# 10th Parliament of British Columbia

The 10th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1903 to 1906. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in October 1903. This election was the first in British Columbia to be contested by competing political parties. The British Columbia Conservative Party led by Richard McBride, having won the majority of seats, formed the government.
Charles Edward Pooley served as speaker.

## Members of the 10th General Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1903.:
| Member | Electoral district | Party | First elected / previously elected |
| William Wallace Burns McInnes | Alberni | Liberal | 1900 |
| William Manson (1905) | Alberni | Conservative | 1905 |
| Henry Esson Young | Atlin | Conservative | 1903 |
| Harry Jones | Cariboo | Liberal | 1903 |
| James Murphy | Cariboo | Liberal | 1903 |
| Charles William Munro | Chilliwhack | Liberal | 1898 |
| Wilmer Cleveland Wells | Columbia | Liberal | 1899 |
| Robert Grant | Comox | Conservative | 1903 |
| John Newell Evans | Cowichan | Liberal | 1903 |
| James Horace King | Cranbrook | Liberal | 1903 |
| John Oliver | Delta | Liberal | 1900 |
| Richard McBride | Dewdney | Conservative | 1898 |
| Charles Edward Pooley | Esquimalt | Conservative | 1882 |
| William Roderick Ross | Fernie | Conservative | 1903 |
| George Arthur Fraser | Grand Forks | Conservative | 1903 |
| John Robert Brown | Greenwood | Liberal | 1903 |
| Thomas Wilson Paterson | The Islands | Liberal | 1902 |
| Frederick John Fulton | Kamloops | Conservative | 1900 |
| Robert Francis Green | Kaslo | Conservative | 1898 |
| Archibald McDonald | Lillooet | Conservative | 1903 |
| James Hurst Hawthornthwaite | Nanaimo City | Socialist | 1901 |
| John Houston | Nelson City | Conservative | 1900 |
| Parker Williams | Newcastle | Socialist | 1903 |
| Thomas Gifford | New Westminster City | Conservative | 1901 |
| Price Ellison | Okanagan | Conservative | 1898 |
| Thomas Taylor | Revelstoke | Conservative | 1900 |
| Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton | Richmond | Conservative | 1890, 1903 |
| James Alexander MacDonald | Rossland City | Liberal | 1903 |
| Henry Ernest Tanner | Saanich | Liberal | 1903 |
| Lytton Wilmot Shatford | Similkameen | Conservative | 1903 |
| Charles William Digby Clifford | Skeena | Conservative | 1898 |
| William Davidson | Slocan | Labour | 1903 |
| William John Bowser | Vancouver City | Conservative | 1903 |
| James Ford Garden | Vancouver City | Conservative | 1900 |
| Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan | Vancouver City | Conservative | 1903 |
| Robert Garnett Tatlow | Vancouver City | Conservative | 1900 |
| Charles Wilson | Vancouver City | Conservative | 1882, 1903 |
| William George Cameron | Victoria City | Liberal | 1903 |
| Richard Low Drury | Victoria City | Liberal | 1903 |
| Richard Hall | Victoria City | Liberal | 1898 |
| James Dugald McNiven | Victoria City | Liberal | 1903 |
| Stuart Alexander Henderson | Yale | Liberal | 1903 |
| Harry Wright | Ymir | Conservative | 1903 |
Notes:
* ↑ Not a provincial party. The riding had its own local autonomous Labour party.

## Party standings

| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Conservative | 22 |
| | Liberal | 17 |
| | Socialist | 2 |
| | Labour | 1 |
| Total | Total | 42 |
| Government Majority | Government Majority | 2 |

## By-elections

By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time:
* Charles Wilson, Attorney General, elected November 21, 1903
* Frederick John Fulton, President of Executive Council, acclaimed June 1, 1904
By-elections were held to replace members for various other reasons:
| Electoral district | Member elected | Party | Election date | Reason |
| Lillooet | Archibald McDonald | Conservative | August 16, 1904 | election of A. McDonald declared null and void by act of legislature |
| Alberni | William Manson | Conservative | July 22, 1905 | W.W.B. McInnes named commissioner of the Yukon May 20, 1905 |