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No leader as such of the Social Credit Party/Social Credit League emerged until the 1952 election. However, Eric Martin and Lyle Wicks were the most obvious figures of a collective leadership. At the 1952, party convention Wicks, W.A.C. Bennett and Rev. Hansell were nominated for the party leadership.
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 ...
The 34th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1987 to 1991. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in October 1986. [ 1 ] The Social Credit Party led by Bill Vander Zalm formed the government.
L. British Columbia Social Credit Party leadership elections; V. Vander Zalm ministry This page was last edited on 25 October 2024, at 18:27 (UTC). ...
Bennett joined in order to use the party as a political vehicle. He quickly jettisoned the original ideology, and reorganized the party into the conservative populist British Columbia Social Credit Party. Social Credit's first government in British Columbia was a very small minority, but they were elected to a majority a year later. After the ...
It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on September 19, 1991, and held on October 17, 1991. 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.
Brian Ray Douglas Smith (born July 7, 1934) is a Canadian politician and business executive. [1] He served for a decade on Oak Bay municipal council [2] and was mayor of Oak Bay from 1974 to 1979. [3]
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