10th Parliament of British Columbia

The 10th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1903 to 1906. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in October 1903. This election was the first in British Columbia to be contested by competing political parties. The British Columbia Conservative Party led by Richard McBride, having won the majority of seats, formed the government.

Charles Edward Pooley served as speaker.

Members of the 10th General Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1903.:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	William Wallace Burns McInnes	Alberni	Liberal	Henry Esson Young	Atlin	Conservative	Harry Jones	Cariboo	Liberal	James Murphy	Charles William Munro	Chilliwhack	Liberal	Wilmer Cleveland Wells	Columbia	Liberal	Robert Grant	Comox	Conservative	John Newell Evans	Cowichan	Liberal	James Horace King	Cranbrook	Liberal	John Oliver	Delta	Liberal	Richard McBride	Dewdney	Conservative	Charles Edward Pooley	Esquimalt	Conservative	William Roderick Ross	Fernie	Conservative	George Arthur Fraser	Grand Forks	Conservative	John Robert Brown	Greenwood	Liberal	Thomas Wilson Paterson	The Islands	Liberal	Frederick John Fulton	Kamloops	Conservative	Robert Francis Green	Kaslo	Conservative	Archibald McDonald	Lillooet	Conservative
	James Hurst Hawthornthwaite	Nanaimo City	Socialist	John Houston	Nelson City	Conservative
	Parker Williams	Newcastle	Socialist	Thomas Gifford	New Westminster City	Conservative	Price Ellison	Okanagan	Conservative	Thomas Taylor	Revelstoke	Conservative	Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton	Richmond	Conservative	James Alexander MacDonald	Rossland City	Liberal	Henry Ernest Tanner	Saanich	Liberal	Lytton Wilmot Shatford	Similkameen	Conservative	Charles William Digby Clifford	Skeena	Conservative	William Davidson	Slocan	Labour	William John Bowser	Vancouver City	Conservative	James Ford Garden	Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan	Robert Garnett Tatlow	Charles Wilson	William George Cameron	Victoria City	Liberal	Richard Low Drury	Richard Hall	James Dugald McNiven	Stuart Alexander Henderson	Yale	Liberal	Harry Wright	Ymir	Conservative

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Party standings

Affiliation		Members	Conservative Party	22	Liberal Party	17
	Socialist	2	Labour	1
Total		42
Government Majority		2

By-elections

By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time:

• Charles Wilson, Attorney General, elected November 21, 1903
• Frederick John Fulton, President of Executive Council, acclaimed June 1, 1904

By-elections were held to replace members for various other reasons:

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Lillooet	Archibald McDonald	Conservative	August 16, 1904	election of A. McDonald declared null and void by act of legislature
Alberni	William Manson	Conservative	August 16, 1904	W.W.B. McInnes named commissioner of the Yukon May 20, 1905

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