2005 British Columbia general election

British Columbia general election, 2005
79 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia ; 40 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	58.19% 2.75 pp
	Popular vote map by riding. Traditional areas of NDP support returned to the party fold after the preceding wipeout. Colourblind-friendly version
Premier before election; Gordon Campbell; Liberal	Premier-designate ; Gordon Campbell; Liberal

The 38th British Columbia general election was held on May 17, 2005, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals) formed the government of the province prior to this general election under the leadership of Premier Gordon Campbell. The main opposition was the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), whose electoral representation has been reduced to two MLAs in the previous provincial election in 2001.

The BC Liberals retained power, with a reduced majority of 46 out of 79 seats, down from the record 77 out of 79 in 2001. Voter turnout was 58.2 per cent.

Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates: the second Tuesday in May every four years. This was the first provincial election for which elector data in the provincial elector list was synchronised with the National Register of Electors.^[2]

Electoral reform referendum[edit]

The BC electoral reform referendum was held in conjunction with this election. This referendum asked voters whether or not they support the proposed electoral reforms of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, which included switching to a single transferable vote (STV) system. Had it been approved by 60% of voters in 60% of ridings), the new electoral system would have been implemented for the general election in 2009. Although the proposed reform attracted a clear majority (58% of the popular vote in favour, with 77 out of 79 ridings showing majority support), the level of support was just short of that required for mandatory implementation. A new vote on a revamped version of STV was held in conjunction with the 2009 British Columbia general election.

Results by party[edit]

Source

↓
46	33
Liberal	New Democratic

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	2001	Dissolution	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Gordon Campbell	79	77	72	46	-40.30%	807,118	45.80%	-11.82%
	New Democratic	Carole James	79	2	3	33	+1,550%	731,719	41.52%	+19.96%
	Green	Adriane Carr	79	-	-	-	-	161,842	9.18%	-3.22%
	Democratic Reform	Tom Morino	38	*	1	-	*	14,022	0.80%	*
	Marijuana	Marc Emery	44	-	-	-	-	11,519	0.65%	-2.57%
	Conservative	Barry Chilton	7	-	-	-	-	9,623	0.55%	+0.4%
	Work Less	Conrad Schmidt	11	*	-	-	*	1,642	0.09%	*
	Libertarian	(vacant)	6	*	-	-	*	1,053	0.06%	*
	Platinum	Jeff Evans	11	*	-	-	*	779	0.04%	*
	Refederation	(vacant)	4	*	-	-	*	675	0.04%	*
	Social Credit	(vacant)	2	-	-	-	-	502	0.03%	-0.09%
	Your Political Party	James Filippelli	1	*	-	-	*	442	0.03%	*
	Western Canada Concept	Douglas Christie	2	*	-	-	*	387	0.02%	*
	People's Front	Charles Boylan	5	-	-	-	-	383	0.02%	-0.03%
	Youth Coalition	(vacant)	2	*	-	-	*	369	0.02%	*
	Moderates	(vacant)	2	*	-	-	*	367	0.02%	*
	Reform	(vacant)	1	-	-	-	-	365	0.02%	-0.2%
	British Columbia Party	Grant Mitton	2	*	-	-	*	362	0.02%	*
	Sex	John Ince	3	*	-	-	*	305	0.02%	*
	Bloc	Paddy Roberts	3	*	-	-	*	282	0.02%	*
	Freedom	K.M. Keillor	2	-	-	-	-	282	0.02%	-
	Communist	George Gidora	3	-	-	-	-	244	0.01%	-0.01%
	Unity	Daniel Stelmacker	1	-	-	-	-	224	0.01%	-3.22%
	Emerged Democracy	Tony Luck	1	*	-	-	*	151	0.01%	*
	Patriot	Andrew Hokhold	2	-	-	-	-	90	0.01%	-
	Independent / Non-affiliated		28	-	1	-	-	17,599	1.00%	+0.03%
Vacant					2
Total			418	79	79	79		1,762,343	100%	+5.43%

* denotes that the party did not contest the election in question

Results by region[edit]

Party name			Van.	Van. East Sub.	North Shore/ Sun. C.	Rich./ Delta/ Surrey	Van. Island	Fraser Valley	Interior	North	Total
	BC Liberal	Seats:	5	4	4	7	4	7	9	6	46
	BC Liberal	Popular Vote:	44.3%	44.9%	49.6%	48.2%	40.7%	53.2%	44.9%	48.8%	45.8%
	New Democrats	Seats:	5	4	1	5	9	1	6	2	33
	New Democrats	Popular Vote:	43.7%	45.3%	30.7%	39.6%	47.1%	35.2%	41.5%	38.7%	41.5%
Total seats:			10	8	5	12	13	8	15	8	79
Parties that won no seats:
	Green	Popular Vote:	9.6%	7.7%	18.0%	7.1%	9.6%	8.9%	8.6%	7.1%	9.2%
	Democratic Reform	Popular Vote:	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	1.4%	0.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%
	Marijuana	Popular Vote:	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%
	Conservative	Popular Vote:	-	-	0.4%	0.1%	-	-	2.4%	-	0.6%
	Work Less	Popular Vote:	0.4%	-	0.2%	xx	0.1%	-	-	-	0.1%
	Libertarian	Popular Vote:	0.3%	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1%
	Platinum	Popular Vote:	0.1%	0.1%	-	xx	-	0.2%	-	-	xx
	Refederation	Popular Vote:	-	-	0.1%	-	0.1%	-	-	-	xx
	Social Credit	Popular Vote:	0.1%	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	Your Political Party	Popular Vote:	-	0.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	Western Canada Concept	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	xx
	People's Front	Popular Vote:	0.1%	-	-	-	xx	-	xx	xx	xx
	Youth Coalition	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	-	-	xx
	Moderates	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	-	-	xx
	Reform	Popular Vote:	-	-	0.3%	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	British Columbia Party	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	0.2%	xx
	Sex	Popular Vote:	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	Bloc	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1%	-	xx
	Freedom	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	xx	0.1%	-	-	xx
	Communist	Popular Vote:	xx	-	-	xx	-	-	xx	-	xx
	Unity	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	xx
	Emerged Democracy	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	-	xx
	Patriot	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx	-	xx
	Independents/ No Affiliation	Popular Vote:	0.2%	0.3%	-	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%	3.1%	1.0%

xx Denotes party received less than 0.1%

Timeline[edit]

Pre-campaign period[edit]

August 30, 2001 - Bill 7, Constitution Amendment Act is passed, fixing the date of the election at May 17, 2005.
November 13, 2002 - Liberal MLA Paul Nettleton accuses the government of a secret plan to privatize BC Rail as well the BC Hydro power utility. He is removed from caucus several days later and sits as an Independent Liberal until the 2005 election, when he unsuccessfully ran in Prince George-Mount Robson against Shirley Bond. BC Rail was subsequently sold to CN in what other bidders have described as a corrupted process, and BC Hydro's administrative arm was sold to Accenture.
January 9, 2003 - Premier Gordon Campbell is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on Maui. Because drunk driving is not a criminal offence in the state of Hawaii, but only a misdemeanour, Campbell did not resign his seat as he would have had to in Canada, and due to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) he attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a series of speaking engagements condemning drinking and driving.
November 23, 2003 - Carole James is elected as leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.
December 28, 2003 - the RCMP execute search warrants on various locations in the Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria, including offices in the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, in relation to suspicious dealings in relation to the bidding process for the sale of BC Rail (see BC Legislature Raids).
March 22, 2004 - Liberal MLA Elayne Brenzinger quits the caucus citing a "secret agenda" being undertaken by Premier Campbell in relation to the sale of BC Rail.^[3]
September 17, 2004 - Deputy Premier Christy Clark, whose house had been searched under warrant by the RCMP in connection with the BC Legislature Raids investigation, quit politics saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.
October 22, 2004 - New Democrat Jagrup Brar wins a by-election in Surrey-Panorama Ridge with 53.6% of the vote, a swing of 33.7% to the NDP from the 2001 result. One of Brar's competitors was Green leader Adriane Carr who captured 8.4% of the vote.
December 14, 2004 - In the wake of revelations he had been under surveillance by the RCMP in connection with dealings concerning the sale of BC Rail, Liberal Finance Minister Gary Farrell-Collins abruptly resigns from cabinet and the legislature despite having been named co-chair of the Liberal re-election campaign a month earlier. The move requires Premier Campbell to undertake a minor cabinet shuffle.
January 15, 2005 - The Democratic Reform British Columbia party is created out of a merger of the British Columbia Democratic Coalition and the All Nations Party of British Columbia. The party also boasts the support of key elements of the Reform Party of British Columbia. Prior to the official creation of this party, the Democratic Coalition and Reform BC jointly nominated a candidate for the Surrey-Panorama Ridge by-election.
January 19, 2005 - Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger joins DRBC, adding a third party to the Legislative Assembly for the first time since Gordon Wilson folded his Progressive Democratic Alliance party and joined the NDP.
January 31, 2005 - Liberal MLA and then-cabinet minister Sandy Santori resigns from his seat in the Legislature in a dispute over the deletion of emails by Premier Gordon Campbell's Deputy Minister to the Premier, Ken Dobell.^[4]
February 15, 2005 - New Liberal Finance Minister Colin Hansen introduces what is widely viewed as an "election budget" which promised $1.3 billion in new spending, tax cuts and an economic surplus.
March 11, 2005 - Attorney-General Geoff Plant announces that he will not seek re-election.
March 15, 2005 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board chair Carole Taylor announces that she will run for the Liberals in the riding of Vancouver-Langara. Premier Gordon Campbell endorses Taylor's candidacy.
March 29, 2005 - The consortium of television stations organizing the leaders' debate announces that the leaders of the Liberal, New Democratic, and Green parties will be invited to participate in the debate.
April 13, 2005 - The NDP and Green Party release their platforms in Victoria.

Campaign period[edit]

April 19, 2005 - The writ of election is issued (not "dropped" as in past elections), dissolving the Legislature and beginning the official campaign period.
April 20, 2005 - The NDP becomes the first party to complete a province-wide nomination slate.
April 22, 2005 - NDP candidate Rollie Keith withdraws his candidacy in Chilliwack-Kent after telling the Vancouver Province that he was "impressed" when he met Slobodan Milošević and that he did not believe there had been war crimes committed in Kosovo.
May 3, 2005 - The leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties meet in a televised debate. Commentators indicate the debate was either a draw or a win for Green leader Adriane Carr. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted online following the debate showed that 33% of debate views thought the debate produced no clear winner, 31% felt NDP leader Carole James won, 23% felt Liberal leader Gordon Campbell won while only 12% saw Carr as the winner.
May 17, 2005 - CBC projects a BC Liberal majority government at 9:05 p.m. local time.
June 22, 2005 - Tim Stevenson, who lost to Lorne Mayencourt by 11 votes, asks the Supreme Court of British Columbia to order a new election in Vancouver-Burrard due to 70 ballots that could not be counted because they had not been initialed by election officials.

Opinion polls and predictions[edit]

BC battleground map based on the predictions aggregated by the bc/ Election Prediction Project^{[permanent dead link]}.

BC battleground map based on the predictions by Will McMartin on thetyee.ca.

Below are the set of polls closest to the election, from organizations polling in British Columbia

Strategic Counsel/The Globe and Mail/CTV (May 9–May 11, 2005): Lib 49%, NDP 36%, Green 13%, Other 2% [1]
Ipsos-Reid/Global BC/Vancouver Sun/Victoria Times Colonist (May 8–May 10, 2005): Lib 47%, NDP 39%, Green 11%, Other 3% [2]
Mustel Group (May 5–May 9, 2005): Lib 45%, NDP 40%, Green 12%, Other 3% [3]
Robbins SCE Research (May 3–May 5, 2005): Lib 39%, NDP 40%, Green 13%, Other 8% [4]
Nordic Research Group (March 28–April 6, 2005): Lib 43%, NDP 34%, Green 14%, Other 8% [5]

Besides the usual public polling by market research firms, other organizations have been attempting to predict the results of the upcoming election using alternate methods. Results suggest that all three projections below underestimated NDP seats and overestimated Liberal seats:

UBC's Election Stock Market tracks the prices of contracts whose value depend on election results: [6]
Popular vote: Lib 44.5%, NDP 35.9%, Green 13.9%, Other 5.3%
Seats: Lib 48.6 (61.5), NDP 29.4 (37.2), Other 1.6 (2.0)
(values in parentheses are values of actual contracts, in cents)

The Election Prediction Project aggregates submissions from the Internet and subjectively predicts winners based on the submissions (see methodology):
Seats: Lib 50, NDP 29, Other 0

Will McMartin at the progressive online newspaper The Tyee makes his predictions by looking at "historic election results and selected demographics, as well as public opinion polls, regional sources and input from Election Central readers" (see details):
Seats: Lib 51, NDP 28, Other 0

Political parties[edit]

British Columbia has Canada's least restrictive elections laws with regard to political party registration, and consequently there are currently nearly 50 parties registered with Elections BC, by far the most of any jurisdiction in the country. Twenty-five parties contested the 2005 election, also a considerably greater number than anywhere else in Canada.

British Columbia Liberal Party[edit]

Leader: Gordon Campbell

The BC Liberals won 77 of 79 seats in the 2001 election. At dissolution, the party held 72 seats. One member elected as a Liberal left the party to sit as a member of Democratic Reform British Columbia; one member elected as a Liberal left to sit as an independent; the party lost one by-election to the opposition New Democratic Party; and two former Liberal seats were vacant when the election was called. In 2005 election, the Liberal party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature, yet still won the election.

New Democratic Party of British Columbia[edit]

Leader: Carole James

The NDP's legislative caucus was reduced from a majority to just two seats in the 2001 election. It won another seat in an October 2004 by-election to bring the total to three. Carole James led the NDP to 33 seats to become the Leader of the Opposition.

Green Party of British Columbia[edit]

Leader: Adriane Carr

The Green Party ran 72 candidates in 2001, winning 12 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Some argued that the Green Party support peaked in 2001, drawing on dissatisfied NDP voters, and they would remain incapable of winning a seat in 2005 under the First-Past-the-Post system; others believed that if there had been four or more competitive parties in this election, the Greens might elect a handful of members. Alternatively, if they had received more votes, they would have been more likely to win a seat. The Greens may benefit if a later election is conducted using the proposed BC-STV system. In 2005, the Greens received 9% of the popular vote and no seats.

Democratic Reform British Columbia[edit]

Leader: Tom Morino

Democratic Reform British Columbia is a new party created in early 2005 by the merger of the British Columbia Democratic Coalition—a coalition of minor centrist parties— with the All Nations Party of British Columbia and key elements of the Reform BC. Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger, a former Liberal, became DRBC's first MLA on January 19, 2005. Controversially, no invitation was extended for Morino to participate in the leader's debate.

British Columbia Marijuana Party[edit]

Leader: Marc Emery

The BC Marijuana Party nominated 43 candidates in this election. It was the only party other than the Liberals and NDP to run candidates in all 79 districts in 2001. The party chose not to run in certain districts and instead endorse New Democrat and Green candidates who publicly favour the legalization of marijuana. Party founder Marc Emery ran against Solicitor General Rich Coleman, an anti-drug hardliner, in staunchly conservative Fort Langley-Aldergrove. He gained controversy early in the campaign for claiming that the government spends too much money on senior citizens.

Minor parties[edit]

	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 work-week. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of voluntary simplicity. It nominated 11 candidates, all in urban ridings.		Platinum Party of Employers Who Think and Act to Increase Awareness Leader: Jeff Evans Nominated eleven candidates.
	British Columbia Conservative Party Leader: Barry Chilton Nominated seven candidates. Former provincial affiliate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada		British Columbia Libertarian Party No registered leader Nominated six candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Libertarian Party of Canada
	People's Front Leader: Charles Boylan Nominated five candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).		Western Refederation Party of British Columbia No registered leader A new autonomist/separatist party that nominated four candidates around the province.
	Communist Party of British Columbia Leader: George Gidora Nominated three candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Communist Party of Canada.		Sex Party Leader: John Ince Nominated three candidates in the City of Vancouver. Billed itself as "the world's first sex-positive party."
	Bloc British Columbia Party Leader: Paddy Roberts Libertarian separatist movement. Nominated three candidates in the Interior.		British Columbia Social Credit Party No registered leader Although Social Credit governed British Columbia for most of the period from 1952 to 1991, the party is now a minor party, with little organization or support. It nominated the minimum two candidates in order to retain party status this election.
	Freedom Party of British Columbia Leader: Kenneth Montgomery Keillor Nominated two candidates.		British Columbia Patriot Party Leader: Andrew Hokhold Nominated two candidates.
	Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia Leader: Doug Christie Although the WCC did not run in the 2001 election, it has been a constant, if minor, force in the BC political fringes for decades. Christie, its controversial leader, and a second candidate were nominated by the party in Greater Victoria.		British Columbia Party Leader: Grant Mitton The BC Party is also a relatively old minor party, one of several populist conservative organizations that attempted to fill the vacuum after the collapse of Social Credit in the mid-nineties. This was the first election in which it nominated candidates. It nominated two candidates. A third possible candidate, Summer Davis in Surrey-Tynehead, ran as an independent.
	British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement No registered leader The majority of the Moderates, including leader Matthew Laird, joined DRBC. The party's registration did not lapsed, however. The two candidates running under its banner opposed the merger.		British Columbia Youth Coalition No registered leader. Nominated two candidates.
	British Columbia Unity Party Interim Leader: Daniel Stelmacker BC Unity finished fourth in 2001, winning slightly over 3% of the vote with a slate of 56 candidates. It stood poised to potentially benefit from right-of-centre voters disenchanted with Campbell, but instead fell victim to serious internal division following a failed merger with the BC Conservative Party, which led to Chris Delaney's resignation as party leader. It appointed Daniel Stelmacker as its interim leader until it can hold a full leadership convention in the autumn of 2005. Stelmacker was its only nominated candidate, in Skeena riding.		Reform Party of British Columbia No registered leader Aborted mergers with BC Unity and DRBC drained supporters left and right from BC Reform, leaving only a tiny core of what was briefly BC's third party. Party founder Ron Gamble was the party's sole candidate in North Vancouver-Lonsdale.
	Your Political Party of British Columbia Leader: James Filippelli YPP appears to be a one-man political movement; its website made mention of no figures other than Filippelli, the party's founder and leader, who was its sole candidate in this election. He ran in Port Moody-Westwood.		Emerged Democracy Party of British Columbia Leader: Tony Luck Nominated one candidate, Rob Nordberg, in Surrey-Green Timbers.

Candidates[edit]

The deadline for candidate registration was Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

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 †

Northern British Columbia[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Bulkley Valley-Stikine	Dennis MacKay 6729	Doug Donaldson 5177	Leanna Mitchell 769	Nipper Kettle 354	Reginald Gunanoot 205	Jack Kortmeyer (BCP) 175 Frank Martin (PF) 41	Dennis MacKay
North Coast	Bill Belsey 4185	Gary Coons 5845	Hondo Arendt 629		Dave Johns 211		Bill Belsey
Peace River North	Richard Neufeld 5498	Brian Churchill 2511	Clarence Apsassin 638			Leonard Joseph Seigo (Ind.) 613	Richard Neufeld
Peace River South	Blair Lekstrom 5810	Pat Shaw 3296	Ariel Lade 956				Blair Lekstrom
Prince George-Mount Robson	Shirley Bond 5885	Wayne Mills 4994	Don Roberts 1053		Matt Burnett 241	Paul Nettleton (Ind.) 2158	Shirley Bond
Prince George North	Pat Bell 7697	Deborah Poff 5598	Denis Gendron 1201	Mike Mann 241	Steve Wolfe 235	Leif Jensen (Ind.) 443	Pat Bell
Prince George-Omineca	John Rustad 8622	Chuck Fraser 6184	Andrej DeWolf 1393	Erle Martz 479			Paul Nettleton
Skeena	Roger Harris 5807	Robin Austin 6166	Patrick Hayes 616			Daniel Stelmacker (Unity) 224	Roger Harris

Kootenay, Columbia and Boundary[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Columbia River-Revelstoke	Wendy McMahon 5750	Norm Macdonald 7460	Andy Shadrack 1217				Wendy McMahon
East Kootenay	Bill Bennett 8060	Erda Walsh 7339	Luke Gurbin 1389				Bill Bennett
Nelson-Creston	Blair Suffredine 5862	Corky Evans 12896	Luke Crawford 2724		Phillip McMillan 276	Brian Taylor (Bloc BC) 173	Blair Suffredine
West Kootenay-Boundary	Pam Lewin 6180	Katrine Conroy 13318	Donald Pharand 1561			Barry Chilton (Con) 802 Glen Millar (Not Affil) 180 A.J. van Leur (Bloc BC) 59	vacant

Okanagan and Shuswap[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Kelowna-Lake Country	Al Horning 12247	John Pugsley 7390	Kevin Ade 2541	Alan Clarke 1793	David Thomson 341		John Weisbeck†
Kelowna-Mission	Sindi Hawkins 13827	Nicki Hokazono 8189	Paddy Weston 3308		Shilo Lavallee 320	Steve Roebuck (Comm.) 94	Sindi Hawkins
Okanagan-Vernon	Tom Christensen 11566	Juliette Cunningham 8995	Erin Nelson 1867		Michael Toponce 260	Colin Black (Con.) 3095 Gordon Campbell (Not Affil) 945 Tibor Tusnady (Patr.) 48	Tom Christensen
Okanagan-Westside	Rick Thorpe 12148	Joyce Procure 6873	Angela Reid 2262	Janice Money 1051			Rick Thorpe
Penticton-Okanagan Valley	Bill Barisoff 13650	Garry Litke 10197	James Cunningham 2669			Jane Turnell (Ind.) 660	Bill Barisoff
Shuswap	George Abbott 11024	Calvin White 8281	Barbara Westerman 1394		Chris Emery 356	Beryl Ludwig (Con.) 2330 Paddy Roberts (Bloc BC) 50 Andrew Hockhold(Patr.) 42	George Abbott

Thompson and Cariboo[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Cariboo North	Steve Wallace 7084	Bob Simpson 7353	Douglas Gook 835		James Michael Delbarre 281		John Wilson†
Cariboo South	Walt Cobb 7163	Charlie Wyse 7277	Ed Sharkey 851			Michael Orr (Ind.) 532	Walt Cobb
Kamloops	Claude Richmond 11261	Doug Brown 9886	Frank Stewart 1723			Terry Bojarski (Con.) 797	Claude Richmond
Kamloops-North Thompson	Kevin Krueger 11648	Mike Hanson 9635	Grant Fraser 1689		Keenan Todd 321	Bob Altenhofen (Con.) 795	Kevin Krueger
Yale-Lillooet	Lloyd Forman 7009	Harry Lali 8489	Mike McLean 1583	Arne Zabel 185		Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell (PF) 115	Dave Chutter†

Fraser Valley[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Abbotsford-Clayburn	John van Dongen 11047	Michael Nenn 5555	Lance Pizzariello 1428		Ian Gilfilian 198	Kenneth Montgomery Keillor (FP) 199	John van Dongen
Abbotsford-Mount Lehman	Mike de Jong 11325	Taranjit Purewal 6132	Jed Anderson 1359	Bob Klassen 472	Tim Felger 392		Mike de Jong
Chilliwack-Kent	Barry Penner 11368	Malcolm James 6534	Hans Mulder 1651			David Anderson (Mod.) 240 Colin Wormworth (BCYC) 103	Barry Penner
Chilliwack-Sumas	John Les 11995	John-Henry Harter 6477	Norm Siefken 1731	Brian Downey 315		Augustine Lee (BCYC) 266 James Solhiem (Mod.) 127	John Les
Fort Langley-Aldergrove	Rich Coleman 15454	Shane Dyson 7597	Andrea Welling 2529		Marc Emery 374	Stephen Davis (Plat.) 183	Rich Coleman
Langley	Mary Polak 12877	Dean Morrison 8303	Kathleen Stephany 3042		Chris Scrimes 278	Lee Davies (Plat.) 180	Lynn Stephens
Maple Ridge-Mission	Randy Hawes 12095	Jenny Stevens 11896	Bill Walsh 2633		Carol Gwilt 314	Chum Richardson (Ind.) 312 Keith Smith (Plat.) 53	Randy Hawes
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows	Ken Stewart 10861	Michael Sather 11786	Mike Gildersleeve 1869	Rick Butler 534	Denise-Colleen Briere-Smart 360		Ken Stewart

Surrey[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Surrey-Cloverdale	Kevin Falcon 16429	Ted Allen 7640	Pierre Rovtar 2280	Joseph Vollhoffer 305			Kevin Falcon
Surrey-Green Timbers	Brenda Locke 5619	Sue Hammell 10836	Sebastian Sajda 791	Ravi Chand 142	Amanda Boggan 225	Rob Norberg (ED) 151 Harjit Singh Daudharia (Comm.) 52	Brenda Locke
Surrey-Newton	Daniel Igali 6473	Harry Bains 10741	Dan Deresh 876	Harry Grewal 268		Gordon Scott (WLP) 123 Jeff Robert Evans (Plat.) 72	Tony Bhullar†
Surrey-Panorama Ridge	Bob Hans 8573	Jagrup Brar 11553	Romeo De La Pena 1370		Troy Chan 234		Jagrup Brar
Surrey-Tynehead	Dave Hayer 12052	Barry Bell 9469	Sean Orr 1095		Don Briere 243	Summer Davis (Ind.) 380 Gary Hoffman (Ind.) 223	Dave Hayer
Surrey-Whalley	Barb Steele 4949	Bruce Ralston 8903	Roy Whyte 1238	Elayne Brenzinger 607	Neal Magnuson 302	Joe Pal (Not Affil) 139 Melady Belinda Earl (Plat.) 50	Elayne Brenzinger
Surrey-White Rock	Gordon Hogg 16462	Moh Chelali 7511	Ashley Hughes 3051	Ron Dunsford 87		David James Evans (Con.) 1340	Gordon Hogg

Richmond and Delta[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Delta North	Jeannie Kanakos 9480	Guy Gentner 10481	John Hague 1711		John Shavluk 224	David Andrew Wright (BCP) 187	Reni Masi†
Delta South	Val Roddick 9112	Dileep Athaide 5828	Duane Laird 1131		Julian Wooldridge 139	Vicki Huntington (Ind.) 8043 George Mann (Not Affil) 58	Val Roddick
Richmond Centre	Olga Ilich 10908	Dale Jackaman 6051	Chris Segers 1436		Matt Healy 231		Greg Halsey-Brandt†
Richmond East	Linda Reid 11652	Gian Sihota 6692	Michael Wolfe 1530		Heidi Farnola 191	Mohamud Ali Farah (Ind.) 207	Linda Reid
Richmond-Steveston	John Yap 13859	Kay Hale 7334	Egidio Spinelli 1934	Daniel Ferguson 282			Geoff Plant†

Vancouver's eastern suburbs[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Burnaby-Edmonds	Patty Sahota 9599	Raj Chouhan 10337	Suzanne Deveau 2192				Patty Sahota
Burnaby North	Richard T. Lee 10421	Pietro Calendino 10356	Richard Brand 1763	Matthew Laird 316			Richard T. Lee
Burnaby-Willingdon	John Nuraney 8754	Gabriel Yiu 8355	Pauline Farrell 1482	Tony Kuo 947	John Warrens 214	Tom Tao (Ind.) 142	John Nuraney
Burquitlam	Harry Bloy 10054	Bart Healey 9682	Carli Travers 1619		Peter Grin 191	Graham Fox (Not Affil) 125	Harry Bloy
Coquitlam-Maillardville	Richard Stewart 10001	Diane Thorne 10532	Michael Hejazi 1415		Brandon Steele 236	Paul Geddes (Lbt.) 173 Nattanya Andersen (Plat.) 69	Richard Stewart
New Westminster	Joyce Murray 9645	Chuck Puchmayr 13226	Robert Broughton 2416	John Warren 152	Christina Racki 293	Greg Calcutta (Plat.) 42	Joyce Murray
Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain	Greg Moore 10752	Mike Farnworth 11844	Bill Aaroe 1691			Anthony Yao (SC) 228 Lewis Dahlby (Lbt.) 90	Karn Manhas†
Port Moody-Westwood	Iain Black 14161	Karen Rockwell 9848	Kathy Heisler 1670			James Filippelli (YPP) 442 Arthur Crossman (Ind.) 227	Christy Clark†

Vancouver[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Vancouver-Burrard	Lorne Mayencourt 12009	Tim Stevenson 11998	Janek Kuchmistrz 3698	Ian McLeod 82		John Clarke (Lbt.) 388 Lisa Voldeng (WLP) 170 John Ince (Sex) 111 Antonio Ferreira (Plat.) 27	Lorne Mayencourt
Vancouver-Fairview	Virginia Greene 12114	Gregor Robertson 13009	Hamdy El-Rayes 2479			Patrick Clark (Sex) 121 Scott Yee (Ind.) 102 Malcolm Janet Mary van Delst (WLP) 95	vacant
Vancouver-Fraserview	Wally Oppal 9895	Ravinder Gill 8783	Doug Perry 1374		Shea Campbell 650		Ken Johnston†
Vancouver-Hastings	Laura McDiarmid 6910	Shane Simpson 11726	Ian Gregson 1928		Stephen Payne 188	Carrol Woolsey (SC) 274 Dennise Brennan (WLP) 247 Will Offley (Ind.) 130 Catherine Millard Saadi (Plat.) 68	Joy MacPhail†
Vancouver-Kensington	Patrick Wong 8949	David Chudnovsky 10573	Cody Matheson 1273		John Gordon 266	Charles Boylan (PF) 99	Patrick Wong
Vancouver-Kingsway	Rob Nijjar 7894	Adrian Dix 10038	Stuart MacKinnon 1212		Steven Lay 219	Donna Petersen (PF) 77 Yvonne Tink (Sex) 73	Rob Nijjar
Vancouver-Langara	Carole Taylor 11181	Anita Romaniuk 6520	Doug Warkentin 1591		Mark Gueffroy 144	Christopher De Wilde (Libert.) 184 Charlie Brunet-Latimer (WLP) 152	Val Anderson†
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant	Juliet Andalis 4298	Jenny Kwan 12974	Raven Bowen 2066	Imtiaz Popat 43	Chris Bennett 308	Mike Hansen (Ind.) 205 Niki Westman (WLP) 187 Peter Marcus (Comm.) 98 Kirk Anton Moses (Plat.) 17	Jenny Kwan
Vancouver-Point Grey	Gordon Campbell 12498	Mel Lehan 10248	Damian Kettlewell 4111		Yolanda Perez 138	Tom Walker (WLP) 126 Jeff Monds (Libert.) 44 Gudrun Kost (Plat.) 18	Gordon Campbell
Vancouver-Quilchena	Colin Hansen 16394	Jarrah Hodge 5131	Lorinda Earl 2538		Rhiannon Rose 175	Katrina Chowne (Libert.) 174	Colin Hansen

North Shore and Sunshine Coast[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
North Vancouver-Lonsdale	Katherine Whittred 9375	Craig Keating 8391	Terry Long 2562	Matt Wadsworth 163	Rebecca Ambrose 209	Ron Gamble (Ref.) 365	Katherine Whittred
North Vancouver-Seymour	Daniel Jarvis 14518	Cathy Pinsent 7595	John Sharpe 3013		Darin Neal 212	Christine Ellis (WLP) 169	Daniel Jarvis
Powell River-Sunshine Coast	Maureen Clayton 7702	Nicholas Simons 11099	Adriane Carr 6585			Allen McIntyre (RefedBC) 156	Harold Long†
West Vancouver-Capilano	Ralph Sultan 14665	Terry Platt 3900	Lee White 2648		Jodie Giesz-Ramsay 147	Ben West (WLP) 122	Ralph Sultan
West Vancouver-Garibaldi	Joan McIntyre 11808	Lyle Fenton 4947	Dennis Perry 6235			Barbara Ann Reid (Cons.) 464	Ted Nebbeling†

Vancouver Island[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Alberni-Qualicum	Gillian Trumper 9788	Scott Fraser 13988	Jack Thornburgh 1912	Jennifer Fisher-Bradley 292	Michael Mann 401	James Dominic King (Ind.) 209	Gillian Trumper
Comox Valley	Stan Hagen 14068	Andrew Black 13261	Chris Aikman 2833	Don Davis 187	Miracle Emery 214	Bruce O'Hara (WLP) 83 Mel Garden (RefedBC) 67 Barbara Biley (PF) 51	Stan Hagen
Cowichan-Ladysmith	Graham Bruce 11425	Doug Routley 14014	Cindy-Lee Robinson 1950	Brian Johnson 238		Jim Bell (Ind.) 307 Jeremy Harold Smyth (FP) 83	Graham Bruce
Nanaimo	Mike Hunter 8657	Leonard Krog 13226	Doug Catley 2933		Matt Dillon 294	Brunie Brunie (Ind.) 204 Linden Shaw (RefedBC) 169	Mike Hunter
Nanaimo-Parksville	Ron Cantelon 16542	Carol McNamee 12432	Jordan Ellis 2714		Richard Payne 198	Bruce Ryder (RefedBC) 283	Judith Reid†
North Island	Rod Visser 10804	Claire Trevena 11464	Phillip Stone 1874	Dan Cooper 699		Lorne James Scott (Ind.) 471	Rod Visser

Greater Victoria[edit]

Electoral District							Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	DRBC	Marijuana	Other	Incumbent
Esquimalt-Metchosin	Tom Woods 9650	Maurine Karagianis 12545	Jane Sterk 2672	Graeme Rodger 409			Arnie Hamilton†
Malahat-Juan de Fuca	Cathy Basskin 10528	John Horgan 12460	Steven Hurdle 2610	Tom Morino 1256		Pattie O'Brien (WCC) 180	Brian Kerr†
Oak Bay-Gordon Head	Ida Chong 13443	Charley Beresford 12016	Stephen Hender 2379	Lyne England 278		Lindsay Budge (Ind.) 176	Ida Chong
Saanich North and the Islands	Murray Coell 13781	Christine Hunt 11842	Ken Rouleau 4846	Ian Bruce 1092			Murray Coell
Saanich South	Susan Brice 12380	David Cubberley 12809	Brandon McIntyre 2018	Brett Hinch 223		Douglas Christie (WCC) 207 Kerry Steinemann (Ind.) 161	Susan Brice
Victoria-Beacon Hill	Jeff Bray 8621	Carole James 16081	John Miller 3077	David McCaig 169		Benjamin McConchie (Ind.) 124 Ingmar Lee (Ind.) 123	Jeff Bray
Victoria-Hillside	Sheila Orr 7028	Rob Fleming 13911	Steve Filipovic 2933	Jim McDermott 360		Katrina Herriot (WLP) 168	Sheila Orr

References[edit]

^ "B.C. Voter Participation: 1983 to 2013" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
^ "Elections BC and Elections Canada will Amalgamate Voters Lists" (PDF). Victoria, British Columbia: Elections British Columbia. 21 May 2004. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
^ Hansard, October 6, 2004, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog
^ Delete button wipes out 'transparency' in government: Called for 'thorough, complete, diligent investigation', Michael Smyth, The Province June 25, 2009, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog

External links[edit]

[1] "B.C. Voter Participation: 1983 to 2013" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 11, 2017.

[BCEA-2] "Elections BC and Elections Canada will Amalgamate Voters Lists" (PDF). Victoria, British Columbia: Elections British Columbia. 21 May 2004. Retrieved 2011-03-30.

[3] Hansard, October 6, 2004, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog

[4] Delete button wipes out 'transparency' in government: Called for 'thorough, complete, diligent investigation', Michael Smyth, The Province June 25, 2009, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t e Elections and referendums in British Columbia
General elections	1856 1860 1863 1866 1869 1871 1875 1878 1882 1886 1890 1894 1898 1900 1903 1907 1909 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1933 1937 1941 1945 1949 1952 1953 1956 1960 1963 1966 1969 1972 1975 1979 1983 1986 1991 1996 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 next
Municipal elections	2005 2008 2011 2014 2018
Referendums	1873 1909 1916 1920 1924 1937 1952 1972 1991 2002 2005 2009 2011 2018
See also: List of British Columbia by-elections