# 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 (NDP) 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 General Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1979:
| 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) | Kamloops | 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, 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, 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 | 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 | Surrey | Social Credit | 1975 |
| Emery Oakland Barnes | Vancouver Centre | NDP | 1972 |
| Gary Lauk | Vancouver Centre | NDP | 1972 |
| David Barrett | Vancouver East | NDP | 1960, 1976 |
| Alexander Barrett MacDonald | Vancouver East | NDP | 1960 |
| Grace Mary McCarthy | Vancouver-Little Mountain | Social Credit | 1966, 1975 |
| Evan Maurice Wolfe | Vancouver-Little Mountain | Social Credit | 1966, 1975 |
| Garde Basil Gardom | Vancouver-Point Grey | Social Credit | 1966 |
| Patrick Lucey McGeer | Vancouver-Point Grey | Social Credit | 1962 |
| Peter Stewart Hyndman | Vancouver South | Social Credit | 1979 |
| Charles Stephen Rogers | Vancouver South | Social Credit | 1975 |
| Charles Frederick Barber | Victoria | NDP | 1975 |
| Gordon William Hanson | Victoria | NDP | 1979 |
| Louis Allan Williams | West Vancouver-Howe Sound | Social Credit | 1966 |
| Thomas Manville Waterland | Yale-Lillooet | Social Credit | 1975 |

## Party standings

| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Social Credit | 31 |
| | New Democratic | 26 |
| Total | Total | 57 |
| Government Majority | Government Majority | 5 |

## 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 |