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Esquimalt (electoral District)
Esquimalt was a provincial electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of the province's first twelve ridings upon its entry into Confederation. It was redistributed following the 1975 election into Esquimalt-Port Renfrew and Saanich and the Islands. Election results ''Note: Winners of each election are in'' bold. , - , Independent , Charles Berry Brown , align="right", 5 , align="right", 2.75% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Independent , David Cameron , align="right", 31 , align="right", 17.03% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Independent , Henry S. Caulier , align="right", 9 , align="right", 4.95% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Independent , Henry Cogan , align="right", 34 , align="right", 18.68% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Independent , William Fisher , align="right", 29 , align="right", 15.93% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Independent , Alexander Rocke Robertson , a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a Riding (division), riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), National Assembly of Quebec, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 British Columbia General Election
The 1886 British Columbia general election was held in 1886. The number of members was increased for this election from 25 to 27, and the number of ridings increased to 13. Each voter was allowed to cast as many votes as there were seats to fill in the district. The first Labour MLA in BC's history was elected in this election. Political context Issues and debates Non-party system There were to be no political parties in the new province. The designations "Government" and "Opposition" and "Independent" (and variations on these) functioned in place of parties, but they were very loose and do not represent formal coalitions, more alignments of support during the campaign. "Government" meant in support of the current Premier; "Opposition" meant campaigning against him, and often enough the Opposition would win and immediately become the Government. The Smithe, A.E.B. Davie, Robson and T. Davie governments The election mandated the government of William Smithe who had as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 British Columbia General Election
The 1912 British Columbia general election was the thirteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on February 27, 1912, and held on March 28, 1912. The new legislature met for the first time on January 16, 1913. The governing British Columbia Conservative Party, Conservative Party increased its share of the popular vote to almost 60%, and swept all but 3 of the 42 seats in the legislature. Of the remaining three, one (Harold Ernest Forster in Columbia (electoral district), Columbia) was formally listed as an Independent but was a Conservative who had missed the filing date. He campaigned and sat in full support of the McBride government. The Liberal Party of British Columbia, Liberal Party's share of the vote fell from one-third to one-quarter, and it lost both of its seats in the legislature. The remaining two seats were won by the Socialist Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dallas Helmcken
Henry Dallas "Harry" Helmcken (December 23, 1859 – July 6, 1912) was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1894 until his defeat in the 1903 provincial election. Biography Helmcken was born in 1859, the son of Cecilia Douglas and John Sebastian Helmcken. His mother was the daughter of Sir James Douglas, and his father was a physician. He was educated at the Nest Academy in Jedburgh, Scotland, the universities of Edinburgh and London and at Osgoode Hall. In 1895, he married Hannah Jane Goodwin, a widow. Helmcken was director of the Jubilee Hospital. In 1909, he ran unsuccessfully in the provincial riding of Esquimalt as a Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 British Columbia General Election
The 1909 British Columbia general election was the twelfth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on October 20, 1909, and held on November 25, 1909. The new legislature met for the first time on January 20, 1910. The governing British Columbia Conservative Party, Conservative Party won its third consecutive term in government with over half of the popular vote and all but four of the 42 seats in the legislature, effectively a rout for the popular incumbent Premier of British Columbia, Premier, Richard McBride, Sir Richard McBride. Ten days after the dissolution of the Legislature, James Alexander MacDonald announced his retirement from the leadership of the Liberal Party of British Columbia, Liberal Party to become Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court, and John Oliver (British Columbia politician), John Oliver was selected to take his place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 British Columbia General Election
The 1907 British Columbia general election was the eleventh general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election called on December 24, 1906, and held on February 2, 1907. The new legislature met for the first time on March 7, 1907. The governing Conservative party won a second term in government, with almost half the popular vote, and a majority of the seats in the legislature, increasing its number of seats by 4 to 26. The Liberal Party lost 4 seats in the legislature, despite winning about the same share of the popular vote that it had in the 1903 election. The Socialist Party won one additional seat to bring its total to three. Results , - ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 , Political party ! rowspan=2 , Party leader ! colspan=4 , MLAs ! colspan=4 , Votes , - ! Candidates !1903 !1907 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp) , style="text-align:left;", Richard McBride , 42 , , 22 , , 26 , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jardine (British Columbia Politician)
John Jardine (September 24, 1854 – October 15, 1937) was a Scottish-born joiner, decorator and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Esquimalt from 1907 to 1912 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal. Biography He was born in Lockerbie, the son of John Jardine and Janet Montgomery, and educated in Dryfesdale. Jardine apprenticed as a house painter with his older brother Thomas for five years and then continued to work at that trade in Scotland for about three more years. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1880. In the same year, he married Jane King Stoddart. Jardine stayed in Minnesota until 1884, when he moved to Victoria, British Columbia. He owned a ranch on the British Columbia Electric Railway near Langley. The Jardine station was named in his honour. However, he lived in Esquimalt The Township of Esquimalt () is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Liberal Party
BC United (BCU), known from 1903 until 2023 as the British Columbia Liberal Party or BC Liberals, is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party has been described as conservative, neoliberal, and occupying a centre-right position on the left–right political spectrum. The party commonly describes itself as a "Free market, free enterprise coalition" and draws support from members of both the federal Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal and Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative parties. From 1991 to 2024, BC United was the main centre-right opposition to the centre-left British Columbia New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party (NDP). Once affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada, the British Columbia Liberal Party became independent in 1987. The party changed its name to BC United on April 12, 2023. Until the 1940s, British Columbia politics were dominated by the Liberal Party and rival British Columbia Conservative Party, Conservative Party. The Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 British Columbia General Election
The 1903 British Columbia general election was the tenth general election for the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLAs). The election was called on September 5, 1903, and held on October 3, 1903. The new legislature met for the first time on November 26, 1903. This was the first election in British Columbia that was fought by political parties. Prior to this election, British Columbia politics were non-partisan. The first election was dominated by the BC Conservative and Liberal parties, which were affiliated with existing parties at the federal level. The Conservative Party won over 46% of the popular vote and a slim majority of the seats in the legislature. An act was passed in 1902 to provide for an Assembly of 42 members, of which 31 were elected in single-member districts. Of the multi-member districts, Cariboo The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia, Canada, cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 British Columbia Election
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William Henry Hayward
William Henry Hayward (23 October 1867 – 7 February 1932) was an English-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Esquimalt from 1900 to 1903 and Cowichan from 1907 to 1918 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. He served as deputy speaker of the Legislature from 1911 to 1916. He was born in Dover, Kent and was educated at Borden Grammar School, Sutton Valence School and at Dover College. From 1887 to 1893, he was involved in tobacco planting in Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States .... Hayward was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1898. He was president of the Central Dairy Institute, a director of the Dairymen's Association of British Columbia and secretary-tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 British Columbia General Election
The 1898 British Columbia general election was held in 1898. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Unlike in the previous BC general election, in 1898 of the 38 MLAs 24 were elected in single member districts. 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. Party politics There were no political parties in this election — until the 1903 election, British Columbia politics were officially non-partisan and political parties were not part of the process. This trend began to change in the 1898 and 1900 elections with the appearance of party-designated candidates and some party-declared members; for example, Ralph Smith in South Nanaimo. The political alignments designated at the time of the dropping of the writ did not necessarily have anything to do with the jockeying for po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
