British Columbia general election, 1960

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September 12, 1960

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52 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
27 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	W. A. C. Bennett	Robert Strachan
Party	Social Credit	Co-operative Commonwealth
Leader since	1952	1956
Leader's seat	South Okanagan	Cowichan-Newcastle
Last election	39	10
Seats won	32	16
Seat change	7	6
Popular vote	386,886	326,094
Percentage	38.83	32.73
Swing	7.01	4.41

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Ray Perrault	Deane Finlayson
Party	Liberal	Progressive Conservative
Leader since	1959	1952
Leader's seat	North Vancouver	Ran in North Vancouver (lost)
Last election	2	0
Seats won	4	0
Seat change	2	0
Popular vote	208,249	66,943
Percentage	20.90	6.72
Swing	0.87	3.61

Premier before election

W. A. C. Bennett
Social Credit

Premier-designate

W. A. C. Bennett
Social Credit

The British Columbia general election of 1960 was the 26th 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 3, 1960, and held on September 12, 1960. The new legislature met for the first time on January 26, 1961.

The conservative Social Credit of Premier W.A.C. Bennett was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a fourth term in government despite losing seven percentage points of the popular vote and seven of its seats in the legislature.

The opposition Co-operative Commonwealth Federation increased both its share of the popular vote and its number of seats.

The British Columbia Liberal Party lost a small part of its popular vote, but managed to double its caucus from two to four members.

The Progressive Conservative Party doubled its share of the popular vote to almost 7%, but won no seats in the legislature.

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

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