British Columbia General Election, 1949

The 22nd general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada was called on April 16, 1949, and held on June 15, 1949. The new legislature met for the first time on February 14, 1950. The centre-right coalition formed by the Liberal and Conservative parties in order to defeat the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1945 election increased its share of the vote and its majority in the legislature. Three different social credit groupings nominated or endorsed candidates in the election: the Social Credit Party, the Social Credit League, and the Union of Electors.
   
owspan="2" colspan="2"|Party rowspan="2"|Party Leader rowspan="2"|# of candidates colspan="3"|Seats colspan="3"|Popular Vote
lign="center"|Previous align="center"|After align="center"|% Change align="center"|# align="center"|% align="center"|Change
gcolor="lightcoral"|Liberal rowspan="2"|Coalition bgcolor="lightcoral"|Byron Ingemar Johnson rowspan="2" align="right"|48 rowspan="2" align="right"|37 rowspan="2" align="right"|39 rowspan="2" align="right"| +5.4% rowspan="2" align="right"|428,773 rowspan="2" align="right"| 61.35% rowspan="2" align="right"| +5.52%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Conservative-Party" title="British Columbia Conservative Party">Progressive Conservative  
olspan="2"|Co-operative Commonwealth Harold Winch align="right"|48 align="right"|10 align="right"|7 align="right"| -30.0% align="right"|245,284 align="right"| 35.10% align="right"| -2.52%
olspan="2"|Independent align="center"| align="right"|7 align="right"|0 align="right"|1 align="right"| - align="right"|5,163 align="right"| 0.74% align="right"| +0.41%
olspan="2"|Labour Tom Uphill align="right"|1 align="right"|1 align="right"|1 align="right"| - align="right"|1,483 align="right"| 0.21% align="right"| -0.07%
olspan="2"|Social Credit Party (1) align="center"| align="right"|7 align="right"|n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|8,464 align="right"| 1.21% align="right"|n.a.
olspan="2"|Social Credit League (1) align="center"| align="right"|9 align="right"|n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"|n.a. align="right"|3,072 align="right"| 0.44% align="right"| n.a.
olspan="2"|Union of Electors (1) align="center"| align="right"|12 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|2,790 align="right"| 0.40% align="right"| n.a.
olspan="2"|Labour Progressive align="center"| align="right"|2 align="right"|0 align="right"|0 align="right"| - align="right"|1,660 align="right"| 0.24% align="right"| -3.28%
olspan="2"|(Independent) Conservative (3) align="center"| align="right"|1 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|1,241 align="right"| 0.18% align="right"| n.a.
olspan="2"|People's CCF align="center"| align="right"|1 align="right"|0 align="right"|0 align="right"| - align="right"|470 align="right"| 0.07% align="right"| -0.53%
olspan="2"|Socialist Labour align="center"| align="right"|1 align="right"|0 align="right"|0 align="right"| - align="right"|286 align="right"| 0.04% align="right"| -0.02%
olspan="2"|People's align="center"| align="right"|1 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|137 align="right"| 0.02% align="right"| n.a.
olspan="2"|Total align="center"| 138 48 48 - 698,823 100% -
align="center" colspan="9"|Sources: Elections BC
Notes: (1) Various social credit groups nominated 16 candidates in the previous election as part of a Social Credit "alliance". These candidates won 6,627 votes, 1.42% of the popular vote. (2) The candidate, running independently from the Liberal-PC Coalition, is listed as "Conservative" rather than "Progressive Conservative" in the Statement of Votes. n.a. - not applicable: party not recognized at the previous election
Preceded by:
1945 BC election
List of British Columbia elections Followed by:
1952 BC election

 

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