British Columbia general election, 1933

The British Columbia general election of 1933 was the eighteenth 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 September 13, 1933, and held on November 2, 1933.^[1] The new legislature met for the first time on February 20, 1934.

The Liberal Party won a majority government.

The Official Opposition was formed by the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which was contesting its first election.

Because of internal discord, the provincial executive of the Conservative Party decided not to contest the election officially each local association was to act on its own. Some candidates ran as Independents, some as Independent Conservatives. Those supporting the premier, Simon Fraser Tolmie, ran as Unionist Party of British Columbia, and those grouped around William John Bowser, a former premier, ran as the Non-Partisan Independent Group. When Bowser died and the elections in Vancouver Centre and Victoria City were postponed, 4 Non-partisan and 2 Unionist candidates withdrew.

Other notable races include the election of Bridge River-Lillooet News publisher George Matheson Murray in Lillooet over Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson. Carson's brother Robert Henry Carson ran as a Liberal, winning Kamloops. Carson and his brother both served as cabinet ministers in later regimes. They were the sons of Robert Carson, an American who was one of the very few survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail and who went on to found one of the early ranches at Pavilion and whose holdings became part of the Diamond S Ranch.^[2]

Results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1928	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Liberal	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	47	12	34	+183.3%	159,131	41.74%	+1.70%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.		46	*	7	*	120,185	31.53%	*
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	William John Bowser	30	*	2	*	38,836	10.19%	*
	Independent^1		29	-	2	-	29,506	7.74%	+6.73%
	Unionist^2	Simon Fraser Tolmie	12	35	1	-97.1%	15,445	4.05%	-49.25%
	Labour/Independent Labour		4	*	1	*	2,357	0.62%	*
	Independent Conservative		6	-	-	-	7,114	1.87%	+1.58%
	United Front (Workers and Farmers) Party^3		20	*	-	*	4,584	1.20%	*
	Independent Co-operative Commonwealth		8	*	-	*	2,266	0.59%	*
	Independent Liberal		2	*	-	*	1,076	0.28%	*
	Socialist		5	*	-	*	370	0.10%	*
	Progressive Liberal		1	*	-	*	353	0.09%	*
Total			210	48	47	-2.1%	381,223	100%
Source: Elections BC

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

¹ Includes Conservatives who ran as Independents.

² Results compared to those of Conservative Party in previous election.

³ One United Front candidate, C.J. McKendrick, ran in two ridings (Dewdney and Vancouver Centre) and is counted as two candidates.

Results by riding

(incomplete - 2 Liberal MLAs are missing)

Results of British Columbia general election, 1933
Government				Opposition
	Member	Riding & party		Riding & party		Member
	George Sharratt Pearson	Alberni-Nanaimo Liberal			Burnaby Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Edward Winch
	William James Asselstine	Atlin Liberal			Delta Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Robert Blatchford Swailes
	Donald Morrison MacKay	Cariboo Liberal			Mackenzie Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Ernest Bakewell
	Edward Dodsley Barrow	Chilliwack Liberal			North Vancouver Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Harley Christian Erskine Anderson
	William Henry Sutherland	Columbia-Revelstoke Liberal			Vancouver East Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	John Price
	Laurence Arnold Hanna	Comox Liberal				Harold Edward Winch
	Frank Mitchell MacPherson	Cranbrook Liberal			Victoria City Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Robert Connell ^2
	David William Strachan	Dewdney Liberal			Fernie Independent Labour Party	Thomas Aubert Uphill
	Henry George Thomas Perry	Fort George Liberal			Peace River Non-Partisan Independent Group	Clive Montgomery Francis Planta
	Dougald MacPherson	Grand Forks-Greenwood Liberal			Salmon Arm Non-Partisan Independent Group	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn
	Alexander McDonald	The Islands Liberal			Cowichan-Newcastle Oxford Group Movement	Hugh George Egioke Savage
	Robert Henry Carson	Kamloops Liberal			Esquimalt Unionist	Robert Henry Pooley
	Charles Sidney Leary	Kaslo-Slocan Liberal			Victoria City Independent	Herbert Anscomb
	George Matheson Murray	Lillooet Liberal
	Frank Putnam	Nelson-Creston Liberal
	Arthur Wellesley Gray	New Westminster Liberal
	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	North Okanagan Liberal
	Alexander Malcolm Manson	Omineca Liberal
	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo^1	Prince Rupert Liberal
	Richard Ronald Burns	Rossland-Trail Liberal
	Norman William Whittaker	Saanich Liberal
	Charles Herbert Percy Tupper	Similkameen Liberal
	Edward Tourtellotte Kenney	Skeena Liberal
	Joseph Allen Harris	South Okanagan Liberal
	Gerald Grattan McGeer	Vancouver-Burrard Liberal
	Helen Douglas Smith
	Gordon McGregor Sloan	Vancouver Centre Liberal
	Gordon Sylvester Wismer
	George Moir Weir	Vancouver-Point Grey Liberal
	Stanley Stewart McKeen
	Robert Wilkinson
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale Liberal
	^1 Premier-Elect
	^2 Leader of the Opposition
Source: Elections BC

See also

• List of British Columbia political parties

References

1. • Electoral History of BC 1871-1986, Elections BC
2. BCGNIS listing "Mount Carson"