British Columbia general election, 1963

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September 30, 1963

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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	New Democratic
Leader since	1952	1956
Leader's seat	South Okanagan	Cowichan-Newcastle
Last election	32	16
Seats won	33	14
Seat change	1	2
Popular vote	395,079	269,004
Percentage	40.83	27.80
Swing	2.00	4.93

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Ray Perrault	Davie Fulton
Party	Liberal	Progressive Conservative
Leader since	1959	1960
Leader's seat	North Vancouver	Ran in Kamloops (lost)
Last election	4	0
Seats won	5	0
Seat change	1	0
Popular vote	193,363	109,090
Percentage	19.98	11.27
Swing	0.92	4.55

Premier before election

W. A. C. Bennett
Social Credit

Premier-designate

W. A. C. Bennett
Social Credit

The British Columbia general election of 1963 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%.

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

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