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 Parliament

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 (1981)		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[c]	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,[d] 1976
	Alexander Barrett MacDonald			1960
	Grace Mary McCarthy	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966, 1975
	Evan Maurice Wolfe			1966,[e] 1975
	Garde Basil Gardom	Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit	1966[f]
	Patrick Lucey McGeer			1962[f]
	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[f]	1966
	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

1. Vancouver South
2. North Vancouver-Seymour
3. First elected as a Progressive Conservative
4. Dewdney
5. Vancouver Centre
6. First elected as a Liberal