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33rd Parliament of British Columbia

The 33rd Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1983 to 1986. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in May 1983.{{cite web |url=https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf|title=Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986|publisher=Elections BC |access-date=2020-08-31}} The Social Credit Party led by Bill Bennett formed the government. After Bennett retired in 1986, Bill Vander Zalm became Premier.{{cite web |url=http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/premiers.pdf |title=Premiers of British Columbia 1871- |publisher=BC Legislature |access-date=2011-09-23}} The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Dave Barrett formed the official opposition. After Barrett resigned his seat in 1984, Bob Skelly became party leader.{{cite web|url=http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/leaders_of_the_opposition.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220035338/http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/leaders_of_the_opposition.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-02-20 |title=Leaders of the Opposition in British Columbia 1903- |publisher=BC Legislature |access-date=2011-07-20 }}

Kenneth Walter Davidson served as speaker for the assembly.{{cite web |url=http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/speakers.pdf |title=Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 1872- |publisher=BC Legislature |access-date=2011-09-23}}

Members of the 33rd Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1983:

class="wikitable sortable"

!

!Member

!Electoral district

!Party

!First elected / previously elected

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Robert Evans Skelly

|Alberni

|NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Al Passarell

|rowspan=2 |Atlin

|NDP

|rowspan=2 |1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Social Credit

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|James J. (Jim) Hewitt

|Boundary-Similkameen

|Social Credit

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Rosemary Brown

|Burnaby-Edmonds

|NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Eileen Dailly

|Burnaby North

|NDP

|1966

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Elwood Neal Veitch

|Burnaby-Willingdon

|Social Credit

|1975, 1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Alexander Vaughan Fraser

|Cariboo

|Social Credit

|1969

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|William Samuel (Bill) Ritchie

|Central Fraser Valley

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Harvey Schroeder

|Chilliwack

|Social Credit

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|James Roland Chabot

|Columbia River

|Social Credit

|1963

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Karen Elizabeth Sanford

|Comox

|NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Mark Willson Rose

|Coquitlam-Moody

|NDP

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Barbara Brookman Wallace

|Cowichan-Malahat

|NDP

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Kenneth Walter Davidson

|Delta

|Social Credit

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Forbes Charles Austin Pelton

|Dewdney

|Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Frank Mitchell

|Esquimalt-Port Renfrew

|NDP

|1951, 1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Claude Harry Richmond

|Kamloops

|Social Credit

|1981

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Terence Patrick Segarty

|Kootenay

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Robert Howard McClelland

|Langley

|Social Credit

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Don Lockstead

|Mackenzie

|NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|John Michael Parks

|Maillardville-Coquitlam

|Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|David Daniel Stupich

|Nanaimo

|NDP

|1963, 1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Lorne Nicolson

|Nelson-Creston

|NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Dennis Geoffrey Cocke

|New Westminster

|NDP

|1969

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Colin Stuart Gabelmann

|North Island

|NDP

|1972,{{efn|North Vancouver-Seymour}} 1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Anthony Julius (Tony) Brummet

|North Peace River

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Angus Creelman Ree

|North Vancouver-Capilano

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|John (Jack) Davis

|North Vancouver-Seymour

|Social Credit

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Brian Ray Douglas Smith

|Oak Bay-Gordon Head

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Donald James Campbell

|rowspan=2 |Okanagan North

|Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Lyle MacWilliam (1984)

|NDP

|1984

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|William Richards Bennett

|Okanagan South

|Social Credit

|1973

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Jack Joseph Kempf

|Omineca

|Social Credit

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|John Herbert (Jack) Heinrich

|Prince George North

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|William Bruce Strachan

|Prince George South

|Social Credit

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|rowspan=4 |Graham Lea

|rowspan=4 |Prince Rupert

|NDP

|rowspan=4 |1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Independent|row}}

|Independent

{{Canadian party colour|BC|United|row}}

|United Party

{{Canadian party colour|BC|PC|row}}

|Progressive Conservative

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|James Arthur Nielsen

|Richmond

|Social Credit

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Christopher D'Arcy

|Rossland-Trail

|NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Hugh Austin Curtis

|Saanich and the Islands

|Social Credit{{efn|First elected as a Progressive Conservative}}

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Michael C. Clifford

|Shuswap-Revelstoke

|Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Frank Howard

|Skeena

|NDP

|1953, 1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Donald McGray Phillips

|South Peace River

|Social Credit

|1966, 1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Rita Margaret Johnston

|rowspan=2|Surrey

|rowspan=2|Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|William Earl (Bill) Reid

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Emery Oakland Barnes

|rowspan=2 |Vancouver Centre

|rowspan=2 |NDP

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Gary Lauk

|1972

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|David Barrett

|rowspan=3 |Vancouver East

|rowspan=3 |NDP

|1960,{{efn|Dewdney}} 1976

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Alexander Barrett MacDonald

|1960

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Robert Arthur Williams (1984)

|1966, 1984

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Grace Mary McCarthy

|rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Little Mountain

|rowspan=2 |Social Credit

|1966, 1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Douglas Lyle Mowat

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Garde Basil Gardom

|rowspan=2 |Vancouver-Point Grey

|rowspan=2 |Social Credit

|1966{{efn|name="liberal"|First elected as a Liberal}}

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Patrick Lucey McGeer

|1962{{efn|name="liberal"}}

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Russell Gordon Fraser

|rowspan=2 |Vancouver South

|rowspan=2 |Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Charles Stephen Rogers

|1975

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Robin Kyle Blencoe

|rowspan=2 |Victoria

|rowspan=2 |NDP

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|Gordon William Hanson

|1979

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|John Douglas Reynolds

|West Vancouver-Howe Sound

|Social Credit

|1983

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row}}

|Thomas Manville Waterland

|Yale-Lillooet

|Social Credit

|1975

Party standings

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" | Affiliation

! Members

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|row-name}}

|align="right" |35

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|row}}

|New Democratic Party

|align="right" |22

colspan="2" rowspan="1" |  Total

|align="right" |57

colspan="2" rowspan="1" |  Government Majority

|align="right" |13

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

class="wikitable sortable"

!Electoral district

!Member elected

!Party

!Election date

!Reason

Okanagan North

|Lyle MacWilliam

|New Democratic Party

|November 8, 1984

|Death of D.J. Campbell June 10, 1984

Vancouver East

|Robert Arthur Williams

|New Democratic Party

|November 8, 1984

|D. Barrett resigned June 1, 1984, to become a talk show host

Other changes

  • Graham Lea becomes an Independent on June 20, 1984, and on February 8, 1985, he forms the United Party. He dissolves the United Party to join the Progressive Conservatives on March 26, 1986.{{cite web |title=A checklist of members of the Legislature of British Columbia |url=http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/checklist_of_mlas.pdf |publisher=Legislative Library of British Columbia |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627222059/http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/checklist_of_mlas.pdf |archive-date=2013-06-27 |date=2013-05-16 |url-status=dead}}
  • Al Passarell joins Social Credit on October 22, 1985.
  • South Peace River (res. Donald McGray Phillips April 28, 1986.)
  • Yale-Lillooet (res. Thomas Manville Waterland August 5, 1986.)
  • Langley (res. Robert Howard McClelland August 7, 1986.)

Notes

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References

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