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Premiers of British Columbia

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Published Online	May 30, 2011
Last Edited	November 23, 2022

Name	Party	Term
John Foster McCreight		1871–72
Amor de Cosmos		1872–74
George Anthony Walkem		1874–76
Andrew Charles Elliott		1876–78
George Anthony Walkem		1878–82
Robert Beaven		1882–83
William Smithe		1883–87
A.E.B. Davie	Conservative	1887–89
John Robson	Liberal	1889–92
Theodore Davie		189–-95
John Herbert Turner		1895–98
Charles Augustus Semlin	Conservative	1898–1900
Joseph Martin	Liberal	1900
James Dunsmuir		1900–02
Edward Gawler Prior	Conservative	1902–03
Richard McBride	Conservative	1903–15
William John Bowser	Conservative	1915–16
Harlan Carey Brewster	Liberal	1916–18
John Oliver	Liberal	1918–27
John Duncan Maclean	Liberal	1927–28
Simon Fraser Tolmie	Conservative	1928–33
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	Liberal	1933–41
John Hart	Coalition	1941–47
Byron Ingemar Johnson	Coalition	1947–52
W.A.C. Bennett	Social Credit	1952–72
David Barrett	NDP	1972–75
William R. Bennett	Social Credit	1975–86
William Vander Zalm	Social Credit	1986–91
Rita Johnston	Social Credit	1991
Michael Harcourt	NDP	1991–96
Glen David Clark	NDP	1996–99
Dan Miller	NDP	1999–2000
Ujjal Dosanjh	NDP	2000–01
Gordon Campbell	Liberal	2001–2011
Christy Clark	Liberal	2011–2017
John Horgan	NDP	2017–22
David Eby	NDP	2022–present

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