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

Notes:

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:

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.

[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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