1900 British Columbia general election

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Members of the Legislature of British Columbia, 1900

The 1900 British Columbia general election was held in 1900. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 24, 1900, and held on June 9, 1900. The new legislature met for the first time on July 19, 1900.

Like in the previous BC general election, of the 38 MLAs 24 were elected in single member districts in 1900. There were also three 2-member districts and two 4-member districts. Each voter could cast as many votes as there were seats to fill in the district.

This was the last election in which political parties were not part of the official process in British Columbia, although because of the political chaos in this year resulting from the joint misrule of Premier Joseph Martin and the Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas Robert McInnes, many individual candidates declared their party affiliations in many ridings as a protest against the non-party system.

For more on the political circumstances of this election, please see 1898 British Columbia general election.

Results by riding

Results of British Columbia general election, 1900
Government				Opposition
	Member	Riding & party		Riding & party		Member
Template:Canadian party colour|	Edwin Clarke Smith	East Kootenay (south riding) Government	Template:Canadian party colour|	Template:Canadian party colour|	Cassiar Conservative Opposition Independent Opposition	Charles William Digby Clifford	Template:Canadian party colour|
Template:Canadian party colour|	John Oliver	Westminster-Delta Government	Template:Canadian party colour|	Template:Canadian party colour|		James Stables	Template:Canadian party colour|
Template:Canadian party colour|	John Cunningham Brown	New Westminster City Government	Template:Canadian party colour|	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alberni Progressive	Alan Webster Neill	Template:Canadian party colour|
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hugh Bowie Gilmour	Vancouver City Government	Template:Canadian party colour|	Template:Canadian party colour|	Cariboo Opposition	Joseph Hunter	Template:Canadian party colour|
Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Martin1		Template:Canadian party colour|	Template:Canadian party colour|		Samuel Augustus Rogers	Template:Canadian party colour|
Template:Canadian party colour|	Smith Curtis	West Kootenay-Rossland Government	Template:Canadian party colour|	Template:Canadian party colour|	Comox Opposition	Lewis Alfred Mounce	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Esquimalt Independent Opposition Opposition	William Henry Hayward	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|		Charles Edward Pooley	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Cowichan Independent Conservative	Charles Herbert Dickie	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Lillooet East Opposition Progressive	James Douglas Prentice	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	East Kootenay (north riding) Independent Progressive	Wilmer Cleveland Wells	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Nanaimo City Labour	Ralph Smith	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	South Nanaimo Opposition	James Dunsmuir2	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Lillooet West Independent Opposition	Alfred Wellington Smith	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Vancouver City Conservative	James Ford Garden	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|		Robert Garnett Tatlow	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	North Nanaimo Independent	William Wallace Burns McInnes	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	North Victoria Independent Liberal	John Paton Booth	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	South Victoria Opposition	David McEwen Eberts	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	West Kootenay-Nelson Opposition	John Frederick Hume	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria City Opposition	Richard Hall	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|		Henry Dallas Helmcken	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|		Albert Edward McPhillips	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|		John Herbert Turner	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	West Kootenay-Revelstoke Conservative	Thomas Taylor	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	West Kootenay-Slocan Progressive	Robert Francis Green	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Westminster-Chilliwhack Progressive	Charles William Munro	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Westminster-Dewdney Conservative	Richard McBride	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Westminster-Richmond Conservative	Thomas Kidd	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Yale-East Opposition	Price Ellison	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Yale-North Independent Opposition	Frederick John Fulton	Template:Canadian party colour|
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Yale-West Opposition Progressive	Denis Murphy	Template:Canadian party colour|
	1 Incumbent Premier					2 Premier-Elect
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See also

• List of British Columbia political parties

Further reading & references

• In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974). Despite its title, a fairly thorough account of the politicians and electoral politics in early BC.