British Columbia general election, 1963
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The British Columbia general election of 1963 was the 27th 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 August 22 1963, and held on September 30 1963. The new legislature met for the first time on January 23 1964.
The conservative Social Credit Party of Premier W.A.C. Bennett was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a fifth term in government. The party increased its share of the popular vote and number of seats in the legislature marginally.
The opposition New Democratic Party (formerly the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) had small losses both in popular vote and number of seats.
The Liberals won about 20% of the popular vote, and one additional seat, for a total of five.
The Progressive Conservative Party won no seats in the legislature increasing its share of the popular vote by four-and-half percentage points to over 11%.
Results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates | Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change |- |bgcolor="lightblue"| | Social Credit | W.A.C. Bennett | 52 | 32 | 33 | align="right" | 395,079 | 40.83% | align="right" | New Democrats | Bob Strachan | 52 | 16 | 14 | align="right" |
| 269,004 | 27.80% | align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Liberal | Ray Perrault | 51 | 4 | 5 | align="right" | 193,363 | 19.98% | align="right" | ||||||||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Davie Fulton | 44 | align="right" | |||||||||||||||||
| align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| - | 109,090 | 11.27% | +4.55% |- |bgcolor="tomato"| | Communist | 4 | align="right" | ||||||||||||||
| align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| - | 849 | 0.09% | -0.48% |- |bgcolor="gainsboro"| | Independent | 1 | align="right" | ||||||||||||||
| align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| - | 215 | 0.02% | -0.23% |- | bgcolor="gold"| | Socialist | 1 | * | 0 | * | 75 | 0.01% | * | |||||||||
| Total | 205 | 52 | 52 | - | 967,675 | 100% | ||||||||||||||
| Source: [Elections BC] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Note:
Results by riding
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Collins Speare
|align="center" |Cariboo
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Alberni
New Democrat
|align="center"|Stanley John Squire
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Kenneth Kiernan
|align="center" |Chilliwack
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Atlin
New Democrat
|align="center"|Frank Arthur Calder
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|James Roland Chabot
|align="center" |Columbia
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Burnaby
New Democrat
|align="center"|Gordon Hudson Dowding
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Daniel Robert John Campbell
|align="center" |Comox
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center"|Charles Willoughby MacSorley
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Ernest A. LeCours
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Delta
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Cowichan-Newcastle
New Democrat
|align="center"|Robert Martin Strachan2
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Hunter Bertram Vogel
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Cranbrook
New Democrat
|align="center"|Leo Thomas Nimsick
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Herbert Joseph Bruch
|align="center" |Esquimalt
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Dewdney
New Democrat
|align="center"|David Barrett
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Ray Gillis Williston
|align="center" |Fort George
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Grand Forks-Greenwood
New Democrat
|align="center"|Lois Mabel Haggen
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Philip Arthur Gaglardi
|align="center" |Kamloops
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Kaslo-Slocan
New Democrat
|align="center"|Randolph Harding
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Donald Frederick Robinson
|align="center" |Lillooet
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Mackenzie
New Democrat
|align="center"|Anthony John Gargrave
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Wesley Drewett Black
|align="center" |Nelson-Creston
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Nanaimo and the Islands
New Democrat
|align="center"|David Daniel Stupich
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|George William McLeod
|align="center" |North Okanagan
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |New Westminster
New Democrat
|align="center"|John McRae (Rae) Eddie
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Jacob Francis Huhn
|align="center" |North Peace River
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver East
New Democrat
|align="center"|Alexander Barrett MacDonald
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Cyril Morley Shelford
|align="center" |Omineca
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center"|Arthur James Turner
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Harvey Murray
|align="center" |Prince Rupert
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Yale
New Democrat
|align="center"|William Leonard Hartley
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Arvid Waldemar Lundell
|align="center" |Revelstoke
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |Fernie
Liberal
|align="center"|Henry Cartmell (Harry) McKay
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Donald Leslie Brothers
|align="center" |Rossland-Trail
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" rowspan=2 |North Vancouver
Liberal
|align="center"|James Gordon Gibson
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle
|align="center" |Saanich
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center"|Raymond Joseph Perrault
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Willis Franklin Jefcoat
|align="center" |Salmon Arm
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |Oak Bay
Liberal
|align="center"|Alan Brock MacFarlane
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Francis Xavier Richter
|align="center" |Similkameen
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |Vancouver-Point Grey
Liberal
|align="center"|Patrick Lucey McGeer
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Dudley George Little
|align="center" |Skeena
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Andrew Cecil Bennett1
|align="center" |South Okanagan
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Stanley Carnell
|align="center" |South Peace River
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Burrard
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Bert Price
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Alexander Small Matthew
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver Centre
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Leslie Raymond Peterson
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Robert William Bonner
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Point Grey
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Ralph Raymond Loffmark
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Neelands Chant
|align="center" rowspan=3 |Victoria City
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|- |bgcolor="lightblue"| |align="center"|Waldo McTavish Skillings |bgcolor="lightblue"|
|- |bgcolor="lightblue"| |align="center"|John Donald Smith |bgcolor="lightblue"|
|- | |align="center"|1 Premier-Elect |align="center"|2 Leader of the Opposition |- |- | align="center" colspan="10"|Source: [Elections BC] |- |}
See also
- List of British Columbia political parties
| Preceded by: 1960 | British Columbia general elections | Followed by: 1966 |
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