1928 British Columbia general election

The British Columbia general election of 1928 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.

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.

Results by riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1928
Government				Opposition
	Member	Riding & party		Riding & party		Member
	William Robert Rutledge	Burnaby Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Alberni Liberal	Laurence Arnold Hanna	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Roderick MacKenzie	Cariboo Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Atlin Liberal	Herbert Frederick Kergin	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	William Atkinson	Chilliwack Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Columbia Liberal	John Andrew Buckham	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	George Kerr McNaughton	Comox Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Cranbrook Liberal	Frank Mitchell MacPherson	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Cyril Francis Davie	Cowichan-Newcastle Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Nanaimo Liberal	George Sharratt Pearson	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Fred W. Lister	Creston Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	New Westminster Liberal	Arthur Wellesley Gray	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	John Walter Berry	Delta Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	North Vancouver Liberal	Ian Alistair MacKenzie	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Nelson Seymour Lougheed	Dewdney Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Omineca Liberal	Alexander Malcolm Manson	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Robert Henry Pooley	Esquimalt Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Prince Rupert Liberal	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo2	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Frederick Parker Burden	Fort George Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Revelstoke Liberal	William Henry Sutherland	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Charles Morgan Kingston	Grand Forks-Greenwood Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Skeena Liberal	Horace Cooper Wrinch	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	Cyrus Wesley Peck	The Islands Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Yale Liberal	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal|
	John Ralph Michell	Kamloops Conservative		Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Labour|	Fernie Independent Labour Party	Thomas Aubert Uphill	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Labour|
	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