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British Columbia general election, 1963

The 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 (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%.


Party Party Leader # of candidates Seats Popular Vote
Previous After % Change # % Change
Social Credit W.A.C. Bennett 52 32 33 +3.1% 395,079 40.83% +2.00%
New Democratic Bob Strachan 52 16 14 -12.5% 269,004 27.80% -4.93%
Liberal Ray Perrault 51 4 5 +25.0% 193,363 19.98% -0.92%
Progressive Conservative 44 0 0 - 109,090 11.27% +4.55%
Communist 4 0 0 - 849 0.09% -0.48%
Independent 1 0 0 - 215 0.02% -0.23%
Socialist 1 n.a. 0 n.a. 75 0.01% n.a.
Total 205 52 52 - 967,675 100% -
Sources: Elections BC

Note:

n.a. - not applicable: party not recognized at the previous election

Preceded by:
1960 BC election

List of British Columbia elections

Followed by:
1966 BC election

Last updated: 06-06-2005 04:12:48
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