The 1963 British Columbia general election was the 27th general election in the province of

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, Canada. It was held to elect members of the

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. The election was called on August 22, 1963, and held on September 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 (formerly the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) 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%.

Results

, - ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 , Political party ! rowspan=2 , Party leader ! colspan=4 , MLAs ! colspan=4 , Votes , - ! Candidates ! 1960 !1963 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp) , style="text-align:left;" , W.A.C. Bennett , 52 , , 32 , , 33 , , 1 , , 395,079 , , 8,193 , , 40.83 , , 2.00 successor to the CCF , style="text-align:left;" , Bob Strachan , 52 , , 16 , , 14 , , 2 , , 269,004 , , 57,090 , , 27.80 , , 4.93 , style="text-align:left;" , Ray Perrault , 51 , , 4 , , 5 , , 1 , , 193,363 , , 14,886 , , 19.98 , , 0.92 , style="text-align:left;" , Davie Fulton , 44 , , – , , – , , – , , 109,090 , , 42,147 , , 11.27 , , 4.55 , , , 4 , , – , , – , , – , , 849 , , 4,826 , , 0.09 , , 0.48 Including one Socialist candidate in Saanich. , , , 2 , , – , , – , , – , , 290 , , 2,267 , , 0.03 , , 0.22 , - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" , Total , 205 , 52 ! colspan="2", 52 ! colspan="2", 967,675 ! colspan="2", 100.00% , - , colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" , Rejected ballots , 6,132 , , 3,730 , colspan="2", , - , colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" , Actual voters who voted , 608,672 , , 23,359 , 69.71% , , 2.13 , - , colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" , Registered voters , 873,140 , , 1,127 , colspan="2",

MLAs elected

;Single-member districts ;Multi-member districts

Synopsis of results

: = open seat : = turnout is above provincial average : = winning candidate was in previous Legislature : = incumbent had switched allegiance : = previously incumbent in another riding : = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature : = incumbency arose from byelection gain : = other incumbents renominated : = previously an MP in the

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: = multiple candidates : = winning candidate

Results

MLAs elected

Synopsis of results

See also

Further reading