25th Parliament of British Columbia

The 25th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1957 to 1960. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in September 1956. The Social Credit Party led by W. A. C. Bennett formed the government. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) led by Robert Strachan formed the official opposition.

Thomas James Irwin served as speaker for the assembly until April 1957; he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons later that year. Lorne Shantz replaced Irwin as speaker in 1958.

Members of the 25th General Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1956:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	Stanley John Squire	Alberni	CCF
	William James Asselstine	Atlin	Social Credit	Gordon Dowding	Burnaby	CCF	Ernest Edward Winch
	William Ralph Talbot Chetwynd	Cariboo	Social Credit
	William Kenneth Kiernan	Chilliwack	Social Credit
	Richard Orr Newton	Columbia	Social Credit
	Daniel Robert John Campbell	Comox	Social Credit	Robert Martin Strachan	Cowichan-Newcastle	CCF	Leo Thomas Nimsick	Cranbrook	CCF
	Thomas Irwin	Delta	Social Credit
	Nehemiah George Massey
	Lyle Wicks	Dewdney	Social Credit
	Herbert Joseph Bruch	Esquimalt	Social Credit	Thomas Aubert Uphill	Fernie	Labour
	Ray Gillis Williston	Fort George	Social Credit	Lois Mabel Haggen	Grand Forks-Greenwood	CCF
	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	Kamloops	Social Credit	Randolph Harding	Kaslo-Slocan	CCF
	Donald Frederick Robinson	Lillooet	Social Credit	Anthony John Gargrave	Mackenzie	CCF
	Earle Cathers Westwood	Nanaimo and the Islands	Social Credit
	Wesley Drewett Black	Nelson-Creston	Social Credit	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	New Westminster	CCF
	Lorne Shantz	North Okanagan	Social Credit
	Harold Earl Roche	North Peace River	Social Credit
	John Melvin Bryan, Jr.	North Vancouver	Social Credit
	Newton Phillips Steacy			Philip Archibald Gibbs	Oak Bay	Liberal
	Cyril Morley Shelford	Omineca	Social Credit
	William Harvey Murray	Prince Rupert	Social Credit
	Arvid Waldemar Lundell	Revelstoke	Social Credit
	Robert Edward Sommers	Rossland-Trail	Social Credit
	John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle	Saanich	Social Credit
	James Allan Reid	Salmon Arm	Social Credit
	Francis Xavier Richter	Similkameen	Social Credit
	Hugh Addison Shirreff	Skeena	Social Credit
	William Andrew Cecil Bennett	South Okanagan	Social Credit
	Stanley Carnell	South Peace River	Social Credit
	Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin	Vancouver-Burrard	Social Credit
	Bert Price
	Alexander Small Matthew	Vancouver Centre	Social Credit
	Leslie Raymond Peterson
	Frederick Morton Sharp	Vancouver East	Social Credit	Arthur James Turner	CCF
	Thomas Audley Bate		Vancouver-Point Grey	Social Credit
	Robert William Bonner
	Buda Hosmer Brown
	William Neelands Chant	Victoria City	Social Credit	George Frederick Thompson Gregory	Liberal
	John Donald Smith		Social Credit
	Irvine Finlay Corbett		Yale	Social Credit

Notes:

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Social Credit	39	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	10
	Liberal	2	Labour	1
Total		52
Government Majority		26

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Burnaby	Cedric Cox	CCF	September 9, 1957	death of E.E. Winch January 11, 1957
Cariboo	William Collins Speare	Social Credit	September 9, 1957	death of W.R.T. Chetwynd April 3, 1957
Delta	Gordon Lionel Gibson	Social Credit	September 9, 1957	T.J. Irwin resigned to contest federal election April 26, 1957
Rossland-Trail	Donald Leslie Brothers	Social Credit	December 15, 1958	R.E. Sommers resigned November 7, 1958; convicted of bribery and conspiracy

Notes:

Other changes

• John Melvin Bryan, Jr. becomes an Independent on February 3, 1958. He joins the Liberals on February 25, 1959.
• Oak Bay (dec. Philip Archibald Gibbs March 1960)