British Columbia general election, 2009

British Columbia general election, 2009
85 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia ; 43 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	50.99% [1] 7.2 pp
	Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Click the map for more details.
Premier before election; Gordon Campbell ; Liberal	Premier-designate; Gordon Campbell ; Liberal

Last updated March 16, 2019

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 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 British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) under the leadership of Carole James is the Official Opposition.

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia single house of the Parliament of British Columbia

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, while the other is Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with over 80 percent of its inhabitants concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. Canada's climate varies widely across its vast area, ranging from arctic weather in the north, to hot summers in the southern regions, with four distinct seasons.

British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.016 million as of 2018, it is Canada's third-most populous province.

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.

The British Columbia electoral redistribution of 2008 was undertaken over a lengthy period that began in late 2005 and was completed with the passage of the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 on April 10, 2008. The redistribution modified most electoral boundaries in the province, and increased the number of MLAs from 79 to 85. The electoral boundaries created by the redistribution were first used in the 2009 provincial election.

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 BC Liberals, who had been in power since the 2001 provincial 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 BC 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.

Jenn McGinn is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, representing the electoral district of Vancouver-Fairview, in a by-election on October 29, 2008. She is the first openly lesbian MLA to serve in the British Columbian Legislature. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party, her candidacy was endorsed in a Georgia Straight editorial.

Charlie Wyse is an educator and former Canadian politician, who was a New Democratic Member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia from 2005 to 2009. He represented the riding of Cariboo South.

Voter turnout was 50.99% of eligible voters (1,651,567 registered voters).

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 promoted its own track record as the government. Much of the party's platform was revealed in the 2009 Budget which included a three-year fiscal plan including revenue expectations, tax measures, and spending priorities. The budget proposed 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 proposed to increase spending by $4.8 billion over 3 years for healthcare, $300 million over three 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 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; establishing voluntary five-year-old kindergarten classes; establishing 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; exempting the first $20,000 of seniors' pension income from income tax; legislating a Residents Bill of Rights for seniors living in residential care facilities and a registry for residential care aides; installing 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.^[2]

The British Columbia Liberal Party is a centre-right provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The base of the BC Liberal Party is made up of supporters of both the federal Liberal Party and Conservative Party, and its policies are a mixture of Liberal and Conservative. The party forms the Official Opposition. Andrew Wilkinson became leader of the party on February 3, 2018, after winning the Leadership Election on the fifth ballot, making him the Leader of the Official Opposition of British Columbia.

Thompson Rivers University is a public teaching and research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees and vocational training. Its main campus is in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, and its name comes from the two rivers which converge in Kamloops, the North Thompson and South Thompson. The university has a satellite campus in Williams Lake, BC and a distance education division called TRU-Open Learning. It also has several international partnerships through its TRU World division.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a large body of water about 154 kilometres (96 mi) long that is the Salish Sea's outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Canada and the United States runs down the center of the Strait.

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, its platform involved 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, increasing 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).^[3]

British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America and the second largest in the world, boasting a fleet of 35 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 locations on the B.C. coast.

Green Party of British Columbia

Leader: Jane Sterk

The Green Party ran a full slate of candidates, as it did in 2005 when it won over 9 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Its new leader was Jane Sterk, a former Esquimalt councillor. It supported the BC-STV proposal in the referendum. The party released its platform in a book titled British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013. Amongst other points, it advocated 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.^[4]

Minor parties

British Columbia Conservative Party

Leader: Wilf Hanni

The Conservatives nominated 24 candidates, up from seven candidates in 2005 when they won 0.55% of the vote. In spite of his low profile party leader Wilf Hanni participated in a leaders' "Forum" in May 2009.^[5] Their platform advocated, 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, expanding resource development (including offshore drilling), reducing the PST by 1%, harmonizing the PST with the Federal GST, eliminating the Property Transfer Tax, rolling back salary 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, reducing tuition fees for students who meet certain standards in post-secondary education, light rail transit in southern Vancouver Island and in Chilliwack, eliminating tolls on bridges (including a 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, publishing a Criminal Offenders Registry, creating 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.^[6]

British Columbia Libertarian Party

Leader: None

The Libertarian Party ran six candidates in this election, as it did in 2005. The party supported 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.^[7]

British Columbia Marijuana Party

Leader: Marc Emery

The Marijuana Party ran one candidate in this election and endorsed the Green Party. In 2005 it ran 44 candidates, while in 2001 it ran a full slate.^[8]

BC Refederation Party

Leader: Mike Summers

The Refederation Party 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 its website its 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 Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 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 the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement and the sale of Crown Corporations, and a judicial review of the sale of BC Rail.^[9]

Communist Party of British Columbia

Leader: George Gidora

The Communist Party of BC is the provincial branch of the national Communist Party. It had three candidates running in the 2009 election, as it did in 2005. The CPBC campaigned against BC-STV in favour of Mixed Member Proportional representation. It advocates 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 the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement, and reintegrating BC Transmission Corporation back into BC Hydro.^[10]

Nation Alliance Party

Leader: Wei Ping Chen

The Nation Alliance Party is a new party that nominated two candidates in this election, both in Richmond ridings. The party seeks to promote the rights of ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. Among other points, it advocates promoting participation in the public affairs, promoting non-violence, and opposing racialism.^[11]

People's Front

Leader: Charles Boylan

The People's Front is the provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) which generally advocates, among other points, increased spending on health, education and other social programs, a moratorium on the debt, hereditary rights of the Aboriginal peoples, recognition of the equality of all languages and cultures, instituting recall elections, and rights for individuals to initiate legislation.^[12] It nominated four candidates in this election, down from five in 2005 and 11 in 2001.

Reform Party of British Columbia

Leader: David Charles Hawkins

The BC Reform Party nominated four candidates. It had only one candidate in the 2005 election but nine in 2001 and a full slate of 75 in the 1996 election. According to its website, its 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.^[13]

Sex Party

Leader: John Ince

Billing itself as "the world's first sex-positive party", the Sex Party nominated three candidates in Vancouver ridings, as it did in 2005. According to its website, its 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.^[14]

Western Canada Concept

Leader: Doug Christie

The Western Canada Concept had 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 anti-abortion legislation, strong private property rights, balanced budgets, promotion of cultural assimilation rather than multiculturalism, and compulsory public service with a volunteer armed forces.^[15]

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.^[16] The party had 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 one candidate in 2005 and two in 2009. Among other points, it advocates publishing 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 four months, labelling 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.^[17]

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.

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	^[permanent dead link ]	47%	39%	10%	4%
Angus Reid Strategies	May 7, 2009		44%	42%	10%	4%
Mustel Group	May 7, 2009		47%	38%	12%	3%
Environics	May 2, 2009		47%	36%	13%	5%
Angus Reid Strategies	April 28, 2009	^[permanent dead link ]	42%	39%	13%	6%
Mustel Group	April 7, 2009		52%	35%	13%	-
Angus Reid Strategies	March 25, 2009		43%	37%	13%	7%
Ipsos Reid	March 24, 2009		46%	35%	15%	4%
Mustel Group	February 10, 2009		52%	36%	12%	1%
Mustel Group	January 15, 2009		47%	33%	16%	4%
Election 2005	May 17, 2005	-	45.8%	41.5%	9.2%	2.9%

Results

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49	35	1
Liberal	New Democratic	In

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	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		14	-	-	1		17,253	1.05	+0.05
	Refederation ¹	Mike Summers	22	-	-	-		3,748	0.23	+0.19¹
	Libertarian	(vacant)	6	-	-	-		1,486	0.09	+0.03
	No Affiliation		2	-	-	-		1,433	0.09	*
	Reform	David Charles Hawkins	4	-	-	-		1,106	0.07	+0.05
	Nation Alliance	Wei Ping Chen	2	*	-	-		818	0.05	*
	Communist	George Gidora	3	-	-	-		433	0.03	+0.02
	People's Front	Charles Boylan	4	-	-	-		401	0.02	+0
	Marijuana	Marc Emery	1	-	-	-		361	0.02	-0.63
	Your Political Party	James Filippelli	2	-	-	-		335	0.02	-0.01
	Work Less	Conrad Schmidt	2	-	-	-		322	0.02	-0.07
	Sex	John Ince	3	-	-	-		319	0.02	+0
	Western Canada Concept	Doug Christie	1	-	-	-		235	0.01	-0.01
	Vacant				3
Total			346	79	79	85		1,640,542	100%	-12.1%

Source: "Statement of Votes: 39th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2011.

The BC Refederation Party was previously known as 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 †
Because 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					Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Nechako Lakes	John Rustad 4,949	Byron Goerz 3,133	Gerard Riley 559	Mike Summers (Refed.) 235	John Rustad
North Coast	Herb Pond 3,110	Gary Coons 5,097	Lisa Girbav 683		Gary Coons
Peace River North	Pat Pimm 3,992	Jackie Allen 1,293	Liz Logan 1,010	Arthur A. Hadland (Ind.) 2,899 Sue Arntson (Refed.) 58	(vacant)^a
Peace River South	Blair Lekstrom 4,801	Pat Shaw 2,057	Grant Fraser 553	Donna Young (Ind.) 220	Blair Lekstrom
Prince George-Mackenzie	Pat Bell 9,816	Tobias Lawrence 6,452	Kevin Creamore 1,245		Pat Bell
Prince George-Valemount	Shirley Bond 9,072	Julie Carew 6,737	Andrej De Wolfe 1,225	Don Roberts (Refed.) 113 Gordon Dickie (Cons.) 780	Shirley Bond
Skeena	Donny Van Dyk 4,328	Robin Austin 5,865	Anita Norman 467	Michael Brousseau (Cons.) 893	Robin Austin
Stikine	Scott Groves 3,829	Doug Donaldson 4,274	Roger Benham 375		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					Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Columbia River-Revelstoke	Mark McKee 5,093	Norm Macdonald 7,419	Sarah Svensson 907		Norm Macdonald
Kootenay East	Bill Bennett 8,404	Troy Sebastian 5,844	Jen Tsuida 549	Wilf Hanni (Cons.) 1,612	Bill Bennett
Kootenay West	Brenda Binnie 4,072	Katrine Conroy 12,126	Andy Morel 1,791	Zachary Crispin (Comm.) 204	Katrine Conroy
Nelson-Creston	Josh Smienk 5,191	Michelle Mungall 9,060	Sean Kubara 1,189	David Duncan (Cons.)1,083	Corky Evans†

Okanagan, Shuswap and Boundary

Electoral District						Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other		Incumbent
Boundary-Similkameen	John Slater 6,681	Lakhvinder Jhaj 5,869	Robert Grieve 1,691	Joe Cardoso (Cons.) 3,596	new district
Kelowna-Lake Country	Norm Letnick 10,283	Matthew Reed 5,251	Ryan Fugger 1,375	Mary-Ann Graham (Cons.) 2,253 Alan Clarke (Ind.) 571		Al Horning†
Kelowna-Mission	Steve Thomson 11,506	Tisha Kalmanovich 5,566	Crystal Wariach 1,563	Mark Thompson (Cons.) 2,531 Daniel Thorburn (Refed.) 51 Silverado Socrates (Ind.) 130		Sindi Hawkins†
Penticton	Bill Barisoff 10,346	Cameron Phillips 7,331	Julius Bloomfield 3,685	Chris Delaney (Cons.) 2,095 Wendy Dion (Refed.) 78		Bill Barisoff
Shuswap	George Abbott 10,764	Steve Gunner 7,051	Michel Saab 2,539	Beryl Ludwig (Cons.) 2,374 Chris Emery (BCMP) 361		George Abbott
Vernon-Monashee	Eric Foster 9,015	Mark Olsen 7,698	Huguette Allen 4,029	Dean Skoreyko (Cons.) 1,972 R.J. Busch (Refed.) 76 Gordon Campbell (Not Affil.) 1,397		Tom Christensen †
Westside-Kelowna	Ben Stewart 10,334	Tish Lakes 5,656	Robin McKim 1,617	Peter Neville (Cons.) 1,772		Rick Thorpe†

Thompson and Cariboo

Electoral District					Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Cariboo-Chilcotin	Donna Barnett 6,259	Charlie Wyse 6,171	Eli Taylor 650		Charlie Wyse
Cariboo North	Bruce Ernst 6,501	Bob Simpson 7,004	Doug Gook 643		Bob Simpson
Fraser-Nicola	Ella Brown 5,830	Harry Lali 6,703	Desiree Maher-Schley 891	Dian Brooks (Refed.) 223	Harry Lali
Kamloops-North Thompson	Terry Lake 9,830	Doug Brown 9,320	April Snowe 1,418	Wayne Russell (Refed.) 251 Keston C. Broughton (Work Less) 124	Kevin Krueger^b
Kamloops-South Thompson	Kevin Krueger 12,548	Tom Friedman 8,132	Bev Markle 1,529	Maria Dobi (Cons.) 1,090	Claude Richmond†

^b - Krueger sought re-election in the adjacent redrawn riding of Kamloops-South Thompson

Fraser Valley

Electoral District						Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other		Incumbent
Abbotsford-Mission	Randy Hawes 10,372	Lynn Perrin 5,788	Bill Walsh 1,611			Randy Hawes
Abbotsford South	John van Dongen 9,766	Bonnie Rai 4,188	Daniel Bryce 1,244	Gurcharan Dhaliwal (Cons.) 1,019 Tim Felger (Ind.) 334		John van Dongen
Abbotsford West	Mike de Jong 8,992	Taranjit Purewal 5,106	Karen Durant 970	Dalbir Benipal (Cons.) 1,043		Mike de Jong
Chilliwack	John Les 8,138	Mason Goulden 5,908	Fraea Bolding 1,523	Benjamin Besler (Cons.) 2,672		John Les
Chilliwack-Hope	Barry Penner 8,985	Gwen O'Mahony 5,638	Guy Durnin 951	Hans Mulder (Cons.) 1,198 Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell (P.F.) 93		Barry Penner
Fort Langley-Aldergrove	Rich Coleman 15,139	Gail Chaddock-Costello 7,492	Travis Erbacher 1,765	Jordan Braun (Refed.) 387		Rich Coleman
Langley	Mary Polak 13,295	Kathleen Stephany 8,400	Ron Abgrall 1,788			Mary Polak
Maple Ridge-Mission	Marc Dalton 8,802	Mike Bocking 8,738	Michael Gildersleeve 1,387	Ian Vaughan (Reform) 325	new district
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows	Ken Stewart 9,498	Michael Sather 9,772	Rob Hornsey 1,149	Jay Ariken (Refed.) 140 Chum Richardson (Ind.) 202		Michael Sather

Surrey

Electoral District						Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other		Incumbent
Surrey-Cloverdale	Kevin Falcon 13,815	Deborah Payment 6,567	Kevin Purton 1,651			Kevin Falcon
Surrey-Fleetwood	Jagmohan Singh 6,860	Jagrup Brar 8,852	Christin Geall 1,120	Chamkaur Sandhu (Con.) 818	new district
Surrey-Green Timbers	Rani Mangat 3,624	Sue Hammell 10,965	Dan Kashagama 488			Sue Hammell
Surrey-Newton	Ajay Caleb 4,011	Harry Bains 10,709	Trevor Loke 759	George Gidora (Comm.) 58		Harry Bains
Surrey-Panorama	Stephanie Cadieux 11,820	Debbie Lawrance 8,675	Murray Weisenburger 1,290			Jagrup Brar^c
Surrey-Tynehead	Dave Hayer 8,814	Pat Zanon 7,257	Gerald Singh 717			Dave Hayer
Surrey-Whalley	Radhia Benalia 4,083	Bruce Ralston 10,453	Bernadette Kennan 1,189			Bruce Ralston
Surrey-White Rock	Gordon Hogg 15,121	Drina Allen 6,668	Don Pitcairn 2,118	David Charles Hawkins (Reform) 464		Gordon Hogg

^c - Brar will seek re-election in new riding of Surrey-Fleetwood

Richmond and Delta

Electoral District					Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Delta North	Jeannie Kanakos 8,490	Guy Gentner 10,381	Matthew Laine 938	Marc McPherson (Cons.) 756	Guy Gentner
Delta South	Wally Oppal 9,945	Dileep Athaide 2,940	Duane Laird 555	Vicki Huntington (Ind.) 9,977 John Shavluk (Ind.) 60	Val Roddick†
Richmond Centre	Rob Howard 10,483	Kam Brar 4,949	Michael Wolfe 1,213	Kang Chen (NAP) 409	Olga Ilich†
Richmond East	Linda Reid 10,853	Shawkat Hasan 5,998	Stephen Rees 1,211	Wei Ping Chen (NAP) 419	Linda Reid
Richmond-Steveston	John Yap 13,167	Sue Wallis 5,925	Jeff Hill 1,491	Barry Chilton (Cons.) 1,082	John Yap

Vancouver's eastern suburbs

Electoral District						Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other		Incumbent
Burnaby-Deer Lake	John Nuraney 7,591	Kathy Corrigan 8,103	Bruce Friesen 928			John Nuraney
Burnaby-Edmonds	Lee Rankin 6,385	Raj Chouhan 8,647	Carrie McLaren 1,122	Dan Cancade (Lbt.) 493		Raj Chouhan
Burnaby-Lougheed	Harry Bloy 9,207	Jaynie Clark 8,511	Helen Chang 1,285			Harry Bloy
Burnaby North	Richard T. Lee 9,880	Mondee Redman 9,332	Doug Perry 1,292			Richard T. Lee
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain	Douglas Horne 8,644	Heather McRitchie 5,393	Jared Evans 907	Paul Geddes (Lbt.) 266	new district
Coquitlam-Maillardville	Dennis Marsden 9,150	Diane Thorne 9,818	Stephen Reid 1,040	Doug Stead (Ind.) 481		Diane Thorne
New Westminster	Carole Millar 8,240	Dawn Black 13,418	Matthew Laird 2,151			Chuck Puchmayr†
Port Coquitlam	Bernie Hiller 7,896	Mike Farnworth 11,121	Cole Bertsch 994	Brent Williams (YPP) 137 Lewis Dahlby (Lbt.) 178		Mike Farnworth
Port Moody-Coquitlam	Iain Black 9,979	Shannon Watkins 7,614	Rebecca Helps 1,261	Donna Vandekerkhove (Refed.) 82 James Filippelli (YPP) 198		Iain Black

Vancouver

Electoral District						Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other		Incumbent
Vancouver-Fairview	Margaret MacDiarmid 11,034	Jenn McGinn 9,881	Vanessa Violini 2,232	Matthew Barens (Reform) 85 Graham Clark (Ind.) 165 Alex Frei (Refed.) 37		Jenn McGinn
Vancouver-False Creek	Mary McNeil 9,223	Jordan Parente 4,502	Damian Kettlewell 2,144	Otto Grecz (Refed.) 27 David Hutchinson (Cons.) 385 Michael Halliday (Ind.) 73	new district
Vancouver-Fraserview	Kash Heed 9,549	Gabriel Yiu 8,801	Jodie Emery 904	Andrew Stevano (Refed.) 118		Wally Oppal ^d
Vancouver-Hastings	Haida Lane 6,323	Shane Simpson 10,857	Ryan Conroy 2,012	Dietrich Pajonk (Sex) 99 Chris Telford (Work Less) 198 Donna Petersen (P.F.) 76		Shane Simpson
Vancouver-Kensington	Syrus Lee 7,678	Mable Elmore 9,930	Doug Warkentin 1,288			David Chudnovsky†
Vancouver-Kingsway	Bill Yuen 6,518	Adrian Dix 9,229	Rev Warkentin 699	Matt Kadioglu (Lbt.) 171 Charles Boylan (P.F.) 112		Adrian Dix
Vancouver-Langara	Moira Stilwell 10,643	Helesia Luke 6,310	Jean-Michel Toriel 1,067			(vacant)^f
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant	Sherry Wiebe 3,638	Jenny Kwan 11,196	John Boychuk 2,508	Peter Marcus (Comm.) 171		Jenny Kwan
Vancouver-Point Grey	Gordon Campbell 11,546	Mel Lehan 9,232	Stephen Kronstein 2,012	John Ince (Sex) 130		Gordon Campbell
Vancouver-Quilchena	Colin Hansen 15,731	James Young 4,746	Laura-Leah Shaw 2,024			Colin Hansen
Vancouver-West End	Laura McDiarmid 5,735	Spencer Herbert 9,926	Drina Read 1,582	Scarlett Lake (Sex) 90 John Clarke (Lbt.) 196 Menard Caissy (Not Affil.) 36		Spencer Herbert

^d - Wally Oppal sought 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					Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
North Vancouver-Lonsdale	Naomi Yamamoto 10,323	Janice Harris 7,789	Michelle Corcos 1,791	Ian McLeod (Cons.) 862 Ron Gamble (Reform) 232	Katherine Whittred†
North Vancouver-Seymour	Jane Thornthwaite 13,426	Maureen Norton 6,212	Daniel Quinn 2,116	Gary Hee (Cons.) 931	Daniel Jarvis†
Powell River-Sunshine Coast	Dawn Miller 7,818	Nicholas Simons 13,276	Jeff Chilton 1,436	Allen McIntyre (Refed.) 249	Nicholas Simons
West Vancouver-Capilano	Ralph Sultan 15,292	Terry Platt 3,291	Ryan Windsor 1,699	David O. Marley (Ind.) 1,489 Eddie Petrossian (Cons.) 710 Tunya Audain (Lbt.) 182	Ralph Sultan
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky	Joan McIntyre 10,101	Juliana Buitenhuis 4,214	Jim Stephenson 4,082		Joan McIntyre

Vancouver Island

Electoral District						Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other		Incumbent
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 13,886	Leslie McNabb 12,508	Hazel Lennox 2,577	Paula Berard (Refed.) 266 Barbara Biley (P.F.) 120		(vacant)^g
Cowichan Valley	Cathy Basskin 9,258	Bill Routley 12,468	Simon Lindley 3,062	Jason Murray (Cons.) 924 Michial Moore (Refed.) 139	new district
Nanaimo	Jeet Manhas 8,012	Leonard Krog 11,842	Dirk Becker 2,028	Linden Shaw (Refed.) 271		Leonard Krog
Nanaimo-North Cowichan	Rob Hutchins 8,426	Doug Routley 12,888	Ian Gartshore 2,135	Ron Fuson (Refed.) 271		Doug Routley
North Island	Marion Wright 8,937	Claire Trevena 11,865	Philip Stone 1,670	William Mewhort (Ind.) 333		Claire Trevena
Parksville-Qualicum	Ron Cantelon 13,716	Leanne Salter 10,136	Wayne Osborne 2,573	Bruce Ryder (Refed.) 251		Ron Cantelon

^g - Previously held by BC Liberal Stan Hagen, who died in office on January 20, 2009.

Greater Victoria

Electoral District					Incumbent
Electoral District	Liberal	NDP	Green	Other	Incumbent
Esquimalt-Royal Roads	Carl Ratsoy 6,579	Maurine Karagianis 11,514	Jane Sterk 3,664		Maurine Karagianis
Juan de Fuca	Jody Twa 6,866	John Horgan 11,520	James Powell 1,749		John Horgan
Oak Bay-Gordon Head	Ida Chong 11,877	Jessica Van der Veen 11,316	Steven Johns 2,330		Ida Chong
Saanich North and the Islands	Murray Coell 13,120	Gary Holman 12,875	Tom Bradfield 3,220		Murray Coell
Saanich South	Robin Adair 11,215	Lana Popham 11,697	Brian Gordon 1,664	Douglas Christie (West Can.) 235	David Cubberley†
Victoria-Beacon Hill	Dallas Henault 6,375	Carole James 13,400	Adam Saab 4,106	Saul Andersen (Ind.) 319	Carole James
Victoria-Swan Lake	Jesse McClinton 5,754	Rob Fleming 13,119	David Wright 2,628	Bob Savage (Refed.) 174	Rob Fleming

References

↑ "B.C. Voter Participation: 1983 to 2013" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved May 11, 2017.
↑ BC Liberals. "British Columbia Liberal Party platform". Bcliberals.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ BC NDP election platform Archived April 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .
↑ British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013: A Better Plan for British Columbia Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Campbell's Challenge from the Right: The BC Conservative Party , Bill Tieleman, The Tyee, April 7, 2009
↑ "British Columbia Conservative Party platform". Bcconservative.com. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ "BC Libertarian Party statement". Libertarian.bc.ca. 2009-05-13. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ Pablo, Carlito (2009). B.C. Marijuana Party endorses Greens for provincial election The Georgia Straight. Accessed December 21, 2015.
↑ BC Refederation Party policies Archived May 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Platform statement from the Communist Party of BC. Archived May 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .
↑ "Nation Alliance Party platform". Nationalliance.com. 2007-07-25. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ MLPC. "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada program". Mlpc.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ "Reform Party of British Columbia platform". Reformbc.net. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ "Sex Party provincial platform". Sexparty.ca. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ "Western Canada Concept Party of BC principles". Westcan.org. 1989-03-15. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ "Work Less Party". Work Less Party. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
↑ http://www.yppofbc.com/platform.html

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

[2] BC Liberals. "British Columbia Liberal Party platform". Bcliberals.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[3] BC NDP election platform Archived April 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .

[4] British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013: A Better Plan for British Columbia Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .

[5] Campbell's Challenge from the Right: The BC Conservative Party , Bill Tieleman, The Tyee, April 7, 2009

[6] "British Columbia Conservative Party platform". Bcconservative.com. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[7] "BC Libertarian Party statement". Libertarian.bc.ca. 2009-05-13. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[8] Pablo, Carlito (2009). B.C. Marijuana Party endorses Greens for provincial election The Georgia Straight. Accessed December 21, 2015.

[9] BC Refederation Party policies Archived May 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .

[10] Platform statement from the Communist Party of BC. Archived May 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .

[11] "Nation Alliance Party platform". Nationalliance.com. 2007-07-25. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[12] MLPC. "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada program". Mlpc.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[13] "Reform Party of British Columbia platform". Reformbc.net. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[14] "Sex Party provincial platform". Sexparty.ca. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[15] "Western Canada Concept Party of BC principles". Westcan.org. 1989-03-15. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[16] "Work Less Party". Work Less Party. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[17] ttp://www.yppofbc.com/platform.html

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