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.
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"|55 align="right"|10 align="right"|35 align="right"| +250% align="right"|635,482 align="right"| 49.25% align="right"| +18.09%
a href="/encyclopedia/New-Democratic-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="New Democratic Party of British Columbia">New Democratic Dave Barrett align="right"|55 align="right"|38 align="right"|18 align="right"| -52.6% align="right"|505,396 align="right"| 39.16% align="right"| -0.43%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Liberal-Party" title="British Columbia Liberal Party">Liberal Gordon Gibson align="right"|49 align="right"|5 align="right"|1 align="right"| -80.0% align="right"|93,379 align="right"| 7.24% align="right"| -9.16%
a href="/encyclopedia/British-Columbia-Conservative-Party" title="British Columbia Conservative Party">Progressive Conservative align="center"| align="right"|29 align="right"|2 align="right"|1 align="right"| -50.0% align="right"|49,796 align="right"| 3.86% align="right"| -8.81%
ndependent align="center"| align="right"|12 align="right"|0 align="right"|0 align="right"| - align="right"|4,688 align="right"| 0.36% align="right"| +0.26%
a href="/encyclopedia/Communist-Party-of-British-Columbia" title="Communist Party of British Columbia">Communist align="center"| align="right"|13 align="right"|0 align="right"|0 align="right"| - align="right"|1,441 align="right"| 0.11% align="right"| +0.03%
a href="/encyclopedia/North-American-Labour-Party" title="North American Labour Party">North American Labour align="center"| align="right"|4 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|141 align="right"| 0.01% align="right"| n.a.
a href="/encyclopedia/Revolutionary-Marxist-Group" title="Revolutionary Marxist Group">Revolutionary Marxist Group align="center"| align="right"|3 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|94 align="right"| 0.01% align="right"| n.a.
a href="/encyclopedia/League-for-Socialist-Action" title="League for Socialist Action">League for Socialist Action align="center"| align="right"|1 align="right"|n.a. align="right"|0 align="right"| n.a. align="right"|34 align="right"| x align="right"| n.a.
otal !221 !55 !55 ! - !1,290,451 ! 100% | -
align="center" colspan="9"|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

 

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