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Number of seats won by major parties at each election

This articles provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of British Columbia's unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The number of seats has increased over time, from 25 for the first election in 1871, to the current 79. Until the 1903 election, British Columbia politics were officially non-partisan - political parties were not part of the process. This began to change in the 1898 and 1900 elections with the appearance of party-designated candidates.

Summary of results by party

  • Results for the Progresisve Conservatives from 1945 have been listed in the "Conservatives" column
  • Results for the CCF up until 1956 have been listed in the "New Democrats" column
  • Results for the Independent Labour candidates from 1928, 1933 and 1941 have been included in the "Labour" column
  • 1945 and 1949 saw a coalition between Progressive Conservatives and the BC Liberals
  • Full results can be found by clicking the year of the election.
  • The winning party's total is highlighted in bold


Year Conservatives Liberal New Democrats Socialist Social Credit Labour Independent Other Parties
2005 46 33
2001 77 2
1996 33 39 3 Reform (2)
Progressive Democrats (1)
1991 17 51 7
1986 22 47
1983 22 35
1979 26 31
1975 1 1 18 35
1972 2 5 38 10
1969 5 12 38
1966 6 16 33
1963 5 14 33
1960 4 16 32
1956 2 10 39 1
1953 1 4 14 28 1
1952 4 6 18 19 1
1949 39 7 1 1
1945 37 10 1
1941 12 21 14 1
1937 8 31 7 1 1
1933 34 7 1 2 3 Non Partisan Independent
Group (2), Unionist (1)
1928 35 12 1
1924 17 23 8 Provincial (3); Canadian
Labour (3); Ind. Libral (2)
1920 15 25 3 4 Federated Labour (3);
People's (1)
1916 9 36 1 1 Independent Socialist
1912 39 1 2 Independent Conservative;
Social Democrat
1909 38 2 2
1907 26 13 3
1903 22 17 2 1
There were no political parties in BC prior to 1903. For links to articles with full results, see the section below.

Elections prior to 1903

See also

Reference

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