May 05 1983 (BC)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1983-05-05
Writ Date 1983-04-07
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province British Columbia
By-Election ❌

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 17,126
Invalid Votes 11,598
Total Electors 1,768,063
Turnout Rate 77
Valid Ballots 1,355,892
Valid Votes 1,648,833

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 Green Party 4 0 0.00% 0.19%
British Columbia Liberal Party 51 0 0.00% 2.68%
Communist Party of Canada 4 0 0.00% 0.05%
Independent 19 0 0.00% 0.33%
New Democratic Party 57 22 38.60% 44.96%
Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia 12 0 0.00% 1.16%
Social Credit 57 35 61.40% 49.78%
Western Canada Concept 18 0 0.00% 0.82%
Western National Party 2 0 0.00% 0.03%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Rita Margaret Johnston Social Credit Surrey 38,081 ✅
William Earl Reid Social Credit Surrey 37,370 ✅
Ernest Hall New Democratic Party Surrey 34,082 ❌
Carol Langford New Democratic Party Surrey 32,748 ❌
William Richards Bennett Social Credit Okanagan South 27,647 ✅
James Arthur Nielsen Social Credit Richmond (BC) 26,261 ✅
Gordon William Hanson New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 23,877 ✅
Robin Kyle Blencoe New Democratic Party Victoria (BC) 23,787 ✅
Patrick Lucey McGeer Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 22,970 ✅
Garde Basil Gardom Social Credit Vancouver-Point Grey 22,550 ✅
Russell Gordon Fraser Social Credit Vancouver South 22,206 ✅
Charles Stephen Rogers Social Credit Vancouver South 22,171 ✅
David Barrett New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 22,117 ✅
Walter Kenneth Davidson Social Credit Delta 21,496 ✅
Claude Harry Richmond Social Credit Kamloops (BC) 21,114 ✅
Alexander Barrett Macdonald New Democratic Party Vancouver East (BC) 21,112 ✅
Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 20,578 ✅
Douglas Lyle Mowat Social Credit Vancouver-Little Mountain 20,400 ✅
Hugh Austin Curtis Social Credit Saanich and the Islands (BC) 19,219 ✅
Emery Oakland Barnes New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 18,960 ✅
Jean Swanson New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 18,943 ❌
James J Hewitt Social Credit Boundary-Similkameen 18,869 ✅
Gerry Scott New Democratic Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 18,822 ❌
Gary Vernon Lauk New Democratic Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 18,743 ✅
Harold Leslie Steves New Democratic Party Richmond (BC) 18,575 ❌
David Daniel Stupich New Democratic Party Nanaimo (BC) 17,436 ✅
John Mika New Democratic Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 17,347 ❌
Joyce Ellen Whitman New Democratic Party Vancouver South 17,306 ❌
Robert Howard McClelland Social Credit Langley 17,227 ✅
John Douglas Reynolds Social Credit West Vancouver-Howe Sound 17,218 ✅
Maureen Patricia Marchak New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 16,612 ❌
Alexander Vaughn Fraser Social Credit Cariboo (BC) 16,446 ✅
Franklin John Trehern Mitchell New Democratic Party Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 16,304 ✅
Angus Creelman Ree Social Credit North Vancouver-Capilano 16,280 ✅
William Samuel Ritchie Social Credit Central Fraser Valley 16,032 ✅
Joe Easingwood Social Credit Victoria (BC) 15,971 ❌
Hilda Louise Thomas New Democratic Party Vancouver-Point Grey 15,849 ❌
Forbes Charles Austin Pelton Social Credit Dewdney 15,820 ✅
John McGrath Townson Social Credit Victoria (BC) 15,352 ❌
Ujjal Dev Singh Dosanjh New Democratic Party Vancouver South 15,291 ❌
Sophie Weremchuk New Democratic Party Dewdney 15,269 ❌
John Davis Social Credit North Vancouver-Seymour 15,268 ✅
Mark Willson Rose New Democratic Party Coquitlam-Moody 14,717 ✅
David Phillip Reiter New Democratic Party Kamloops (BC) 14,627 ❌
Yvonne Joan Storey New Democratic Party Boundary-Similkameen 14,468 ❌
Clifford C Michael Social Credit Shuswap-Revelstoke 14,102 ✅
Brian Ray Douglas Smith Social Credit Oak Bay-Gordon Head 14,008 ✅
Karen Elizabeth Sanford New Democratic Party Comox 13,719 ✅
Donald James Campbell Social Credit Okanagan North 13,647 ✅
Graham J.R. Alce Social Credit Nanaimo (BC) 13,490 ❌
George Herbert Parke Smith Social Credit Comox 13,422 ❌
Karl H Moser New Democratic Party Delta 13,300 ❌
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly New Democratic Party Burnaby North 13,013 ✅
Brian Christopher Taylor New Democratic Party Okanagan South 12,859 ❌
Kim Campbell Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 12,740 ❌
Douglas William Geoffrey Whitehead Social Credit Coquitlam-Moody 12,680 ❌
Donald Neil Brown Social Credit Burnaby North 12,505 ❌
Philip W Owen Social Credit Vancouver Centre (BC) 12,415 ❌
William Stewart King New Democratic Party Shuswap-Revelstoke 12,340 ❌
Harvey Wilfred Schroeder Social Credit Chilliwack 12,255 ✅
William James McMartin Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 12,025 ❌
John Michael Parks Social Credit Maillardville-Coquitlam 11,870 ✅
Norman Levi New Democratic Party Maillardville-Coquitlam 11,831 ❌
George Ralph Smith Social Credit Vancouver East (BC) 11,741 ❌
Elwood Neal Veitch Social Credit Burnaby-Willingdon 11,665 ✅
Bruce Strachan Social Credit Prince George South 11,662 ✅
Barbara Brookman Wallace New Democratic Party Cowichan-Malahat 11,655 ✅
Colin Stuart Gabelmann New Democratic Party North Island 11,572 ✅
Dennis Geoffrey Cocke New Democratic Party New Westminster (BC) 11,455 ✅
Donald Frederick Lockstead New Democratic Party Mackenzie (BC) 11,070 ✅
James Gibson Lorimer New Democratic Party Burnaby-Willingdon 10,886 ❌
Michael Garry Watkins New Democratic Party Langley 10,739 ❌
Rosemary Brown New Democratic Party Burnaby-Edmonds 10,677 ✅
Lorne James Nicolson New Democratic Party Nelson-Creston 10,511 ✅
Lyle Dean MacWilliam New Democratic Party Okanagan North 10,380 ❌
Brian Lightburn Social Credit Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 10,185 ❌
Graham Preston Bruce Social Credit Cowichan-Malahat 10,143 ❌
Robert Gary Begin Social Credit Burnaby-Edmonds 10,092 ❌
Frank Howard New Democratic Party Skeena (BC) 9,682 ✅
Christopher Anthony Conyers D'Arcy New Democratic Party Rossland-Trail 9,661 ✅
Muriel Agnes Overgaard New Democratic Party Oak Bay-Gordon Head 9,580 ❌
David Donald Schreck New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Seymour 9,367 ❌
Thomas Manville Waterland Social Credit Yale-Lillooet (BC) 9,178 ✅
Steven Edward Hilbert New Democratic Party Cariboo (BC) 8,990 ❌
Joanne B Monaghan Social Credit Skeena (BC) 8,962 ❌
Terry Patrick Segarty Social Credit Kootenay 8,819 ✅
Robert Evans Skelly New Democratic Party Alberni 8,656 ✅
John Herbert Heinrich Social Credit Prince George North 8,616 ✅
Anthony Julius Brummet Social Credit North Peace River 8,528 ✅
Olga Kempo New Democratic Party North Vancouver-Capilano 8,507 ❌
Howard Leroy Dirks Social Credit Nelson-Creston 8,485 ❌
Harry Edwin Mathias New Democratic Party Kootenay 8,245 ❌
Barry David Butler Social Credit New Westminster (BC) 8,224 ❌
Gerry Furney Social Credit North Island 8,199 ❌
Tom Bulmer New Democratic Party Prince George South 7,983 ❌
Scott Orman Fast New Democratic Party Chilliwack 7,955 ❌
Jim Ernest Price Social Credit Mackenzie (BC) 7,953 ❌
Andrew Philip Schuck New Democratic Party Prince George North 7,171 ❌
Claus Frank Spiekerman New Democratic Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 6,766 ❌
Jack Joseph Kempf Social Credit Omineca 6,722 ✅
Harry Wilfred Fontaine New Democratic Party Central Fraser Valley 6,628 ❌
Walter A Siemens Social Credit Rossland-Trail 6,581 ❌
Donald Russell Olds New Democratic Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 6,574 ❌
Donald McGray Phillips Social Credit South Peace River 6,540 ✅
James Roland Chabot Social Credit Columbia River 6,385 ✅
Graham Richard Lea New Democratic Party Prince Rupert 5,890 ✅
Alice Chiko Social Credit Alberni 5,496 ❌
Don Duff New Democratic Party Columbia River 5,232 ❌
Bruce Thomas Kanary New Democratic Party Omineca 4,164 ❌
Harry Bernard Cobin Hammer British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver South 3,843 ❌
Roy Arne Clarence Webber Social Credit Prince Rupert 3,718 ❌
James Alexander McNeil Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Central Fraser Valley 3,399 ❌
Patrick Michiel New Democratic Party South Peace River 3,368 ❌
Frank Nelson Wright Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Surrey 2,531 ❌
Elmer George Kabush New Democratic Party North Peace River 2,349 ❌
Shirley McLoughlin British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver Centre (BC) 2,084 ❌
Allan Edward Warnke British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 2,048 ❌
Morton Alexander Graham British Columbia Liberal Party West Vancouver-Howe Sound 1,941 ❌
Neil Stewart Thompson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia West Vancouver-Howe Sound 1,824 ❌
Sam Miksym Nazaruk Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Richmond (BC) 1,751 ❌
Irvin Kimball Burbank Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Oak Bay-Gordon Head 1,678 ❌
Leopold Auer British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Point Grey 1,675 ❌
Judith E Higginbotham British Columbia Liberal Party Surrey 1,673 ❌
Donald Peter McKinnon British Columbia Liberal Party Surrey 1,651 ❌
William Pike Hopes British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 1,600 ❌
Alan Lawrence Passarell New Democratic Party Atlin 1,587 ✅
Lorne Neil MacLean Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver-Point Grey 1,573 ❌
John Willison Green Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Saanich and the Islands (BC) 1,560 ❌
Adriane Janice Carr British Columbia Green Party Vancouver-Point Grey 1,549 ❌
L Jean Driscoll-Bell British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Capilano 1,424 ❌
Frank Arthur F.J. Jones British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver-Little Mountain 1,381 ❌
Lorne Dupuis Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Prince George South 1,327 ❌
William John McElroy British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 1,271 ❌
Robert Edmund Allen Ball Social Credit Atlin 1,208 ❌
Bruce W Robinson British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,188 ❌
David J Bannister Western Canada Concept Surrey 1,181 ❌
Victor Evan Lindal British Columbia Liberal Party Victoria (BC) 1,158 ❌
Kerry Gordon Greenwood Western Canada Concept Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 1,151 ❌
David Peter Hoyt Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Delta 1,117 ❌
Allan Wayne Griffiths Western Canada Concept Comox 1,104 ❌
John Lloyd Cowan Western Canada Concept Nanaimo (BC) 1,090 ❌
Angela E Thiele British Columbia Liberal Party Vancouver East (BC) 1,087 ❌
Kenneth Leslie Craig Hasanen British Columbia Liberal Party Boundary-Similkameen 1,086 ❌
Alice Mary Umpherson Western Canada Concept Victoria (BC) 1,048 ❌
George Ian Shaw British Columbia Liberal Party Mackenzie (BC) 1,032 ❌
Douglas Hewson Christie Western Canada Concept Saanich and the Islands (BC) 1,028 ❌
William Watson Stewart British Columbia Liberal Party Coquitlam-Moody 1,010 ❌
Clyde William Nunn Western Canada Concept Omineca 1,006 ❌
David Brian Kendall Independent Kamloops (BC) 972 ❌
Clarence Ernest Hjalmarson Western Canada Concept Chilliwack 953 ❌
Russel Timothy Emes British Columbia Liberal Party Richmond (BC) 897 ❌
Kevin Baden Bruce Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Vancouver Centre (BC) 880 ❌
Roy Diar Elderkin Western Canada Concept North Island 865 ❌
Robert N McKee British Columbia Liberal Party Okanagan South 848 ❌
Thomas Matthew Tyson Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Chilliwack 847 ❌
Mary Jane Lewis British Columbia Liberal Party Saanich and the Islands (BC) 780 ❌
Richard Harvey Davidson British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby North 747 ❌
James Grant Carr British Columbia Liberal Party Prince Rupert 745 ❌
Gordon Stuart McNish British Columbia Liberal Party North Vancouver-Seymour 719 ❌
David Timothy Chapin British Columbia Liberal Party Burnaby-Willingdon 708 ❌
Maury Banks British Columbia Liberal Party Okanagan North 706 ❌
Victor Albert Stephens Independent Comox 705 ❌
Jack Boulogne British Columbia Green Party Surrey 692 ❌
James Henry Bloy Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia Burnaby North 644 ❌
Basil Edward Studer British Columbia Liberal Party Shuswap-Revelstoke 642 ❌
Matthew Julian British Columbia Liberal Party Oak Bay-Gordon Head 635 ❌
Alan Joseph Timberlake British Columbia Green Party Nanaimo (BC) 625 ❌
Russell Charles A. Orser British Columbia Liberal Party Maillardville-Coquitlam 617 ❌
James Ivan Turnbull Western Canada Concept Cowichan-Malahat 609 ❌
John Ian Paterson British Columbia Liberal Party New Westminster (BC) 590 ❌
William Charles Stanley British Columbia Liberal Party Esquimalt-Port Renfrew 580 ❌
Marilyn Bouwman British Columbia Liberal Party Langley 569 ❌
Wally Altwasser Independent Dewdney 566 ❌
Sheelagh J.F. Matthews British Columbia Liberal Party Nanaimo (BC) 554 ❌
Quintin Robert McAdam Robertson British Columbia Liberal Party Cariboo (BC) 549 ❌
Jake Martens Western Canada Concept Langley 519 ❌
Tom Pappajohn Western Canada Concept Oak Bay-Gordon Head 515 ❌
Thomas John Finnie British Columbia Liberal Party Comox 502 ❌
Hartwig B Warnke British Columbia Liberal Party Chilliwack 500 ❌
Ken Buhay British Columbia Liberal Party Delta 464 ❌
Antoine Masson British Columbia Liberal Party Nelson-Creston 456 ❌
Edward Alexander White Western Canada Concept North Vancouver-Seymour 453 ❌
Michael Terence Coggan Western Canada Concept Delta 450 ❌
Art Robatzek Western Canada Concept Okanagan North 441 ❌
Saul Joseph Terry British Columbia Liberal Party Yale-Lillooet (BC) 412 ❌
Robert L Moore British Columbia Liberal Party Dewdney 410 ❌
Balther Johannes Jensen Independent Victoria (BC) 406 ❌
Harold Alexander Paley Western Canada Concept Cariboo (BC) 405 ❌
Jacob Victor Suderman British Columbia Liberal Party Central Fraser Valley 399 ❌
Sergio C Cocchia British Columbia Liberal Party Rossland-Trail 394 ❌
Judy C Stevens British Columbia Liberal Party Prince George North 392 ❌
Svend Serup Western Canada Concept Prince George South 376 ❌
Kory Palmer British Columbia Liberal Party Kootenay 347 ❌
Irwin Wield Steele British Columbia Liberal Party Cowichan-Malahat 345 ❌
Peter C.L. Griffiths Independent Okanagan South 338 ❌
John Ross Anderson British Columbia Liberal Party North Island 330 ❌
Bert Ogden Communist Party of Canada Vancouver East (BC) 316 ❌
Cuthbert Alexander Fleming Independent West Vancouver-Howe Sound 316 ❌
Lionel Wayne Sears Independent Skeena (BC) 297 ❌
Michael Thomas Gaughan Western Canada Concept Alberni 291 ❌
Hans Joachim Lehnert Western National Party Burnaby-Edmonds 291 ❌
Christopher Keith Sumner Independent Kamloops (BC) 259 ❌
William George Litwin British Columbia Liberal Party South Peace River 257 ❌
Maurice Rush Communist Party of Canada Vancouver Centre (BC) 244 ❌
David Michael Shebib Independent Victoria (BC) 242 ❌
David Charles Parkinson British Columbia Liberal Party North Peace River 240 ❌
Howard Peter Yearwood Independent Nanaimo (BC) 228 ❌
Michael Gordon Hendren British Columbia Liberal Party Columbia River 220 ❌
Jeremie Louis Le Bourdais British Columbia Green Party Cariboo (BC) 212 ❌
Ernest A LeCours Independent Oak Bay-Gordon Head 201 ❌
Viola Swann Communist Party of Canada Surrey 185 ❌
Susan Patricia Hutchinson British Columbia Liberal Party Alberni 183 ❌
Heinze Beyer Western National Party Burnaby-Willingdon 183 ❌
William John Simpson Independent Langley 183 ❌
Frederick William James Peitzsche Independent Rossland-Trail 176 ❌
Frederick L Bartell Independent Okanagan South 165 ❌
David Anthony Seller British Columbia Liberal Party Omineca 162 ❌
Gladys Denholm British Columbia Liberal Party Prince George South 132 ❌
Burgess A Longson Independent Atlin 105 ❌
Louis James Lesosky Independent Cowichan-Malahat 101 ❌
Gary William Swann Communist Party of Canada Alberni 92 ❌
Paul Danny Brohman Independent Atlin 84 ❌
Stanley John Bullivant Independent Langley 77 ❌
Russel Ellsworth Downe Independent Oak Bay-Gordon Head 63 ❌

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