|| |align="center"|George Anthony Boomer Walkem1 || || |align="center"|William Smithe || |- || |align="center"|Henry Cogan |align="center" rowspan=2 |Esquimalt || || |align="center" rowspan=2 |Kootenay |align="center"|John Andrew Mara || |- || |align="center"|Alexander Rocke Robertson || || |align="center"|Charles Todd || |- || |align="center"|Thomas Basil Humphreys |align="center" rowspan=2 |Lillooet || || |align="center" |Nanaimo |align="center"|John Robson || |- || |align="center"|Andrew Thomas Jamieson || || |align="center" rowspan=2 |New Westminster |align="center"|William James Armstrong || |- || |align="center"|Henry Holbrook |align="center" |New Westminster City || || |align="center" |Josiah Charles Hughes || |- || |align="center"|Arthur Bunster |align="center" rowspan=2 |Victoria || || |align="center" rowspan=4 |Victoria City |align="center"|Robert Beaven || |- || |align="center"|Amor De Cosmos || || |align="center"|Simeon Duck || |- || |align="center"|James Robinson |align="center" rowspan=3 |Yale || || |align="center"|John Foster McCreight2 || |- || |align="center"|Charles Augustus Semlin || || |align="center"|James Trimble || |- || |align="center"|Robert Smith || |- |- | |align-left"|1 Premier-Elect | | | | |align-left"|2 Incumbent Premier |- | align="center" colspan="10"|Source: Elections BC |- |} Byelections Two sets of byelections were held to confirm appointments to the Executive Council (cabinet), as was the custom in earlier times. Ministerial candidates in this series of byelections were all confirmed by acclamation (so there were no actual polling dates). These byelections were: Esquimalt - Alexander Rocke Robertson, acclaimed November 28, 1871 New Westminster City - Henry Holbrook acclaimed November 28, 1871 Cariboo - George Anthony Boomer Walkem acclaimed February 23, 1872 Comox - John Ash acclaimed, January 11, 1873 Victoria City - Robert Beaven acclaimed January 6, 1873 New Westminster - William James Armstrong acclaimed March 21, 1873 Other byelections were also held due to deaths and other appointments; all were contested: Cariboo - John George Barnston was elected to replace Cornelius Booth who was appointed to be Clerk of the Bench (provincial court) for the district of Kootenay on April 19, 1872 Lillooet - William Saul was elected December 21, 1872 to replace Andrew Thomas Jamieson, who had died on October 31, 1872 Victoria - November 26, 1874. The byelection was due to resignations February 9, 1874 of A. Bunster and Amor De Cosmos upon winning seats in the federal election January 22, 1874 (in Vancouver and Victoria federal ridings, respectively). William Archibald Robertson and William Fraser Tolmie won the vacant seats. Lillooet - November 17, 1874. On September 26, 1874, MLAs William Saul and Thomas Basil Humphreys jointly resigned "over a dispute between the two gentlemen as to which represents the