British Columbia general election, 1966
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The British Columbia general election of 1966 was the 28th 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 5 1966, and held on September 12 1966. The new legislature met for the first time on January 24 1967.
The conservative Social Credit Party was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a sixth term in government. It increased its share of the popular vote by close to five percentage points to over 45%, and winning the same number of seats (33) as in the previous election.
The opposition New Democratic Party also increased its share of the popular vote by over five percentage points, but won only two additional seats.
The Liberal Party won about 20% of the popular vote, and one additional seat, for a total of six.
The Progressive Conservative Party was virtually wiped out: it nominated only three candidates (down from 44 in the previous election), and its share of the popular vote fell from over 11% to a negligible amount.
Results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates | Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1963 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change |- |bgcolor="lightblue"| | Social Credit | W.A.C. Bennett | 55 | 33 | 33 | - | 342,751 | 45.59% | align="right" | New Democrats | Bob Strachan | 55 | 14 | 16 | +14.3% | 252,753 | 33.62% | align="right" | Liberal | Ray Perrault | 53 | 5 | 6 | +20.0% | 152,155 | 20.24% | align="right" | Independent | 6 | align="right" | |
| align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | 1,711 | 0.23% | +0.21% |- |bgcolor="#9999FF"| | Progressive Conservative | Davie Fulton | 3 | align="right" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | 1,409 | 0.18% | -11.09% |- |bgcolor="tomato"| | Communist | 6 | align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| align="right" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | 1,097 | 0.14% | align="right" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 178 | 52 | 55 | +5.8% | 751,876 | 100% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: [Elections BC] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note:
Results by riding
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Howard Richmond McDiarmid
|align="center" |Alberni
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Atlin
New Democrat
|align="center"|Frank Arthur Calder
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Francis Xavier Richter
|align="center" |Boundary-Similkameen
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Burnaby-Edmonds
New Democrat
|align="center"|Gordon Hudson Dowding
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Collins Speare
|align="center" |Cariboo
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Burnaby North
New Democrat
|align="center"|Eileen Elizabeth Dailly
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Kenneth Kiernan
|align="center" |Chilliwack
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Burnaby-Willingdon
New Democrat
|align="center"|Frederick Justin Vulliamy
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|James Roland Chabot
|align="center" |Columbia
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Coquitlam
New Democrat
|align="center"|David Barrett
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Daniel Robert John Campbell
|align="center" |Comox
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Cowichan-Malahat
New Democrat
|align="center"|Robert Martin Strachan2
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Robert Lloyd Wenman
|align="center" |Delta
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Kootenay
New Democrat
|align="center"|Leo Thomas Nimsick
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|George Mussallem
|align="center" |Dewdney
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Nanaimo
New Democrat
|align="center"|David Daniel Stupich
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Herbert Joseph Bruch
|align="center" |Esquimalt
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |New Westminster
New Democrat
|align="center"|John McRae (Rae) Eddie
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Ray Gillis Williston
|align="center" |Fort George
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Revelstoke-Slocan
New Democrat
|align="center"|Randolph Harding
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Philip Arthur Gaglardi
|align="center" |Kamloops
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Surrey
New Democrat
|align="center"|Ernest Hall
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Hunter Bertram Vogel
|align="center" |Langley
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Burrard
New Democrat
|align="center"|Thomas Rodney Berger
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Isabel Pearl Dawson
|align="center" |Mackenzie
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center"|Raymond Parkinson
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Wesley Drewett Black
|align="center" |Nelson-Creston
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver East
New Democrat
|align="center"|Alexander Barrett MacDonald
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
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|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Patricia Jane Jordan
|align="center" |North Okanagan
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center"|Arthur James Turner
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
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|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Dean Edward Smith
|align="center" |North Peace River
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
|align="center" |Yale-Lillooet
New Democrat
|align="center"|William Leonard Hartley
|bgcolor="sandybrown"|
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|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Cyril Morley Shelford
|align="center" |Omineca
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |North Vancouver-Capilano
Liberal
|align="center"|Raymond Joseph Perrault
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Harvey Murray
|align="center" |Prince Rupert
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |North Vancouver-Seymour
Liberal
|align="center"|Barrie Aird Clark
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Ernest A. LeCours
|align="center" |Richmond
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |Oak Bay
Liberal
|align="center"|Alan Brock MacFarlane
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Donald Leslie Brothers
|align="center" |Rossland-Trail
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Point Grey
Liberal
|align="center"|Garde Basil Gardom
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle
|align="center" |Saanich and the Islands
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center"|Patrick Lucey McGeer
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Willis Franklin Jefcoat
|align="center" |Shuswap
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|bgcolor="lightcoral"|
|align="center" |West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Liberal
|align="center"|Louis Allan Williams
|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"|Donald McGray Phillips
|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"|Harold Peter (Herb) Capozzi
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver Centre
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Evan Maurice Wolfe
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Grace Mary McCarthy
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Little Mountain
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Leslie Raymond Peterson
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Thomas Audley Bate
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver South
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|Ralph Raymond Loffmark
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|align="center"|William Neelands Chant
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Victoria
Social Credit
|bgcolor="lightblue"|
|- |bgcolor="lightblue"| |align="center"|Waldo McTavish Skillings |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: 1963 | British Columbia general elections | Followed by: 1969 |
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