british columbia general election, 1979

The 32nd general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada, was called on April 3rd, 1979. The election was held on May 10, 1979, and the new legislature met for the first time on June 6, 1979. The governing Social Credit Party of British Columbia of Bill Bennett was re-elected with a majority government, and won almost half of the popular vote. The electorate was polarized between the conservative Socreds and the social democratic New Democratic Party of former premier David Barrett, which won just under 46% of the popular vote and all of the remaining seats in the legislature. Only the Progressive Conservatives won over 1% of the popular vote, but their 5% of the vote did nt enable them to hold on to their single seat in the legislature.

owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	colspan="3"\|Seats	colspan="3"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|Previous	align="center"\|After	align="center"\|% Change	align="center"\|#	align="center"\|%	align="center"\|Change
Social Credit	Bill Bennett	align="right"\| 57	align="right"\|35	align="right"\|31	align="right"\| -11.4%	align="right"\|677,607	align="right"\| 48.23%	align="right"\| -1.02%
a href="/encyclopedia/New-Democratic-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="New Democratic Party of British Columbia">New Democratic	Dave Barrett	align="right"\|57	align="right"\|18	align="right"\|26	align="right"\| 44.4%	align="right"\|646,188	align="right"\| 45.99%	align="right"\| +6.83%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Conservative-Party" title="British Columbia Conservative Party">Progressive Conservative	\|align="right"\|37 \|align="right"\|1 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| -100% \|align="right"\|71,078 \|align="right"\| 5.06% \|align="right"\| +1.20%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Liberal-Party" title="British Columbia Liberal Party">Liberal	Jev Tothill	align="right"\|5	align="right"\|1	align="right"\|0	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\|6,662	align="right"\| 0.47%	align="right"\|-6.77%
a href="/encyclopedia/Communist-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="Communist Party of British Columbia">Communist	\|align="right"\|7 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| - \|align="right"\|1,159 \|align="right"\| 0.08% \|align="right"\| -0.03%
ndependent	\|align="right"\|5 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| - \|align="right"\|1,098 \|align="right"\| 0.08% \|align="right"\| -0.28%
a href="/encyclopedia/Western-Independence-Party-of-British-Coumbia" title="Western Independence Party of British Coumbia">Western Indepedence	\|align="right"\|2 \|align="right"\| n.a. \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| n.a. \|align="right"\|555 \|align="right"\| 0.04% \|align="right"\| n.a.
a href="/encyclopedia/North-American-Labour-Party" title="North American Labour Party">North American Labour	\|align="right"\|4 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| - \|align="right"\|297 \|align="right"\| 0.02% \|align="right"\| +0.01%
a href="/encyclopedia/Communist-Party-of-Canada-(Marxist-Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)">Marxist-Leninist	\|align="right"\|2 \|align="right"\|n.a. \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| n.a. \|align="right"\|235 \|align="right"\|0.02% \|align="right"\| n.a.
a href="/encyclopedia/Gay-Alliance-Toward-Equality" title="Gay Alliance Toward Equality">Gay Alliance Toward Equality	\|align="right"\|1 \|align="right"\| n.a. \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| n.a. \|align="right"\|126 \|align="right"\|0.01% \|align="right"\| n.a.
a href="/encyclopedia/Independent-New-Hope-Party" title="Independent New Hope Party">Independent New Hope Party	\|align="right"\|1 \|align="right"\|n.a. \|align="right"\|0 \|align="right"\| n.a. \|align="right"\|72 \|align="right"\| 0.01% \|align="right"\| n.a.
OTALS	!178 !55 !57 ! +3.6% !1,405,077 ! 100% ! -
align="center" colspan="9"\|Sources: Elections BC

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

Preceded by:
1975 BC election

List of British Columbia elections

Followed by:
1983 BC election

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