BC election results since 1903.xlsx

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1	Electoral Results in BC provincial elections since 1903
2				Elections highlighted in yellow yielded particularly disproportionate results		Conservatives			Liberals			CCF / NDP			Social Credit			Green Party			Other
3	Year	Total Seats	Winning Party	Gallagher Index	Result	Seats	% votes	% seats	Seats	% votes	% seats	Seats	% votes	% seats	Seats	% votes	% seats	Seats	% votes	% seats	Seats	% votes	% seats	Notes re Other and other notes

4	1903	42	CON	7.68	False majority, Conservatives	22	46.4	52.4	17	37.8	40.5	3	15.8	7.1	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0	0.0	Including Socialist and Labour as precursors of the CCF/NDP; 2 Socialist, 1 Labour elected.
5	1907	42	CON	12.58	False majority, Conservatives	26	48.7	61.9	13	37.2	31.0	3	12.8	7.1	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	3	1.3	7.1	Showing 3 Socialst elected with 8.9% and Canadian Labour none elected as precursors of the CCF/NDP. Independents included in "other."
6	1909	42	CON	34.43	Hugely disproportionate majority, Conservatives	38	52.3	90.5	2	33.2	4.8	2	11.7	4.8	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	2	2.8	4.8	Including Socialists with 11.5% as precursors of CCF/NDP. iberals crushed by FPTP.
7	1912	42	CON	30.20	Hugely disproportionate majority, Conservatives	39	59.7	92.9	0	25.4	0.0	2	11.8	4.8	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	1	3.1	2.4	Including 2 Socialist and 1 Social Democrat as precursors of CCF/NDP. Note crushing result for the Liberals. Other = 1 Ind. Conservative
8	1916	47	LIB	25.14	Inflated Liberal majority	9	40.5	19.1	36	50.0	76.6	0	1.7	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	1	7.8	2.1	Including Socialist and Social Democrat as "precursors of the CCF/NDP but not the 1 Ind Socialist elected
9	1920	47	LIB	22.27	Liberal majority with only 37.9% of the vote	15	31.2	31.9	25	37.9	53.2	3	12.6	6.4	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	4	18.3	8.5	Including Federated Labour and Socialist in the CCF/NDP column; Other = 3 Independent, 1 People's. .
10	1924	48	LIB	34.08	Liberals form a solid minority government with only 31.3% of the vote.	17	29.5	35.4	23	31.3	47.9	3	11.3	6.3	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	8	27.9	16.7	Includes three Canadian Labour in the CCF/NDP column. Other includes 3 Provincial (a conservative party) and 2 Independent Liberal
11	1928	48	CON	17.62	Inflated Conservative majority	35	53.3	72.9	12	40.0	25.0	1	5.0	2.1	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	0	1.7	0.0	Independent Labour Party included in CCF/NDP column.
12	1933	47	LIB	37.28	Highly inflated Liberal false majority	0	0	0.0	34	41.7	72.3	7	31.5	14.9	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	6	26.8	12.8	5 Independent Group or Ind., 1 Unionist, 1 Ind. Labour. Conservative party did not run except as independents.
13	1937	48	LIB	24.26	Highly inflated Liberal false majority	8	28.6	16.7	31	37.3	64.6	7	28.6	14.6	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	2	5.5	4.2	Strong false majority for Liberals
14	1941	48	LIB	10.29	Wrong winner minority Liberal government with only 32.9% of the vote	12	33.4	25.0	21	32.9	43.8	14	33.4	29.2	0	n.a.	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	1	0.3	2.1	Minority government. Wrong winner.
15	1945	48	Coalition	19.31	Liberal / Conservative coalition	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	37	55.8	77.1	10	37.6	20.8	0	1.4	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	1	5.2	2.1	Coalition between PC and Liberals. I put the coalition in the Liberals column because this is what eventually became the Liberal Party of BC.
16	1949	48	Coalition	20.29	Liberal / Conservative coalition	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	39	61.4	81.3	7	35.1	14.6	0	1.7	0.0	0	n.a.	0.0	2	1.8	4.2	Coalition between PC and Liberals. I put the coalition in the Liberals column in anticipation that this is what eventually became the Liberal Party of BC. That coalition collapsed. Per Wikipedia, "After the coalition had collapsed, the Liberals felt threatened by the rising popularity of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. To lock out the CCF, the government adopted the alternative voting system instead of leaving the existing system in place or switching to STV. "
17	1952	48	SC	11.78	Socreds form government with 30.2% of the vote in a wrong winner election compared top the NDP	4	9.7	8.3	6	25.3	12.5	18	34.3	37.5	19	30.2	39.6	0	n.a.	0.0	2	0.5	4.2	Conservatives and Liberals run separately hoping that AV would protect them from splitting the vote. But Social Credit did well, leading to a minority Socred government with a wrong winner) (Socred vs. CCF). Liberals worst hit.
18	1953	48	SC	14.06	Socred false majority	1	1.1	2.1	4	23.4	8.3	14	29.5	29.2	28	45.5	58.3	0	n.a.	0.0	1	0.5	2.1	AV election. Strong Socred majority with 45.5% in final count, 37.8% in first count. So a more distorted result than we usually see under FPTP. Socreds bring back FPTP.
19	1956	52	SC	25.10	Highly inflated Socred false majority	1	3.1	1.9	2	21.8	3.8	10	28.3	19.2	39	45.8	75.0	0	n.a.	0.0	0	1.0	0.0	Back to FPTP. Liberals get only 2 seats despite decent showing. False majority for Social credit.
20	1960	52	SC	19.25	Socred false majority	0	6.7	0.0	4	20.9	7.7	16	32.7	30.8	32	38.8	61.5	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.9	0.0	Strong false majority based on 38.8% for Social Credit
21	1963	52	SC	19.36	Socred false majority	0	11.3	0.0	5	20.0	9.6	14	27.8	26.9	33	40.8	63.5	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.1	0.0	NDP replaces CCF. Note distorted result for Cons, which basically kills them off as a viable party
22	1966	55	SC	12.53	Socred false majority	0	0.3	0.0	6	20.2	10.9	16	33.6	29.1	33	45.6	60.0	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.3	0.0
23	1969	55	SC	19.25	Socred false majority	0	0.1	0.0	5	19.0	9.1	12	33.9	21.8	38	46.8	69.1	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.2	0.0
24	1972	55	NDP	24.24	Highly inflated NDP false majority	2	12.7	3.6	5	16.4	9.1	38	39.6	69.1	10	31.2	18.2	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.1	0.0	Under Dave Barrett, NDP wins 69% of the seats with 39.6% of the vote
25	1975	55	SC	11.92	Socred false majority	1	3.86	1.8	1	7.24	1.8	18	39.2	32.7	35	49.2	63.6	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.5	0.0
26	1979	57	SC	5.69	Socred false majority	0	5.1	0.0	0	0.5	0.0	26	46.0	45.6	31	48.2	54.4	0	n.a.	0.0	0	0.2	0.0
27	1983	57	SC	9.61	Socred false majority	0	1.2	0.0	0	2.7	0.0	22	44.9	38.6	35	49.8	61.4	0	0.2	0.0	0	1.2	0.0
28	1986	69	SC	16.05	Socred false majority	0	0.73	0.0	0	6.74	0.0	22	42.6	31.9	47	49.3	68.1	0	0.2	0.0	0	0.43	0.0
29	1991	75	NDP	23.15	Inflated NDP false majority	0	0	0.0	17	33.2	22.7	51	40.78	68.0	7	24.1	9.3	0	0.9	0.0	0	1.02	0.0	Vote spit give the Mike Harcourt's NDP a false majority
30	1996	75	NDP	12.53	Wrong winner NDP false majority	0	0.1	0.0	33	41.8	44.0	39	39.5	52.0	0	0.4	0.0	0	2.0	0.0	3	16.2	4.0	Wrong winner in favour of NDP under Glen Clark. Other = 2 Reform with 9.1%; 1 Progressive Democrats with 5.7%
31	2001	79	LIB	32.69	First Liberal win in years yields a hugely disproportional result for the Liberals	0	0.2	0.0	77	57.6	97.5	2	21.6	2.5	0	0.1	0.0	0	12.4	0.0	2	8.1	2.5	Following a false majority/wrong winner election for the NDP the Liberals campaigned on the idea of a citizens' assembly on electoral reform. However, they won a crushing false majority of their own. )Other = 2 Reform; Unity and Marijuana together got 6.5% of the vote but no seats.)
32	2005	79	LIB	11.00	Liberal false majority	0	0.6	0.0	46	45.8	58.2	33	41.5	41.8	0	0	0.0	0	9.2	0.0	1	2.9	1.3	Held in conjunction with the election, BC's first referendum on electoral reform gets 57,7% for the yes side
33	2009	85	LIB	10.31	Liberal false majority	0	2.1	0.0	49	45.82	57.6	35	42.1	41.2	0	0	0.0	0	8.2	0.0	1	1.8	1.2	Conservatives 1 seat with 2.1%. Referendum gets 39.1% for the yes side, far from reaching the 60% threshold.
34	2013	85	LIB	11.38	Liberal false majority	0	4.8	0.0	49	44.1	57.6	34	39.7	40.0	0	0	0.0	1	8.1	1.2	1	3.3	1.2
35	2017	87	NDP	12.50	NDP minority with Green support	0	0.5	0.0	43	40.4	49.4	41	40.28	47.1	0	0.05	0.0	3	16.8	3.4	0	1.94	0.0	NDP and Greens defeated the Liberals in a Confidence Vote and ageed to cooperate under a Confidence and Supply Agreement
36	2020	87	NDP	15.64	Outsized NDP false majority	0	1.9	0.0	28	33.8	32.2	57	47.7	65.5	--	--	--	2	15.1	2.3	0	1.5	0.0
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