May 10 1979 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1979-05-10
Writ Date 1979-04-03
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

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Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 21,278
Invalid Votes 13,169
Total Electors 1,673,048
Turnout Rate 68
Valid Ballots 1,134,177
Valid Votes 1,405,077

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 5 0 0.00% 0.47%
Communist Party of Canada 9 0 0.00% 0.10%
Gay Alliance Toward Equality 1 0 0.00% 0.01%
Independent 5 0 0.00% 0.08%
Independent New Hope 1 0 0.00% 0.01%
New Democratic Party 57 26 45.61% 45.99%
North American Labour Party 4 0 0.00% 0.02%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 37 0 0.00% 5.06%
Social Credit 57 31 54.39% 48.23%
Western Independence Party 2 0 0.00% 0.04%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
William Nick Vander Zalm Social Credit Surrey 29,693 ✅
Ernest Hall New Democratic Party Surrey 28,644 ✅
Michael Garry Watkins New Democratic Party Surrey 28,497 ❌
Dalton O Jones Social Credit Surrey 26,306 ❌
Charles Frederick Barber New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 22,700 ✅
David Barrett New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 21,836 ✅
Alexander Barrett Macdonald New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 20,670 ✅
Garde Basil Gardom Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 20,620 ✅
William Richards Bennett Social Credit South Okanagan 20,552 ✅
Gordon William Hanson New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 20,226 ✅
Patrick Lucey McGeer Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 19,789 ✅
Charles Stephen Rogers Social Credit Vancouver South 19,741 ✅
Peter Stewart Hyndman Social Credit Vancouver South 19,665 ✅
Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 19,350 ✅
James Arthur Nielsen Social Credit Richmond (BC) 18,783 ✅
Evan Maurice Wolfe Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 18,689 ✅
Gary Vernon Lauk New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 17,464 ✅
Emery Oakland Barnes New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 17,361 ✅
David Daniel Stupich New Democratic Party Nanaimo (BC) 17,021 ✅
Michael Franklin Harcourt New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 17,009 ❌
Robert Samuel Bawlf Social Credit Victoria (BC) 17,002 ❌
Louis Allan Williams Social Credit West Vancouver-Howe Sound 16,566 ✅
Walter Kenneth Davidson Social Credit Delta 16,421 ✅
Jean Swanson New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 16,329 ❌
Hugh Austin Curtis Social Credit Saanich and the Islands (BC) 16,018 ✅
Michael Dalway Watson Young Social Credit Victoria (BC) 15,923 ❌
Thomas Francis Shandel New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 15,686 ❌
Hilda Louise Thomas New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 15,578 ❌
Harold Leslie Steves New Democratic Party Richmond (BC) 15,549 ❌
Kenneth Rafe Mair Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 15,430 ✅
James Edgar Duvall New Democratic Party Vancouver South 15,258 ❌
Ujjal Dev Singh Dosanjh New Democratic Party Vancouver South 14,123 ❌
John Mika New Democratic Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 13,961 ❌
James J Hewitt Social Credit Boundary-Similkameen 13,739 ✅
Alexander Vaughn Fraser Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 13,736 ✅
Angus Creelman Ree Social Credit North Vancouver-Capilano 13,247 ✅
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly New Democratic Party Burnaby North 12,843 ✅
Brian Ray Douglas Smith Social Credit Oak Bay-Gordon Head 12,730 ✅
George Mussallem Social Credit Dewdney 12,643 ✅
Franklin John Trehern Mitchell New Democratic Party Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 12,419 ✅
Thomas Warnett Kennedy Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 12,233 ❌
Andrew Lapa New Democratic Party Kamloops (BC) 12,121 ❌
Joan Mary Norris New Democratic Party Dewdney 11,998 ❌
Robert Howard McClelland Social Credit Langley 11,990 ✅
Thomas Wesley Humble Social Credit Nanaimo (BC) 11,979 ❌
William Samuel Ritchie Social Credit Central Fraser Valley 11,967 ✅
Stuart Malcolm Leggatt New Democratic Party Coquitlam-Moody 11,919 ✅
Richard Desmond Fitzgerald Kimmitt Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 11,649 ❌
Bryan Patrick McIver New Democratic Party Boundary-Similkameen 11,485 ❌
Carl Oswald Liden New Democratic Party Delta 11,429 ❌
Dennis Geoffrey Cocke New Democratic Party New Westminster (BC) 11,343 ✅
Harvey Wilfred Schroeder Social Credit Chilliwack 11,236 ✅
James Gibson Lorimer New Democratic Party Burnaby-Willingdon 11,100 ✅
John Davis Social Credit North Vancouver-Seymour 11,049 ✅
Norman Levi New Democratic Party Maillardville-Coquitlam 10,913 ✅
Hugh Duncan Dendy New Democratic Party South Okanagan 10,881 ❌
Helen Demetra Boyce Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 10,857 ❌
Bernard Merle Smith Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 10,688 ❌
William Stewart King New Democratic Party Shuswap-Revelstoke 10,654 ✅
Donald Frederick Lockstead New Democratic Party Mackenzie (BC) 10,500 ✅
Elwood Neal Veitch Social Credit Burnaby-Willingdon 10,435 ❌
Karen Elizabeth Sanford New Democratic Party Comox 10,420 ✅
John Clifford Oswald Social Credit Burnaby North 10,211 ❌
Lorne James Nicolson New Democratic Party Nelson-Creston 10,143 ✅
Leonard Bawtree Social Credit Shuswap-Revelstoke 10,008 ❌
Barbara Brookman Wallace New Democratic Party Cowichan-Malahat 9,839 ✅
Bruce Strachan Social Credit Prince George South 9,835 ✅
Lyle Benjamin James Kahl Social Credit Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 9,812 ❌
Patricia Jane Jordan Social Credit Okanagan North 9,811 ✅
Rosemary Brown New Democratic Party Burnaby-Edmonds 9,634 ✅
George Herman Kerster Social Credit Maillardville-Coquitlam 9,422 ❌
Delbert Keith Doll Social Credit Comox 9,390 ❌
Christopher Anthony Conyers D'Arcy New Democratic Party Rossland-Trail 9,252 ✅
Colin Stuart Gabelmann New Democratic Party North Island 8,831 ✅
Vida Joy Langan New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Seymour 8,417 ❌
William Alfred Lewarne Social Credit Burnaby-Edmonds 8,375 ❌
Stephen Ralph Duguid New Democratic Party Langley 7,984 ❌
Robert Evans Skelly New Democratic Party Alberni 7,935 ✅
Leslie Richard Keen Social Credit Coquitlam-Moody 7,915 ❌
Malvern James Hughes Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 7,786 ❌
Henry Rex Hollett Social Credit Cowichan-Malahat 7,746 ❌
Frank Howard New Democratic Party Skeena (BC) 7,561 ✅
John Herbert Heinrich Social Credit Prince George North 7,477 ✅
George Henry Coleman Social Credit Nelson-Creston 7,349 ❌
Thomas Manville Waterland Social Credit Yale-Lillooet (BC) 7,309 ✅
Byron Ralph Kemp New Democratic Party Cariboo (BC) 7,233 ❌
Jerry Winters New Democratic Party Okanagan North 7,226 ❌
Cyril Morley Shelford Social Credit Skeena (BC) 7,193 ❌
Michael Ian Copes New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Capilano 7,139 ❌
Joan Kristin MacLatchy New Democratic Party Prince George South 6,845 ❌
Muriel Agnes Overgaard New Democratic Party Oak Bay-Gordon Head 6,741 ❌
Charles Arthur Boyd New Democratic Party Prince George North 6,704 ❌
Gerry Furney Social Credit North Island 6,649 ❌
Anthony Julius Brummet Social Credit North Peace River 6,598 ✅
Gerald David Gray Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 6,515 ❌
Victor Albert Stephens Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Oak Bay-Gordon Head 6,284 ❌
Terry Patrick Segarty Social Credit Kootenay 6,167 ✅
Gerald Hamilton Anderson New Democratic Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 5,870 ❌
Brian Kent Westwood Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Surrey 5,834 ❌
Jack Joseph Kempf Social Credit Omineca 5,830 ✅
David Carstairs Menzies New Democratic Party Chilliwack 5,792 ❌
Lawrence Charles Minch Minchin New Democratic Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 5,773 ❌
Joseph Van Bergen Social Credit Alberni 5,736 ❌
Joseph Phillips Brooks Social Credit Rossland-Trail 5,728 ❌
Douglas Wayne Wright New Democratic Party Kootenay 5,350 ❌
Donald McGray Phillips Social Credit South Peace River 5,269 ✅
Graham Richard Lea New Democratic Party Prince Rupert 5,129 ✅
James Roland Chabot Social Credit Columbia River 4,830 ✅
Jan Bakker New Democratic Party Central Fraser Valley 4,653 ❌
Sandra Helen Mary Smaill New Democratic Party Columbia River 4,421 ❌
Russell Frederick Anderson New Democratic Party Omineca 4,163 ❌
John Edwin Swales Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Boundary-Similkameen 3,662 ❌
Hugh John Robins Social Credit Prince Rupert 3,171 ❌
Corliss Patricia Miller New Democratic Party South Peace River 2,785 ❌
Jewel Sandra Butters Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Okanagan North 2,582 ❌
William Fairley Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 2,511 ❌
Elizabeth L Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 2,437 ❌
John Willison Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Saanich and the Islands (BC) 2,431 ❌
Barry Reginald Wright Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Richmond (BC) 2,400 ❌
Murray Regis Pratt Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Kamloops (BC) 2,273 ❌
Eric Harry Kellow Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Comox 2,251 ❌
Jack Lindsay Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria (BC) 2,195 ❌
Joseph Mark Breti New Democratic Party North Peace River 2,081 ❌
Peter Guy Westlake Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver South 2,066 ❌
David Nigel Kilbey Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver South 2,045 ❌
Margaret M Lynn Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Victoria (BC) 2,018 ❌
Christopher Derrick England Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia West Vancouver-Howe Sound 1,916 ❌
Sherri Rose Anderson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Langley 1,885 ❌
Elsie Gwendolyn Burnett Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 1,877 ❌
Frank Carlton Warburton British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Capilano 1,805 ❌
Joy Ann Gilmore Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver-Seymour 1,796 ❌
William James Nichol Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Vancouver-Capilano 1,579 ❌
Harold A Smiley Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Shuswap-Revelstoke 1,557 ❌
Douglas David Henderson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,511 ❌
Ernest Arthur Gardner Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia South Okanagan 1,479 ❌
Keith Donald Eady Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 1,475 ❌
Jevington Blair Tothill British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Seymour 1,468 ❌
William James Langlois Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 1,462 ❌
Thomas Fitzgerald Pirie Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Chilliwack 1,413 ❌
Timothy Charles O'Brien British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 1,399 ❌
Eva Viola Barton Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Central Fraser Valley 1,362 ❌
Peter Alan Johnson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia North Island 1,222 ❌
Christopher Keith Sumner British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 1,131 ❌
Kenneth Paskin Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Cowichan-Malahat 1,113 ❌
William Arthur Honour Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver East (BC) 1,068 ❌
Sheryl Ann England Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby North 1,064 ❌
Shirley Joann Keinanen Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver East (BC) 999 ❌
Roy Wilburn Paul Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Kootenay 975 ❌
Ruth Parker Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby-Edmonds 937 ❌
Gerald Legge Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Maillardville-Coquitlam 921 ❌
Raymond Paul Ward Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Yale-Lillooet (BC) 864 ❌
Roger Schmidt British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 859 ❌
Dale Murray Drown Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Rossland-Trail 852 ❌
Orest Peter Jakubec Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Coquitlam-Moody 762 ❌
Alan Lawrence Passarell New Democratic Party Atlin 750 ✅
Frank Arthur Calder Social Credit Atlin 749 ❌
Brian Hartley Mayne Independent Cariboo (BC) 462 ❌
Douglas Hewson Christie Western Independence Party Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 280 ❌
Maurice Rush Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 277 ❌
Michael Edward Easton Western Independence Party Victoria (BC) 275 ❌
Miguel Figueroa Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 237 ❌
Morley Gordon Dodman Independent North Island 225 ❌
Timothy George Gidora Communist Party of Canada Surrey 204 ❌
L David McCreery Independent Skeena (BC) 197 ❌
Josephine P Arland Communist Party of Canada Surrey 183 ❌
Amarjit Singh Dhillon Communist Party of Canada Vancouver South 154 ❌
André Doucet North American Labour Party Vancouver East (BC) 152 ❌
Wayne Arthur Williams Independent Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 131 ❌
Robert Douglas Cook Gay Alliance Toward Equality West Vancouver-Howe Sound 126 ❌
Gary William Swann Communist Party of Canada Alberni 97 ❌
Margaret Jean Griffin Communist Party of Canada Burnaby North 88 ❌
Arthur David Serry Independent Skeena (BC) 83 ❌
Allen Harvey Soroka Communist Party of Canada Vancouver South 81 ❌
John Michael Stevens Communist Party of Canada Delta 73 ❌
Donald Cecil Stansall Independent New Hope Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 72 ❌
Gerald Bernard Therrien North American Labour Party Maillardville-Coquitlam 71 ❌
Brian Keith Gray North American Labour Party Burnaby North 41 ❌
Calvin Alphonso Segur North American Labour Party Coquitlam-Moody 33 ❌

Districts

Alberni
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 28 elections (1890–1996)

Robert Evans Skelly · New Democratic Party

7,935 votes
Atlin
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Alan Lawrence Passarell · New Democratic Party

750 votes
Boundary-Similkameen
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1966–2024)

James J Hewitt · Social Credit

13,739 votes
Burnaby North
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 16 elections (1966–2024)

Eileen Elizabeth Dailly · New Democratic Party

12,843 votes
Burnaby-Edmonds
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 15 elections (1966–2020)

Rosemary Brown · New Democratic Party

9,634 votes
Burnaby-Willingdon
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1966–2005)

James Gibson Lorimer · New Democratic Party

11,100 votes
Cariboo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Alexander Vaughn Fraser · Social Credit

13,736 votes
Chilliwack
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 31 elections (1903–2020)

Harvey Wilfred Schroeder · Social Credit

11,236 votes
Columbia River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

James Roland Chabot · Social Credit

4,830 votes
Comox
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–1986)

Karen Elizabeth Sanford · New Democratic Party

10,420 votes
Cowichan-Malahat
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Barbara Brookman Wallace · New Democratic Party

9,839 votes
Delta
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

Walter Kenneth Davidson · Social Credit

16,421 votes
Dewdney
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1903–1986)

George Mussallem · Social Credit

12,643 votes
Kamloops (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 29 elections (1903–2005)

Kenneth Rafe Mair · Social Credit

15,430 votes
Kootenay
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 14 elections (1871–1996)

Terry Patrick Segarty · Social Credit

6,167 votes
Langley
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 15 elections (1966–2020)

Robert Howard McClelland · Social Credit

11,990 votes
Mackenzie (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 19 elections (1924–1986)

Donald Frederick Lockstead · New Democratic Party

10,500 votes
Nanaimo (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1871–2020)

David Daniel Stupich · New Democratic Party

17,021 votes
Nelson-Creston
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 25 elections (1933–2020)

Lorne James Nicolson · New Democratic Party

10,143 votes
New Westminster (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 34 elections (1871–2020)

Dennis Geoffrey Cocke · New Democratic Party

11,343 votes
North Peace River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1986)

Anthony Julius Brummet · Social Credit

6,598 votes
North Vancouver-Capilano
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Angus Creelman Ree · Social Credit

13,247 votes
North Vancouver-Seymour
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 16 elections (1966–2024)

John Davis · Social Credit

11,049 votes
Omineca
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Jack Joseph Kempf · Social Credit

5,830 votes
Prince Rupert
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1916–1986)

Graham Richard Lea · New Democratic Party

5,129 votes
Richmond (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1903–1986)

James Arthur Nielsen · Social Credit

18,783 votes
Rossland-Trail
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 21 elections (1924–1996)

Christopher Anthony Conyers D'Arcy · New Democratic Party

9,252 votes
Saanich and the Islands (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Hugh Austin Curtis · Social Credit

16,018 votes
Skeena (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 32 elections (1903–2024)

Frank Howard · New Democratic Party

7,561 votes
South Okanagan
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 20 elections (1916–1986)

William Richards Bennett · Social Credit

20,552 votes
South Peace River
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1986)

Donald McGray Phillips · Social Credit

5,269 votes
Surrey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 6 elections (1966–1983)

Ernest Hall · New Democratic Party

28,644 votes
Vancouver Centre (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Gary Vernon Lauk · New Democratic Party

17,464 votes
Vancouver East (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 17 elections (1933–1986)

Alexander Barrett Macdonald · New Democratic Party

20,670 votes
Vancouver South
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Charles Stephen Rogers · Social Credit

19,741 votes
Vancouver-Little Mountain
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 10 elections (1966–2024)

Evan Maurice Wolfe · Social Credit

18,689 votes
Vancouver-Point Grey
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 26 elections (1933–2024)

Patrick Lucey McGeer · Social Credit

19,789 votes
Victoria (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 13 elections (1871–1986)

Gordon William Hanson · New Democratic Party

20,226 votes
West Vancouver-Howe Sound
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1966–1986)

Louis Allan Williams · Social Credit

16,566 votes
Yale-Lillooet (BC)
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 11 elections (1966–2005)

Thomas Manville Waterland · Social Credit

7,309 votes
Central Fraser Valley
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 3 elections (1979–1986)

William Samuel Ritchie · Social Credit

11,967 votes
Maillardville-Coquitlam
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 3 elections (1979–1986)

Norman Levi · New Democratic Party

10,913 votes
North Island
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1979–2024)

Colin Stuart Gabelmann · New Democratic Party

8,831 votes
Okanagan North
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 2 elections (1979–1983)

Patricia Jane Jordan · Social Credit

9,811 votes
Prince George North
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 7 elections (1979–2005)

John Herbert Heinrich · Social Credit

7,477 votes
Coquitlam-Moody
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 3 elections (1979–1986)

Stuart Malcolm Leggatt · New Democratic Party

11,919 votes
Prince George South
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 3 elections (1979–1986)

Bruce Strachan · Social Credit

9,835 votes
Esquimalt-Port Renfrew
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 3 elections (1979–1986)

Franklin John Trehern Mitchell · New Democratic Party

12,419 votes
Oak Bay-Gordon Head
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 12 elections (1979–2024)

Brian Ray Douglas Smith · Social Credit

12,730 votes
Shuswap-Revelstoke
British Columbia (BC) Provincial 3 elections (1979–1986)

William Stewart King · New Democratic Party

10,654 votes

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