‹ 2005 2013 › | ||||
British Columbia general election, 2009 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
85 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||||
May 12, 2009 | ||||
First party | Second party | Third party | ||
Leader | Gordon Campbell | Carole James | Jane Sterk | |
Party | BC Liberal | New Democrat | Green | |
Leader since | September 11, 1993 | November 23, 2003 | October 21, 2007 | |
Leader's seat | Vancouver-Point Grey | Victoria-Beacon Hill | Ran in Esquimalt-Royal Roads (Lost) | |
Last election | 46 | 33 | 0 | |
Seats won | 49 | 35 | 0 | |
Seat change | +3 | +2 | 0 | |
Popular vote | 46.02 | 42.06 | 8.10 | |
Swing | +0.03% | +0.62% | -0.91% | |
Previous Premier Premier-designate |
The 39th British Columbia general election was held on May 12, 2009 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The BC Liberal Party formed the government of the province prior to this general election under the leadership of Premier Gordon Campbell. The New Democratic Party under the leadership of Carole James is the Official Opposition.
The election was the first contested on a new electoral map completed in 2008, with the total number of constituencies increased from 79 in the previous legislature to 85. Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates which are the second Tuesday in May every four years.
A second referendum on electoral reform was held in conjunction with the election.
The election did not produce a significant change in the province's political landscape. The Liberals, who have been in power since the 2001 election, were returned to power, constituting the first time in 23 years a party has won three elections in a row. As a result of the seat redistribution, both the Liberals and the New Democrats gained seats, and both parties increased their popular vote by less than one per cent over 2005. Each party lost two incumbent MLAs: the NDP's Jenn McGinn and Charlie Wyse, and the Liberals' John Nuraney and Wally Oppal were defeated. All other seat changes in the election resulted from the new seats or from retiring incumbents.
Contents |
Political parties
British Columbia Liberal Party
Leader: Gordon Campbell The BC Liberal party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature after the 2005 provincial election. Having formed a majority government since 2001 the party is promoting its own track record as the government. Much of the party's platform was revealed in the 2009 Budget which included a 3-year fiscal plan including revenue expectations, tax measures, and spending priorities. The budget proposes cost savings from reduced budgets in half of the ministries, 76% less government advertising, public sector wage freezes, and less spending on government travel costs, contracted professional services, and discretionary spending. The budget plan proposes to increase spending by $4.8 billion over 3 years for healthcare, $300 million over 3 years for social services, and $800 million more annually for education, as well as some new funding for childcare, policing, victims services, and social housing. The BC Liberal platform, some of it already promised in the budget, advocates, among other points, hospital improvements in Surrey, Victoria, Vernon, Fort St. John and Kelowna; travel and accommodation assistance to families who must travel long distances to be with their children when they are receiving care; new measures to help remote communities get new access to fresh fruit and vegetables; provide citizens electronic access to their health records; establish voluntary 5-year-old kindergarten classes; establish a law school at Thompson Rivers University, a medical school at UBC Okanagan, and a Wood Design and Innovation Centre at UNBC; doubling the BC Training Tax Credit; exempt the first $20,000 of seniors' pension income from income tax; legislate a Residents Bill of Rights for seniors living in residential care facilities and a registry for residential care aides; install cameras to monitor school yards and high-risk public areas; outlaw dumping of raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and help build a new sewage treatment plan for Greater Victoria.[1] |
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
Leader: Carole James Under Carole James' leadership the NDP won seats to 33 in the 2005 election and two by-elections in 2008. Among other points, their platform involves repealing the carbon tax, instituting a cap and trade plan of greenhouse gas emissions, adopting California's tough vehicle tailpipe emission standards, expanding the capacity and efficiency of public hospitals, instituting health care wait time guarantees, a 1 year small business tax holiday, freezing post-secondary tuition fees, hire more Crown Prosecutors, restoring public oversight to BC Ferries, restricting raw log exports, increase the minimum wage to $10/hr indexed to inflation, placing a moratorium on new private run-of-the-river power projects, reinstating the Buy BC program, creating a new Rural Economic Development Fund, and promoting farm gate sales of agricultural products (including meat).[2] |
Green Party of British Columbia
Leader: Jane Sterk The Green Party is running a full slate of candidates, as it did in 2005 when they won over 9 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Their new leader is Jane Sterk, a former Esquimalt councillor. They are supporting of the BC-STV proposal in the referendum. The party released their platform in a book titled British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013. Amongst other points, they are advocating balanced budgets, reducing taxes on industry and business while increasing taxes on pollution, creating a Green Venture Capital Fund to invest in green collar jobs, directing 1% from the PST to municipal governments, allowing municipalities to issue municipal bonds, creating a provincial police force, reducing tuition fees by 20%, increasing funding to post-secondary institutions, refunding full tuition fees to graduates who work and live in the province for five years after receiving their degree, banning use of cosmetic pesticides, expanding the Medical Service Plan (to cover chiropractic, physiotherapy, eye exams, massage therapy, routine physical exams, and counselling for addictions), creating a Guaranteed Livable Income by unifying all current income support programs, supporting harm reduction practices, regulating cannabis, halting river-based hydro projects pending a review of the environmental assessment process, re-establishing BC Ferries as a Crown corporation, halting the Gateway Program, using usage based insurance for ICBC rates, and creating a BC Legacy Fund from oil and gas royalties for municipal and rural community projects.[3] |
Minor parties
British Columbia Conservative Party
Leader: Wilf Hanni The Conservatives are nominating 24 candidates, up from seven candidates in 2005 when they achieved 0.55% of the vote. In spite of his low profile their leader Wilf Hanni will be participating in a leaders' "Forum" in early May.[4] Their platform advocates, among other points, competitive and performance-based healthcare delivery within a publicly-funded system, opposing the Recognition and Reconciliation Bill with Aboriginal peoples, returning treaty responsibility to the federal government, repealing the carbon tax and opposing a carbon trading system, expand resource development (including offshore drilling), reduce the PST by 1%, harmonize the PST with the Federal GST, eliminate the Property Transfer Tax, roll back the salaries increases of MLAs and senior government employees, permitting parents more choices in which schools to send their children to and funding the schools accordingly, repealing the Corren Agreement, reduced tuition fees for students who meet certain standards in post-secondary education, light rail transit in southern Vancouver Island and in Chilliwack, eliminate tolls on bridges (including the proposed toll on the Port Mann Bridge), work requirements on public projects for criminals serving time in jail, a new program to address small crime separately from more serious crimes, creation of a program called Communities That Care to strengthen family dynamics and reduce negative youth behaviors, publish a Criminal Offenders Registry, creation of a substantive appeal process beyond the BC Human Rights Tribunal, enact a 'Right to a Free Vote' legislation for MLAs to freely vote in the Legislature, hold votes for federal senators, and implement a preferential voting system for provincial elections.[5] |
British Columbia Libertarian Party
Leader: None The Libertarian Party is running 6 candidates in this election, as they did in 2005. The party supports reducing government involvement in delivery of health care, education, and car insurance; reducing taxes as services are privatized; and reducing government regulation on guns and drugs.[6] |
British Columbia Marijuana Party
Leader: Marc Emery The Marijuana Party is running one candidate in this election and endorsing the Green Party. In 2005 they ran 44 candidates, while in 2001 they ran a full slate.[7] |
British Columbia Refederation Party
Leader: Mike Summers The Refederation Party has nominated 22 candidates, up from four candidates in 2005 under its previous name the "Western Refederation Party of BC". The party mainly advocates for direct democracy based on the Swiss model, the creation of a provincial constitution, and re-negotiating with the federal government the terms of confederation. According to their website their platform also includes the creation of a provincial police force, homogeneous schools and classes of students with similar abilities, reinstating alternative medical options (such as physiotherapy, dental, and chiropractic) into the Medical Services Plan and placing the Medical Services Plan under the jurisdiction of ICBC, making WorkSafe an enforcement agency only by moving its insurance component to ICBC, a moratorium on run-of-river hydro projects and fish farms, holding a referendums on TILMA and the sale of Crown Corporations, as well as a judicial review of the sale of BC Rail.[8] |
Communist Party of British Columbia
Leader: George Gidora The Communist Party of BC is the provincial branch of the national Communist Party. It will run three candidates in the election, as they did in 2005. The CPBC is campaigning against BC-STV in favour of Mixed Member Proportional representation. They advocate for progressive tax based on ability to pay, raising the minimum wage to $16/hour indexed to the cost of living, ending the $6/hour training wage, holding a public inquiry into the sale of BC Rail, banning raw log exports, requiring by legislation the processing of timber locally for export, banning evictions for the purpose of renovation, scrapping the Gateway Program, holding elections for the TransLink board with a $1 single zone fare for the Lower Mainland, removing guns and tasers from transit police, eliminating tuition fees, expanding the apprenticeship program, lowering the voting age to 16, withdrawing from TILMA, and reintegrating BC Transmission Corporation back into BC Hydro.[9] |
Nation Alliance Party
Leader: Wei Ping Chen The Nation Alliance Party is a new party and is nominating 2 candidates in this election, both in Richmond ridings. The party seeks to promote the rights of ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. Among other points, they advocate promoting participation in the public affairs, promoting non-violence, and opposing racialism.[10] |
People's Front
Leader: Charles Boylan The People's Front is the provincial wing of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada which generally advocates, among other points, increased spending on health, education and other social, moratorium on the debt, hereditary rights of the Aboriginal peoples, recognition of the equality of all languages and cultures, recall elections, rights for individual to initiate legislation.[11] They nominated 4 candidates in this election, down from 5 in 2005 and 11 in 2001. |
Reform Party of British Columbia
Leader: David Charles Hawkins BC Reform has nominated four candidates. They had only one candidate in the 2005 election but nine in 2001 and a full slate of 75 in the 1996 election. According to their website, their platform includes, amongst other points, replacing the provincial income tax with a sales tax and a business tax on gross receipts, use of an employee payroll credit, repudiation of any carbon taxes and carbon credit trading, re-establishing public equity in BC Investment Management Corporation, re-establishment a Grand jury system, restrictions on judicial reviews of legislative actions, and elections for local provincial court judges.[12] |
Sex Party
Leader: John Ince Billing itself as "the world's first sex-positive party," the Sex Party has nominated three candidates in Vancouver riding, as it did in 2005. According to their website, their platform includes, amongst other points, requiring sexual health and hygiene education in schools, requiring school districts to establish professional support programs to address discrimination of sexual minorities, providing provincial funding for institutes studying and teaching human sexuality or researching sexuality policy issues, reserve designate areas for nudists on all public parks and beaches larger than one hectare, establish a Sex Worker Empowerment Program as an agency providing counseling, education, and advocacy to sex workers, requiring municipalities to treat sex toy businesses as other retail businesses, repeal sex negative regulations, requiring all long term care institutions to articulate a sexuality policy that is non-judgmental about residents' sexuality, creating a Sex-Positive Press Council to expose overt and subtle censorship in BC media, changing Victoria Day to Eros Day to celebrate and encourage sex-positive expression, and proclaiming Valentine's Day a statutory holiday.[13] |
Western Canada Concept
Leader: Doug Christie The Western Canada Concept has one candidate running in this election, down from two candidates in the 2005 election. The party strongly advocates independence for western Canada, and amongst other points advocates for pro-life legislation, strong private property rights, balanced budgets, promotion of cultural assimilation rather than multiculturalism, and compulsory public service with a volunteer armed forces.[14] |
Work Less Party of British Columbia
Leader: Conrad Schmidt The WLP is an anti-materialist political movement that hopes to achieve socialist and green ends through, among other things, the promotion of a four-day, 32-hour work-week.[15] The party has 2 candidates down from 11 in 2005. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of voluntary simplicity. |
Your Political Party
Leader: James Filippelli The party nominated 1 candidate in 2005 and are nominating 2 in 2009. Among other points, they advocate published reports explaining where every tax dollar is spent, free votes in the legislature, making all campaign promises legally binding, requiring MLAs hold public townhall-style meetings at least once every 4 months, labeling products sold in BC indicating environmental standards, adding generating capacity to existing dams, opening run-of-river dam project areas to recreational use, providing periodic written statements detailing the cost of each citizen's use of the health care system, provide forgivable loans to post-secondary students who continue to live and work in BC after graduation, permit more private post-secondary institutions, requiring all people serving time in jail to work to pay for the cost of their incarceration, legalization of marijuana, eliminate the property transfer tax, disallow restrictions on secondary suites and minimum home sizes, harvesting all Pine Beetle affected timber immediately, limiting the total allowable yearly fishing catch (rather than regulating length of the fishing season), require weekly educational programs for anyone receiving welfare payments, provide before and after school childcare, permitting private insurance companies to compete with ICBC.[16] |
Timeline of the campaign
April 10, 2008 passage of the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 moving BC from 79 to 85 constituencies.
October 29, 2008 by-elections in Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview, both won by the New Democrats.
March 20, 2009 Green Party releases platform.
April 14, 2009 the campaign will officially begin when the writ is issued.
April 24, 2009 1pm close of nominations for the election.
May 12, 2009 Election day.
Debates
There was one TV debate featuring the leaders of the three major parties: Gordon Campbell, Carole James, and Jane Sterk on all three major BC networks on Sunday May 3 at 5:00 p.m.
CKNW had a debate of the three leaders on April 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
CBC Radio One had a debate of the three leaders on April 21 at 7:30 a.m.
Opinion polls
Polling firm | Dates | Link | Liberal | NDP | Green | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ipsos Reid | May 9, 2009 | [1] | 47% | 39% | 10% | 4% |
Angus Reid Strategies | May 7, 2009 | [2] | 44% | 42% | 10% | 4% |
Mustel Group | May 7, 2009 | [3] | 47% | 38% | 12% | 3% |
Environics | May 2, 2009 | [4] | 47% | 36% | 13% | 5% |
Angus Reid Strategies | April 28, 2009 | [5] | 42% | 39% | 13% | 6% |
Mustel Group | April 7, 2009 | [6] | 52% | 35% | 13% | - |
Angus Reid Strategies | March 25, 2009 | [7] | 43% | 37% | 13% | 7% |
Ipsos Reid | March 24, 2009 | [8] | 46% | 35% | 15% | 4% |
Mustel Group | February 10, 2009 | [9] | 52% | 36% | 12% | 1% |
Mustel Group | January 15, 2009 | [10] | 47% | 33% | 16% | 4% |
Election 2005 | May 17, 2005 | - | 45.8% | 41.5% | 9.2% | 2.9% |
Results
Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | Dissolution | Elected | % Change | # | % Change | |||||
Liberal | Gordon Campbell | 85 | 46 | 42 | 49 | +6.52% | 751,661 | 45.82 | +0.02 | |
New Democrats | Carole James | 85 | 33 | 34 | 35 | +6.06% | 691,564 | 42.15 | +0.63 | |
Green | Jane Sterk | 85 | - | - | - | 134,616 | 8.21 | -0.90 | ||
Conservative | Wilf Hanni | 24 | - | - | - | 34,451 | 2.10 | +1.55 | ||
Independent / Non-affiliated | 16 | - | - | 1 | 17,253 | 1.05 | +0.05 | |||
Refederation | Mike Summers | 22 | - | - | - | 3,748 | 0.23 | +0.191 | ||
Libertarian | (vacant) | 6 | - | - | - | 1,486 | ||||
BC Reform | David Charles Hawkins | 4 | - | - | - | 1,106 | ||||
Nation Alliance | Wei Ping Chen | 2 | * | - | - | 774 | ||||
Sex | John Ince | 3 | - | - | - | 684 | ||||
Communist | George Gidora | 3 | - | - | - | 416 | ||||
People's Front | Charles Boylan | 4 | - | - | - | 382 | ||||
Marijuana | Marc Emery | 1 | - | - | - | 340 | ||||
Your Political Party | James Filippelli | 2 | - | - | - | 297 | ||||
Work Less | Conrad Schmidt | 2 | - | - | - | 291 | ||||
Western Canada Concept | Doug Christie | 1 | - | - | - | 228 | ||||
Vacant | 3 | |||||||||
Total | 346 | 79 | 79 | 85 | 1,640,542 | 100% | -12.1% |
- British Columbia Refederation Party results are compared to the Western Refederation Party.
Candidates
- Names in bold indicate party leaders and cabinet ministers.
- The victorious Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for each district has a coloured bar to the left of his or her name.
- Incumbents who did not seek re-election are denoted by †
- On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term.
Northern British Columbia
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Nechako Lakes | John Rustad | Byron Goerz | Gerard Riley | Mike Summers (Refed.) | John Rustad | |||||
North Coast | Herb Pond | Gary Coons | Lisa Girbav | Gary Coons | ||||||
Peace River North | Pat Pimm | Jackie Allen | Liz Logan | Arthur A. Hadland (Ind.) Sue Arntson (Refed.) |
(vacant)a | |||||
Peace River South | Blair Lekstrom | Pat Shaw | Grant Fraser | Donna Young (Ind.) | Blair Lekstrom | |||||
Prince George-Mackenzie | Pat Bell | Tobias Lawrence | Kevin Creamore | Pat Bell | ||||||
Prince George-Valemount | Shirley Bond | Julie Carew | Andrej De Wolfe | Don Roberts (Refed.) Gordon Dickie (Cons.) |
Shirley Bond | |||||
Skeena | Donny Van Dyk | Robin Austin | Anita Norman | Michael Brousseau (Cons.) | Robin Austin | |||||
Stikine | Scott Groves | Doug Donaldson | Roger Benham | Dennis MacKay† |
- ^a - Previously held by BC Liberal Richard Neufeld, who resigned his seat on January 19, 2009 following his appointment to the Senate on December 22, 2008.
Kootenays
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Columbia River-Revelstoke | Mark McKee | Norm Macdonald | Sarah Svensson | Norm Macdonald | ||||||
Kootenay East | Bill Bennett | Troy Sebastian | Jen Tsuida | Wilf Hanni (Cons.) | Bill Bennett | |||||
Kootenay West | Brenda Binnie | Katrine Conroy | Andy Morel | Zachary Crispin (Comm.) | Katrine Conroy | |||||
Nelson-Creston | Josh Smienk | Michelle Mungall | Sean Kubara | David Duncan (Cons.) | Corky Evans† |
Okanagan, Shuswap and Boundary
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Boundary-Similkameen | John Slater | Lakhvinder Jhaj | Robert Grieve | Joe Cardoso (Cons.) | new district | |||||
Kelowna-Lake Country | Norm Letnick | Matthew Reed | Ryan Fugger | Mary-Ann Graham (Cons.) Alan Clarke (Ind.) |
Al Horning† | |||||
Kelowna-Mission | Steve Thomson | Tisha Kalmanovich | Crystal Wariach | Mark Thompson (Cons.) Daniel Thorburn (Refed.) Silverado Socrates (Ind.) |
Sindi Hawkins† | |||||
Penticton | Bill Barisoff | Cameron Phillips | Julius Bloomfield | Chris Delaney (Cons.) Wendy Dion (Refed.) |
Bill Barisoff | |||||
Shuswap | George Abbott | Steve Gunner | Michel Saab | Beryl Ludwig (Cons.) Chris Emery (BCMP) |
George Abbott | |||||
Vernon-Monashee | Eric Foster | Mark Olsen | Huguette Allen | Dean Skoreyko (Cons.) R.J. Busch (Refed.) Gordon Campbell (Not Affil.) |
Tom Christensen† | |||||
Westside-Kelowna | Ben Stewart | Tish Lakes | Robin McKim | Peter Neville (Cons.) | Rick Thorpe† |
Thompson and Cariboo
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Cariboo-Chilcotin | Donna Barnett | Charlie Wyse | Eli Taylor | Charlie Wyse | ||||||
Cariboo North | Bruce Ernst 6,501 |
Bob Simpson 7,004 |
Doug Gook 643 |
Bob Simpson | ||||||
Fraser-Nicola | Ella Brown | Harry Lali | Desiree Maher-Schley | Dian Brooks (Refed.) | Harry Lali | |||||
Kamloops-North Thompson | Terry Lake | Doug Brown | April Snowe | Wayne Russell (Refed.) Keston C. Broughton (Work Less) |
Kevin Kruegerb | |||||
Kamloops-South Thompson | Kevin Krueger | Tom Friedman | Bev Markle | Maria Dobi (Cons.) | Claude Richmond† |
- ^b - Krueger will seek re-election in the adjacent redrawn riding of Kamloops-South Thompson
Fraser Valley
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Abbotsford-Mission | Randy Hawes | Lynn Perrin | Bill Walsh | Randy Hawes | ||||||
Abbotsford South | John van Dongen | Bonnie Rai | Daniel Bryce | Gurcharan Dhaliwal (Cons.) Tim Felger (Ind.) |
John van Dongen | |||||
Abbotsford West | Mike de Jong | Taranjit Purewal | Karen Durant | Dalbir Benipal (Cons.) | Mike de Jong | |||||
Chilliwack | John Les | Mason Goulden | Fraea Bolding | Benjamin Besler (Cons.) | John Les | |||||
Chilliwack-Hope | Barry Penner | Gwen O'Mahoney | Guy Durnin | Hans Mulder (Cons.) Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell (P.F.) |
Barry Penner | |||||
Fort Langley-Aldergrove | Rich Coleman | Gail Chaddock-Costello | Travis Erbacher | Jordan Braun (Refed.) | Rich Coleman | |||||
Langley | Mary Polak | Kathleen Stephany | Ron Abgrall | Mary Polak | ||||||
Maple Ridge-Mission | Marc Dalton | Mike Bocking | Michael Gildersleeve | Ian Vaughan (Reform) | new district | |||||
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows | Ken Stewart | Michael Sather | Rob Hornsey | Jay Ariken (Refed.) Chum Richardson (Ind.) |
Michael Sather |
Surrey
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Surrey-Cloverdale | Kevin Falcon | Deborah Payment | Kevin Purton | Kevin Falcon | ||||||
Surrey-Fleetwood | Jagmohan Singh | Jagrup Brar | Christin Geall | Chamkaur Sandhu (Con.) | new district | |||||
Surrey-Green Timbers | Rani Mangat | Sue Hammell | Dan Kashagama | Sue Hammell | ||||||
Surrey-Newton | Ajay Caleb | Harry Bains | Trevor Loke | George Gidora (Comm.) | Harry Bains | |||||
Surrey-Panorama | Stephanie Cadieux | Debbie Lawrance | Murray Weisenburger | Jagrup Brarc | ||||||
Surrey-Tynehead | Dave Hayer | Pat Zanon | Gerald Singh | Dave Hayer | ||||||
Surrey-Whalley | Radhia Benalia | Bruce Ralston | Bernadette Kennan | Bruce Ralston | ||||||
Surrey-White Rock | Gordon Hogg | Drina Allen | Don Pitcairn | David Charles Hawkins (Reform) | Gordon Hogg |
- ^c - Brar will seek re-election in new riding of Surrey-Fleetwood
Richmond and Delta
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Delta North | Jeannie Kanakos | Guy Gentner | Matthew Laine | Marc McPherson (Cons.) | Guy Gentner | |||||
Delta South | Wally Oppal | Dileep Athaide | Duane Laird | Vicki Huntington (Ind.) John Shavluk (Ind.) |
Val Roddick† | |||||
Richmond Centre | Rob Howard | Kam Brar | Michael Wolfe | Kang Chen (NAP) | Olga Ilich† | |||||
Richmond East | Linda Reid | Shawkat Hasan | Stephen Rees | Wei Ping Chen (NAP) | Linda Reid | |||||
Richmond-Steveston | John Yap | Sue Wallis | Jeff Hill | Barry Chilton (Cons.) | John Yap |
Vancouver's eastern suburbs
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Burnaby-Deer Lake | John Nuraney | Kathy Corrigan | Bruce Friesen | John Nuraney | ||||||
Burnaby-Edmonds | Lee Rankin | Raj Chouhan | Carrie McLaren | Dan Cancade (Lbt.) | Raj Chouhan | |||||
Burnaby-Lougheed | Harry Bloy | Jaynie Clark | Helen Chang | Harry Bloy | ||||||
Burnaby North | Richard T. Lee | Mondee Redman | Doug Perry | Richard T. Lee | ||||||
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain | Douglas Horne | Heather McRitchie | Jared Evans | Paul Geddes (Lbt.) | new district | |||||
Coquitlam-Maillardville | Dennis Marsden | Diane Thorne | Stephen Reid | Doug Stead (Ind.) | Diane Thorne | |||||
New Westminster | Carole Millar | Dawn Black | Matthew Laird | Chuck Puchmayr† | ||||||
Port Coquitlam | Bernie Hiller | Mike Farnworth | Cole Bertsch | Brent Williams (YPP) Lewis Dahlby (Lbt.) |
Mike Farnworth | |||||
Port Moody-Coquitlam | Iain Black | Shannon Watkins | Rebecca Helps | Donna Vandekerkhove (Refed.) James Filippelli (YPP) |
Iain Black |
Vancouver
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Vancouver-Fairview | Margaret MacDiarmid | Jenn McGinn | Vanessa Violini | Matthew Barens (Reform) Graham Clark (Ind.) Alex Frei (Refed.) |
Jenn McGinn | |||||
Vancouver-False Creek |
Mary McNeil | Jordan Parente | Damian Kettlewell | Otto Grecz (Refed.) David Hutchinson (Cons.) Michael Halliday (Ind.) |
new district | |||||
Vancouver-Fraserview | Kash Heed | Gabriel Yiu | Jodie Emery | Andrew Stevano (Refed.) | Wally Oppald | |||||
Vancouver-Hastings | Haida Lane | Shane Simpson | Ryan Conroy | Dietrich Pajonk (Sex) Chris Telford (Work Less) Donna Petersen (P.F.) |
Shane Simpson | |||||
Vancouver-Kensington | Syrus Lee | Mable Elmore | Doug Warkentin | David Chudnovsky† | ||||||
Vancouver-Kingsway | Bill Yuen | Adrian Dix | Rev Warkentin | Matt Kadioglu (Lbt.) Charles Boylan (P.F.) |
Adrian Dix | |||||
Vancouver-Langara | Moira Stilwell | Helesia Luke | Jean-Michel Toriel | (vacant)f | ||||||
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant | Sherry Wiebe | Jenny Kwan | John Boychuk | Peter Marcus (Comm.) | Jenny Kwan | |||||
Vancouver-Point Grey | Gordon Campbell | Mel Lehan | Stephen Kronstein | John Ince (Sex) | Gordon Campbell | |||||
Vancouver-Quilchena | Colin Hansen | James Young | Laura-Leah Shaw | Colin Hansen | ||||||
Vancouver-West End | Laura McDiarmid | Spencer Herbert | Drina Read | Scarlett Lake (Sex) John Clarke (Lbt.) Menard Caissy (Not Affil.) |
Spencer Herbert |
- ^d - Wally Oppal will seek re-election in riding of Delta South
- ^f - Previously held by BC Liberal Carole Taylor, who resigned on December 22, 2008
North Shore and Sunshine Coast
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
North Vancouver-Lonsdale | Naomi Yamamoto | Janice Harris | Michelle Corcos | Ian McLeod (Cons.)
Ron Gamble (Reform) |
Katherine Whittred† | |||||
North Vancouver-Seymour | Jane Thornthwaite | Maureen Norton | Daniel Quinn | Gary Hee (Cons.) | Daniel Jarvis† | |||||
Powell River-Sunshine Coast | Dawn Miller | Nicholas Simons | Jeff Chilton | Allen McIntyre (Refed.) | Nicholas Simons | |||||
West Vancouver-Capilano | Ralph Sultan | Terry Platt | Ryan Windsor | David O. Marley (Ind.) Eddie Petrossian (Cons.) Tunya Audain (Lbt.) |
Ralph Sultan | |||||
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky | Joan McIntyre | Juliana Buitenhuis | Jim Stephenson | Joan McIntyre |
Vancouver Island
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Alberni-Pacific Rim | Dianne St. Jacques 5,605 |
Scott Fraser 10,488 |
Paul Musgrave 1,324 |
Dallas Hills (Refed.) 250 |
Scott Fraser | |||||
Comox Valley | Don McRae | Leslie McNabb | Hazel Lennox | Paula Berard (Refed.) Barbara Biley (P.F.) |
(vacant)g | |||||
Cowichan Valley | Cathy Basskin | Bill Routley | Simon Lindley | Jason Murray (Cons.) Michial Moore (Refed.) |
new district | |||||
Nanaimo | Jeet Manhas | Leonard Krog | Dirk Becker | Linden Shaw (Refed.) | Leonard Krog | |||||
Nanaimo-North Cowichan | Rob Hutchins | Doug Routley | Ian Gartshore | Ron Fuson (Refed.) | Doug Routley | |||||
North Island | Marion Wright | Claire Trevena | Philip Stone | William Mewhort (Ind.) | Claire Trevena | |||||
Parksville-Qualicum | Ron Cantelon | Leanne Salter | Wayne Osborne | Bruce Ryder (Refed.) | Ron Cantelon |
- ^g - Previously held by BC Liberal Stan Hagen, who died in office on January 20, 2009.
Greater Victoria
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BC Liberal | NDP | Green | Other | |||||||
Esquimalt-Royal Roads | Carl Ratsoy | Maurine Karagianis | Jane Sterk | Maurine Karagianis | ||||||
Juan de Fuca | Jody Twa | John Horgan | James Powell | John Horgan | ||||||
Oak Bay-Gordon Head | Ida Chong | Jessica Van der Veen | Steven Johns | Ida Chong | ||||||
Saanich North and the Islands | Murray Coell | Gary Holman | Tom Bradfield | Murray Coell | ||||||
Saanich South | Robin Adair | Lana Popham | Brian Gordon | Douglas Christie (West Can.) | David Cubberley† | |||||
Victoria-Beacon Hill | Dallas Henault | Carole James | Adam Saab | Saul Andersen (Ind.) | Carole James | |||||
Victoria-Swan Lake | Jesse McClinton | Rob Fleming | David Wright | Bob Savage (Refed.) | Rob Fleming |
References
- ^ British Columbia Liberal Party platform
- ^ BC NDP election plaform
- ^ British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013: A Better Plan for British Columbia
- ^ Campbell's Challenge from the Right: The BC Conservative Party, Bill Tieleman, The Tyee, April 7, 2009
- ^ British Columbia Conservative Party platform
- ^ BC Libertarian Party statement
- ^ Pablo, Carlito (2009). B.C. Marijuana Party endorses Greens for provincial election The Georgia Straight. Accessed May 2, 2009.
- ^ BC Refederation Party policies
- ^ Platform statement from the Communist Party of BC.
- ^ Nation Alliance Party platform
- ^ Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada program
- ^ Reform Party of British Columbia platform
- ^ Sex Party provincial platform
- ^ Western Canada Concept Party of BC principles
- ^ Work Less Party
- ^ Your Political Party of British Columbia's platform
External links
- Elections BC
- BC Election 2009 by Sacha Peter with comprehensive information on the election
- Election Prediction Project - BC 2009
- UBC ESM Election Prediction Voter Transition Matrix
- TrendLines Research Weekly chart tracking of the Federal & BC seat projection models
- Legislative Assembly Library Election Weblinks
Party platforms
In order of release
- Conservative Party Platform (A Clear Vision for British Columbia)
- Green Party Platform 2009 (A Better Plan for BC)
- New Democratic Party Platform 2009 (Take Back Your BC)
- Liberal Party Platform 2009 (Keep BC Strong)
|
|