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The British Columbia Social Credit Party was a conservative political party in British Columbia, Canada.It was the governing party of British Columbia for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election.
Alberta Premier Ernest Manning hand-picked Ernest George Hansell to lead the British Columbia party into the election despite the fact that Hansell was an Alberta politician. W.A.C. Bennett was chosen party leader by Social Credit MLAs following the provincial election. In 1973, the party elected W.A.C. Bennett's son, Bill Bennett, on the first ...
David Barrett led the social democratic New Democratic Party to victory, winning a majority government. The Social Credit Party, led by Premier W. A. C. Bennett, were defeated after governing British Columbia since the 1952 election. Social Credit's share of the popular vote fell by over 15 percentage points, and the party lost 28 of the seats ...
The incumbent Social Credit Party of British Columbia, which had been beset by scandals during Bill Vander Zalm's only term as premier, was defeated by the New Democratic Party of Mike Harcourt. Liberal Party leader Gordon Wilson surprised observers by leading his party to winning one-third of the votes cast, and forming the official opposition ...
The conservative Social Credit Party of British Columbia was re-elected with a majority in the legislature to a seventh term in government. It won over 46% of the popular vote. It won over 46% of the popular vote.
The strongest candidate of the two, Grant Mitton, a former radio talk show host who received 17% of the vote in his riding, later left the party to form the British Columbia Party. The Social Credit party only ran two candidates in 2005, none in 2009, and one in 2013. The party was de-registered shortly afterward.
The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of the Alberta Social Credit Party, and the Social Credit Party of Canada was strongest in Alberta during this period. In 1932, Baptist evangelist William Aberhart used his radio program to preach the values of social credit throughout the province. [ 4 ]
Vander Zalm joined the BC Social Credit Party (Socred) in 1974, and was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 1975 election for the riding of Surrey. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The Socreds won back power after a three-year hiatus, and Vander Zalm served in the cabinet of Premier Bill Bennett as minister of human resources from ...