32nd Parliament of British Columbia

The 32nd Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1979 to 1983. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in May 1979.^[1] The Social Credit Party led by Bill Bennett formed the government.^[2] The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Dave Barrett formed the official opposition.^[3]

Harvey Schroeder served as speaker for the assembly until August 1982 when he resigned as speaker. Kenneth Walter Davidson replaced Schroeder as speaker in September 1982.^[4]

Members of the 32nd General Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1979:^[1]

Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected
Robert Evans Skelly	Alberni	NDP	1972
Al Passarell	Atlin	NDP	1979
James J. (Jim) Hewitt	Boundary-Similkameen	Social Credit	1975
Rosemary Brown	Burnaby-Edmonds	NDP	1972
Eileen Dailly	Burnaby North	NDP	1966
James Gibson Lorimer	Burnaby-Willingdon	NDP	1969, 1979
Alexander Vaughan Fraser	Cariboo	Social Credit	1969
William Samuel (Bill) Ritchie	Central Fraser Valley	Social Credit	1979
Harvey Schroeder	Chilliwack	Social Credit	1972
James Roland Chabot	Columbia River	Social Credit	1963
Karen Elizabeth Sanford	Comox	NDP	1972
Stuart Malcolm Leggatt	Coquitlam-Moody	NDP	1979
Barbara Brookman Wallace	Cowichan-Malahat	NDP	1975
Kenneth Walter Davidson	Delta	Social Credit	1975
George Mussallem	Dewdney	Social Credit	1966, 1975
Frank Mitchell	Esquimalt-Port Renfrew	NDP	1951, 1979
Rafe Kenneth Mair	Kamloops	Social Credit	1975
Claude Harry Richmond	Kamloops	Social Credit	1981
Terence Patrick Segarty	Kootenay	Social Credit	1979
Robert Howard McClelland	Langley	Social Credit	1972
Don Lockstead	Mackenzie	NDP	1972
Norman Levi	Maillardville-Coquitlam	NDP	1968^[a], 1972
David Daniel Stupich	Nanaimo	NDP	1963, 1972
Lorne Nicolson	Nelson-Creston	NDP	1972
Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	New Westminster	NDP	1969
Colin Stuart Gabelmann	North Island	NDP	1972^[b], 1979
Anthony Julius (Tony) Brummet	North Peace River	Social Credit	1979
Angus Creelman Ree	North Vancouver-Capilano	Social Credit	1979
John (Jack) Davis	North Vancouver-Seymour	Social Credit	1975
Brian Ray Douglas Smith	Oak Bay-Gordon Head	Social Credit	1979
Patricia Jordan	Okanagan North	Social Credit	1966
William Richards Bennett	Okanagan South	Social Credit	1973
Jack Joseph Kempf	Omineca	Social Credit	1975
John Herbert (Jack) Heinrich	Prince George North	Social Credit	1979
William Bruce Strachan	Prince George South	Social Credit	1979
Graham Lea	Prince Rupert	NDP	1972
James Arthur Nielsen	Richmond	Social Credit	1975
Christopher D'Arcy	Rossland-Trail	NDP	1972
Hugh Austin Curtis	Saanich and the Islands	Social Credit	1972^[c]
William Stewart King	Shuswap-Revelstoke	NDP	1968, 1972
Frank Howard	Skeena	NDP	1953, 1979
Donald McGray Phillips	South Peace River	Social Credit	1966, 1972
Ernest Hall	Surrey	NDP	1966, 1979
William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	Surrey	Social Credit	1975
Emery Oakland Barnes	Vancouver Centre	NDP	1972
Gary Lauk	Vancouver Centre	NDP	1972
David Barrett	Vancouver East	NDP	1960^[d], 1976
Alexander Barrett MacDonald	Vancouver East	NDP	1960
Grace Mary McCarthy	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966, 1975
Evan Maurice Wolfe	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966^[e], 1975
Garde Basil Gardom	Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit	1966^[f]
Patrick Lucey McGeer	Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit	1962^[g]
Peter Stewart Hyndman	Vancouver South	Social Credit	1979
Charles Stephen Rogers	Vancouver South	Social Credit	1975
Charles Frederick Barber	Victoria	NDP	1975
Gordon William Hanson	Victoria	NDP	1979
Louis Allan Williams	West Vancouver-Howe Sound	Social Credit	1966^[h]
Thomas Manville Waterland	Yale-Lillooet	Social Credit	1975

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Social Credit	31
	New Democratic	26
Total		57
Government Majority		5

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:^[1]

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Kamloops	Claude Harry Richmond	Social Credit	May 14, 1981	K.R. Mair resigned February 1, 1981, to become a talk show host

Notes

^ Vancouver South
^ North Vancouver-Seymour
^ First elected as a Progressive Conservative
^ Dewdney
^ Vancouver Centre
^ First elected as a Liberal
^ First elected as a Liberal
^ First elected as a Liberal

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections BC. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
^ "Premiers of British Columbia 1871-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-09-23.
^ "Leaders of the Opposition in British Columbia 1903-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-20. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
^ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 1872-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

[5] Vancouver South

[6] North Vancouver-Seymour

[7] First elected as a Progressive Conservative

[8] Dewdney

[9] Vancouver Centre

[10] First elected as a Liberal

[11] First elected as a Liberal

[12] First elected as a Liberal

[elections-1] "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections BC. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2020-08-31.

[premier-2] "Premiers of British Columbia 1871-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

[3] "Leaders of the Opposition in British Columbia 1903-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-20. Retrieved 2011-07-20.

[4] "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 1872-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

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