British Columbia Conservative Party
Active Provincial Party
Founded	1903
Leader	Wilf Hanni
President	Shirley Abraham
Headquarters	PO Box 30044, RPO Glenmore, Kelowna, BC, V1V 2M7
Political ideology	Conservatism int_alignment =
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Colours	Blue and White
Website	http://www.bcconservative.com

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a conservative political party in British Columbia, Canada. Its current leader is Wilf Hanni. Image File history File links Bcconservatives-logo. ... Wilf Hanni is a politician and oil industry consultant in British Columbia, Canada. ... Conservatism is a political philosophy that usually favors traditional values and strong foreign defense. ... For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation). ... White rose. ... Conservatism is a political philosophy that usually favors traditional values and strong foreign defense. ... // Political scientists have developed concepts of different ideal types of political parties in order to better compare them with each other. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area... Wilf Hanni is a politician and oil industry consultant in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Founding of the BC Conservative Party

The BC Conservative Party, (known as "the Tories"), was created by Sir Richard McBride in 1903. McBride believed that the system of non-partisan government that the province had been using was unstable and inhibiting development. When the lieutenant-governor of the province dissolved the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and called an election, McBride announced that he would form a party to contest the election. His Conservatives won British Columbia's first election fought on the party system on 3 October 1903 with a two-seat majority. McBride became Premier of the province. The Tories implemented a policy along the lines of those of the national Conservative Party, which at the time favoured government intervention to help develop industry and infrastructure. The term Tory derives from the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. ... Sir Richard McBride (December 15, 1870-August 6, 1917) was a British Columbian politician and founder of the British Columbia Conservative Party. ... Non-partisan democracy (also no-party democracy) is a system of representative government or organization such that universal and periodic elections (by secret ballot) take place without reference to political parties or even the speeches, campaigns, nominations, or other apparatus commonly associated with democracy. ... A Lieutenant Governor or Lieutenant-Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Legislature Building in Victoria, BC The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is located in Victoria. ... Traditional hat toss celebration at a graduation ceremony at the United States Naval Academy A party is a social gathering intended primarily for celebration and recreation. ... The British Columbia general election of 1903 was the tenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... In the Westminster System, a majority government is one in which the government enjoys an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or Parliament. ... In Canada, a Premier is the head of government of a province. ... The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a right-leaning conservative political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...

The Conservatives under McBride, and his successor William John Bowser, held power for thirteen years until they were defeated by the Liberals in the 1916 election. William John Bowser (Rexton, New Brunswick December 3, 1867-October 25, 1933 Vancouver) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. ... The British Columbia Liberal Party (usually referred to as the BC Liberals) is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... The British Columbia general election of 1916 was the fourteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ...

The Tories returned to power in the 1928 election under Simon Fraser Tolmie, the last time the Conservatives would form a majority government in the province. The Tolmie government was unable to deal with the Great Depression, and was wracked by infighting and indecision. The party was in such disarray that, despite being in power, the Conservative provincial association decided not to run any candidates in the 1933 election. The British Columbia general election of 1928 was the seventeenth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ... The Hon. ... The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. ... The British Columbia general election of 1933 was the eighteenth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ...

In the election of 1941, the Conservatives managed to win 12 seats, compared to 21 for the Liberals and 14 for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, which became the New Democratic Party in 1961). The Liberals and Conservatives formed a coalition government. The business community feared the growing strength of the democratic socialist CCF, and supporters of both the Liberals and the Tories argued that a united free market party was needed to keep the CCF from taking power. The British Columbia general election, 1941 was the twentieth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ... The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. ... The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a democratic socialist political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy...

The BC Progressive Conservative Party

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The tensions between Conservative and Liberal factions mounted over time, and after ten years, the coalition disintegrated. The Conservatives refounded their party in 1951 calling themselves the "Progressive Conservatives" as the federal party had adopted the "progressive" prefix in 1942. Image File history File links Campaign button, British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party. ... Image File history File links Campaign button, British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party. ...

W. A. C. Bennett, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), ran for the leadership of the Tories and lost. Bennett had been elected and re-elected as a BC Conservative MLA in the 1941, 1945, and 1949 provincial elections. After losing the BC Conservative leadership, Bennett left the party and joined the small Social Credit League, becoming its leader. Bennett dropped the party's social credit monetary reform policy, and adopted a populist conservative platform. William Andrew Cecil Bennett (September 6, 1900 - February 23, 1979) was a Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia. ... A Member of the Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the Legislature or legislative assembly of a subnational jurisdiction. ... The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election. ... Social Credit is an economic ideology and a social movement which started in the early 1920s. ...

The coalition government, whose raison d'etre had been to keep the CCF out of power, had introduced an instant-runoff voting system for the 1952 election in the hope that Conservatives and Liberal supporters would list the other party as their second choice and keep the CCF out of power. ... Example ballot Instant-runoff voting (IRV) (also known as the Alternative Vote (AV) and by several other names) is an voting system used for single winner elections in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. ... The 23rd general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada was called on April 10, 1952, and held on June 12, 1952. ...

This worked to the benefit of Social Credit, who were able to take advantage of divisions between the Liberals and Conservatives, as well as the desire for change. Bennett's party was able to win a slim minority government with 19 Social Credit MLAs compared to 18 CCFers, one Labour, six Liberals, and four Tories.

It was clear to those who wanted to keep the CCF out of power that only the Social Credit Party would be able to accomplish that task. In the 1953 election, Liberal and Tory supporters transferred their support to Bennett's party, sweeping it to power with 28 out of 48 seats. Having a majority government the Social Credit government changed the electoral system back to first past the post in order to cement their base. Social Credit became, in effect, the new centre-right coalition party, and both the Liberals and the Tories became marginalised. The 24th general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada was called on April 10, 1953, and held on June 9, 1953. ... In the Westminster System, a majority government is one in which the government enjoys an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or Parliament. ... The plurality voting system, also known as first past the post, is a voting system used to elect a single winner in a given election. ...

The Progressive Conservatives won only four seats in 1952, one in 1953, and were completely shut out of the legislature between 1956 and 1972 as conservative-minded voters moved to Social Credit. The Tories managed to win two seats in the 1972 election, and one in the 1975 election. The last BC Conservative MLA elected was Victor Albert Stephens -- in a 1978 Oak Bay by-election. The British Columbia general election of 1956 was the 25th general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ... The 30th general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ... The British Columbia general election of 1975 was the 31st general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ...

The BC Conservative Party (again)

BC Conservative Party logo, 1991 to 2005.

In 1991, the party changed its name back to the BC Conservative Party. It was unable to take advantage of the collapse of Social Credit that year. Image File history File links Bccp-logo. ... Image File history File links Bccp-logo. ...

It later discussed with four other conservative parties to form the British Columbia Unity Party, but that coalition soon fell apart, and the BC Conservative Party remained as a separate entity. The British Columbia Unity Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ...

On September 1, 2004, BC Unity and the BC Conservatives announced an Agreement-in-Principle (AIP) for the two parties to merge under the Conservative Party name. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On 18 September 2004, the delegates in attendance at the BC Conservative Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Burnaby voted 24-13 to ratify the Agreement-in-Principle signed by party leader Barry Chilton, but this did not attain the 2/3 vote required to pass. A new board of directors was elected at the AGM. A new president, Bill Smith, was elected on a promise to support the merger vote, but immediately after his election, refused to allow a motion by members of the new board to accept the majority vote on the AIP. The merger deal, therefore, fell through. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Barry Edward Chilton is the leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party, a minor political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ...

For the October 28, 2004 Surrey-Panorama Ridge by-election, the party nominated David James Evans as its candidate. Evans finished in fourth place with 2.19% of the vote -- behind Green Party Leader Adriane Carr, and ahead of Reform BC President Shirley Abraham. Surrey-Panorama Ridge is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. ... The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... Adriane Carr in 2005. ... The Reform Party of British Columbia (Reform BC) is a populist political party in British Columbia, Canada, which for much of its history was associated with the right wing. ...

The party nominated seven candidates in the 2005 election, who won a total of 9,623 votes, 0.55% of the provincial total. None were elected. Two candidates, Colin Black in Okanagan-Vernon, and Beryl Ludwig in Shuswap, won over 2,000 votes each. Black won over 11.56% of the vote in his riding, while Ludwig won 9.92%. Both Black and Ludwig finished in third place. Popular vote map by riding. ...

2006 leadership convention

The BC Conservative 2005 Annual General Meeting was held in Vernon on September 24, 2005. and subsequent to the AGM, a board meeting was held to appoint former Reform BC Leader Wilf Hanni as Interim Leader. A BC Conservative Leadership and Policy Convention was held in Kamloops on March 18, 2006 - where Hanni was acclaimed as the permanent Leader of the BC Conservatives. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Reform Party of British Columbia (Reform BC) is a populist political party in British Columbia, Canada, which for much of its history was associated with the right wing. ... Wilf Hanni is a politician and oil industry consultant in British Columbia, Canada. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also: British Columbia Conservative Party leadership election, 2006

Election results

• In the November 2, 1933 election, because of internal discord, the provincial executive of the Conservative Party decided not to contest the election officially; each local association was to act on its own. Some candidates ran as straight Independents, some as Independent Conservatives; those supporting the premier, Simon Fraser Tolmie, ran as Unionists; and those grouped around William John Bowser, a former premier, ran as Non-Partisans. When Bowser died and the election in Vancouver Centre and Victoria City was postponed, 4 Non-Partisans and 2 UPBC candidates withdrew.

• Note: In the 1945 and 1949 elections, the Conservatives ran in a coalition with the Liberal Party.

• In the 1952 and 1953 elections, British Columbia employed a preferential ballot.

• After 1953, British Columbia returned to the "first past the post" electorial system.

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See also

• List of British Columbia political parties
• List of British Columbia premiers
• List of British Columbia general elections

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External links

• BC Conservative Party