The 34th general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada, was called on September 24, 1986. The election was held on October 22, 1986, and the new legislature met for the first time on March 9, 1987.

The governing British Columbia Social Credit Party of Bill Vander Zalm was re-elected with a majority government, and won almost half of the popular vote. 12 new seats in had been created in the legislature for this election. Social Credit coincidentally won 12 additional seats, while the social democratic New Democratic Party, led by Bob Skelly, won the same number it had in the previsou election.

No other parties won seats.

Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
			Previous	After	% Change	#	%	Change
Social Credit	Bill Vander Zalm	69	35	47	+34.3%	954,516	49.32%	-0.44%
New Democratic	Bob Skelly	69	22	22	-	824,544	42.60%	-2.34%
Liberal	Art Lee	55	0	0	-	130,505	6.74%	+4.05%
Progressive Conservative		12	0	0	-	14,074	0.73 %	-0.43%
Green		9	0	0	-	4,660	0.24%	0.05%
Independent		6	0	0	-	2,470	0.13%	-0.19%
Libertas		1		0	-	1,552	0.08%	-
People's Front		8		0	-	1,502	0.08%	-
Communist		3	0	0	-	722	0.03%	-0.02%
Libertarian		3		0	-	341	0.02%	-
Western Canada Concept	Doug Christie	1	0	0	-	322	0.02%	-0.84%
New Republic		1		0	-	245	0.01%	-
Total		237	57	69	+21.1%	1,935,453	100%	-

Note:

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

Preceded by: 1983 BC election

List of British Columbia elections

Followed by: 1991 BC election

External links

• Elections BC 1986 Election