List Of British Columbia General Elections
This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of British Columbia's unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The number of seats has increased over time, from 25 for the first election in 1871, to the current 85. Until the 1903 election, British Columbia politics were officially non-partisan - political parties were not part of the process. This began to change in the 1898 and 1900 elections with the appearance of party-designated candidates.
The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right. It shows the popularity of the Liberal party (red) and Conservative party (blue) in the first half of the 20th century; the arrival of the Social Credit party (green), which won eleven of the twelve elections from 1952 to 1986; and the domination of provincial politics since 1986 by the Liberal party and the New Democratic Party (orange).
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