1856 Vancouver Island election
# 1856 Vancouver Island election

Members elected to the First House of Assembly of Vancouver Island which sat from August 12, 1856, to December 7, 1859. The election was two years before the first newspaper started so there is no known record of the actual vote totals.

## Constituency

Victoria District

* Edward Edwards Langford – election contested and he was removed 26 August 1856 and replaced by Joseph William McKay on December 3, 1856
* Joseph Despard Pemberton
* James Yates

Esquimalt District

* John Sebastian Helmcken, Speaker
* Thomas James Skinner

Sooke District

* John Muir, resigned 5 May 1857

Nanaimo District

* Dr. John Frederick Kennedy
