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British Columbia general election, 1975

The 31st general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada, 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 governining New Democratic Party of David 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 the conservative party 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 to defeat the social democratic NDP.


Party Party Leader # of candidates Seats Popular Vote
Previous After % Change # % Change
Social Credit Bill Bennett 55 10 35 +250% 635,482 49.25% +18.09%
New Democratic Dave Barrett 55 38 18 -52.6% 505,396 39.16% -0.43%
Liberal Gordon Gibson 49 5 1 -80.0% 93,379 7.24% -9.16%
Progressive Conservative 29 2 1 -50.0% 49,796 3.86% -8.81%
Independent 12 0 0 - 4,688 0.36% +0.26%
Communist 13 0 0 - 1,441 0.11% +0.03%
North American Labour 4 n.a. 0 n.a. 141 0.01% n.a.
Revolutionary Marxist Group 3 n.a. 0 n.a. 94 0.01% n.a.
League for Socialist Action 1 n.a. 0 n.a. 34 x n.a.
Total 221 55 55 - 1,290,451 100% -
Sources: Elections BC

Notes:

n.a. - not applicable: party not recognized at the previous election

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

Preceded by:
1972 BC election

List of British Columbia elections

Followed by:
1979 BC election

Last updated: 06-04-2005 20:41:30
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