt	111	❌
Alan	Webster Neill	Provincial Party	Alberni	108	✅
Walter	Ford	Government	Cowichan	107	❌
James	Stuart Yates	Government	Nanaimo City	86	❌
Algernon	Judson Palmer	Government	Yale-North Riding	84	❌
Robert	B Skinner	Independent	Lillooet-West Riding	80	❌
Frank	Burnett	Government	East Kootenay-North Riding	78	❌
Donald	Fraser	Government	Esquimalt	75	❌
John	D Dixon	Independent Labour	North Nanaimo	73	❌
James	Redford	Government	Alberni	57	❌
George	Bizantson	Government	Esquimalt	50	❌
Henry	William Raymer	Provincial Party	Yale-East Riding	45	❌
Robert	Thomas Graham	Government	Lillooet-East Riding	43	❌
Horatio	John Robertson	Independent Opposition	North Victoria	41	❌
James	Bain Thomson	Conservative Opposition	Alberni	33	❌
Alexander	Lachore	Government	Lillooet-West Riding	7	❌