1952 British Columbia general election information
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1952 British Columbia general election
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June 12, 1952
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48 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 25 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
CCF
Leader
W. A. C. Bennett[a]
Harold Winch
Party
Social Credit
Co-operative Commonwealth
Leader since
1952
1938
Leader's seat
South Okanagan
Vancouver East
Last election
0
7
Seats won
19
18
Seat change
19
11
First count
209,049
236,562
Percentage
27.20%
30.78%
Swing
25.99pp
4.32pp
Final count
203,932
231,756
Percentage
30.18%
34.3%
Third party
Fourth party
PC
Leader
Boss Johnson
Herbert Anscomb
Party
Liberal
Progressive Conservative
Leader since
1947
1946
Leader's seat
New Westminster (lost re-election)
Oak Bay (lost re-election)
Last election
39[1]
39[1]
Seats won
6
4
Seat change
n/a[1]
n/a[1]
First count
180,289
129,439
Percentage
23.46%
16.84%
Swing
n/a[1]
n/a[1]
Final count
170,674
65,285
Percentage
25.26%
9.66%
Premier before election
Byron Ingemar Johnson Coalition
Premier after election
W. A. C. Bennett
Social Credit
The 1952 British Columbia general election was the 23rd general election in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, alongside a plebiscite on daylight saving time and liquor. The election was called on April 10, 1952, and held on June 12, 1952. The new legislature met for the first time on February 3, 1953.
In 1951, the Legislative Assembly passed an act that allowed the use of preferential ballots in the next election.[2] The voting system used was instant-runoff voting (IRV). The presence of multi-member districts, such as Victoria City with 3 MLAs, was handled by an innovation where the district's candidates were split into three "ballots", each with no more than one candidate from each party, with the member in each being elected by IRV.[3]
Due to the preferential ballot, the election resulted in a surprise victory for the new Social Credit Party. Not even the Socreds had expected to win the election; the party had no official leader, and was nominally lead through the election by Ernest George Hansell, an Alberta MP who did not contest a seat himself. The newly elected caucus selected W. A. C. Bennett, a former Conservative MLA, to be their leader and premier-designate.
This began what would be 20 years of uninterrupted Social Credit rule in British Columbia. This would also be the last election to produce a minority government until the 2017 election.
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^ abcdefThe Liberal and Conservative parties ran as a coalition in the 1949 election.
^Provincial Elections Act Amendment Act, 1951, S.B.C. 1951, c. 25
^Elections BC 1988, pp. 231–232.
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