34th Parliament of British Columbia

The 34th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1987 to 1991. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in October 1986. The [British Columbia British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit Party|Social Credit Party] led by Bill Vander Zalm formed the government. Vander Zalm resigned in 1991 after he was found to have put himself into a conflict of interest; Rita Johnston then became Premier. The New Democratic Party led by Bob Skelly formed the official opposition.
John Douglas Reynolds served as speaker for the assembly until 1989. Stephen Rogers succeeded Reynolds as speaker.

Members of the 34th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1986:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term	Robert Evans Skelly	Alberni	NDP	1972	5th term	Gerard A. Janssen	NDP	1988	1st term	Larry Guno	Atlin	NDP	1986	1st term	James J. (Jim) Hewitt	Boundary-Similkameen	Social Credit	1975	4th term	Ivan Charles Messmer	1986	1st term	Bill Barlee	NDP	1988	1st term	David Maurice Mercier	Burnaby-Edmonds	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Independent Social Credit	Social Credit	James Barry Jones	Burnaby North	NDP	1986	1st term	Elwood Neal Veitch	Burnaby-Willingdon	Social Credit	1975, 1983	3rd term*	Alexander Vaughan Fraser	Cariboo	Social Credit	1969	6th term	T. Neil Vant	1986	1st term	David Zirnhelt	NDP	1989	1st term	Harry H. De Jong	Central Fraser Valley	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Peter Albert Dueck	1986	1st term	John Jansen	Chilliwack	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Duane Delton Crandall	Columbia River	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Independent Social Credit	Social Credit	Stanley Brian Hagen	Comox	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Mark Willson Rose	Coquitlam-Moody	NDP	1983	2nd term	Graham Preston Bruce	Cowichan-Malahat	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Independent Social Credit	Social Credit	Kenneth Walter Davidson	Delta	Social Credit	1975	4th term	John Lawrence Savage	1986	1st term	Johann Alvin Norman Jacobsen	Dewdney	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	Forbes Charles Austin Pelton	1986	1st term	Munmohan Singh (Moe) Sihota	Esquimalt-Port Renfrew	NDP	1986	1st term	Claude Harry Richmond	Kamloops	Social Credit	1981	3rd term	Stuart Douglas Boland (Bud) Smith	1986	1st term	Kathleen Anne Edwards	Kootenay	NDP	1986	1st term	Caroline Mary (Carol) Gran	Langley	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Daniel George Peterson	1986	1st term	Harold Long	Mackenzie	Social Credit	1986	1st term	John Massey Cashore	Maillardville-Coquitlam	NDP	1986	1st term	Laurence Dale Lovick	Nanaimo	NDP	1986	1st term	David Daniel Stupich	1963, 1972	7th term*	Jan Pullinger	1989	1st term	Howard Leroy Dirks	Nelson-Creston	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Anita Mae Joan Hagen	New Westminster	NDP	1986	1st term	Colin Stuart Gabelmann	North Island	NDP	1972, 1979	4th term*	Anthony Julius (Tony) Brummet	North Peace River	Social Credit	1979	3rd term	Angus Creelman Ree	North Vancouver-Capilano	Social Credit	1979	3rd term	John (Jack) Davis	North Vancouver-Seymour	Social Credit	1975	4th term	Brian Ray Douglas Smith	Oak Bay-Gordon Head	Social Credit	1979	3rd term	Elizabeth Cull	NDP	1989	1st term	Lyall Franklin Hanson	Okanagan North	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Larry Chalmers	Okanagan South	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Clifford Jack Serwa	1986	1st term	Jack Joseph Kempf	Omineca	Social Credit	1975	4th term	Independent	Social Credit	Lois Ruth Boone	Prince George North	NDP	1986	1st term	William Bruce Strachan	Prince George South	Social Credit	1979	3rd term	Arthur Daniel Miller	Prince Rupert	NDP	1986	1st term	Nick Loenen	Richmond	Social Credit	1986	1st term	William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	1975, 1986	3rd term*	Christopher D'Arcy	Rossland-Trail	NDP	1972	5th term	Mel Couvelier	Saanich and the Islands	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Terry Huberts	1986	1st term	Clifford C. Michael	Shuswap-Revelstoke	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	David Fletcher Hewlett Parker	Skeena	Social Credit	1986	1st term	John Sylverster (Jack) Weisgerber	South Peace River	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Joan Kathleen Smallwood	Surrey-Guildford-Whalley	NDP	1986	1st term	Rita Margaret Johnston	Surrey-Newton	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	William Earl (Bill) Reid	Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	Emery Oakland Barnes	Vancouver Centre	NDP	1972	5th term	Michael Franklin Harcourt	1986	1st term	Glen David Clark	Vancouver East	NDP	1986	1st term	Robert Arthur Williams	1966, 1984	6th term*	Grace Mary McCarthy	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966, 1975	6th term*	Douglas Lyle Mowat	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	Independent Social Credit	Social Credit	Avril Kim Campbell	Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit	1986	1st term	Darlene R. Marzari	NDP	1986	1st term	Tom Perry	NDP	1989	1st term	Russell Gordon Fraser	Vancouver South	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	Charles Stephen Rogers	1975	4th term	Robin Kyle Blencoe	Victoria	NDP	1983	2nd term	Gordon William Hanson	1979	3rd term	John Douglas Reynolds	West Vancouver-Howe Sound	Social Credit	1983	2nd term	James Thomas Rabbitt	Yale-Lillooet	Social Credit	1986	1st term
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Alberni	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Boundary-Similkameen	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	David Maurice Mercier	Burnaby-Edmonds	-	1986	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Cariboo	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Central Fraser Valley	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Duane Delton Crandall	Columbia River	-	1986	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Graham Preston Bruce	Cowichan-Malahat	-	1986	1st term	-	-	-	Delta	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dewdney	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Kamloops	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Langley	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Nanaimo	NDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Oak Bay-Gordon Head	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Okanagan South	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	Jack Joseph Kempf	Omineca	-	1975	4th term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Richmond	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Saanich and the Islands	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver Centre	NDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver East	NDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Little Mountain	-	-	-	Douglas Lyle Mowat	-	1983	2nd term	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver South	Social Credit	-	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	NDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Boundary-Similkameen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	David Maurice Mercier	Burnaby-Edmonds	-	1986	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Cariboo	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Duane Delton Crandall	Columbia River	-	1986	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Graham Preston Bruce	Cowichan-Malahat	-	1986	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Nanaimo	NDP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Jack Joseph Kempf	Omineca	-	1975	4th term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Little Mountain	-	-	-	Douglas Lyle Mowat	-	1983	2nd term	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Boundary-Similkameen	Bill Barlee	New Democratic Party	June 8, 1988	James J. Hewitt resigned December 10, 1987
Alberni	Gerard A. Janssen	New Democratic Party	November 19, 1988	Robert E. Skelly resigned May 10, 1988
Nanaimo	Jan Pullinger	New Democratic Party	March 15, 1989	David D. Stuphich resigned October 13, 1988
Vancouver-Point Grey	Tom Perry	New Democratic Party	March 15, 1989	Kim Campbell resigned October 27, 1988
Cariboo	David Zirnhelt	New Democratic Party	September 20, 1989	Alexander V. Fraser died May 11, 1989
Oak Bay-Gordon Head	Elizabeth Cull	New Democratic Party	December 13, 1989	Brian Smith resigned November 15, 1989

Other changes

Jack Joseph Kempf left the Social Credit caucus and became an independent on March 30, 1987. He rejoined on June 25, 1990.
On October 3, 1989 Graham Bruce, Duane Delton Crandall, David Maurice Mercier, and Doug Mowat resigned from the Social Credit caucus to become Independent Social Credit. Crandall rejoined the Social Credit caucus on January 24, 1990. Bruce, Mercier and Mowat rejoined on February 14.
Jack Davis, MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour, died on March 27, 1991.
Robert Arthur Williams, MLA for Vancouver East, resigned his seat on May 7, 1991.
Anthony Brummet, MLA for North Peace River resigned his seat on June 8, 1991.