32nd Parliament of British Columbia explained

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	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, 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, 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	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	Social Credit	1975	Emery Oakland Barnes	Vancouver Centre	NDP	1972	Gary Lauk	1972	David Barrett	Vancouver East	NDP	1960, 1976	Alexander Barrett MacDonald	1960	Grace Mary McCarthy	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966, 1975	Evan Maurice Wolfe	1966, 1975	Garde Basil Gardom	Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit	1966	Patrick Lucey McGeer	1962	Peter Stewart Hyndman	Vancouver South	Social Credit	1979	Charles Stephen Rogers	1975	Charles Frederick Barber	Victoria	NDP	1975	Gordon William Hanson	1979	Louis Allan Williams	West Vancouver-Howe Sound	Social Credit	1966	Thomas Manville Waterland	Yale-Lillooet	Social Credit	1975

Party standings

Affiliation		Members	31	26
Total		57
Government Majority		5

By-elections

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613200446/http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf. dead. June 13, 2011. Elections BC . 2020-08-31.
2. Web site: Premiers of British Columbia 1871- . BC Legislature . 2011-09-23.
3. Web site: Leaders of the Opposition in British Columbia 1903- . https://web.archive.org/web/20110220035338/http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/leaders_of_the_opposition.pdf . dead . 2011-02-20 . BC Legislature . 2011-07-20 .
4. Web site: Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 1872- . BC Legislature . 2011-09-23.