Election Name: | 1907 British Columbia general election |
Country: | British Columbia |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Vote Type: | Popular |
Previous Election: | 1903 British Columbia general election |
Previous Year: | 1903 |
Election Date: | --> |
Next Election: | 1909 British Columbia general election |
Next Year: | 1909 |
Seats For Election: | 42 seats to the 11th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |
Majority Seats: | 23 |
Image1: | File:Richard McBride (cropped).jpg |
Image1 Size: | 100px |
Colour1: | 294296 |
Leader1: | Sir Richard McBride |
Leader Since1: | 1903 |
Leaders Seat1: | Dewdney |
Seats Before1: | 22 |
Seats1: | 26 |
Seat Change1: | 4 |
Popular Vote1: | 30,781 |
Percentage1: | 48.70% |
Swing1: | 2.27pp |
Colour2: | A51B12 |
Leader2: | James Alexander MacDonald |
Leader Since2: | 1903 |
Leaders Seat2: | Rossland City |
Seats Before2: | 17 |
Seats2: | 13 |
Seat Change2: | 4 |
Popular Vote2: | 23,481 |
Percentage2: | 37.15% |
Swing2: | 0.63pp |
Image3: | SOC |
Colour3: | FFD700 |
Leader3: | No leader |
Seats Before3: | 2 |
Seats3: | 3 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 5,603 |
Percentage3: | 8.87% |
Swing3: | 0.91pp |
Premier | |
Before Election: | Sir Richard McBride |
Posttitle: | Premier |
After Election: | Sir Richard McBride |
The 1907 British Columbia general election was the eleventh general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election called on December 24, 1906, and held on February 2, 1907. The new legislature met for the first time on March 7, 1907.
The governing Conservative party won a second term in government, with almost half the popular vote, and a majority of the seats in the legislature, increasing its number of seats by 4 to 26.
The Liberal Party lost 4 seats in the legislature, despite winning about the same share of the popular vote that it had in the 1903 election.
The Socialist Party won one additional seat to bring its total to three.
|-! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party! rowspan=2 | Party leader! colspan=4 | MLAs! colspan=4 | Votes|-! Candidates!1903!1907!±!#! ±!%! ± (pp)|style="text-align:left;"|Richard McBride| 42 || 22 || 26 || 4 || 30,781 || 2,868 || 48.70% || 2.27|style="text-align:left;"|James Alexander MacDonald| 40 || 17 || 13 || 4 || 23,481 || 766 || 37.15% || 0.63|style="text-align:left;"|| 20 || 2 || 3 || 1 || 5,603 || 816 || 8.87% || 0.91|style="text-align:left;"|Canadian Labour[1] |style="text-align:left;"|| 6 || 1 || – || 1 || 2,495 || 1,926 || 3.95% || 3.41|style="text-align:left;"|| 2 || – || – || – || 487 || 487 || 0.77% ||New|style="text-align:left;"|| 1 || – || – || – || 211 || 211 || 0.33% ||New|style="text-align:left;"|| 1 || – || – || – || 147 || 147 || 0.23% ||New|-! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total|112||42! " colspan="2"|42! " colspan="2"|63,205! " colspan="2"| 100.00%|}
The following MLAs were elected:
Riding | Winning party | Votes | |||||||||||||
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Name | 1903 | Party | Votes | Share | Margin # | Margin % | Con | Lib | Soc | Total | |||||
Alberni | Lib | Lib | 236 | 48.86% | 32 | 6.62% | 204 | 236 | 43 | – | – | 483 | |||
Atlin | Con | Con | 78 | 62.90% | 32 | 25.80% | 78 | 46 | – | – | – | 124 | |||
Chilliwhack | Lib | Lib | 331 | 51.64% | 21 | 3.28% | 310 | 331 | – | – | – | 641 | |||
Columbia | Lib | Con | 254 | 56.57% | 59 | 13.14% | 254 | 195 | – | – | – | 449 | |||
Comox | Con | Con | 372 | 56.02% | 80 | 12.04% | 372 | 292 | – | – | – | 664 | |||
Cowichan | Lib | Con | 123 | 53.95% | 18 | 7.90% | 123 | 105 | – | – | – | 228 | |||
Cranbrook | Lib | Lib | 473 | 44.54% | 95 | 8.95% | 378 | 473 | – | – | 211 | 1,062 | |||
Delta | Lib | Lib | 430 | 62.23% | 169 | 24.46% | 261 | 430 | – | – | – | 691 | |||
Dewdney | Con | Con | 384 | 61.44% | 143 | 22.88% | 384 | 241 | – | – | – | 625 | |||
Esquimalt | Con | Lib | 297 | 58.58% | 87 | 17.16% | 210 | 297 | – | – | – | 507 | |||
Fernie | Con | Con | 350 | 49.93% | 65 | 9.27% | 350 | 66 | 285 | – | – | 701 | |||
Grand Forks | Con | Soc | 323 | 43.77% | 68 | 9.22% | 255 | 160 | 323 | – | – | 738 | |||
Greenwood | Lib | Lib | 217 | 37.22% | 27 | 4.63% | 190 | 217 | 176 | – | – | 583 | |||
The Islands | Lib | Con | 179 | 49.31% | 6 | 1.65% | 179 | 173 | 11 | – | – | 363 | |||
Kamloops | Con | Con | 534 | 54.88% | 95 | 9.76% | 534 | 439 | – | – | – | 973 | |||
Kaslo | Con | Con | 233 | 55.21% | 44 | 10.42% | 233 | 189 | – | – | – | 422 | |||
Lillooet | Con | Lib | 123 | 51.68% | 8 | 3.36% | 115 | 123 | – | – | – | 238 | |||
Nanaimo City | Soc | Soc | 455 | 50.22% | 165 | 18.21% | 161 | 290 | 455 | – | – | 906 | |||
Nelson City | Con | Lib | 314 | 43.67% | 5 | 0.69% | 309 | 314 | 96 | – | – | 719 | |||
Newcastle | Soc | Soc | 259 | 46.67% | 62 | 11.17% | 99 | 197 | 259 | – | – | 555 | |||
New Westminster City | Con | Con | 675 | 49.31% | 128 | 9.35% | 675 | 547 | – | 147 | – | 1,369 | |||
Okanagan | Con | Con | 893 | 54.85% | 250 | 15.35% | 893 | 643 | 92 | – | – | 1,628 | |||
Revelstoke | Con | Con | 440 | 54.79% | 171 | 21.29% | 440 | 269 | 94 | – | – | 803 | |||
Richmond | Con | Con | 417 | 48.04% | 14 | 1.61% | 417 | 403 | 48 | – | – | 868 | |||
Rossland City | Lib | Lib | 241 | 45.90% | 55 | 10.47% | 186 | 241 | 98 | – | – | 525 | |||
Lib | Con | 275 | 51.69% | 18 | 3.38% | 275 | 257 | – | – | – | 532 | ||||
Similkameen | Con | Con | 298 | 56.55% | 98 | 18.60% | 298 | 200 | 29 | – | – | 527 | |||
Skeena | Con | Lib | 188 | 61.44% | 70 | 22.88% | 118 | 188 | – | – | – | 306 | |||
Slocan | Lab | Con | 193 | 49.11% | 74 | 18.83% | 193 | 119 | 81 | – | – | 393 | |||
Yale | Lib | Lib | 289 | 58.27% | 82 | 16.54% | 207 | 289 | – | – | – | 496 | |||
Ymir | Con | Con | 325 | 45.71% | 86 | 12.10% | 325 | 239 | – | – | 147 | 711 |
= open seat
= winning candidate was in previous Legislature
= incumbent had switched allegiance
= incumbency arose from byelection gain
= other incumbents renominated
= Independent Labour candidate
Cariboo ! | Victoria City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Votes | Share | Change | Votes ! | Share | Change | Votes | Share | Change | 287 | 43.88% | -1.78% | 15,503 | 51.38% | 2.81% | 5,965 | 47.54% | 6.01% | 367 | 56.12% | 1.78% | 10,956 | 36.31% | 10.23% | 4,474 | 35.66% | -17.37% | – | – | – | 3,032 | 10.05% | 0.91% | 443 | 3.53% | -1.92% | Canadian Labour | – | – | – | 682 | 2.26% | -12.81% | 1,666 | 13.28% | 13.28% | – | – | – | – | – | -1.14% | – | – | – |
Total | 654 | 100.00% | 30,173 | 100.00% | 12,548 | 100.00% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seats won | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Incumbents returned | 1 | 4 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seat change | – | – |