July 18 1928 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1928-07-18
Writ Date 1928-06-07
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 3,259
Invalid Votes 0
Total Electors 245,240
Turnout Rate 70
Valid Ballots 171,675
Valid Votes 361,814

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 48 35 72.92% 53.31%
British Columbia Liberal Party 45 12 25.00% 40.04%
Independent 9 0 0.00% 1.01%
Independent Conservative 2 0 0.00% 0.29%
Independent Farmer 1 0 0.00% 0.04%
Independent Labour 12 1 2.08% 5.31%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
William Curtis Shelly British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 17,486 ✅
Nelson Spencer British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 16,717 ✅
Royal Lethington Maitland British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 16,499 ✅
William Dick British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 15,968 ✅
Thomas Henry Kirk British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 15,943 ✅
George Alexander Walkem British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Vancouver City 15,769 ✅
Dugald Donaghy British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 13,176 ❌
Helen Douglas Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 12,514 ❌
Henry Elston Almond British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 11,818 ❌
Nicholas Thompson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 11,101 ❌
Frederick William Sterling British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 11,045 ❌
John Pitcairn Hogg British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver City 10,948 ❌
Reginald Hayward British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 7,754 ✅
Joshua Hinchliffe British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 7,614 ✅
James Harry Beatty British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 7,505 ✅
Harold Despard Twigg British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Victoria City (BC) 7,232 ✅
John Duncan MacLean British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,672 ❌
William Thomas Straith British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,201 ❌
Robert Alexander C Dewar British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,180 ❌
Angus Macinnis Independent Labour Vancouver City 6,026 ❌
Mark Wilson Graham British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria City (BC) 6,025 ❌
Samuel Lyness Howe British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Richmond-Point Grey 5,414 ✅
Robert Skinner Independent Labour Vancouver City 4,223 ❌
Robert Henry Carson British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond-Point Grey 3,296 ❌
Arthur Wellesley Gray British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 3,262 ✅
Nelson Seymour Lougheed British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Dewdney 2,751 ✅
William Atkinson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Chilliwack 2,595 ✅
John Walter Berry British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Delta 2,562 ✅
Albert Morris Sanford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 New Westminster (BC) 2,546 ❌
Ian Alastair Mackenzie British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver (BC) 2,498 ✅
Jack Loutet British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Vancouver (BC) 2,466 ❌
Jonathan Webster Cornett British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Vancouver 2,452 ✅
Simon Fraser Tolmie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Saanich 2,379 ✅
William Farris Kennedy British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 North Okanagan 2,361 ✅
Cyril Francis Davie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cowichan-Newcastle 2,360 ✅
James William Jones British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 South Okanagan 2,145 ✅
William Robert Rutledge British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Burnaby (BC) 2,144 ✅
Edward Dodsley Barrow British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 2,080 ❌
William Alexander McKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Similkameen 2,079 ✅
George Kerr MacNaughton British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Comox 2,058 ✅
Alexander McDonald Paterson British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 2,035 ❌
Robert Henry Neelands Independent Labour South Vancouver 1,981 ❌
David Whiteside British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 1,946 ❌
Peter Douglas Van Kleeck British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 1,881 ❌
Norman William Whittaker British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich 1,836 ❌
Frank Mitchell MacPherson British Columbia Liberal Party Cranbrook 1,833 ✅
Robert Henry Pooley British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Esquimalt 1,806 ✅
John Angus McIver British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby (BC) 1,779 ❌
Rolf Wallgren Bruhn British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Salmon Arm 1,706 ✅
James Hargrave Schofield British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Rossland-Trail 1,686 ✅
Daniel Wilbur Sutherland Independent South Okanagan 1,680 ❌
Charles Herbert Percy Tupper British Columbia Liberal Party Similkameen 1,665 ❌
Noel Stirling Austin Arnold Wallinger British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cranbrook 1,661 ❌
Thomas Aubert Uphill Independent Labour Fernie 1,639 ✅
Samuel Guthrie Independent Labour Cowichan-Newcastle 1,607 ❌
John Ralph Michell British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kamloops (BC) 1,531 ✅
James Reginald Colley British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 1,516 ❌
John Joseph Alban Gillis British Columbia Liberal Party Yale (BC) 1,514 ✅
John William McKenzie British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 1,497 ❌
Frederick Parker Burden British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fort George 1,487 ✅
Henry George Thomas Perry British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,394 ❌
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 1,370 ✅
George Sharratt Pearson British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 1,366 ✅
Lorris E Borden British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nelson (BC) 1,338 ✅
Francis Aubrey Browne Independent Labour Burnaby (BC) 1,330 ❌
Victor Birch Harrison British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Nanaimo (BC) 1,301 ❌
James Henry Thompson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Prince Rupert 1,276 ❌
Michael Manson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Mackenzie (BC) 1,266 ✅
Ernest Crawford Carson British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Lillooet 1,237 ✅
William John Heath British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 1,215 ❌
Donald MacDONALD British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 1,215 ❌
Laurence Arnold Hanna British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 1,208 ✅
Fred W Lister British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Creston 1,184 ✅
Duncan Daniel McLean British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson (BC) 1,183 ❌
William Henry Sutherland British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke 1,170 ✅
James Fitzsimmons British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Kaslo-Slocan 1,169 ✅
Cyrus Wesley Peck British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 The Islands 1,148 ✅
Ronald Helmerow Helmer British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Yale (BC) 1,132 ❌
Charles Sidney Leary British Columbia Liberal Party Kaslo-Slocan 1,113 ❌
Michael Dalton McLean British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Fernie 1,102 ❌
Mary Ellen Smith British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 1,077 ❌
Albert Edward Munn British Columbia Liberal Party Lillooet 1,028 ❌
Percy Rushton British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Alberni 1,022 ❌
Frank Putnam British Columbia Liberal Party Creston 978 ❌
Guy Cathcart Pelton Independent Labour Vancouver City 976 ❌
Horace Cooper Wrinch British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 910 ✅
Adam Wightman Bell British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Revelstoke 906 ❌
Christopher Roland North Independent Victoria City (BC) 894 ❌
Alexander Malcolm Manson British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 889 ✅
Charles Morgan Kingston British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Grand Forks-Greenwood 888 ✅
Dougald McPherson British Columbia Liberal Party Grand Forks-Greenwood 790 ❌
Frank Maurice Dockrill British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Skeena (BC) 765 ❌
Robert Pope Matheson Independent Conservative Victoria City (BC) 715 ❌
Charles William Feast British Columbia Liberal Party South Vancouver 696 ❌
Malcolm Bruce Jackson British Columbia Liberal Party The Islands 683 ❌
Arthur Shelford British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Omineca 665 ❌
John Andrew Buckham British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia 659 ✅
Earle Jennings Scovil British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Columbia 627 ❌
Roderick MacKenzie British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Cariboo (BC) 623 ✅
James Smart British Columbia Liberal Party Salmon Arm 623 ❌
Herbert Frederick Kergin British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 587 ✅
John Thomas Wilmot Place Independent Labour Nanaimo (BC) 585 ❌
Thomas Wilbert Falconer British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945 Atlin 542 ❌
Robert Neil Campbell British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 400 ❌
Archie Carland MacMillan Independent North Vancouver (BC) 397 ❌
David Alexander Stoddart Independent Cariboo (BC) 393 ❌
Alice Emily McGregor Independent Conservative Victoria City (BC) 349 ❌
Walter Inward Independent Labour Victoria City (BC) 316 ❌
William Law Independent Labour Comox 267 ❌
Thomas Albert Barnard Independent Labour Alberni 250 ❌
Arthur Thomas Howe Independent Farmer North Okanagan 128 ❌
Lawrence Samson Independent Nanaimo (BC) 107 ❌
St. George Gray Independent Cowichan-Newcastle 90 ❌
William Edward Wood Guy Independent South Vancouver 39 ❌
William Herbert Moult Independent Atlin 32 ❌
Gladys Elspeth Cross Independent Columbia 26 ❌
Frank Robert Carlow Independent Labour Esquimalt 25 ❌

Districts

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

Laurence Arnold Hanna · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,208 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Herbert Frederick Kergin · British Columbia Liberal Party

587 votes
Burnaby (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

William Robert Rutledge · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,144 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Roderick MacKenzie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

William Atkinson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,595 votes
Columbia
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

John Andrew Buckham · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

George Kerr MacNaughton · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,058 votes
Cowichan-Newcastle
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Cyril Francis Davie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,360 votes
Cranbrook
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Frank Mitchell MacPherson · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,833 votes
Creston
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 2 elections (1924–1928)

Fred W Lister · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,184 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

John Walter Berry · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,562 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Nelson Seymour Lougheed · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,751 votes
Esquimalt
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1871–1975)

Robert Henry Pooley · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,806 votes
Fernie
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Thomas Aubert Uphill · Independent Labour

1,639 votes
Fort George
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1916–1975)

Frederick Parker Burden · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,487 votes
Grand Forks-Greenwood
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Charles Morgan Kingston · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

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

Cyrus Wesley Peck · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,148 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

John Ralph Michell · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,531 votes
Kaslo-Slocan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

James Fitzsimmons · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,169 votes
Lillooet
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

Ernest Crawford Carson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,237 votes
Mackenzie (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1924–1986)

Michael Manson · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,266 votes
Nanaimo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1871–2020)

George Sharratt Pearson · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,366 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

Arthur Wellesley Gray · British Columbia Liberal Party

3,262 votes
North Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1916–1986)

William Farris Kennedy · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,361 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

James William Jones · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,145 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Alexander Malcolm Manson · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Thomas Dufferin Pattullo · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,370 votes
Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1903–1963)

William Henry Sutherland · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,170 votes
Rossland-Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1924–1996)

James Hargrave Schofield · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,686 votes
Saanich
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

Simon Fraser Tolmie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,379 votes
Salmon Arm
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1924–1963)

Rolf Wallgren Bruhn · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,706 votes
Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 18 elections (1903–1963)

William Alexander McKenzie · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,079 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

Horace Cooper Wrinch · British Columbia Liberal Party

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

Jonathan Webster Cornett · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

2,452 votes
Vancouver City
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1890–1928)

George Alexander Walkem · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

15,769 votes
Victoria City (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 27 elections (1871–1963)

Harold Despard Twigg · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

7,232 votes
Yale (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 24 elections (1871–1963)

John Joseph Alban Gillis · British Columbia Liberal Party

1,514 votes
North Vancouver (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1916–1963)

Ian Alastair Mackenzie · British Columbia Liberal Party

2,498 votes
Nelson (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 4 elections (1916–1928)

Lorris E Borden · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

1,338 votes
Richmond-Point Grey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 2 elections (1924–1928)

Samuel Lyness Howe · British Columbia Conservative Party pre 1945

5,414 votes

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