1900 British Columbia general election

1900 British Columbia general election

June 9, 1900
38 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Premier before election Joseph Martin Government Elected Premier James Dunsmuir Opposition

Members of the Legislature of British Columbia, 1900

The 1900 British Columbia general election was held in 1900. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 24, 1900, and held on June 9, 1900. The new legislature met for the first time on July 19, 1900.

Like in the previous BC general election, of the 38 MLAs 24 were elected in single member districts in 1900. There were also three 2-member districts and two 4-member districts. Each voter could cast as many votes as there were seats to fill in the district.^[1]

This was the last election in which political parties were not part of the official process in British Columbia, although because of the political chaos in this year resulting from the joint misrule of Premier Joseph Martin and the Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas Robert McInnes, many individual candidates declared their party affiliations in many ridings as a protest against the non-party system.

For more on the political circumstances of this election, please see 1898 British Columbia general election.

Results by riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1900
Government				Opposition
	Member	Riding & party		Riding & party		Member
	Edwin Clarke Smith	East Kootenay (south riding) Government			Cassiar Conservative Opposition Independent Opposition	Charles William Digby Clifford
	John Oliver	Westminster-Delta Government				James Stables
	John Cunningham Brown	New Westminster City Government			Alberni Progressive	Alan Webster Neill
	Hugh Bowie Gilmour	Vancouver City Government			Cariboo Opposition	Joseph Hunter
	Joseph Martin^1					Samuel Augustus Rogers
	Smith Curtis	West Kootenay-Rossland Government			Comox Opposition	Lewis Alfred Mounce
					Esquimalt Independent Opposition Opposition	William Henry Hayward
						Charles Edward Pooley
					Cowichan Independent Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie
					Lillooet East Opposition Progressive	James Douglas Prentice
					East Kootenay (north riding) Independent Progressive	Wilmer Cleveland Wells
					Nanaimo City Labour	Ralph Smith
					South Nanaimo Opposition	James Dunsmuir^2
					Lillooet West Independent Opposition	Alfred Wellington Smith
					Vancouver City Conservative	James Ford Garden
						Robert Garnett Tatlow
					North Nanaimo Independent	William Wallace Burns McInnes
					North Victoria Independent Liberal	John Paton Booth
					South Victoria Opposition	David McEwen Eberts
					West Kootenay-Nelson Opposition	John Frederick Hume
					Victoria City Opposition	Richard Hall
						Henry Dallas Helmcken
						Albert Edward McPhillips
						John Herbert Turner
					West Kootenay-Revelstoke Conservative	Thomas Taylor
					West Kootenay-Slocan Progressive	Robert Francis Green
					Westminster-Chilliwhack Progressive	Charles William Munro
					Westminster-Dewdney Conservative	Richard McBride
					Westminster-Richmond Conservative	Thomas Kidd
					Yale-East Opposition	Price Ellison
					Yale-North Independent Opposition	Frederick John Fulton
					Yale-West Opposition Progressive	Denis Murphy
	^1 Incumbent Premier					^2 Premier-Elect
Source: [2]

See also

• List of British Columbia political parties

Further reading & references

• In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974). Despite its title, a fairly thorough account of the politicians and electoral politics in early BC.

References

1. Electoral History of BC, 1871-1986, p. 545
2. "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One 9th General Election 1900". elections.bc.ca. Archived from the original on December 8, 2004.