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British Columbia General Election, 1963The 27th general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada was called on August 22, 1963, and held on Spetember 30, 1963. The new legislature met for the first time on January 23, 1964. The conservative Social Credit Party of Premier W.A.C. Bennett was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a fifth term in government. The party increased its share of the popular vote and number of seats in the legislature marginally. The opposition New Democratic Party had small losses both in popular vote and number of seats. The Liberals won about 20% of the popular vote, and one additional seat, for a total of five. The Progressive Conservative Party won no seats in the legislature increasing its share of the popular vote by four-and-half percentage points to over 11%. | owspan="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 | | a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Social-Credit-Party" title="British Columbia Social Credit Party">Social Credit | W.A.C. Bennett | align="right"|52 | align="right"|32 | align="right"|33 | align="right"|+3.1% | align="right"|395,079 | align="right"|40.83% | align="right"|+2.00% | | a href="/encyclopedia/New-Democratic-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="New Democratic Party of British Columbia">New Democratic | Bob Strachan | align="right"|52 | align="right"|16 | align="right"|14 | align="right"|-12.5% | align="right"|269,004 | align="right"| 27.80% | align="right"|-4.93% | | a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Liberal-Party" title="British Columbia Liberal Party">Liberal | Ray Perrault | align="right"|51 | align="right"|4 | align="right"|5 | align="right"|+25.0% | align="right"|193,363 | align="right"| 19.98% | align="right"|-0.92% | | a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Conservative-Party" title="British Columbia Conservative Party">Progressive Conservative | |align="right"|44 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"| - |align="right"|109,090 |align="right"| 11.27% |align="right"| +4.55% | | a href="/encyclopedia/Communist-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="Communist Party of British Columbia">Communist | align="center"| | align="right"|4 | align="right"|0 | align="right"|0 | align="right"| - | align="right"|849 | align="right"| 0.09% | align="right"| -0.48% | | ndependent | align="center"| | align="right"|1 | align="right"|0 | align="right"|0 | align="right"| - | align="right"|215 | align="right"| 0.02% | align="right"| -0.23% | | a href="/encyclopedia/Socialist-Party-of-Canada" title="Socialist Party of Canada">Socialist | align="center"| | align="right"|1 | align="right"|n.a. | align="right"|0 | align="right"| n.a. | align="right"|75 | align="right"| 0.01% | align="right"| n.a. | | otal | align="center"| | 205 | 52 | 52 | - | 967,675 | 100% | - | | align="center" colspan="9"|Sources: Elections BC | Note: n.a. - not applicable: party not recognized at the previous election
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