September 14 1916 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1916-09-14
Writ Date 1916-07-05
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 0
Invalid Votes 0
Total Electors 125,222
Turnout Rate 144
Valid Ballots 179,774
Valid Votes 179,774

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.
  • Citation: "The "soldiers' vote" in British Columbia, the rest of Canada, and overseas, was taken between 5 August 1916 and 14 September 1916." (Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986, p. 128)

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 46 9 19.15% 40.52%
British Columbia Liberal Party 45 36 76.60% 50.00%
Independent 7 1 2.13% 2.74%
Independent Conservative 4 0 0.00% 1.68%
Independent Labour 3 0 0.00% 2.50%
Independent Progressive Conservative 1 0 0.00% 0.09%
Independent Socialist 3 1 2.13% 0.73%
Social Democratic Party 3 0 0.00% 0.56%
Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) 4 0 0.00% 1.17%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Malcolm Archibald Macdonald British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 9,119 ✅
Ralph Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 8,106 ✅
John William McIntosh British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 8,096 ✅
John Wallace deBeque Farris British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 7,881 ✅
William John Bowser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 7,421 ✅
John Sedgwick Cowper British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 7,056 ✅
Patrick Donnelly British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 7,005 ❌
Charles Edward Tisdall British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 6,922 ❌
Thomas Duke British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 6,395 ❌
George Albert McGuire British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 6,270 ❌
Walter Leek British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 6,136 ❌
Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 5,906 ❌
Harlan Carey Brewster British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 4,988 ✅
George Bell British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 3,963 ✅
John Hart British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 3,660 ✅
Henry Charles Hall British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 3,161 ✅
Alexander Stewart British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 3,129 ❌
Reginald Hayward British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,793 ❌
Leonard Tait British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,774 ❌
John Dilworth British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 2,651 ❌
William Robert Trotter Independent Labour Vancouver City 2,487 ❌
Robert Cassidy Independent Conservative Vancouver City 2,451 ❌
John Walter Weart British Columbia Liberal Party South Vancouver 1,579 ✅
Frederick William Anderson British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 1,519 ✅
Ernest Amos Hall Independent Labour Victoria City (BC) 1,518 ❌
Gerald Grattan McGeer British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 1,441 ✅
Harold George White Independent Vancouver City 1,416 ❌
John David Harrington Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,380 ❌
William Boulton British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Vancouver 1,374 ❌
David Whiteside British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 1,369 ✅
Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 1,261 ✅
William Baird British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Richmond (BC) 1,189 ❌
Thomas Gifford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 New Westminster (BC) 1,186 ❌
Alfred James Morley Independent Victoria City (BC) 1,185 ❌
William Sloan British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 1,137 ✅
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,062 ✅
Frederick Arthur Pauline British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 1,033 ✅
Edward Dodsley Barrow British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 987 ✅
George Samuel Hanes British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 980 ✅
Francis James Anderson MacKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Delta 964 ✅
James Pearson Shaw British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kamloops (BC) 960 ❌
Price Ellison British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Okanagan 948 ❌
William Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Prince Rupert 946 ❌
John Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 927 ✅
Hugh Stewart British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 916 ✅
Alexander McDonald Paterson British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 906 ❌
Alexander Ingram Fisher British Columbia Liberal Party Fernie 903 ✅
Michael Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Comox 882 ❌
James William Jones British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Okanagan 845 ✅
Thomas Aubert Uphill British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fernie 826 ❌
Joseph Walters British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 809 ✅
William Henry Sutherland British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke 802 ✅
William Lyle Macken British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Chilliwack 787 ❌
William J Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Dewdney 787 ❌
Edwin Clarke Appleby Independent Vancouver City 743 ❌
David McEwen Eberts British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Saanich 732 ❌
James Horace King British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 727 ✅
Leslie Vivian Rogers British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 705 ❌
Arthur Freeman Fawcett Independent Vancouver City 665 ❌
Robert Henry Pooley British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Esquimalt 655 ✅
Arthur William McCurdy British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 653 ❌
Lytton Wilmot Shatford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Similkameen 650 ✅
James Hargrave Schofield British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Trail 626 ✅
Alexander Lucas British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Yale (BC) 609 ❌
William Oliver Rose British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nelson (BC) 607 ✅
George Herbert Morden British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Vancouver (BC) 598 ❌
James Edwin Thompson British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks 584 ✅
Albert Edward Planta British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nanaimo (BC) 575 ❌
Parker Williams Independent Socialist Newcastle 551 ✅
John Andrew Buckham British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 541 ✅
William Henry Hayward Independent Cowichan 539 ✅
Robert Scott Conklin British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 523 ❌
Thomas Taylor British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Revelstoke 521 ❌
Archie Mainwaring Johnson British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson (BC) 507 ❌
Thomas Donald Caven British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cranbrook 504 ❌
William Roderick Ross British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fort George 499 ✅
Job Elija Wilton Independent Labour South Vancouver 498 ❌
John McInnis Independent Socialist Fort George 492 ❌
John Duncan MacLean British Columbia Liberal Party Greenwood 491 ✅
Michael H Sullivan British Columbia Liberal Party Trail 484 ❌
Philip Robert Smith Social Democratic Party Victoria City (BC) 475 ❌
Alexander Malcolm Manson British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 473 ✅
John Keen British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo 456 ✅
Daniel William Poupard Social Democratic Party Victoria City (BC) 454 ❌
John Mackay Yorston British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 453 ✅
Charles Franklin Nelson British Columbia Liberal Party Slocan 448 ✅
William Hunter British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Slocan 447 ❌
Roy Branwood Dier British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Newcastle 431 ❌
William David Willson British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland 424 ✅
Kenneth Forrest Duncan British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan 408 ❌
Harlan Carey Brewster British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 393 ✅
Robert John Long British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kaslo 374 ❌
Malcolm Bruce Jackson British Columbia Liberal Party The Islands 358 ✅
John George Corry Wood British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Alberni 355 ❌
William Wasbrough Foster British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 The Islands 354 ❌
Lorne Argyle Campbell British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Rossland 336 ❌
Ernest Miller British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Grand Forks 334 ❌
Frank Harry Mobley British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 329 ✅
Archibald McDonald British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Lillooet 296 ✅
Frank Maurice Dockrill British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Omineca 288 ❌
Herbert Skinner Independent Socialist Nanaimo (BC) 278 ❌
William McNeish Independent Conservative North Vancouver (BC) 278 ❌
William X McDonald British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Atlin 277 ❌
James Norman Taylor British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Columbia 271 ❌
John Bates Bryson British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 269 ❌
Albert Goodwin Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Trail 262 ❌
Alan Webster Neill Independent Alberni 253 ❌
Thomas Owen Townley Independent Conservative Vancouver City 250 ❌
William Arthur Pritchard Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Comox 246 ❌
John Amos MacDonald Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Fernie 218 ❌
John Anderson Fraser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 207 ❌
John Robert Jackson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Greenwood 205 ❌
William George Gillett Independent Progressive Conservative Fort George 158 ❌
Thomas Lees Bloomer Independent Nelson (BC) 125 ❌
George Edgar Winkler Social Democratic Party Comox 83 ❌
Robert McBride Independent Conservative Richmond (BC) 35 ❌

Districts

Alberni
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 28 elections (1890–1996)

Harlan Carey Brewster · British Columbia Liberal Party

393 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Frank Harry Mobley · British Columbia Liberal Party

329 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

John Mackay Yorston · British Columbia Liberal Party

453 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

Edward Dodsley Barrow · British Columbia Liberal Party

987 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Hugh Stewart · British Columbia Liberal Party

916 votes
Cranbrook
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

James Horace King · British Columbia Liberal Party

727 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Francis James Anderson MacKenzie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

964 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

John Oliver · British Columbia Liberal Party

927 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Robert Henry Pooley · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

655 votes
Fernie
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Alexander Ingram Fisher · British Columbia Liberal Party

903 votes
Fort George
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1916–1975)

William Roderick Ross · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

499 votes
Grand Forks
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

James Edwin Thompson · British Columbia Liberal Party

584 votes
Greenwood
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

John Duncan MacLean · British Columbia Liberal Party

491 votes
The Islands
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1890–1937)

Malcolm Bruce Jackson · British Columbia Liberal Party

358 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

Frederick William Anderson · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,519 votes
Kaslo
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

John Keen · British Columbia Liberal Party

456 votes
Lillooet
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Archibald McDonald · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

296 votes
Nanaimo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1871–2020)

William Sloan · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,137 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

David Whiteside · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,369 votes
Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Parker Williams · Independent Socialist

551 votes
North Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1916–1986)

Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,261 votes
North Vancouver (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1916–1963)

George Samuel Hanes · British Columbia Liberal Party

980 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Alexander Malcolm Manson · British Columbia Liberal Party

473 votes
Prince Rupert
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,062 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

Gerald Grattan McGeer · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,441 votes
Saanich
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Frederick Arthur Pauline · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,033 votes
Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Lytton Wilmot Shatford · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

650 votes
Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Charles Franklin Nelson · British Columbia Liberal Party

448 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

James William Jones · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

845 votes
South Vancouver
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1916–1928)

John Walter Weart · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,579 votes
Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 2 elections (1916–1920)

James Hargrave Schofield · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

626 votes
Vancouver City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1890–1928)

Ralph Smith · British Columbia Liberal Party

8,106 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

John Hart · British Columbia Liberal Party

3,660 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Joseph Walters · British Columbia Liberal Party

809 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

John Andrew Buckham · British Columbia Liberal Party

541 votes
Cowichan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1871–1920)

William Henry Hayward · Independent

539 votes
Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

William Henry Sutherland · British Columbia Liberal Party

802 votes
Rossland
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 2 elections (1916–1920)

William David Willson · British Columbia Liberal Party

424 votes
Nelson (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1916–1928)

William Oliver Rose · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

607 votes

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