1941 British Columbia general election

The 1941 British Columbia general election was the twentieth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on September 9, 1941, and held on October 21, 1941.

After the election, a Coalition government was formed by the Conservative and Liberal members. Liberal Party leader Thomas Dufferin Pattullo objected, stepped down, and sat as a Liberal, giving the Coalition thirty two seats.

1938 redistribution of ridings
An Act was passed in 1938 providing for a rearrangement of certain seats in the Assembly, maintaining the total at 48, upon the next election. The following changes were made:

Results
! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=4 | MLAs ! colspan=4 | Votes ! Candidates !1937 !1941 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp)
 * - style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"
 * rowspan="4" |
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Coalition
 * style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="text-align:left;"|John Hart
 * 47 || 31  || 20  || 11 || 147,844  || 8,230 || 32.57  || 4.77
 * style="text-align:left;" |
 * style="text-align:left;"|Royal Maitland
 * 43 || 8  || 12  || 4  || 140,282  || 20,761  || 30.91  || 2.31
 * - style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"|Coalition total
 * 32 || 7 || 288,126 || 12,531 || 63.48 || 2.46
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"|Coalition total
 * 32 || 7 || 288,126 || 12,531 || 63.48 || 2.46


 * style="text-align:left;" |Harold Winch
 * 45 || 7  || 14  || 7  || 151,440  || 32,040  || 33.36  || 4.79

(all factions)
 * || 1 || – || 1  || 1  || 1,681  || 1,681  || 0.37  ||Not part of Coalition
 * || 6 || 1  || 1  ||   || 7,141  || 5,354  || 1.57  || 1.14


 * || 1 || – || – || – || 2,161  || 2,161  || 0.48  ||New


 * || 4 || 1  || – || 1 || 1,638  || 5,703 || 0.36  || 1.40


 * || 4 || – || – || – || 683  || 683  || 0.15  ||New


 * || 1 || – || – || – || 388  || 388  || 0.09  ||New


 * || 1 || – || – || – || 265  || 265  || 0.06  ||New


 * || 1 || – || – || – || 209  || 209  || 0.05  ||New


 * || 1 || – || – || – || 105  || 105  || 0.02  ||New

! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total ! colspan="2"| 48 ! colspan="2"|453,893 ! colspan="2"| 100.00%
 * || 1 || – || – || – || 56  || 56 || 0.01  ||Returned
 * 156
 * 48
 * colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots
 * 4,797 ||654
 * colspan="2"|
 * colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Actual voters who voted
 * 303,901 ||38,455
 * 72.73% || 1.53
 * colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
 * 417,839 ||45,058
 * colspan="2"|
 * }
 * 417,839 ||45,058
 * colspan="2"|
 * }

MLAs elected
{{legend|#A51B12|Alberni: James Mowat}} {{legend|#A51B12|Atlin: William James Asselstine}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Burnaby: Ernest Winch}} {{legend|#A51B12|Cariboo: Louis LeBourdais}} {{legend|#294296|Chilliwack: Leslie Harvey Eyres}} {{legend|#A51B12|Columbia: Thomas King}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Comox: Colin Cameron}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Cowichan-Newcastle: Samuel Guthrie}} {{legend|#294296|Cranbrook: Frank William Green}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Delta: Leonard Shepherd}} {{legend|#294296|Dewdney: Roderick Charles MacDonald}} {{legend|#294296|Esquimalt: Elmer Victor Finland}} {{legend|#EEBBBB|Fernie: Thomas Aubert Uphill (ILP)}} {{legend|#A51B12|Fort George: Henry George Thomas Perry}} {{legend|#294296|Grand Forks-Greenwood: Thomas Alfred Love}} {{legend|#A51B12|Kamloops: Robert Henry Carson}}

{{legend|#A51B12|Kaslo-Slocan: Charles Sidney Leary}} {{legend|#294296|Lillooet: Ernest Crawford Carson}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Mackenzie: Herbert Gargrave}} {{legend|#A51B12|Nanaimo and the Islands: George Sharratt Pearson}} {{legend|#A51B12|Nelson-Creston: Frank Putnam}} {{legend|#A51B12|New Westminster: Wells Gray}} {{legend|#A51B12|North Okanagan: Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|North Vancouver: Dorothy Steeves}} {{legend|#294296|Oak Bay: Herbert Anscomb}} {{legend|#A51B12|Omineca: Mark Matthew Connelly}} {{legend|#A51B12|Peace River: Glen Everton Braden}} {{legend|#A51B12|Prince Rupert: Duff Pattullo}} {{legend|#A51B12|Revelstoke: Harry Johnston}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Rossland-Trail: Herbert Wilfred Herridge}} {{legend|#A51B12|Saanich: Norman William Whittaker}} {{legend|#294296|Salmon Arm: Rolf Wallgren Bruhn}}

{{legend|#EEDDAA|Similkameen: Bernard George Webber}} {{legend|#A51B12|Skeena: Edward Tourtellotte Kenney}} {{legend|#294296|South Okanagan: W. A. C. Bennett}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Vancouver-Burrard: Grace MacInnis}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Vancouver-Burrard: Charles Grant MacNeil}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Vancouver Centre: Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Vancouver Centre: Wallis Walter LeFeaux}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Vancouver East: James Lyle Telford}} {{legend|#EEDDAA|Vancouver East: Harold Winch}} {{legend|#294296|Vancouver-Point Grey: Royal Maitland}} {{legend|#294296|Vancouver-Point Grey: James Alexander Paton}} {{legend|#294296|Vancouver-Point Grey: Tilly Rolston}} {{legend|#A51B12|Victoria City: John Hart}} {{legend|#A51B12|Victoria City: Nancy Hodges}} {{legend|#A51B12|Victoria City: William Thomas Straith}} {{legend|#A51B12|Yale: John J. Gillis}}

Synopsis of results

 * = open seat
 * = winning candidate was in previous Legislature
 * = incumbent had switched allegiance
 * = previously incumbent in another riding
 * = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
 * = incumbency arose from byelection gain
 * = other incumbents renominated
 * = candidate repudiated by party
 * = multiple candidates