A total of 13 members were elected to the Second House of Assembly of Vancouver Island, which sat from March 1, 1860, to February 27, 1863.
One was made up of men connected with the Hudson's Bay Company and close to Governor James Douglas and the other of reformers led by the British Colonist editor Amor De Cosmos.
The reform faction lost in most cases and Amor De Cosmos used his newspaper to claim the election was not run fairly.
[2] George Hunter Cary, 137 Selim Franklin, 106 Amor De Cosmos, 91 Reformer William Fraser Tolmie, 44 HBC Henry Pering Pellew Crease, 39 HBC resigned October 18, 1861, replaced by Joseph William Trutch on November 26, 1861 Alfred Pendrell Waddington, 35 Reformer, resigned October 15, 1861, replaced by James Trimble James Yates, 14 Reformer C. A. Bayley, 14 Reformer John Sebastian Helmcken, 36 HBC James Cooper, 22 Reformer resigned July 27, 1860, replaced by Robert Burnaby Thomas James Skinner, 21 Ind George Tomline Gordon, 27 [6] resigned and was replaced by Thomas Harris March 31, 1862.
George Foster Foster, 32 Captain Duncan, 7 William John McDonald, Reformer elected by acclamation John Coles, won by acclamation Joseph Johnson Southgate, 11 John Copland, 4 Augustus Rupert Green, (unknown if he faced an opponent) resigned February 6, 1861, replaced on November 4, 1861, by David Babington Ring