1966 British Columbia general election

The 1966 British Columbia general election was the 28th 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 5, 1966, and held on September 12, 1966. The new legislature met for the first time on January 24, 1967.

The conservative Social Credit Party was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a sixth term in government. It increased its share of the popular vote by close to five percentage points to over 45%, and winning the same number of seats (33) as in the previous election.

The opposition New Democratic Party also increased its share of the popular vote by over five percentage points, but won only two additional seats.

The Liberal Party won about 20% of the popular vote, and one additional seat, for a total of six.

The Progressive Conservative Party was virtually wiped out: it nominated only three candidates (down from 44 in the previous election), and its share of the popular vote fell from over 11% to a negligible amount.

1966 redistribution of ridings An Act was passed in 1966 providing for an increase of seats from 52 to 55, upon the next election. The following changes were made:

Abolished ridings New ridingsRenaming of districts Columbia Columbia River Salmon Arm ShuswapReduction of multi-member district Victoria City (3 MLAs) Victoria City (2 MLAs)Merger of districts Cranbrook Fernie Kootenay Grand Forks-Greenwood Similkameen Boundary-Similkameen Kaslo-Slocan Revelstoke Revelstoke-Slocan Lillooet Yale Yale-LillooetReorganization of districts Cowichan-Newcastle Nanaimo and the Islands Saanich Cowichan-Malahat Nanaimo Saanich and the IslandsDivision of districts Burnaby (2 MLAs) Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Delta (2 MLAs) Richmond Delta Langley Surrey Dewdney Coquitlam Dewdney North Vancouver (2 MLAs) North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour West Vancouver-Howe Sound Vancouver-Point Grey (3 MLAs) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2 MLAs) Vancouver-Point Grey (2 MLAs) Vancouver South (2 MLAs)

Results

|style="text-align:left;" |W.A.C. Bennett | 55 || 33 || 33 || || 342,751 || 52,328 || 45.59 || 4.76

|style="text-align:left;" |Bob Strachan | 55 || 14 || 16 || 2 || 252,753 || 16,251 || 33.62 || 5.82

|style="text-align:left;" |Ray Perrault | 53 || 5 || 6 || 1 || 152,155 || 41,208 || 20.24 || 0.26

|style="text-align:left;" | | 3 || – || – || – || 1,409 || 107,681 || 0.18 || 11.09

| || 6 || – || – || – || 1,097 || 248 || 0.14 || 0.05

| || 6 || – || – || – || 1,711 || 1,421 || 0.23 || 0.20 |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 178 | 52 ! colspan="2"| 55 ! colspan="2"|751,876 ! colspan="2"| 100.00% |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots | 7,056 ||924 | colspan="2"| |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Actual voters who voted | 596,716 ||11,956 | 68.28% || 1.43 |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters | 873,927 ||787 | colspan="2"|

+ Seats and popular vote by party Party Seats Votes Change (pp)

MLAs elected

Single-member districts

Multi-member districts

Synopsis of results + Results by riding - 1966 British Columbia general election (single-member districts) Riding Winning party VotesName 1963Party Votes Share Margin#Margin% NDP Lib PC Total Alberni NDP SC 6,039 55.55% 1,718 15.80% 6,039 4,321 511 – – – 10,871 Atlin NDP NDP 572 59.71% 311 32.47% 261 572 125 – – – 958 Boundary-Similkameen New SC 6,547 55.44% 2,878 24.37% 6,547 3,669 1,594 – – – 11,810 Burnaby-Edmonds New NDP 5,748 48.71% 1,118 9.48% 4,630 5,748 1,423 – – – 11,801 Burnaby North New NDP 6,984 49.72% 1,879 13.38% 5,105 6,984 1,957 – – – 14,046 Burnaby-Willingdon New NDP 6,153 44.47% 524 3.78% 5,629 6,153 2,053 – – – 13,835 Cariboo SC SC 3,830 54.10% 1,300 18.36% 3,830 2,530 719 – – – 7,079 Chilliwack SC SC 7,703 63.17% 4,622 37.91% 7,703 3,081 1,411 – – – 12,195 Columbia River SC SC 1,563 58.45% 929 34.74% 1,563 477 634 – – – 2,674 Comox SC SC 5,449 49.39% 1,140 10.34% 5,449 4,309 1,276 – – – 11,033 Coquitlam New NDP 9,517 55.20% 3,452 20.02% 6,065 9,517 1,658 – – – 17,240 Cowichan-Malahat New NDP 5,646 52.08% 1,234 11.38% 4,412 5,646 783 – – – 10,841 Delta New SC 7,768 46.46% 1,690 10.11% 7,768 6,078 1,954 921 – – 16,721 Dewdney NDP SC 6,507 53.42% 1,979 16.25% 6,507 4,528 1,146 – – – 12,181 Esquimalt SC SC 6,075 53.35% 2,630 23.10% 6,075 3,445 1,867 – – – 11,387 Fort George SC SC 6,282 60.42% 3,480 33.47% 6,282 2,802 1,313 – – – 10,397 Kamloops SC SC 5,753 52.35% 2,516 22.90% 5,753 3,237 2,000 – – – 10,990 Kootenay New NDP 3,605 40.98% 535 6.09% 3,070 3,605 2,123 – – – 8,798 Langley New SC 7,206 58.28% 3,307 26.75% 7,206 3,899 1,260 – – – 12,365 Mackenzie NDP SC 4,945 52.68% 1,359 14.47% 4,945 3,586 855 – – – 9,386 Nanaimo New NDP 5,625 47.99% 45 0.38% 5,580 5,625 516 – – – 11,721 Nelson-Creston SC SC 4,683 59.29% 2,359 29.87% 4,683 2,324 892 – – – 7,899 New Westminster NDP NDP 5,751 44.65% 199 1.54% 5,552 5,751 1,577 – – – 12,880 North Okanagan SC SC 3,841 48.59% 1,433 18.13% 3,841 1,535 2,408 – – 121 7,905 North Peace River SC SC 1,799 48.44% 1,216 32.74% 1,799 511 565 – – 839Jacob Francis Huhn, previously elected as the Socred incumbent, received 583 votes. 3,714 North Vancouver-Capilano New Lib 6,426 51.49% 2,450 19.63% 3,976 1,816 6,426 261 – – 12,479 North Vancouver-Seymour New Lib 5,301 39.61% 694 5.18% 4,607 3,137 5,301 227 110 – 13,382 Oak Bay Lib Lib 8,118 54.48% 2,310 15.51% 5,808 976 8,118 – – – 14,902 Omineca SC SC 2,337 70.16% 1,343 40.32% 2,337 994 – – – – 3,331 Prince Rupert SC SC 2,647 52.90% 834 16.67% 2,647 1,813 544 – – – 5,004 Revelstoke-Slocan New NDP 2,158 44.67% 138 2.86% 2,020 2,158 548 – – 105 4,831 Richmond New SC 6,521 43.33% 372 2.48% 6,521 6,149 2,381 – – – 15,051 Rossland-Trail SC SC 5,600 55.93% 3,147 31.43% 5,600 2,453 1,960 – – – 10,013Saanich and the Islands New SC 7,237 50.05% 3,416 23.62% 7,237 3,821 3,401 – – – 14,459 Shuswap SC SC 3,995 54.07% 1,400 18.95% 3,995 2,595 760 – 39 – 7,389 Skeena SC SC 3,046 55.39% 1,304 23.71% 3,046 1,742 711 – – – 5,499 South Okanagan SC SC 8,747 73.15% 6,811 56.96% 8,747 1,936 1,274 – – – 11,957 South Peace River SC SC 2,585 59.78% 1,697 39.24% 2,585 851 888 – – – 4,324 Surrey New NDP 7,039 48.20% 785 5.38% 6,254 7,039 1,234 – 77 – 14,604 West Vancouver-Howe Sound New Lib 8,346 52.76% 2,847 18.00% 5,499 1,975 8,346 – – – 15,820 Yale-Lillooet New NDP 3,885 55.37% 754 10.74% 3,131 3,885 – – – – 7,016

= 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 = multiple candidates

+ Results by riding - 1966 British Columbia general election (multiple-member districts) Riding Winning party VotesNameMLAs 19631966 NDP Lib PC Total Vancouver-Burrard2 7,584 9,849 3,190 – – –40,3867,584 9,498 2,681 – – – Vancouver Centre2 8,157 7,257 4,147 – 253 14438,5707,938 6,871 3,803 – – – Vancouver East2 8,644 12,502 1,637 – 377 –45,5218,593 12,185 1,583 – – – Vancouver-Little Mountain2 New12,380Leslie Peterson was previously MLA in Vancouver Centre 8,620 4,681 – – –50,04011,566 8,523 4,270 – – – Vancouver-Point Grey2 11,494 2,934 17,400 – – –57,4729,284 2,853 13,507 – – – Vancouver South2 New 12,259Ralph Raymond Loffmark was previously MLA in Vancouver-Point Grey. 9,067 5,698 – – 50253,78411,740Thomas Audley Bate was MLA in Vancouver-Point Grey during 1953-1963. 8,843 5,675 – – – Victoria City2 13,068 5,304 4,774 – 241 –45,31512,156 5,175 4,597 – – –

= winning candidate

See also List of British Columbia political parties

1966 British Columbia general election

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