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. The Social Credit Party led by Bill Bennett formed the government. The New Democratic Party led by Dave Barrett formed the official opposition.
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.

Members of the 32nd Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1979:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term	Robert Evans Skelly	Alberni	NDP	1972	3rd term	Al Passarell	Atlin	NDP	1979	1st term	James J. (Jim) Hewitt	Boundary-Similkameen	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	Rosemary Brown	Burnaby-Edmonds	NDP	1972	3rd term	Eileen Dailly	Burnaby North	NDP	1966	5th term	James Gibson Lorimer	Burnaby-Willingdon	NDP	1969, 1979	4th term*	Alexander Vaughan Fraser	Cariboo	Social Credit	1969	4th term	William Samuel (Bill) Ritchie	Central Fraser Valley	Social Credit	1979	1st term	Harvey Schroeder	Chilliwack	Social Credit	1972	3rd term	James Roland Chabot	Columbia River	Social Credit	1963	6th term	Karen Elizabeth Sanford	Comox	NDP	1972	3rd term	Stuart Malcolm Leggatt	Coquitlam-Moody	NDP	1979	1st term	Barbara Brookman Wallace	Cowichan-Malahat	NDP	1975	2nd term	Kenneth Walter Davidson	Delta	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	George Mussallem	Dewdney	Social Credit	1966, 1975	4th term*	Frank Mitchell	Esquimalt-Port Renfrew	NDP	1951, 1979	3rd term*	Rafe Kenneth Mair	Kamloops	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	Claude Harry Richmond	Social Credit	1981	1st term	Terence Patrick Segarty	Kootenay	Social Credit	1979	1st term	Robert Howard McClelland	Langley	Social Credit	1972	3rd term	Don Lockstead	Mackenzie	NDP	1972	3rd term	Norman Levi	Maillardville-Coquitlam	NDP	1968, 1972	4th term*	David Daniel Stupich	Nanaimo	NDP	1963, 1972	5th term*	Lorne Nicolson	Nelson-Creston	NDP	1972	3rd term	Dennis Geoffrey Cocke	New Westminster	NDP	1969	4th term	Colin Stuart Gabelmann	North Island	NDP	1972, 1979	2nd term*	Anthony Julius (Tony) Brummet	North Peace River	Social Credit	1979	1st term	Angus Creelman Ree	North Vancouver-Capilano	Social Credit	1979	1st term	John (Jack) Davis	North Vancouver-Seymour	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	Brian Ray Douglas Smith	Oak Bay-Gordon Head	Social Credit	1979	1st term	Patricia Jordan	Okanagan North	Social Credit	1966	5th term	William Richards Bennett	Okanagan South	Social Credit	1973	3rd term	Jack Joseph Kempf	Omineca	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	John Herbert (Jack) Heinrich	Prince George North	Social Credit	1979	1st term	William Bruce Strachan	Prince George South	Social Credit	1979	1st term	Graham Lea	Prince Rupert	NDP	1972	3rd term	James Arthur Nielsen	Richmond	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	Christopher D'Arcy	Rossland-Trail	NDP	1972	3rd term	Hugh Austin Curtis	Saanich and the Islands	Social Credit	1972	3rd term	William Stewart King	Shuswap-Revelstoke	NDP	1968, 1972	4th term*	Frank Howard	Skeena	NDP	1953, 1979	2nd term*	Donald McGray Phillips	South Peace River	Social Credit	1966, 1972	4th term*	Ernest Hall	Surrey	NDP	1966, 1979	4th term*	William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	Social Credit	1975	2nd term	Emery Oakland Barnes	Vancouver Centre	NDP	1972	3rd term	Gary Lauk	1972	3rd term	David Barrett	Vancouver East	NDP	1960, 1976	7th term*	Alexander Barrett MacDonald	1960	7th term	Grace Mary McCarthy	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966, 1975	4th term*	Evan Maurice Wolfe	1966, 1975	4th term*	Garde Basil Gardom	Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit	1966	5th term	Patrick Lucey McGeer	1962	7th term	Peter Stewart Hyndman	Vancouver South	Social Credit	1979	1st term	Charles Stephen Rogers	1975	2nd term	Charles Frederick Barber	Victoria	NDP	1975	2nd term	Gordon William Hanson	1979	1st term	Louis Allan Williams	West Vancouver-Howe Sound	Social Credit	1966	5th term	Thomas Manville Waterland	Yale-Lillooet	Social Credit	1975	2nd term
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By-elections

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

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