Hugh Curtis joins Social Credit (1974)

What the record says

Hugh Curtis changed from the Progressive Conservatives to Social Credit on October 25, 1974. He won the following general election before entering Cabinet; the sequence does not establish causation.

Participants

1. Hugh Curtis

   CTF-EP-000160-01

   Conservative Party of British Columbia→ToBritish Columbia Social Credit PartyTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   October 25, 1974

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

   What happened afterwards

   Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

   • reelected

     December 11, 1975 · result: yes · causation: not established · election validation

     Hugh Curtis was elected as a Social Credit candidate 412 days after the affiliation change.

   • cabinet appointment — Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

     December 22, 1975 · result: yes · causation: not established · compensation, office

     Hugh Curtis was appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing 423 days after the affiliation change and 11 days after winning election. The post carried the documented ministerial salary; causation is not established.

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Claims and the sources cited for them

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1. Hugh Curtis changed from the British Columbia Progressive Conservatives to Social Credit on October 25, 1974.

   Supported

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   High

   Signed by:

   Official-source deterministic verifier

   • A checklist of members of the Legislature of British Columbia

     Legislative Library of British Columbia · May 16, 2013 · record 30th Parliament; Frank Calder; Hugh Curtis; Garde Gardom; Patrick McGeer; Allan Williams; affiliation changes · EN

     The official checklist records the October 25, 1974 change.

     Archived copy — June 27, 2013

     CTF-S-BC-MLA-CHECKLIST-2013 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

2. Hugh Curtis was appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing 423 days after the affiliation change and 11 days after winning election. The post carried the documented ministerial salary; causation is not established.

   Supported

   Field:

   cabinet_appointment

   Confidence:

   High

   Signed by:

   Official-source deterministic verifier

   • British Columbia Executive Council — December 31, 1975

     Statistics Canada · December 31, 1975 · page British Columbia Executive Council as at 1975-12-31; election 1975-12-11; minister salaries and portfolios · EN

     The official table gives the first portfolio and ministerial salary.

     Archived copy — March 6, 2026

     CTF-S-STATCAN-BC-EXECUTIVE-1975 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

3. Hugh Curtis was elected as a Social Credit candidate 412 days after the affiliation change.

   Supported

   Field:

   reelected

   Confidence:

   High

   Signed by:

   Official-source deterministic verifier

   • British Columbia Executive Council — December 31, 1975

     Statistics Canada · December 31, 1975 · page British Columbia Executive Council as at 1975-12-31; election 1975-12-11; minister salaries and portfolios · EN

     The official table gives the election date.

     Archived copy — March 6, 2026

     CTF-S-STATCAN-BC-EXECUTIVE-1975 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

Corrections to this record

• Permanent citation address did not resolve

  The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/en/crossings/hugh-curtis-1974. This site has never served a language-prefixed route and has no /id/ route, so that address returned HTTP 404: any citation made against it did not resolve to the record. The permanent URI is now https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/hugh-curtis-1974, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000160) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.

  September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000160

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• fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

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1. r3 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/hugh-curtis-1974, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/hugh-curtis-1974, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

2. r2 expanded

   Added the exact crossing date and separated election and cabinet outcomes.

   August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

3. r1 created

   Imported from the legacy archive as an unpublished research lead. Historical narrative, motive labels, and benefit scores were not treated as verified claims.

   July 31, 2026 · Crossing the Floor project maintainer