Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | |
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| 41st Parliament of British Columbia | |
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| Type | |
| Type | Unicameral house of the Parliament of British Columbia |
| History | |
| Founded | July 20, 1871 (1871-07-20) |
| Preceded by | Legislative Council |
| Leadership | |
Speaker | Darryl Plecas, Independent Since September 8, 2017 |
Premier | John Horgan, BC NDP Since July 18, 2017 |
Leader of the Opposition | Andrew Wilkinson, BC Liberal Since February 3, 2018 |
Government House Leader | Mike Farnworth, BC NDP |
Opposition House Leader | Mary Polak, BC Liberal[1] |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 87 |
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Political groups | Government NDP (41) Confidence and supply Green (3) Opposition Liberal (42) Speaker Independent (1) |
| Elections | |
Last election | May 9, 2017 |
Next election | 42nd British Columbia general election |
| Meeting place | |
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Parliament Building, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | |
| Website | |
| leg.bc.ca | |
Located in Victoria, British Columbia and officially opened in 1898 with a 500-foot-long facade (150 m), central dome, two end pavilions, and a gold-covered statue of Captain George Vancouver, the British Columbia Parliament Buildings is home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
The Parliament Buildings roof with a gold-covered statue of Captain George Vancouver
The Legislative Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia. (Pacific Undersea Gardens also pictured.)
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in session, 1921
The Legislative Chamber
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, while the other is Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.[2]
The Legislative Assembly meets in Victoria. Members are elected from provincial ridings and are referred to as Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). The current Parliament is the 41st Parliament. The most recent general election was the British Columbia general election held on May 9, 2017. The next election is scheduled to be held on May 11, 2021, if the legislative assembly is not to be dissolved earlier.
Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly are broadcast to cable viewers in the province by Hansard Broadcasting Services.
Contents
1 Recent Parliaments
2 Party standings in the 41st Parliament
2.1 Seating plan to the 41st Parliament during Liberal Party government
2.2 Seating plan to the 41st Parliament during New Democratic Party government
2.3 Standings changes
3 Officeholders
3.1 Speaker
3.2 Other chair occupants
3.3 Leaders
3.4 House leaders
4 See also
5 External links
6 References
Recent Parliaments
| Parliament | Start | End | Premier | Opposition Leader | ||||
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31st | 1975 | 1979 | Social Credit | Bill Bennett | New Democratic | Dave Barrett | ||
32nd | 1979 | 1982 | ||||||
33rd | 1983 | 1986 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Bob Skelly | |||||||
34th | 1987 | 1991 | Social Credit | Bill Vander Zalm | ||||
Social Credit | Rita Johnston | |||||||
35th | 1991 | 1996 | New Democratic | Mike Harcourt | Liberal | Gordon Wilson | ||
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36th | 1996 | 2001 | New Democratic | Glen Clark | Liberal | Gordon Campbell | ||
New Democratic | Dan Miller | |||||||
New Democratic | Ujjal Dosanjh | | | | ||||
37th | 2001 | 2005 | Liberal | Gordon Campbell | New Democratic | Joy MacPhail | ||
38th | 2005 | 2009 | New Democratic | Carole James | ||||
39th | 2009 | 2013 | New Democratic | Dawn Black | ||||
Liberal | Christy Clark | |||||||
New Democratic | Adrian Dix | |||||||
40th | 2013 | 2017 | ||||||
New Democratic | John Horgan | |||||||
41st | 2017 | present | ||||||
New Democratic | John Horgan | Liberal | Christy Clark | |||||
Liberal | Rich Coleman | |||||||
Liberal | Andrew Wilkinson | |||||||
Party standings in the 41st Parliament
| Member | Party | Electoral district | |
|---|---|---|---|
| | Darryl Plecas | Liberal | Abbotsford South |
| | Ind. | ||
| | Mike de Jong | Liberal | Abbotsford West |
| | Simon Gibson | Liberal | Abbotsford-Mission |
| | Linda Larson | Liberal | Boundary-Similkameen |
| | Anne Kang | NDP | Burnaby-Deer Lake |
| | Raj Chouhan | NDP | Burnaby-Edmonds |
| | Katrina Chen | NDP | Burnaby-Lougheed |
| | Janet Routledge | NDP | Burnaby North |
| | Donna Barnett | Liberal | Cariboo-Chilcotin |
| | Coralee Oakes | Liberal | Cariboo North |
| | John Martin | Liberal | Chilliwack |
| | Laurie Throness | Liberal | Chilliwack-Kent |
| | Doug Clovechok | Liberal | Columbia River-Revelstoke |
| | Joan Isaacs | Liberal | Coquitlam-Burke Mountain |
| | Selina Robinson | NDP | Coquitlam-Maillardville |
| | Ronna-Rae Leonard | NDP | Courtenay-Comox |
| | Sonia Furstenau | Green | Cowichan Valley |
| | Ravi Kahlon | NDP | Delta North |
| | Ian Paton | Liberal | Delta South |
| | Mitzi Dean | NDP | Esquimalt-Metchosin |
| | Jackie Tegart | Liberal | Fraser-Nicola |
| | Peter Milobar | Liberal | Kamloops-North Thompson |
| | Todd Stone | Liberal | Kamloops-South Thompson |
| | Norm Letnick | Liberal | Kelowna-Lake Country |
| | Steve Thomson | Liberal | Kelowna-Mission |
| | Christy Clark (to August 4, 2017) | Liberal | Kelowna West |
| | Ben Stewart (from February 14, 2018) | Liberal | |
| | Tom Shypitka | Liberal | Kootenay East |
| | Katrine Conroy | NDP | Kootenay West |
| | John Horgan | NDP | Langford-Juan de Fuca |
| | Mary Polak | Liberal | Langley |
| | Rich Coleman | Liberal | Langley East |
| | Bob D'Eith | NDP | Maple Ridge-Mission |
| | Lisa Beare | NDP | Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows |
| | Scott Fraser | NDP | Mid Island-Pacific Rim |
| | Leonard Krog | NDP | Nanaimo |
| | Doug Routley | NDP | Nanaimo-North Cowichan |
| | John Rustad | Liberal | Nechako Lakes |
| | Michelle Mungall | NDP | Nelson-Creston |
| | Judy Darcy | NDP | New Westminster |
| | Jennifer Rice | NDP | North Coast |
| | Claire Trevena | NDP | North Island |
| | Bowinn Ma | NDP | North Vancouver-Lonsdale |
| | Jane Thornthwaite | Liberal | North Vancouver-Seymour |
| | Andrew Weaver | Green | Oak Bay-Gordon Head |
| | Michelle Stilwell | Liberal | Parksville-Qualicum |
| | Dan Davies | Liberal | Peace River North |
| | Mike Bernier | Liberal | Peace River South |
| | Dan Ashton | Liberal | Penticton |
| | Mike Farnworth | NDP | Port Coquitlam |
| | Rick Glumac | NDP | Port Moody-Coquitlam |
| | Nicholas Simons | NDP | Powell River-Sunshine Coast |
| | Mike Morris | Liberal | Prince George-Mackenzie |
| | Shirley Bond | Liberal | Prince George-Valemount |
| | Teresa Wat | Liberal | Richmond North Centre |
| | Linda Reid | Liberal | Richmond South Centre |
| | Jas Johal | Liberal | Richmond-Queensborough |
| | John Yap | Liberal | Richmond-Steveston |
| | Adam Olsen | Green | Saanich North and the Islands |
| | Lana Popham | NDP | Saanich South |
| | Greg Kyllo | Liberal | Shuswap |
| | Ellis Ross | Liberal | Skeena |
| | Doug Donaldson | NDP | Stikine |
| | Marvin Hunt | Liberal | Surrey-Cloverdale |
| | Jagrup Brar | NDP | Surrey-Fleetwood |
| | Rachna Singh | NDP | Surrey-Green Timbers |
| | Garry Begg | NDP | Surrey-Guildford |
| | Harry Bains | NDP | Surrey-Newton |
| | Jinny Sims | NDP | Surrey-Panorama |
| | Stephanie Cadieux | Liberal | Surrey South |
| | Bruce Ralston | NDP | Surrey-Whalley |
| | Tracy Redies | Liberal | Surrey-White Rock |
| | George Heyman | NDP | Vancouver-Fairview |
| | Sam Sullivan | Liberal | Vancouver-False Creek |
| | George Chow | NDP | Vancouver-Fraserview |
| | Shane Simpson | NDP | Vancouver-Hastings |
| | Mable Elmore | NDP | Vancouver-Kensington |
| | Adrian Dix | NDP | Vancouver-Kingsway |
| | Michael Lee | Liberal | Vancouver-Langara |
| | Melanie Mark | NDP | Vancouver-Mount Pleasant |
| | David Eby | NDP | Vancouver-Point Grey |
| | Andrew Wilkinson | Liberal | Vancouver-Quilchena |
| | Spencer Chandra Herbert | NDP | Vancouver-West End |
| | Eric Foster | Liberal | Vernon-Monashee |
| | Carole James | NDP | Victoria-Beacon Hill |
| | Rob Fleming | NDP | Victoria-Swan Lake |
| | Ralph Sultan | Liberal | West Vancouver-Capilano |
| | Jordan Sturdy | Liberal | West Vancouver-Sea to Sky |
Seating plan to the 41st Parliament during Liberal Party government
Chouhan | Kahlon | Begg | Brar | D'Eith | ||||||||||||||||||
Rice | Eby | Mungall | Chen | Bains | Elmore | Kang | Popham | Trevena | Donaldson | Krog | Heyman | Routley | Simons | Beare | Sims | Dean | Routledge | Singh | Glumac | |||
Darcy | Simpson | Robinson | Farnworth | HORGAN | James | Ralston | Dix | Mark | Fleming | Conroy | Herbert | Chow | Ma | Leonard | Fraser | WEAVER | Furstenau | Olsen | ||||
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Cadieux | Stone | Polak | De Jong | CLARK | Coleman | Wilkinson | Reid | Bond | Bernier | Sullivan | Lee | Tegart | Yap | Redies | Sultan | Thornthwaite | Martin | |||||
Stilwell | Oakes | Letnick | Wat | Johal | Sturdy | Rustad | Ross | Morris | Barnett | Clovechok | Isaacs | Hunt | Gibson | Ashton | Davies | Paton | Throness | Shypitka | Plecas | |||
Kyllo | Milobar | Larson | Foster |
Seating plan to the 41st Parliament during New Democratic Party government
Reid | Wat | Larson | Foster | |||||||||||||||||||
Polak | Morris | Stilwell | Ashton | Oakes | Thomson | Sturdy | Ross | Isaacs | Milobar | Thornthwaite | Clovechok | Yap | Redies | Paton | Gibson | Sultan | Shypitka | |||||
Cadieux | Rustad | Bond | De Jong | WILKINSON | Coleman | Kyllo | Stone | Bernier | Letnick | Johal | Lee | Hunt | Barnett | Tegart | Martin | Throness | Davies | Sullivan | ||||
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Darcy | Simpson | Robinson | Farnworth | HORGAN | James | Eby | Dix | Ralston | Mark | Fleming | Conroy | Fraser | Herbert | Rice | Krog | Furstenau | WEAVER | Olsen | Glumac | |||
Heyman | Donaldson | Mungall | Bains | Beare | Chen | Popham | Trevena | Sims | Chow | Kang | Simons | D'Eith | Routley | Elmore | Ma | Dean | Routledge | Singh | ||||
Chouhan | Kahlon | Begg | Brar | Leonard |
Standings changes
| Number of members per party by date | 2017 | 2018 | ||||
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| May 9 | July 18 | August 4 | September 9 | February 14 | ||
Liberal | 43 | 42 | 41 | 42 | ||
New Democratic | 41 | |||||
Green | 3 | |||||
Independent | 0 | 1 | ||||
| | Total members | 87 | 86 | 87 | ||
| Vacant | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Government Majority | ||||||
| –1 | –3 | –2 | –3 | |||
| Government with Confidence-and-Supply Partners Majority | ||||||
| –1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Membership changes in the 41st Parliament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Name | District | Party | Reason | |
| | May 9, 2017 | See list of members | Election day of the 41st British Columbia general election | ||
| | July 18, 2017 | No change | Swearing in of the NDP government (with confidence and supply from the Green Party), following the defeat of the Liberal government in a confidence vote. | ||
| | August 4, 2017 | Christy Clark | Kelowna West | Liberal | Resigned her seat and as Liberal Party leader, following the defeat of her government and the swearing in of the New Democratic Party government. |
| | September 9, 2017 | Darryl Plecas | Abbotsford South | Independent | Expelled from the Liberal caucus the day after being elected Speaker. He and the rest of the caucus had previously agreed not to serve as Speaker for a New Democratic Party government. |
| | February 14, 2018 | Ben Stewart | Kelowna West | Liberal | Elected in by-election; Liberal hold. |
Officeholders
Speaker
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia: Hon. Dr. Darryl Plecas, Independent
Other chair occupants
- Deputy speaker; chair, committee of the whole: Raj Chouhan
- Assistant deputy speaker: Linda Reid
- Deputy chair, committee of the whole: Spencer Chandra Herbert
Leaders
Premier of British Columbia: Hon. John Horgan, BC NDP
Leader of the Opposition: Andrew Wilkinson, BC Liberal
Green Party Leader: Andrew Weaver
House leaders
- Government House Leader: Hon. Mike Farnworth
- Opposition House Leader: Mary Polak
- Green Party House Leader: Sonia Furstenau
See also
- Executive Council of British Columbia
- Legislative Council of British Columbia
- List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts 2001–09
- BC Legislature Raids
External links
- Official website
References
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