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Fernie (electoral District)
Fernie was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Fernie, British Columbia, Fernie in the southern Rocky Mountains, Rockies. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the 1903 British Columbia general election, election of 1903. In a redistribution (election), redistribution after the 1963 election the area covered by this riding was incorporated into the new Kootenay (provincial electoral district), Kootenay riding (same name but smaller than the original 1871-vintage Kootenay riding). For other current and historical electoral districts in the Kootenays, Kootenay region, please see Kootenay (electoral districts). Demographics Political geography Notable elections Notable MLAs * William Roderick Ross * Tom Uphill, Thomas Aubert Uphill - represented Fernie as a Labour MLA for 40 years on behalf of a party named "Labour", of which he was the only successful candidate. Electoral history '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Province
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully Independence, independent country over the next century. Over its history, Canada's international borders have changed several times as it has added territories and provinces, making it the List of countries and dependencies by area, world's second-largest country by area. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (formerly called the ''British North America Acts, British North America Act, 1867''), whereas territories are federal territories whose governments a ... [...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] |
1953 British Columbia General Election
The 1953 British Columbia general election was the 24th 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 April 10, 1953, and held on June 9, 1953. The new legislature met for the first time on September 15, 1953. The minority government formed in 1952 by the conservative Social Credit party of Premier W.A.C. Bennett lasted only nine months before new elections were called. Social Credit was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a second term in government with almost 38% of the popular vote. The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation formed the official opposition with the only significant opposition caucus (14 seats). The British Columbia Liberal Party had a net loss of two of its six seats despite maintaining its 23% share of the popular vote. They lost five of the six seats they had won in 1952, but picked up three new seats. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party was a conservative political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was the governing party of British Columbia for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election. For four decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the British Columbia New Democratic Party governed. Party members were known as Socreds. Although founded as part of the Canadian social credit movement, promoting social credit policies of monetary reform, the BC Social Credit Party later discarded the ideology and became a political vehicle for fiscal conservatives and later social conservatives in British Columbia. The party collapsed within one term of its 1991 defeat. It was not represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia after 1996, and only existed in a nominal fashion after 2001. In 2013, the party was deregistered for failin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 British Columbia General Election
The 1952 British Columbia general election was the 23rd general election in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, alongside a plebiscite on daylight saving time and liquor. The election was called on April 10, 1952, and held on June 12, 1952. The new legislature met for the first time on February 3, 1953. In 1951, the Legislative Assembly passed an act that allowed the use of preferential ballots in the next election. The voting system used was instant-runoff voting (IRV). The presence of multi-member districts, such as Victoria City with 3 MLAs, was handled by an innovation where the district's candidates were split into three "ballots", each with no more than one candidate from each party, with the member in each being elected by IRV. The voting age was also lowered from 21 to 19 prior to this election. Due to the preferential ballot and a large increase in SC support, the election resulted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 British Columbia General Election
The 1949 British Columbia general election was the 22nd 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 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. Results , - ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 , Political party ! rowspan=2 , Party leader ! colspan=4 , MLAs ! colspan=4 , Votes , - ! Candidates !1945 !1949 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp) , style="text-align:left;" , , 48 , , 37 , , 39 , , 2 , , 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 British Columbia General Election
The 1945 British Columbia general election was the 21st 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 August 31, 1945, and held on October 25, 1945. The new legislature met for the first time on February 21, 1946. A centre-right coalition was formed by the Liberal and Conservative (now called the Progressive Conservative) parties in order to defeat the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Although the Coalition won fewer votes than the Liberal and Conservative parties won in total in the previous election, the Coalition still won more than half of the votes, captured more than half the seats, and formed a majority government A majority government is a government by one or more governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature. Such a government can consist of one party that holds a majority on its own, or be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 British Columbia General Election
The 1941 British Columbia general election was the twentieth 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 9, 1941, and held on October 21, 1941. No party took a majority of votes, and no party took a majority of seats. After the election, Conservative and Liberal members voted to form a Coalition government. Liberal Party leader Thomas Dufferin Pattullo objected, stepped down as leader and sat as a Liberal separate from the Coalition. This reduced the Coalition caucus to thirty two MLAs. 1938 redistribution of ridings An Act was passed in 1938 providing for a rearrangement of certain seats in the Assembly, maintaining the total at 48, upon the next election. The following changes were made: Results , - ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 , Political party ! rowspan=2 , Party leader ! colspan=4 , MLAs ! colspan=4 , Votes , - ! Candidates !1937 !1941 !± ! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 British Columbia General Election
The 1937 British Columbia general election was the nineteenth 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 April 14, 1937, and held on June 1, 1937. The new legislature met for the first time on October 26, 1937. The governing Liberal Party, despite winning only 37% of the popular vote, benefited from the split in the opposition vote between the Conservative Party and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Liberals won a solid majority of the seats in the legislature with barely more than a third of the votes cast. The rift in the Conservative Party that led to its decision not to nominate candidates in the 1933 election had been resolved, and the party was able to form the official opposition. The Conservatives and CCF each won about 29% of the vote, and only 8 seats and 7 seats, respectively (they were each due about 14 based on their vote share). Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 British Columbia General Election
The 1933 British Columbia general election 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. 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. Instead, 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 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 British Columbia General Election
The 1928 British Columbia general election was the seventeenth 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 June 7, 1928, and held on July 18, 1928. The new legislature met for the first time on January 22, 1929. The British Columbia Conservative Party, Conservative Party defeated the governing Liberal Party of British Columbia, Liberal Party, taking over half the popular vote, and 35 of the 48 seats in the legislature. The Liberals' popular vote also increased significantly, but because of the disappearance of the Provincial Party of British Columbia, Provincial Party and the Labour Parties of British Columbia, Canadian Labour Party, which had won over 35% of the vote together in the previous election, the Liberals were defeated. To date this remains the final election in British Columbia history where the Conservative Party would achieve power in its own r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 British Columbia General Election
The 1924 British Columbia general election was the sixteenth general election in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on May 10, 1924, and held on June 20, 1924. The new legislature met for the first time on November 3, 1924. The Liberal Party of British Columbia, Liberal Party was re-elected to its third term in government, falling just short of a majority government, majority in the legislature even though it won less than a third of the popular vote. Two Independent Liberals were also elected. Premier John Oliver (British Columbia politician), John Oliver lost his own seat in Victoria City, but remained Premier until 1927. The British Columbia Conservative Party, Conservative Party formed the official opposition, while two new parties, the Provincial Party of British Columbia, Provincial Party and the Labour Parties of British Columb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
