| Election Name: | 1928 British Columbia general election |
| Seats1: | 35 |
| Seats2: | 12 |
| Seats3: | 1 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Saanich |
| Leaders Seat2: | Victoria City |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Seats For Election: | 48 seats to the 17th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 25 seats were needed for a majority |
| Elected Members: | 17th Parliament of British Columbia#Members of the 17th General Assembly |
| Outgoing Members: | 16th Parliament of British Columbia#Members of the 16th General Assembly |
| Election Date: | July 18, 1928 |
| Before Election: | John Duncan MacLean |
| After Election: | Simon Fraser Tolmie |
| Image3: | ILP |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Last Election2: | 23 seats, |
| Ongoing: | No |
| Previous Election: | 1924 British Columbia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1924 |
| Next Election: | 1933 British Columbia general election |
| Next Year: | 1933 |
| Country: | British Columbia |
| Leader1: | Simon Fraser Tolmie |
| Leader2: | John Duncan MacLean |
| Last Election1: | 17 seats, |
| Last Election3: | Did not contest |
| Popular Vote1: | 192,867 |
| Seat Change2: | 11 |
| Popular Vote3: | 17,908 |
| Popular Vote2: | 144,872 |
| Percentage1: | 53.30% |
| Percentage2: | 40.04% |
| Percentage3: | 4.95% |
| Swing1: | 23.85 |
| Swing2: | 8.70 |
| Swing3: | Did not contest |
| Seat Change1: | 18 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
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. To date this remains the final election in British Columbia history where the Conservative Party would achieve power in its own right.
|-! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party! rowspan=2 | Party leader! colspan=4 | MLAs! colspan=4 | Votes|-! Candidates!1924!1928!±!#! ±!%! ± (pp)|style="text-align:left;" |Simon Fraser Tolmie| 48 || 17 || 35 || 18 || 192,867 || 91,102 || 53.30 || 23.85|style="text-align:left;" |John Duncan MacLean| 45 || 23 || 12 || 11 || 144,872 || 36,549 || 40.04 || 8.70|style="text-align:left;" || 10 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 18,224 || 20,820 || 5.04 || 6.26| || – || 3 || – || 3 || – || 83,517 || – || 24.16| || 2 || 2 || – || 2 || 1,001 || 2,548 || 0.28 || 0.75| || 9 || – || – || – || 3,658 || 1,138 || 1.01 || 0.28| || 2 || – || – || – || 1,064 || 982 || 0.29 || 0.30| || 1 || – || – || – || 128 || 128 || 0.04 ||New|-! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total| 117| 48! colspan="2"| 48! colspan="2"|361,814! colspan="2"| 100.00%|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots! colspan="2"|3,259! colspan="2"||-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Actual voters who voted! colspan="2"|174,934! colspan="2"| 71.33%|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters! colspan="2"|245,240! colspan="2"||}
| Riding | Winning party | Votes | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | 1924 | Party | Votes | Share | Margin # | Margin % | Con | Lib | Total | ||||||
| Alberni | I-Lib | Lib | 1,208 | 48.71% | 186 | 7.50% | 1,022 | 1,208 | 250 | – | – | 2,480 | |||
| Atlin | Lib | Lib | 587 | 50.56% | 45 | 3.88% | 542 | 587 | – | 32 | – | 1,161 | |||
| Burnaby | CLP | Con | 2,144 | 40.81% | 365 | 6.94% | 2,144 | 1,779 | 1,330 | – | – | 5,253 | |||
| Cariboo | Prov | Con | 623 | 44.00% | 223 | 15.75% | 623 | 400 | – | 393 | – | 1,416 | |||
| Chilliwack | Lib | Con | 2,595 | 55.51% | 515 | 11.02% | 2,595 | 2,080 | – | – | – | 4,675 | |||
| Columbia | Lib | Lib | 659 | 50.23% | 32 | 2.44% | 627 | 659 | – | 26 | – | 1,312 | |||
| Comox | I-Lib | Con | 2,058 | 53.85% | 561 | 14.68% | 2,058 | 1,497 | 267 | – | – | 3,822 | |||
| Cowichan-Newcastle | Con | Con | 2,360 | 58.17% | 753 | 18.56% | 2,360 | – | 1,607 | 90 | – | 4,057 | |||
| Cranbrook | Con | Lib | 1,833 | 52.46% | 172 | 4.92% | 1,661 | 1,833 | – | – | – | 3,494 | |||
| Creston | Con | Con | 1,184 | 54.76% | 206 | 9.52% | 1,184 | 978 | – | – | – | 2,162 | |||
| Delta | Lib | Con | 2,562 | 55.73% | 527 | 11.46% | 2,562 | 2,035 | – | – | – | 4,597 | |||
| Dewdney | Con | Con | 2,751 | 58.57% | 805 | 17.14% | 2,751 | 1,946 | – | – | – | 4,697 | |||
| Esquimalt | Con | Con | 1,806 | 62.10% | 729 | 25.06% | 1,806 | 1,077 | – | – | 25 | 2,908 | |||
| Fernie | CLP | ILP | 1,639 | 59.80% | 537 | 19.60% | 1,102 | – | 1,639 | – | – | 2,741 | |||
| Fort George | Lib | Con | 1,487 | 51.61% | 93 | 3.22% | 1,487 | 1,394 | – | – | – | 2,881 | |||
| Grand Forks-Greenwood | Con | Con | 888 | 52.92% | 98 | 5.84% | 888 | 790 | – | – | – | 1,678 | |||
| The Islands | Con | Con | 1,148 | 62.70% | 465 | 25.40% | 1,148 | 683 | – | – | – | 1,831 | |||
| Kamloops | Lib | Con | 1,531 | 50.25% | 15 | 0.50% | 1,531 | 1,516 | – | – | – | 3,047 | |||
| Kaslo-Slocan | Lib | Con | 1,169 | 51.23% | 56 | 2.46% | 1,169 | 1,113 | – | – | – | 2,282 | |||
| Lillooet | Lib | Con | 1,237 | 54.61% | 209 | 9.22% | 1,237 | 1,028 | – | – | – | 2,265 | |||
| Mackenzie | Con | Con | 1,266 | 51.03% | 51 | 2.06% | 1,266 | 1,215 | – | – | – | 2,481 | |||
| Nanaimo | Lib | Lib | 1,366 | 40.67% | 65 | 1.94% | 1,301 | 1,366 | 585 | 107 | – | 3,359 | |||
| Nelson | Lib | Con | 1,338 | 53.07% | 155 | 6.14% | 1,338 | 1,183 | – | – | – | 2,521 | |||
| New Westminster | Lib | Lib | 3,262 | 56.16% | 716 | 12.32% | 2,546 | 3,262 | – | – | – | 5,808 | |||
| North Okanagan | Lib | Con | 2,361 | 54.03% | 480 | 10.99% | 2,361 | 1,881 | – | – | 128 | 4,370 | |||
| North Vancouver | Lib | Lib | 2,498 | 46.60% | 32 | 0.60% | 2,466 | 2,498 | – | 397 | – | 5,361 | |||
| Omineca | Lib | Lib | 889 | 57.21% | 224 | 14.42% | 665 | 889 | – | – | – | 1,554 | |||
| Prince Rupert | Lib | Lib | 1,370 | 51.78% | 94 | 3.56% | 1,276 | 1,370 | – | – | – | 2,646 | |||
| Revelstoke | Lib | Lib | 1,170 | 56.36% | 264 | 12.72% | 906 | 1,170 | – | – | – | 2,076 | |||
| Richmond-Point Grey | Prov | Con | 5,414 | 62.16% | 2,118 | 24.32% | 5,414 | 3,296 | – | – | – | 8,710 | |||
| Rossland-Trail | Con | Con | 1,686 | 58.12% | 471 | 16.24% | 1,686 | 1,215 | – | – | – | 2,901 | |||
| Con | Con | 2,379 | 56.44% | 543 | 12.88% | 2,379 | 1,836 | – | – | – | 4,215 | ||||
| Salmon Arm | Con | Con | 1,706 | 73.25% | 1,083 | 46.50% | 1,706 | 623 | – | – | – | 2,329 | |||
| Similkameen | Con | Con | 2,079 | 55.53% | 414 | 11.06% | 2,079 | 1,665 | – | – | – | 3,744 | |||
| Skeena | Lib | Lib | 910 | 54.33% | 145 | 8.66% | 765 | 910 | – | – | – | 1,675 | |||
| South Okanagan | Con | Con | 2,145 | 56.08% | 465 | 12.16% | 2,145 | – | – | 1,680 | – | 3,825 | |||
| South Vancouver | CLP | Con | 2,452 | 47.45% | 471 | 9.12% | 2,452 | 696 | 1,981 | 39 | – | 5,168 | |||
| Yale | Lib | Lib | 1,514 | 57.22% | 382 | 14.44% | 1,132 | 1,514 | – | – | – | 2,646 | |||
= open seat
= turnout is above provincial average
= winning candidate was in previous Legislature
= incumbent had switched allegiance
= previously incumbent in another riding
= not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
= incumbency arose from byelection gain
= other incumbents renominated
= previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
= multiple candidates
| Vancouver City ! | Victoria City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Votes | Share | Change | Votes ! | Share | Change | 98,382 | 54.59% | 30.51% | 30,105 | 52.40% | 7.74% | 70,602 | 39.18% | 8.47% | 25,078 | 43.65% | 14.24% | Independent Labour | 10,249 | 5.69% | -9.94% | 316 | 0.55 | -4.56% | 976 | 0.54% | 0.42% | – | – | – | – | – | -0.15% | 1,064 | 1.85% | 1.85% | – | – | -0.40% | 894 | 1.56% | -1.76% | – | – | -27.19% | – | – | -17.51% | – | – | -1.73% | – | – | – |
| Total | 180,209 | 100.00% | 57,457 | 100.00% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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