1963 British Columbia general election

The 1963 British Columbia general election was the 27th 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 August 22, 1963, and held on September 30, 1963. The new legislature met for the first time on January 23, 1964.

The conservative Social Credit Party of Premier W.A.C. Bennett was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a fifth term in government. The party increased its share of the popular vote and number of seats in the legislature marginally.

The opposition New Democratic Party (formerly the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) had small losses both in popular vote and number of seats.

The Liberals won about 20% of the popular vote, and one additional seat, for a total of five.

The Progressive Conservative Party won no seats in the legislature increasing its share of the popular vote by four-and-half percentage points to over 11%.

Results
! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=4 | MLAs ! colspan=4 | Votes ! Candidates !1960 !1963 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp)


 * style="text-align:left;" |W.A.C. Bennett
 * 52 || 32  || 33  || 1  || 395,079  || 8,193  || 40.83  || 2.00
 * style="text-align:left;" |Bob Strachan
 * 52 || 16  || 14  || 2 || 269,004  || 57,090 || 27.80  || 4.93


 * style="text-align:left;" |Ray Perrault
 * 51 || 4  || 5  || 1  || 193,363  || 14,886 || 19.98  || 0.92


 * style="text-align:left;" |Davie Fulton
 * 44 || – || – || – || 109,090  || 42,147  || 11.27  || 4.55

! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total ! colspan="2"| 52 ! colspan="2"|967,675 ! colspan="2"| 100.00%
 * || 4 || – || – || – || 849  || 4,826 || 0.09  || 0.48
 * || 2 || – || – || – || 290  || 2,267 || 0.03  || 0.22
 * 205
 * 52
 * colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots
 * 6,132 ||3,730
 * colspan="2"|
 * colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Actual voters who voted
 * 608,672 ||23,359
 * 69.71% || 2.13
 * colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
 * 873,140 ||1,127
 * colspan="2"|
 * }
 * 873,140 ||1,127
 * colspan="2"|
 * }

MLAs elected
{{legend|#F4A460|Alberni: Stanley John Squire}} {{legend|#F4A460|Atlin: Frank Calder}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Cariboo: William C. Speare}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Chilliwack: William Kenneth Kiernan}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Columbia: James Roland Chabot}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Comox: Daniel Campbell}} {{legend|#F4A460|Cowichan-Newcastle: Robert Strachan}} {{legend|#F4A460|Cranbrook: Leo Nimsick}} {{legend|#F4A460|Dewdney: Dave Barrett}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Esquimalt: Herbert Joseph Bruch}} {{legend|#A51B12|Fernie: Harry McKay}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Fort George: Ray Williston}} {{legend|#F4A460|Grand Forks-Greenwood: Lois Haggen}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Kamloops: Phil Gaglardi}} {{legend|#F4A460|Kaslo-Slocan: Randolph Harding}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Lillooet: Don Robinson}}
 * Single-member districts

{{legend|#F4A460|Mackenzie: Anthony Gargrave}} {{legend|#F4A460|Nanaimo and the Islands: David Stupich}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Nelson-Creston: Wesley Drewett Black}} {{legend|#F4A460|New Westminster: Rae Eddie}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|North Okanagan: George McLeod}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|North Peace River: Jacob Francis Huhn}} {{legend|#A51B12|Oak Bay: Alan MacFarlane}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Omineca: Cyril Morley Shelford}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Prince Rupert: William Harvey Murray}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Revelstoke: Arvid Lundell}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Rossland-Trail: Donald Leslie Brothers}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Saanich: John Douglas Tisdalle}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Salmon Arm: Willis Franklin Jefcoat}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Similkameen: Frank Richter, Jr.}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Skeena: Dudley George Little}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|South Okanagan: W. A. C. Bennett}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|South Peace River: Stanley Carnell}} {{legend|#F4A460|Yale: Bill Hartley}}

{{legend|#ADD8E6|Burnaby: Charles MacSorley}} {{legend|#F4A460|Burnaby: Gordon Dowding}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Delta: Ernest A. LeCours}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Delta: Hunter Vogel}} {{legend|#A51B12|North Vancouver: Gordon Gibson, Sr.}} {{legend|#A51B12|North Vancouver: Ray Perrault}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Vancouver-Burrard: Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Vancouver-Burrard: Bert Price}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Vancouver Centre: Alexander Small Matthew}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Vancouver Centre: Leslie Peterson}} {{legend|#F4A460|Vancouver East: Alexander Macdonald}} {{legend|#F4A460|Vancouver East: Arthur James Turner}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Vancouver-Point Grey: Robert Bonner}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Vancouver-Point Grey: Ralph Raymond Loffmark}} {{legend|#A51B12|Vancouver-Point Grey: Pat McGeer}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Victoria City: William Chant}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Victoria City: Waldo McTavish Skillings}} {{legend|#ADD8E6|Victoria City: John Donald Smith}}
 * Multi-member districts

Synopsis of results

 * = open seat
 * = turnout is above provincial average
 * = 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
 * = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
 * = multiple candidates


 * = winning candidate