1928 British Columbia general election

1928 British Columbia general election

July 18, 1928
48 seats to the 17th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 25 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   BCLP ILP Leader Simon Fraser Tolmie John Duncan MacLean Party Conservative Liberal Independent Labour Leader's seat Saanich Yale Last election 17 seats, 29.45% 23 seats, 31.34% Did not contest Seats won 35 12 1 Seat change 18 11 1 Popular vote 192,867 144,872 17,908 Percentage 53.30% 40.04% 4.95% Swing 23.85pp 8.70pp Did not contest
Premier before election John Duncan MacLean Liberal Elected Premier Simon Fraser Tolmie Conservative

The 1928 British Columbia general election was the seventeenth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on June 7, 1928, and held on July 18, 1928. The new legislature met for the first time on January 22, 1929.

The Conservative Party defeated the governing Liberal Party, taking over half the popular vote, and 35 of the 48 seats in the legislature. The Liberals' popular vote also increased significantly, but because of the disappearance of the Provincial Party and the Canadian Labour Party, which had won over 35% of the vote together in the previous election, the Liberals were defeated. Notably, as of 2019, this remains the final election in British Columbia history where the Conservative Party would achieve power in its own right.

Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1924	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Conservative	Simon Fraser Tolmie	48	17	35	+105.9%	192,867	53.30%	+23.85%
	Liberal	John Duncan MacLean	45	23	12	-47.8%	144,872	40.04%	+8.70%
	Independent Labour Party		9	*	1	*	17,908	4.95%	*
	Independent		9	-	-	-	3,658	1.01%	+0.28%
	Independent Conservative		2	-	-	-	1,064	0.29%	-0.30%
	Independent Liberal		2	2	-	-100%	1,001	0.28%	-0.75%
	Independent Labour		1	*	-	*	316	0.09%	*
	Independent Farmer		1	*	-	*	128	0.04%	*
Total			117	48	48	-	361,814	100%
Source: Elections BC

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

Popular vote Conservative   53.30% Liberal   40.04% Ind. Labour   4.95% Others   1.71%

Seats summary Conservative   72.92% Liberal   25.00% Ind. Labour   2.08%

Results by riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1928
Government				Opposition
	Member	Riding & party		Riding & party		Member
	William Robert Rutledge	Burnaby Conservative			Alberni Liberal	Laurence Arnold Hanna
	Roderick MacKenzie	Cariboo Conservative			Atlin Liberal	Herbert Frederick Kergin
	William Atkinson	Chilliwack Conservative			Columbia Liberal	John Andrew Buckham
	George Kerr McNaughton	Comox Conservative			Cranbrook Liberal	Frank Mitchell MacPherson
	Cyril Francis Davie	Cowichan-Newcastle Conservative			Nanaimo Liberal	George Sharratt Pearson
	Fred W. Lister	Creston Conservative			New Westminster Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray
	John Walter Berry	Delta Conservative			North Vancouver Liberal	Ian Alistair MacKenzie
	Nelson Seymour Lougheed	Dewdney Conservative			Omineca Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson
	Robert Henry Pooley	Esquimalt Conservative			Prince Rupert Liberal	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo2
	Frederick Parker Burden	Fort George Conservative			Revelstoke Liberal	William Henry Sutherland
	Charles Morgan Kingston	Grand Forks-Greenwood Conservative			Skeena Liberal	Horace Cooper Wrinch
	Cyrus Wesley Peck	The Islands Conservative			Yale Liberal	John Joseph Alban Gillis
	John Ralph Michell	Kamloops Conservative			Fernie Independent Labour Party	Thomas Aubert Uphill
	James Fitzsimmon	Kaslo-Slocan Conservative
	Ernest Crawford Carson	Lillooet Conservative
	Michael Manson	Mackenzie Conservative
	Lorris E. Borden	Nelson Conservative
	William Farris Kennedy	North Okanagan Conservative
	Samuel Lyness Howe	Richmond-Point Grey Conservative
	James Hargrave Schofield	Rossland-Trail Conservative
	Simon Fraser Tolmie 1	Saanich Conservative
	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	Salmon Arm Conservative
	William Alexander McKenzie	Similkameen Conservative
	James William Jones	South Okanagan Conservative
	Jonathan Webster Cornett	South Vancouver Conservative
	William Dick	Vancouver City Conservative
	Thomas Henry Kirk
	Royal Maitland
	William Curtis Shelly
	Nelson Spencer
	George Alexander Walkem
	James Harry Beatty	Victoria City Conservative
	Reginald Hayward
	Joshua Hinchcliffe
	Harold Despard Twigg
	1 Premier-Elect
	2 Leader of the Opposition
Source: Elections BC

See also

• List of British Columbia political parties