Английская Википедия:1886 British Columbia general election

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates The 1886 British Columbia general election was held in 1886. The number of members was increased for this election from 25 to 27, and the number of ridings increased to 13.

Each voter was allowed to cast as many votes as there were seats to fill in the district.

The first Labour MLA in BC's history was elected in this election.

Political context

Issues and debates

Non-party system

There were to be no political parties in the new province. The designations "Government" and "Opposition" and "Independent" (and variations on these) functioned in place of parties, but they were very loose and do not represent formal coalitions, more alignments of support during the campaign. "Government" meant in support of the current Premier; "Opposition" meant campaigning against him, and often enough the Opposition would win and immediately become the Government.

The Smithe, A.E.B. Davie, Robson and T. Davie governments

The election mandated the government of William Smithe who had assumed power from the failure of Robert Beaven's government in January 1883. In May 1887 Smithe died in office and Alexander Edmund Batson Davie assumed power, although due to his own illness he was unable to attend the opening of the Legislature. When Davie died in 1889 a further change of government saw newspaperman John Robson become Premier that year, receiving a mandate in the 1890 election only to die himself in 1892 of blood poisoning from a cut suffered from the door of a carriage. He was succeeded by Theodore Davie, who was Premier going into the 1894 election

Byelections not shown

Any changes due to byelections are shown below the main table showing the theoretical composition of the House after the election. A final table showing the composition of the House at the dissolution of the Legislature at the end of this Parliament can be found below the byelections. The main table represents the immediate results of the election only, not changes in governing coalitions or eventual changes due to byelections.

List of ridings

The original ridings were thirteen in number, and Cowichan was restored to a two-member seat while New Westminster was increased to three, with the new total being 27 members. There were no political parties were not acceptable in the House by convention, though some members were openly partisan at the federal level (usually Conservative, although both Liberal and Labour allegiance were on display by some candidates).

These ridings were:

Polling conditions

Natives (First Nations) and Chinese were disallowed from voting, although naturalized Kanakas (Hawaiian colonists) and American and West Indian blacks and certain others participated. The requirement that knowledge of English be spoken for balloting was discussed but not applied.

Results by riding

Шаблон:LegSeats3 |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Robert McLeese |align="center" rowspan=2 |Cariboo
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" |Cariboo
Opposition
|align="center"|George Cowan |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Joseph Mason |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" |Cassiar
Opposition
|align="center"|John Grant |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Henry Croft |align="center" rowspan=2 |Cowichan
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" |Comox
Opposition
|align="center"|Anthony Maitland Stenhouse |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|William Smithe 1 |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" rowspan=2 |New Westminster
Opposition
|align="center"|William Henry Ladner |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|David Williams Higgins |align="center" rowspan=2 |Esquimalt
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|James Orr |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Charles Edward Pooley |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" |New Westminster City
Opposition
|align="center"|William Norman Bole |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|James Baker |align="center" |Kootenay
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" |Victoria City
Opposition
|align="center"|Robert Beaven |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Edward Allen |align="center" rowspan=2 |Lillooet
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center" |Yale
Opposition
|align="center"|Charles Augustus Semlin |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Alexander Edmund Batson Davie |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Robert Dunsmuir |align="center" rowspan=2 |Nanaimo
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|William Raybould |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|John Robson |align="center" rowspan= |New Westminster
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|George William Anderson |align="center" rowspan=2 |Victoria
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Robert Franklin John |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Theodore Davie |align="center" rowspan=3 |Victoria City
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Edward Gawler Prior |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|John Herbert Turner |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|George Bohun Martin |align="center" rowspan=3 |Yale
Government
|Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |align="center"|Forbes George Vernon |Шаблон:Canadian party colour|     |- | |- | |align-left"|1 Premier-Elect and Incumbent Premier |- | align="center" colspan="10"|Source: Elections BC |- |}

See also

Further reading & references

Шаблон:British Columbia elections