December 01 1920 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1920-12-01
Writ Date 1920-10-23
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 0
Invalid Votes 0
Total Electors 201,372
Turnout Rate 176
Valid Ballots 354,088
Valid Votes 354,088

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

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 42 14 29.79% 31.20%
British Columbia Liberal Party 44 26 55.32% 37.78%
Federated Labour Party 14 3 6.38% 9.10%
Grand Army of United Veterans 2 0 0.00% 1.54%
Independent 17 3 6.38% 9.68%
Independent Conservative 2 0 0.00% 0.45%
Independent Farmer 3 0 0.00% 0.15%
Independent Labour 4 0 0.00% 0.98%
Independent Socialist 3 0 0.00% 0.37%
Labour Party 1 0 0.00% 0.11%
Liberal/Conservative 1 0 0.00% 0.12%
Liberty League of British Columbia 1 0 0.00% 0.70%
People's Party 1 1 2.13% 0.38%
Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) 7 0 0.00% 3.50%
Soldier-Farmer 11 0 0.00% 3.04%
United Farmers of British Columbia 2 0 0.00% 0.90%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Mary Ellen Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 17,510 ✅
Ian Alastair Mackenzie British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 13,840 ✅
John Wallace deBeque Farris British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 12,550 ✅
James Ramsay British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 12,279 ✅
Malcolm Archibald Macdonald British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 12,222 ✅
William John Bowser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 11,617 ✅
John Patrick Dougherty British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 10,388 ❌
George Black British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 10,379 ❌
John Weightman Warden British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 10,278 ❌
Samuel Lyness Howe British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 9,913 ❌
Edith Louise Paterson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 9,573 ❌
Joseph Martin Independent Vancouver City 9,123 ❌
John Wesley Mahan British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 8,810 ❌
William Robert Trotter Federated Labour Party Vancouver City 7,481 ❌
James Shaver Woodsworth Federated Labour Party Vancouver City 7,444 ❌
Thomas Richardson Federated Labour Party Vancouver City 7,192 ❌
John Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,498 ✅
Moses Brewins Cotsworth Independent Vancouver City 5,511 ❌
Joshua Hinchliffe British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 5,305 ✅
John Hart British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 5,016 ✅
Joseph Badenoch Clearihue British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 4,551 ✅
Alexander Stewart British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 4,170 ❌
Esther Margaret Crosfield Independent Vancouver City 4,166 ❌
William Walter Northcott British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 4,141 ❌
Roderick Ross Sutherland British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 4,072 ❌
Ernest Amos Hall Independent Victoria City (BC) 4,010 ❌
Henry Charles Hall British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 3,868 ❌
George Johnson Ashworth Independent Vancouver City 3,291 ❌
Robert Henry Neelands Federated Labour Party South Vancouver 3,255 ✅
John David Harrington Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 2,956 ❌
Thomas Pearson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Richmond (BC) 2,863 ✅
John Livingstone Millar Grand Army of United Veterans Vancouver City 2,808 ❌
Hiram Perry McCraney British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 2,712 ❌
George Samuel Hanes Independent North Vancouver (BC) 2,681 ✅
Percival North Grand Army of United Veterans Vancouver City 2,633 ❌
John Hebden Gillespie Liberty League of British Columbia Victoria City (BC) 2,466 ❌
Frederick O Hodgson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Vancouver 2,444 ❌
James Ferguson Smith Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 2,267 ❌
George Bell Independent Labour Victoria City (BC) 2,045 ❌
Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 2,037 ✅
David Whiteside British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 1,980 ✅
Franklin John Russell British Columbia Liberal Party South Vancouver 1,969 ❌
Edward Dodsley Barrow British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 1,911 ✅
James William Jones British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Okanagan 1,882 ✅
Frederick Arthur Pauline British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 1,858 ✅
Christopher Stephenson Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,818 ❌
William Frederick Laidman United Farmers of British Columbia North Okanagan 1,770 ❌
Marshall Pollock Gordon British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Saanich 1,756 ❌
Cecil Keir Christian Soldier-Farmer Victoria City (BC) 1,716 ❌
Sidney Earp Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,694 ❌
Andrew Leslie Coote British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Chilliwack 1,684 ❌
Frederick William Anderson British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 1,617 ✅
William James Sloan Soldier-Farmer New Westminster (BC) 1,611 ❌
John Alexander Catherwood British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Dewdney 1,535 ✅
William McQuoid Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,524 ❌
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,501 ✅
Charles Smith Cassidy Federated Labour Party Richmond (BC) 1,499 ❌
Turberville Thomas Independent Vancouver City 1,487 ❌
John Dennis Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Vancouver City 1,451 ❌
Leslie Vivian Rogers British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 1,433 ❌
John Owen Stevens United Farmers of British Columbia Kamloops (BC) 1,408 ❌
William Sloan British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 1,370 ✅
Donald Bruce Martyn British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 1,369 ❌
Thomas Menzies People's Party Comox 1,354 ✅
William Alexander McKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Similkameen 1,354 ✅
John Oliver British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 1,334 ✅
James Dakers Soldier-Farmer Victoria City (BC) 1,318 ❌
James Hargrave Schofield British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Trail 1,315 ✅
Matthew Fulton Crawford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kamloops (BC) 1,295 ❌
Edward John Chambers British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 1,264 ❌
William Edward Anderson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Comox 1,233 ❌
William Oliver Rose British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nelson (BC) 1,232 ✅
Robert Paton McLernan Soldier-Farmer Victoria City (BC) 1,202 ❌
Valient Vivian Vinson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Vancouver (BC) 1,180 ❌
Thomas Albert Barnard Federated Labour Party Nanaimo (BC) 1,171 ❌
Robert Henry Pooley British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Esquimalt 1,158 ✅
Kenneth Forrest Duncan Independent Cowichan 1,145 ✅
Henry George Thomas Perry British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,140 ✅
Francis James Anderson MacKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Delta 1,116 ❌
Richmond Archie Payne Soldier-Farmer Delta 1,107 ❌
Thomas Dooley Soldier-Farmer Victoria City (BC) 1,093 ❌
Malcolm Alexander Orford Soldier-Farmer Saanich 1,057 ❌
George Alfred Mosley Cheeke British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cowichan 1,032 ❌
William Gifford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 New Westminster (BC) 1,006 ❌
John William McIntosh Independent South Vancouver 955 ❌
James Horace King British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 941 ✅
Thomas Aubert Uphill Federated Labour Party Fernie 932 ✅
John McRae British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Yale (BC) 913 ✅
Benjamin Chubb British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 913 ❌
Thomas Donald Caven Independent Conservative Cranbrook 905 ❌
Joseph Stephen Deschamps British Columbia Liberal Party Trail 848 ❌
Richard John Burde Independent Alberni 841 ✅
William Edouard Peirce Federated Labour Party Victoria City (BC) 834 ❌
Hugh Stewart British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 806 ❌
Samuel Williams Cocker British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fort George 787 ❌
William Law Gilchrist British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nanaimo (BC) 785 ❌
Francis William Henry Giolma Independent Socialist Victoria City (BC) 778 ❌
Laurence Sherwood K Herchmer British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fernie 774 ❌
James O'Shea British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson (BC) 763 ❌
Fred W Lister British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kaslo 760 ✅
John Keen British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo 744 ❌
James Robert Cameron British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 737 ❌
William Wallace Burns McInnes Independent Labour Comox 731 ❌
Alexander Ingram Fisher British Columbia Liberal Party Fernie 723 ❌
Samuel Guthrie Federated Labour Party Newcastle 704 ✅
Seville Martineau Newton Independent Conservative Prince Rupert 697 ❌
Henry Charles Helgeson British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 685 ❌
John Henry Burrough Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) Prince Rupert 676 ❌
Noel Ernest Money Soldier-Farmer Alberni 675 ❌
Joseph Walters Independent Labour Yale (BC) 657 ❌
Alexander Malcolm Manson British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 630 ✅
John Andrew Buckham British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 584 ✅
Malcolm Bruce Jackson British Columbia Liberal Party The Islands 581 ✅
William Hunter British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Slocan 568 ✅
John Mackay Yorston British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 561 ✅
Charles B Formby British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Prince Rupert 561 ❌
George Clark British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 The Islands 481 ❌
Burges James Gadsden Soldier-Farmer Esquimalt 479 ❌
Herbert Wynn Davies Independent Victoria City (BC) 475 ❌
William Jamieson Curry Federated Labour Party Dewdney 473 ❌
Charles Franklin Nelson British Columbia Liberal Party Slocan 471 ❌
William Gilbert Fraser Liberal/Conservative Newcastle 424 ❌
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite Independent Socialist Newcastle 419 ❌
Henri Evariste Langis Labour Party Alberni 398 ❌
John Duncan MacLean British Columbia Liberal Party Greenwood 392 ✅
Herbert Frederick Kergin British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 390 ✅
Ezra Churchill Henniger British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks 390 ✅
John McKie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Grand Forks 384 ❌
Henry George Parson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Columbia 380 ❌
John Donald McDonald Federated Labour Party Victoria City (BC) 378 ❌
Lewis Adolphus de Vic Carey Soldier-Farmer The Islands 360 ❌
John Anderson Fraser British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 349 ❌
Archibald McDonald British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Lillooet 339 ✅
Alfred Harvey Smith Federated Labour Party Slocan 328 ❌
George Bernard Casey Federated Labour Party Atlin 300 ❌
John Robert Jackson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Greenwood 292 ❌
George L Murray British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Omineca 273 ❌
Reginald Abbott Independent Farmer Richmond (BC) 272 ❌
William Kemble Esling British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Rossland 257 ✅
George Alexander Dingwall Federated Labour Party Rossland 239 ❌
William Cameron Ross British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Atlin 229 ❌
John Bates Bryson British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 213 ❌
Robert McBride Independent Richmond (BC) 210 ❌
John Allan McLeod British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland 180 ❌
Ernest Crawford Carson Soldier-Farmer Lillooet 162 ❌
John Samuel Ross Independent Farmer Fort George 139 ❌
John Bickle Independent Socialist Newcastle 129 ❌
James Orchard Independent North Vancouver (BC) 129 ❌
George Henry Pitman Independent Farmer Greenwood 115 ❌
Harold Randolph King Independent Atlin 86 ❌
Alexander James Prudhomme Independent Omineca 78 ❌
Kelly S Joseph Independent Omineca 54 ❌
Patrick Daly Independent Labour Atlin 30 ❌
Oakley Beauport Bush Independent Atlin 28 ❌
William Henry Sutherland British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke 0 ✅

Districts

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

Richard John Burde · Independent

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

Herbert Frederick Kergin · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

John Mackay Yorston · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Edward Dodsley Barrow · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,911 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Thomas Menzies · People's Party

1,354 votes
Cranbrook
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

James Horace King · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

John Oliver · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,334 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Robert Henry Pooley · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,158 votes
Fernie
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas Aubert Uphill · Federated Labour Party

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

Henry George Thomas Perry · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,140 votes
Grand Forks
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Ezra Churchill Henniger · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

John Duncan MacLean · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Malcolm Bruce Jackson · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Frederick William Anderson · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,617 votes
Kaslo
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Fred W Lister · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Archibald McDonald · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William Sloan · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,370 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

David Whiteside · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,980 votes
Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

Samuel Guthrie · Federated Labour Party

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

Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald · British Columbia Liberal Party

2,037 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Alexander Malcolm Manson · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,501 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

Thomas Pearson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,863 votes
Saanich
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Frederick Arthur Pauline · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,858 votes
Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

William Alexander McKenzie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,354 votes
Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1903–1920)

William Hunter · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

568 votes
Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 2 elections (1916–1920)

James Hargrave Schofield · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,315 votes
Vancouver City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1890–1928)

Mary Ellen Smith · British Columbia Liberal Party

17,510 votes
South Vancouver
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1916–1928)

Robert Henry Neelands · Federated Labour Party

3,255 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

James William Jones · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,882 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

John Oliver · British Columbia Liberal Party

6,498 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

John McRae · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

John Alexander Catherwood · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,535 votes
North Vancouver (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1916–1963)

George Samuel Hanes · Independent

2,681 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

John Andrew Buckham · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Kenneth Forrest Duncan · Independent

1,145 votes
Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

William Henry Sutherland · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

William Kemble Esling · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William Oliver Rose · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,232 votes

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