December 11 1975 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1975-12-11
Writ Date 1975-11-03
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 12,924
Invalid Votes 8,856
Total Electors 1,559,633
Turnout Rate 69
Valid Ballots 1,075,077
Valid Votes 1,291,023

Notes

  • References: Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986. Prepared by Elections British Columbia and the Legislative Library (ISBN 0-7718-8677-2).

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
British Columbia Liberal Party 49 1 1.82% 7.24%
Communist Party of Canada 13 0 0.00% 0.11%
Independent 12 0 0.00% 0.36%
League for Socialist Action 1 0 0.00% 0.00%
New Democratic Party 55 18 32.73% 39.16%
North American Labour Party 4 0 0.00% 0.01%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 29 1 1.82% 3.86%
Revolutionary Marxist Group 3 0 0.00% 0.01%
Social Credit 55 35 63.64% 49.24%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Walter Kenneth Davidson Social Credit Delta 25,892 ✅
Robert Howard McClelland Social Credit Langley 23,402 ✅
Patrick Lucey McGeer Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 21,192 ✅
Garde Basil Gardom Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 20,761 ✅
Charles Stephen Rogers Social Credit Vancouver South 18,711 ✅
George Herman Kerster Social Credit Coquitlam 18,681 ✅
David Barrett New Democratic Party Coquitlam 18,663 ❌
William Gerald Strongman Social Credit Vancouver South 18,559 ✅
James Arthur Nielsen Social Credit Richmond (BC) 17,932 ✅
William Richards Bennett Social Credit South Okanagan 17,918 ✅
Carl Oswald Liden New Democratic Party Delta 17,469 ❌
Harvey Wilfred Schroeder Social Credit Chilliwack 16,528 ✅
Howard John Lloyd Social Credit Fort George 16,455 ✅
Louis Allan Williams Social Credit West Vancouver-Howe Sound 16,173 ✅
Alexander Barrett Macdonald New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 15,918 ✅
Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 15,627 ✅
Robert Arthur Williams New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 15,396 ✅
Evan Maurice Wolfe Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 15,313 ✅
Robert Samuel Bawlf Social Credit Victoria (BC) 15,143 ✅
Charles Frederick Barber New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 14,645 ✅
Kenneth Rafe Mair Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 14,639 ✅
John Davis Social Credit North Vancouver-Seymour 14,550 ✅
William Nick Vander Zalm Social Credit Surrey 14,341 ✅
Jack A Radford New Democratic Party Vancouver South 14,260 ❌
Michael Franklin Harcourt New Democratic Party Vancouver South 14,213 ❌
Alexander Vaughn Fraser Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 14,194 ✅
Hugh Austin Curtis Social Credit Saanich and the Islands (BC) 14,185 ✅
Gordon William Hanson New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 13,970 ❌
Ian Douglas Rendle Social Credit Victoria (BC) 13,374 ❌
George Mussallem Social Credit Dewdney 13,024 ✅
Gary Vernon Lauk New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 12,846 ✅
Rosemary Brown New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 12,664 ✅
Harold Leslie Steves New Democratic Party Richmond (BC) 12,598 ❌
Norman Levi New Democratic Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 12,442 ✅
Emery Oakland Barnes New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 12,252 ✅
Francis Allan Hillier Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 12,234 ❌
David Daniel Stupich New Democratic Party Nanaimo (BC) 12,177 ✅
Ronald Stephen Price Social Credit Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 12,046 ❌
Phyllis Florence Young New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 12,000 ❌
Roy Thomas Cummings New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 11,587 ❌
George Scott Wallace Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Oak Bay (BC) 11,489 ✅
Harold Peter Capozzi Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 11,253 ❌
Ernest Hall New Democratic Party Surrey 11,214 ❌
Graeme C Roberts Social Credit Nanaimo (BC) 11,041 ❌
Gerald Hamilton Anderson New Democratic Party Kamloops (BC) 10,975 ❌
Hugh Duncan Dendy New Democratic Party South Okanagan 10,851 ❌
James J Hewitt Social Credit Boundary-Similkameen 10,784 ✅
Karen Elizabeth Sanford New Democratic Party Comox 10,650 ✅
Lyle Benjamin James Kahl Social Credit Esquimalt 10,637 ✅
Franklin John Trehern Mitchell New Democratic Party Esquimalt 10,516 ❌
Ratomir Babic Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 10,431 ❌
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly New Democratic Party Burnaby North 10,430 ✅
Elwood Neal Veitch Social Credit Burnaby-Willingdon 10,395 ✅
John Clifford Oswald Social Credit Burnaby North 10,306 ❌
Nick Mandrusiak Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 10,267 ❌
Barbara Brookman Wallace New Democratic Party Cowichan-Malahat 10,245 ✅
Daniel Edgar Hanuse Social Credit Comox 10,171 ❌
Carolyn Mae Pickup New Democratic Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 10,048 ❌
Patricia Jane Jordan Social Credit North Okanagan 9,900 ✅
Dennis Geoffrey Cocke New Democratic Party New Westminster (BC) 9,650 ✅
Joseph Edward Chesney New Democratic Party Langley 9,625 ❌
Peter Carson Rolston New Democratic Party Dewdney 9,613 ❌
Colin Stuart Gabelmann New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Seymour 9,611 ❌
Robert Evans Skelly New Democratic Party Alberni 9,599 ✅
Allan Alfred Nunweiler New Democratic Party Fort George 9,442 ❌
Yvonne Joan Storey New Democratic Party Boundary-Similkameen 9,183 ❌
Hilda Louise Thomas New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 9,143 ❌
James Gibson Lorimer New Democratic Party Burnaby-Willingdon 9,119 ❌
Charles McGregor Ennals Social Credit Cowichan-Malahat 9,066 ❌
Donald Frederick Lockstead New Democratic Party Mackenzie (BC) 9,059 ✅
Venkatachala Setty Pendakur New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 8,932 ❌
Gordon Fulerton Gibson British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Capilano 8,836 ✅
Ronald Clayton Andrews Social Credit North Vancouver-Capilano 8,530 ❌
Alexander John Seigo Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 8,473 ❌
Raymond L Loewen Social Credit Burnaby-Edmonds 8,332 ✅
Sherman Frank Vyas Carson Social Credit Oak Bay (BC) 8,274 ❌
Charles Ormond Haggard Social Credit Alberni 7,988 ❌
George Wayne Haddad Social Credit Kootenay 7,915 ✅
Gordon Hudson Dowding New Democratic Party Burnaby-Edmonds 7,889 ❌
Christopher Anthony Conyers D'Arcy New Democratic Party Rossland-Trail 7,881 ✅
Lorne James Nicolson New Democratic Party Nelson-Creston 7,718 ✅
Leonard Bawtree Social Credit Shuswap 7,514 ✅
Donald Emerson Lewis New Democratic Party Shuswap 7,328 ❌
James Patterson New Democratic Party Kootenay 7,223 ❌
Tin Chao Alan Lau Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 7,214 ❌
Cyril Morley Shelford Social Credit Skeena (BC) 6,863 ✅
David Alexander Anderson British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 6,677 ❌
Ian McBeth Cameron New Democratic Party Chilliwack 6,628 ❌
Eric Jacob Paetkau Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 6,577 ❌
James Arthur Foord New Democratic Party North Okanagan 6,510 ❌
Hartley Douglas Dent New Democratic Party Skeena (BC) 6,145 ❌
Grethyll Verda Adams New Democratic Party Cariboo (BC) 6,122 ❌
Burton Peter Campbell Social Credit Rossland-Trail 6,055 ❌
George Henry Coleman Social Credit Nelson-Creston 5,951 ❌
Thomas Manville Waterland Social Credit Yale-Lillooet (BC) 5,738 ✅
Jack Joseph Kempf Social Credit Omineca 5,228 ✅
Dean Edward Smith Social Credit North Peace River 5,048 ✅
Richard John Joseph Durante British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 5,004 ❌
William Leonard Hartley New Democratic Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 4,654 ❌
Murray Wayne Miller New Democratic Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 4,647 ❌
Donald McGray Phillips Social Credit South Peace River 4,540 ✅
Donald Norman Carter British Columbia Liberal Party Kamloops (BC) 4,464 ❌
Graham Richard Lea New Democratic Party Prince Rupert 4,412 ✅
Moyra Anne Roberts British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 4,383 ❌
William Stewart King New Democratic Party Revelstoke-Slocan 3,988 ✅
Victor Albert Stephens Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Comox 3,946 ❌
Roy Barclay Last Social Credit Prince Rupert 3,527 ❌
Cordelia Kitty Maracle British Columbia Liberal Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 3,263 ❌
Terence Pitt O'Grady British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 3,102 ❌
Sam Olynyk Social Credit Revelstoke-Slocan 3,013 ❌
Johann Joe Erickson British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 2,987 ❌
Irene Rose Block Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Saanich and the Islands (BC) 2,883 ❌
John O'Brien-Bell Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 2,857 ❌
James Roland Chabot Social Credit Columbia River 2,800 ✅
Douglas Tynwald Kelly New Democratic Party Omineca 2,776 ❌
Helen Demetra Boyce British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 2,672 ❌
David James Williams British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 2,665 ❌
William Lloyd Burdon Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria (BC) 2,558 ❌
Thomas Warnett Kennedy Independent Vancouver Centre (BC) 2,545 ❌
Michael Ian Copes New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Capilano 2,383 ❌
Thomas Francis Barry Ferguson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 2,339 ❌
Daniel Gaetano DeGirolamo British Columbia Liberal Party North Okanagan 2,305 ❌
Arthur Edward Bates British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 2,236 ❌
Corliss Patricia Miller New Democratic Party South Peace River 2,233 ❌
Peter Bruce Stanley Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria (BC) 2,179 ❌
Andrew Philip Schuck New Democratic Party North Peace River 2,139 ❌
Robert Frederick Kanngiesser British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Seymour 2,113 ❌
Gordon Joseph Chambers British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 2,100 ❌
Tom Finkelstein British Columbia Liberal Party South Okanagan 2,072 ❌
Raymond Barrie Vickery New Democratic Party Oak Bay (BC) 2,067 ❌
Thelma Dawson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Esquimalt 2,033 ❌
Richard Lyle Johannson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 1,988 ❌
Thomas Smith Hammond British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,949 ❌
Kenneth Henry Mallison British Columbia Liberal Party Langley 1,879 ❌
Jack Say Yee British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,870 ❌
Barry Donald Montgomery Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Boundary-Similkameen 1,778 ❌
Alex William Crouch Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia South Okanagan 1,712 ❌
Frederick Joseph House British Columbia Liberal Party Fort George 1,695 ❌
James Martin Clark British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Willingdon 1,676 ❌
Thomas Osborne British Columbia Liberal Party Coquitlam 1,652 ❌
Jevington Blair Tothill British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan-Malahat 1,595 ❌
Norman Sidney Chamberlist British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,591 ❌
James Bruce Siemens British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 1,518 ❌
Malcolm Caldwell Wright Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,513 ❌
Florence Ann Simatos British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,387 ❌
Norman L McLaren British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 1,381 ❌
Beverley E Joyce Ballantyne British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 1,369 ❌
Orlando Pecora New Democratic Party Columbia River 1,365 ❌
Richard Neill MacLeod Brown Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 1,340 ❌
Moshe Shillow British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby North 1,308 ❌
Allan Arthur Schroeder Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Alberni 1,278 ❌
Alan Graham Anderton Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Fort George 1,273 ❌
Donald Alvin Ross British Columbia Liberal Party Surrey 1,257 ❌
John Willison Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Dewdney 1,249 ❌
Forrest Felix Walkem Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Yale-Lillooet (BC) 1,234 ❌
Marion McIlwraith McRae British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 1,108 ❌
Edgar Rudolph Rhomberg British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 1,079 ❌
Theodore Bolton Burgoyne Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 1,032 ❌
Cecile Marie T. McKinnon British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 1,018 ❌
Basil Edward Studer British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 1,003 ❌
Francis Bernard Jameson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia West Vancouver-Howe Sound 998 ❌
Robert Stanley Tanner British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Edmonds 997 ❌
Frank Arthur Calder Social Credit Atlin 984 ✅
Leonard J Stephenson British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt 977 ❌
Brian Kenneth Calder Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver-Seymour 926 ❌
Karl Franke British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 923 ❌
Cyril Cecil Kane Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Shuswap 880 ❌
Marjorie Ennis Moore Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Nanaimo (BC) 869 ❌
Clare Walker Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver South 854 ❌
Peter Guy Westlake Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver South 833 ❌
Delbert Errol Black Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby North 816 ❌
Madeline Emma Noble Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Richmond (BC) 715 ❌
William Allan Brown Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Little Mountain 697 ❌
William Harold Matthews British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 636 ❌
Eric Henry Burgotne Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Little Mountain 599 ❌
Armand Leo Foisy British Columbia Liberal Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 599 ❌
James Elder British Columbia Liberal Party Boundary-Similkameen 580 ❌
Paul John Mitchell Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby-Edmonds 568 ❌
Andrew Basil Bigg Independent Cowichan-Malahat 559 ❌
Thomas George Milne British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 519 ❌
Joseph Hadley Conroy British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia River 507 ❌
Gordon Steidl New Democratic Party Atlin 497 ❌
Ronald N Gowe British Columbia Liberal Party Skeena (BC) 484 ❌
James Bailey Henderson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia South Peace River 452 ❌
Charles Michael Emes British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 428 ❌
Ronald Harvey Holoday British Columbia Liberal Party Revelstoke-Slocan 428 ❌
Sarah Elizabeth Jameson British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay (BC) 359 ❌
William Alfred Scott Independent Victoria (BC) 349 ❌
Peter John Curran British Columbia Liberal Party Atlin 292 ❌
Stewart W L Kelly Independent Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 271 ❌
Desmond Martin British Columbia Liberal Party North Peace River 251 ❌
Victor Charles George Jolliffe Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Skeena (BC) 235 ❌
Nigel Morgan Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 214 ❌
David John Bader Independent Vancouver Centre (BC) 191 ❌
Douglas Wilbur Maddin Independent Dewdney 188 ❌
Bruce Stevens Communist Party of Canada Vancouver South 169 ❌
Michael Christopher Gidora Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 164 ❌
Richard Owen Kavanagh Independent Victoria (BC) 148 ❌
Samuel G Vint Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 144 ❌
Nicholas Podovinnikoff Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 140 ❌
John Strong Craggs Independent Esquimalt 132 ❌
Michael Anthony Darnell Communist Party of Canada Delta 105 ❌
Bernd Fritz Stoelzle Independent Coquitlam 99 ❌
Gerard Henry Does Independent Vancouver-Point Grey 98 ❌
Raymond Holmgren Communist Party of Canada Nanaimo (BC) 90 ❌
Otto Lester McDonald Communist Party of Canada Alberni 84 ❌
Sean Kevin Griffin Communist Party of Canada Burnaby North 76 ❌
Larry William Johnson Independent Coquitlam 73 ❌
Francois Bierre North American Labour Party Vancouver-Burrard (BC) 70 ❌
Frederick Joseph Bianco Communist Party of Canada Surrey 67 ❌
Samuel Vint Communist Party of Canada Vancouver South 67 ❌
Christine Beynon Communist Party of Canada Coquitlam 61 ❌
Roderick Doran Communist Party of Canada New Westminster (BC) 60 ❌
Frederick Charles Sim Independent Richmond (BC) 44 ❌
Calvin Alphonso Segur North American Labour Party Vancouver East (BC) 42 ❌
Stephen Richard Penner Revolutionary Marxist Group Vancouver East (BC) 41 ❌
Joseph Allan Kellner League for Socialist Action West Vancouver-Howe Sound 34 ❌
Gary Eric Cristall Revolutionary Marxist Group Vancouver East (BC) 31 ❌
Sara Diamond Revolutionary Marxist Group Burnaby North 22 ❌
Alan Levinson North American Labour Party Coquitlam 17 ❌
André Doucet North American Labour Party Burnaby North 12 ❌

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