Leader of the Opposition (British Columbia)
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The leader of the Opposition (Template:Langx) is the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia who leads the political party recognized as the Official Opposition. This position generally goes to the leader of the largest party in the Legislative Assembly that is not in government.
History
Prior to the 1903 election, British Columbia politics operated as a non-partisan democracy. Members often declared themselves to be supporters of the government or of the opposition, but the labels were informal and the lines often shifted. The most prominent member of the Opposition was often called the "leader of the Opposition", but the position was not officially recognized until the introduction of formalized party politics.[1][2]
List of leaders of the Opposition
| Portrait | Name[1] Electoral district (Birth–Death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Term of office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Alexander MacDonald MLA for Rossland CityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1858–1939)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1903–1909 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal | |
| unknownTemplate:Efn | 1909–1910 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal | |
| File:James Hurst Hawthornthwaite.png | James Hurst HawthornthwaiteTemplate:Efn MLA for Nanaimo CityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1863–1926)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1910 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Socialist |
| File:Harlan Carey Brewster.jpg | Harlan Carey BrewsterTemplate:Efn MLA for AlberniScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1870–1918)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1911–1912 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| Parker WilliamsTemplate:Efn MLA for NewcastleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1872–1958)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1913–1915 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Socialist | |
| File:Harlan Carey Brewster.jpg | Harlan Carey BrewsterTemplate:Efn MLA for Victoria CityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1870–1918)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1916 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| File:William John Bowser (cropped).jpg | William John Bowser MLA for Vancouver CityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1867–1933)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1917–1923 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Conservative |
| File:Robert Henry Pooley.png | Robert Henry PooleyTemplate:Efn MLA for EsquimaltScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1878–1954)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1924–1928 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Conservative |
| File:Thomas Dufferin Pattullo (cropped).jpg | Duff Pattullo MLA for Prince RupertScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1873–1956)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1929–1933 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| Robert Connell MLA for Victoria CityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1871–1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1933–1937 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
| style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Social ReconstructiveTemplate:Efn | |||
| Frank Porter Patterson MLA for DewdneyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1876–1938)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1937–1938 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Conservative | |
| File:Royal Lethington Maitland.png | Royal Maitland MLA for Vancouver-Point GreyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1889–1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1938–1940 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Conservative |
| Harold Winch MLA for Vancouver EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1907–1993)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1941–1951 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
| Herbert AnscombTemplate:Efn MLA for Oak BayScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1892–1972)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1952 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Progressive Conservative | |
| Harold Winch MLA for Vancouver EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1907–1993)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1953 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
| Arnold Webster MLA for Vancouver EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1899–1979)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1953–1956 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
| Robert StrachanTemplate:Efn MLA for Cowichan-Newcastle (until 1966) MLA for Cowichan-Malahat (from 1966)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1913–1981)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1957–1969 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Co-operative Commonwealth | |
| style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |||
| unknownTemplate:Efn | 1969–1970 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |
| Dave Barrett MLA for CoquitlamScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1930–2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1970–1972 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |
| W. A. C. Bennett MLA for South OkanaganScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1900–1979)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1972–1973 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Social Credit | |
| Frank Richter Jr. MLA for Boundary-SimilkameenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1910–1977)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1973 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Social Credit | |
| File:Bill Bennett (cropped).jpg | Bill Bennett MLA for South OkanaganScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1932–2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1974–1975 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Social Credit |
| William KingTemplate:Efn MLA for Revelstoke-SlocanScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1930–2020)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1976 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |
| Dave Barrett MLA for Vancouver EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1930–2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1976–1984 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |
| Bob Skelly MLA for AlberniScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1943–2022)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1984–1987 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |
| File:Mike Harcourt.jpg | Mike Harcourt MLA for Vancouver CentreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1943)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1987–1991 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic |
| Gordon Wilson MLA for Powell River-Sunshine CoastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1949)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1991–1993 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal | |
| Fred Gingell MLA for Delta SouthScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1930–1999)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1993–1994 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal | |
| File:Gordon Campbell.jpg | Gordon Campbell MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena (until 1996) MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey (from 1996)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1948)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1994–2001 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| Joy MacPhailTemplate:Efn MLA for Vancouver-HastingsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2001–2005 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic | |
| File:Carole James 2011 (cropped).jpg | Carole James MLA for Victoria-Beacon HillScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2005–2011 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic |
| File:DawnBlack2011.PNG | Dawn Black MLA for New WestminsterScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1943)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2011 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic |
| File:Adrian Dix 2016.jpg | Adrian Dix MLA for Vancouver-KingswayScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1964)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2011–2014 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic |
| File:Anne Marie Sam and John Horgan (33923774170) (cropped).jpg | John Horgan MLA for Juan de FucaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (1959–2024)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2014–2017 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | New Democratic |
| File:Christy Clark by Kris Krug 01 (cropped).jpg | Christy Clark MLA for Kelowna WestScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2017 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| File:Rich Coleman 2016.jpg | Rich Coleman MLA for Langley EastScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1956)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2017–2018 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| File:Andrew Wilkinson 2015.jpg | Andrew Wilkinson MLA for Vancouver-QuilchenaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1958)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2018–2020 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| File:ShirleyBond.jpg | Shirley Bond MLA for Prince George-ValemountScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1956 or 1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2020–2022 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal |
| Kevin Falcon MLA for Vancouver-QuilchenaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1963)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2022–2024 | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Liberal | |
| style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | UnitedTemplate:Efn | |||
| File:John Rustad 2016.jpg | John Rustad MLA for Nechako LakesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (born 1961)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2025–present | style="width:1px; background:Template:Canadian party colour; " | | Conservative |
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Notes
References
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