British Columbia General Election, 1983

The 33rd provincial election for the province of British Columbia, Canada was called on April 7, 1983. The election was held on May 5, 1983. The new legislature that resulted from this election met for the first time on June 23, 1983. The governing Social Credit Party of British Columbia was re-elected with a majority government, defeating the opposition New Democratic Party of British Columbia. The Socreds increased both their share of the popular vote almost half of all votes) and their number of seats in the legislature. No other parties other than the Socreds and the NDP won seats 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
a href="/encyclopedia/Social-Credit-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="Social Credit Party of British Columbia">Social Credit Bill Bennett align="right"| 57 align="right"| 31 align="right"| 35 align="right"| +12.9% align="right"| 820,807 align="right"| 49.76% align="right"| +1.53%
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"| 26 align="right"| 22 align="right"| -15.4% align="right"| 741,354 align="right"| 44.94% align="right"| -1.05%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Liberal-Party" title="British Columbia Liberal Party">Liberal Shirley McLoughlin align="right"| 52 align="right"|0 align="right"| 0 align="right"| - align="right"|44,442 align="right"|2.69% align="right"| +2.22%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Conservative-Party" title="British Columbia Conservative Party">Progressive Conservative
align="right"| 12 align="right"| 0 align="right"| 0 align="right"| - align="right"| 19,131 align="right"| 1.16% align="right"| -3.90%
a href="/encyclopedia/Western-Canada-Concept" title="Western Canada Concept">Western Canada Concept Doug Christie align="right"| 18 align="right"| align="right"|0 align="right"| - align="right"| 14,185 align="right"| 0.86% align="right"| -
ndependent
align="right"| 18 align="right"| 0 align="right"| 0 align="right"| - align="right"| 5,225 align="right"| 0.32% align="right"| +0.24%
a href="/encyclopedia/Green-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="Green Party of British Columbia">Green
align="right"| 4 align="right"| align="right"| 0 align="right"| - align="right"| 3,078 align="right"| 0.19% align="right"| -
a href="/encyclopedia/Communist-Party-of-Canada" title="Communist Party of Canada">Communist
align="right"| 4 align="right"| 0 align="right"| 0 align="right"| - align="right"| 837 align="right"| 0.05% align="right"| -0.03%
a href="/encyclopedia/Western-National-Party" title="Western National Party">Western National
align="right"| 2 align="right"| align="right"| 0 align="right"| - align="right"| 474 align="right"| 0.03% align="right"| -
OTALS !
224 !
57 !
57 !
0 !
1,649,533 !
100% !
-
align="center" colspan="9"|Sources: Elections BC
Preceded by:
1979 BC election
List of British Columbia elections Preceded by:
1986 BC election

 

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