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People's Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

The People's Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was a label used by candidates in elections in the Canadian province of British Columbia who were not endorsed by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, but who were supportive of its policies.

In the 1945 federal election, Herbert Wilfred Herridge, who had been kicked out of the CCF, ran as a a "People's CCF" candidate in the riding of Kootenay West. Herridge won the riding with 6,123 votes, while the official CCF candidate won 1,611. (Herridge was officially listed as an "Independent CCF" candidate and Member of Parliament.) Herridge had previously run for the CCF twice, and was re-elected to Parliament in the 1949 and subsequent elections as a CCF candidate, or later, as a New Democratic Party candidate when the CCF became the NDP in 1961.

People's CCF candidates also ran in two British Columbia provincial elections.

In the October 25, 1945 provincial election, Peter Stewart Beatt won 726 votes (13.92% of the total) as the PCCF candidate in Nelson-Creston riding. The official CCF candidate won 1,249 votes (23.95%). William Cunningham won 2,060 votes (32.06%) as a PCCF candidate in Rossland-Trail riding, beating the the official CCF candidate, who won 933 votes (14.52%).

In the June 15, 1949 provincial election, Philip Franklin Tompkins won 470 votes (9.97%) as the PCCF candidate in Peace River riding. The official CCF candidate won 1,901 votes (40.34%).

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