Ernest George Hansell (14 May 1895 in Norwich, England – 9 December 1965) was an ordained minister as well as a Canadian federal and provincial politician.
He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament George Gibson Coote to win his first term in office.
Social Credit unexpectedly won the election, but Hansell remained in Ottawa and the British Columbia party chose William Andrew Bennett as its new leader and Premier.
Hansell would run again for his sixth term in office in the 1957 federal election He would defeat Progressive Conservative Lawrence Kindt by a comfortable margin.
This time, Hansell would be defeated in the 1958 federal election amid that year's massive PC landslide.