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31st Legislative Assembly Of British Columbia
The 31st Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1976 to 1979. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in December 1975. The Social Credit Party led by Bill Bennett formed the government. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by William Stewart King formed the official opposition. Dave Barrett had lost his seat in the election; he was reelected in a by-election held in June 1976 and resumed his role as party leader. Dean Smith served as speaker for the assembly until 1978 when he resigned as speaker. Harvey Schroeder Harvey Wilfred Schroeder (born June 16, 1933) is a former businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Chilliwack in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1972 to 1986 as a Social Credit member. He worked as ... replaced Smith as speaker in 1979. Members of the 31st General Assembly The following members were elected to the assembly in 1975: Notes: Party standings By-election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 British Columbia General Election
The 1975 British Columbia general election was the 31st general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on November 3, 1975, and held on December 11, 1975. The new legislature met for the first time on March 17, 1976. The governing New Democratic Party of Dave Barrett was defeated after three years in government. Bill Bennett, son of long-time Social Credit Party leader and BC premier, W.A.C. Bennett, led Social Credit back to power, winning close to half of the popular vote, and a solid majority in the legislature. Voters abandoned the Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties as the centre and right-wing vote coalesced around Social Credit. The defeated social democratic NDP suffered only a marginal decrease in its vote share. However, NDP support outside Vancouver tailed off, resulting in a 20-seat loss. Barrett was one of the casualties; he was narrowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnaby-Edmonds
Burnaby-Edmonds is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Geography The district is located in southern Burnaby, British Columbia. It is bordered by Boundary Road to the east, Imperial and Mayfield Streets to the north, 4th Street to the east, and 10th Avenue and Fraser River to the south. Electoral history Election results , - , - , NDP , Raj Chouhan , align="right", 10,337 , align="right", 46.71% , align="right", +5.23% , align="right", $71,644 , - , - , NDP , , Fred G. Randall , align="right", 9,912 , align="right", 46.45% , align="right", -0.70% , align="right", $41,298 , - , Natural Law , Guy Harvey , align="right", 77 , align="right", 0.36% , align="right", , align="right", $136 , - , NDP NDP may stand for: Computing * Neighbor Discovery Protocol, an Internet protocol * Nortel Discovery Protocol, a layer two Internet protocol, also called SONMP * Nondeterministic progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquitlam (electoral District)
Coquitlam was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1975. The riding's successor was the Coquitlam-Moody riding. For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster (electoral districts) and/or Vancouver (electoral districts). Demographics Political geography Notable elections Notable MLAs Electoral history , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 17,240 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 155 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , New Democrat , Dave Barrett , align="right", 12,948 , align="right", 47.67% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 27,161 !align="right", 100.0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Herman Kerster
George Herman Kerster (born March 2, 1937) is a former car dealer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Coquitlam in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1975 to 1979 as a Social Credit member. He was born in Lafleche, Saskatchewan, the son of Gustave A. Kerster and Marjorie P. Gohn, and was educated in Fort William, Ontario, in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. In 1959, he married Helen K. Bartels. Kerster was a 1st lieutenant in the Regina militia. He later moved to Coquitlam, British Columbia. Kerster defeated former NDP premier Dave Barrett to win his assembly seat in 1975. He was defeated by Norman Levi in 1979 when he ran for reelection in the new riding of Coquitlam-Maillardville Coquitlam-Maillardville is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Demographics Geography The Coquitlam–Maillardville district encompasses most of land of the City of Coqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comox (electoral District)
Comox may refer to: *Comox, British Columbia, a town on Vancouver Island on the Comox Peninsula *CFB Comox, a Canadian Forces base near the above town *Comox (electoral district), a provincial electoral district 1871–1986 * ''Comox'' (steamboat), a steamship built in 1891 in British Columbia which served until 1920 * HMCS ''Comox'', several naval vessels *Comox people, an indigenous group of Coast Salishan-speaking peoples in British Columbia **the Comox language, a Coast Salish language of the areas of Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia flanking the northern part of the Strait of Georgia **K'ómoks First Nation, a.k.a. the Comox Indian Band, the band government of the K'omoks a.k.a. the Island Comox **the Mainland Comox, referring to three groups: the Sliammon, Klahoose, and Homalco See also *Comox Land District, one of the 59 cadastral subdivisions of British Columbia *Comox Valley, a region of British Columbia *Comox Valley Regional District, a regional distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Sanford
Karen Elizabeth Sanford (May 31, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was a Canadian politician. She served as MLA for the Comox riding in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1972 to 1986, as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a social-democratic provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. As of 2017, it governs the province. It is the British Columbia provincial arm of the federal New Democrati .... She died of cancer in 2010. References 1932 births People from Drumheller British Columbia New Democratic Party MLAs Women MLAs in British Columbia 2010 deaths {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia River (electoral District)
Columbia River was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1986. The riding's predecessor, which was named Columbia, appeared on the hustings from 1903 to 1963. The successor riding in this region is the current Columbia River-Revelstoke riding. For other historical and current ridings in the region see Kootenay (electoral districts) and Okanagan (electoral districts). Demographics Political geography Notable elections Notable MLAs Electoral history ''Note: Winners in each election are in'' bold. , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,674 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 21 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , New Democrat , Ian David Jack , align="right", 687 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Roland Chabot
James Roland "Jim" Chabot (May 8, 1927 – October 9, 1989) was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada for the riding of Columbia and its successor Columbia River from 1963 to 1986. He was born in Farnham, Quebec, and moved to British Columbia during the 1950s. He was employed as a railway supervisor. In 1973, he ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Social Credit party. Chabot served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Minister of Lands, Parks and Housing and Provincial Secretary. He did not run for reelection in 1986. Chabot died at home in Invermere at the age of 62. James Chabot Provincial Park on Windermere Lake in the Columbia Valley The Columbia Valley is the name used for a region in the Rocky Mountain Trench near the headwaters of the Columbia River between the town of Golden and the Canal Flats. The main hub of the valley is the town of Invermere. Other towns include Rad ... region, which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilliwack (electoral District)
Chilliwack has been a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia since 1916. Incorporating slightly different boundaries, it was the successor riding to the Chilliwhack riding the name of which was based on the older spelling of the name. Political geography and history Chilliwack was the successor riding to Westminster-Chilliwhack, which was one of four subdivisions of the old rural Westminster riding, the others being the ridings that became, after similar name-changes, Delta, Dewdney and Richmond, which are the parent ridings of all current Fraser Valley electoral districts. Chilliwack riding lasted until the 1996 election. In 2001 the area became represented by Chilliwack-Kent and Chilliwack-Sumas. The latter takes in part of the City of Chilliwack and Sumas Prairie (part of the City of Abbotsford), while the other includes Agassiz, the municipality of Kent, and the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, as well as a certain amount of lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cariboo (provincial Electoral District)
Cariboo was one of the twelve original electoral districts created when British Columbia became a Canadian province in 1871. Roughly corresponding to the old colonial electoral administrative district of the same name, it was a three-member riding until the 1894 election, when it was reduced through reapportionment and became a two-member riding until the 1916 election, after which it has been a single-member riding. It produced many notable Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), including George Anthony Boomer Walkem, third and fifth holder of the office of Premier of British Columbia and who was one of the first representatives elected from the riding; John Robson, ninth Premier of British Columbia; and Robert Bonner, a powerful minister in the W.A.C. Bennett cabinet, and later CEO of MacMillan Bloedel and BC Hydro. Demographics Political geography When the riding was created, the bulk of its population was in the Cariboo goldfields district around Barkerville, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Fraser (politician)
Alexander Vaughan Fraser (June 22, 1916 – May 9, 1989) was a Canadian politician. Fraser began his career as a businessman in the central British Columbia town of Quesnel, located in the Cariboo region. During World War II, he enlisted and served in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in British Columbia and Ontario from 1942 until his discharge in March 1946. Fraser came from a political family. His father, John, served in both the provincial legislature and federal parliament. Fraser himself began his own political career in 1949, when he was elected as commissioner of Quesnel. In 1950 Fraser was elected reeve (later mayor) of Quesnel, a position he held for the next twenty years. During that time he served both as president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities and chairman of the Cariboo Regional District. Fraser moved from local to provincial politics in 1969, winning the Cariboo riding for the British Columbia Social Credit Party. In 1986, Fraser became ill and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnaby-Willingdon
Burnaby-Willingdon was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is the deliberative assembly of the Parliament of British Columbia, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The Legislative Assembly meets in Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria. Members ar ..., Canada from 1966 to 2009. Demographics Election results , - , - External links BC Stats [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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