The following are the results by riding (electoral district) of the 1996 British Columbia general election held on May 28, 1996.
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||||
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NDP | Liberal | Reform | PDA | Green | Other | |||||||||
Abbotsford | Bruce Temple 5,405 – 24.69% | John van Dongen 10,998 – 50.24% | Mark Warawa 4,086 – 18.67% | Merilyn Anderson 1,125 – 5.14% | Geoff Berner 274 – 1.25% | John van Dongen | ||||||||
Alberni | Gerard A. M. Janssen 7,398 – 52.01% | Gillian Trumper 5,099 – 35.85% | Vi Hiansen 823 – 5.79% | Ingrid Helen Rebar 578 – 4.06% | Andre Sperling 195 – 1.37% |
| Gerard A. M. Janssen | |||||||
Bulkley Valley-Stikine | Bill Goodacre 4,779 – 37.02% | Pat Beach 3,726 – 28.87% | Bill Zemenchik 3,473 – 26.91% | Sharon L. Hartwell 624 – 4.83% | Stuart Hertzog 151 – 1.17% | Peter Barendregt (SC) 155 – 1.20% | Jackie Pement | |||||||
Burnaby-Edmonds | Fred Randall 9,912 – 46.45% | Judy St. Denis 8,770 – 41.09% | Carlos Brito 1,008 – 4.72% | John Schwermer 1,067 – 5.00% | Eric Hawthorne 387 – 1.81% | Fred Randall | ||||||||
Burnaby North | Pietro Calendino 8,926 – 45.47% | Richard T. Lee 8,160 – 41.57% | Daniela Bosa 1,081 – 5.51% | Richard A. Y. Lee 976 – 4.97% | Tom Hetherington 395 – 2.01% | Barry Jones | ||||||||
Burnaby-Willingdon | Joan Sawicki 10,501 – 45.54% | John Nuraney 9,678 – 41.97% | Sunny G. Sodhi 999 – 4.33% | Thomas Reekie 1,161 – 5.03% | Joe Keithley 458 – 1.99% | Joan Sawicki | ||||||||
Cariboo North | Frank Garden 5,180 – 38.26% | John D. Wilson 5,533 – 40.87% | Robert Eyford 2,561 – 18.92% | Phillip Mencero 168 – 1.24% | Ric Steines (Ltn.) 97 – 0.72% | Frank Garden | ||||||||
Cariboo South | David Zirnhelt 6,372 – 41.45% | Dave Worthy 6,050 – 39.35% | Jon Wolbers 2,684 – 17.46% | Donald Stuart Rennie 267 – 1.74% | David Zirnhelt | |||||||||
Chilliwack | Rollie Keith 5,989 – 24.48% | Barry Penner 9,273 – 37.90% | Bill Wimpney 3,237 – 13.23% | Steve Kisbey 232 – 0.95% | Bob Chisholm 5,736 – 23.44% | Bob Chisholm | ||||||||
Columbia River-Revelstoke | Jim Doyle 6,264 – 42.52% | Brian Allan McMahon 5,172 – 35.10% | Steve V. Pinchak 2,687 – 18.24% | Dave Herman 282 – 1.91% | Rhonda Smith 270 – 1.83% | Sonia Stairs (NLP) 58 – 0.39% | Jim Doyle | |||||||
Comox Valley | Evelyn Gillespie 13,230 – 42.76% | Bill MacDonald 10,721 – 34.65% | Delbert Doll 3,451 – 11.15% | Joe Lawlor 1,039 – 3.36% | Meaghan Cursons 1,296 – 4.19% |
| Margaret Lord | |||||||
Coquitlam-Maillardville | John Cashore 10,812 – 45.91% | Maxine Wilson 9,440 – 40.08% | Bev Walsh 1,434 – 6.09% | Angela Broughton 1,289 – 5.47% | John Cashore | |||||||||
Cowichan-Ladysmith | Jan Pullinger 12,249 – 49.85% | Ray Smith 7,783 – 31.68% | Tom Walker 2,434 – 9.91% | Perry James Johnson 1,459 – 5.94% | Julian West 645 – 2.63% | Jan Pullinger | ||||||||
Delta North | Norm Lortie 8,657 – 42.33% | Reni Masi 9,305 – 45.50% | Gurmant Grewal 755 – 3.69% | Ross Pike 1,385 – 6.77% | Angela Chiotakos 347 – 1.70% | Norm Lortie | ||||||||
Delta South | Lloyd MacDonald 5,984 – 26.22% | Fred Gingell 13,415 – 58.78% | Kevin Garvey 1,371 – 6.01% | Donna M. Tobias 1,215 – 5.32% | Greg Dickey 333 – 1.46% | Fred Gingell | ||||||||
Esquimalt-Metchosin | Moe Sihota 13,833 – 59.54% | Heather Landon 6,770 – 29.14% | Scotty Davidson 1,179 – 5.07% | Ron Whims 921 – 3.96% | Adam Charlesworth 376 – 1.62% | Moe Sihota | ||||||||
Fort Langley-Aldergrove | Charles Bradford 7,369 – 29.03% | Rich Coleman 12,005 – 47.30% | John Twidale 3,484 – 13.73% | Bob Farquhar 1,737 – 6.84% | Amy Salmon 472 – 1.86% | Lila O. Stanford (FCP) 316 – 1.24% | Gary Farrell-Collins | |||||||
Kamloops | Cathy McGregor 10,135 – 44.30% | Gur Singh 9,273 – 40.53% | Joe Leong 1,721 – 7.52% | Deborah J. Fisher 1,241 – 5.42% | Ken Endean (SC) 508 – 2.22% | Arthur L. Charbonneau | ||||||||
Kamloops-North Thompson | Fred Jackson 6,945 – 41.25% | Kevin Krueger 7,313 – 43.43% | Alan Forseth 1,710 – 10.16% | Alan Child 401 – 2.38% | Steve Quinn (SC) 468 – 2.78% | Fred Jackson | ||||||||
Kootenay | Erda Walsh 6,398 – 38.59% | Ron Tarr 5,887 – 35.50% | Wilf Hanni 3,718 – 22.42% | Casey Brennan 363 – 2.19% | Marko Makar 215 – 1.30% | Anne Edwards | ||||||||
Langley | Kim Richter 5,795 – 29.12% | Lynn Stephens 9,277 – 46.62% | Joe Lopushinsky 3,224 – 16.20% | Paul MacDonald 1,195 – 6.00% | Fely Gotia-Walters 262 – 1.32% | Ian B. Thompson (SC) 148 – 0.74% | Lynn Stephens | |||||||
Malahat-Juan de Fuca | Rick Kasper 10,686-48.63% | Mike Elcock 7,556 – 34.39% | Bill Cools 1,887 – 8.59% | Donna Launay 1,061 – 4.83% | Beverley Holden 601 – 2.74% |
| Rick Kasper | |||||||
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows | Bill Hartley 12,946 – 46.07% | Ken Stewart 10,960 – 39.00% | Nick Walsh 1,470 – 5.23% | Peter Neufeld 2,011 – 7.16% | Richard Hennick 464 – 1.65% | Bill Hartley | ||||||||
Matsqui | Deb Charrois 5,349 – 24.93% | Michael de Jong 10,903 – 50.81% | Simon Gibson 4,405 – 20.53% | Sam Wager 216 – 1.01% | Peter A. Dueck | |||||||||
Mission-Kent | Dennis Streifel 8,232 – 44.16% | Abe Neufeld 7,112 – 38.15% | Frank Sleigh 1,618 – 8.68% | Heather Sebastian 1,243 – 6.67% | Hans Grages 324 – 1.74% | Chum Richardson 113 – 0.61% | Dennis Streifel | |||||||
Nanaimo | Dale Lovick 11,210 – 48.75% | Gary Richard Korpan 7,672 – 33.36% | Garry D. Shepp 1,867 – 8.12% | David J. Weston 1,337 – 5.81% | Karen M. Shillington 486 – 2.11% | Dale Lovick | ||||||||
Nelson-Creston | Corky Evans 9,179 – 44.90% | Howard Dirks 6,434 – 31.47% | Brian Dale Gaschnitz 2,114 – 10.34% | Andy Shadrack 2,282 – 11.16% | Corky Evans | |||||||||
New Westminster | Graeme Bowbrick 10,418 – 46.69% | Helen Sparkes 8,591 – 38.50% | Brian Stromgren 1,446 – 6.48% | Craig Sahlin 1,121 – 5.02% | Michael G. Horn 488 – 2.19% |
| Anita Hagen | |||||||
North Coast | Dan Miller 7,298 – 64.82% | Odd Eidsvik 2,899 – 25.75% | Clarence Hall 830 – 7.37% | Patrick Lemaire 232 – 2.06% | Dan Miller | |||||||||
North Island | Glenn Robertson 8,385 – 45.80% | Gerry Furney 6,781 – 37.04% | Dave Jackson 1,776 – 9.70% | Mark Grenier 887 – 4.84% | Don Malcolm 479 – 2.62% | Colin S. Gabelmann | ||||||||
North Vancouver-Lonsdale | David Schreck 7,151 – 35.56% | Katherine Whittred 9,325 – 46.37% | Stanley Dzuba 1,241 – 6.17% | Royston Forsyth 1,736 – 8.63% | Renee Chalut 417 – 2.07% | David Schreck | ||||||||
North Vancouver-Seymour | Michelle Kemper 6,676 – 26.56% | Daniel Jarvis 14,165 – 56.35% | Caroline Meredith 1,737 – 6.91% | David Massey 1,713 – 6.81% | Mark Brooks 645 – 2.57% | Daniel Jarvis | ||||||||
Oak Bay-Gordon Head | Elizabeth Cull 11,700 – 44.17% | Ida Chong 12,340 – 46.59% | Paul Yewchuk 675 – 2.55% | Gordon Henderson 937 – 3.54% | Lenora Burke 566 – 2.14% | Elizabeth Cull | ||||||||
Okanagan-Boundary | Bill Barlee 6,984 – 38.20% | Bill Barisoff 7,011 – 38.35% | Garry Mitchell 2,810 – 15.37% | Kevin Highfield 775 – 4.24% | David Simm 356 – 1.95% | Bill Barlee | ||||||||
Okanagan East | Janet Elizabeth Gooch 5,176 – 21.17% | John Weisbeck 9,382 – 38.37% | Stamata Andrich 3,116 – 12.74% | Judi Tyabji 6,432 – 26.30% | Dave Cursons 347 – 1.42% | Judi Tyabji | ||||||||
Okanagan-Penticton | Jim Beattie 9,092 – 36.74% | Rick Thorpe 10,661 – 43.07% | Loretta Krauter 2,976 – 12.02% | Johannes L. Thoen 1,444 – 5.83% | Harry Philip Naegel 464 – 1.87% | Carol Ross (NLP) 113 – 0.46% | Jim Beattie | |||||||
Okanagan-Vernon | Howard Brown 7,497 – 29.95% | April Sanders 9,776 – 39.06% | Heinz Weiss 5,356 – 21.40% | Geoff Jell 1,839 – 7.35% | Jane Peach 3,34 – 1.33% | Clinton Henry (SC) 227 – 0.91% | Lyall Hanson | |||||||
Okanagan West | Ken Charlish 8,281 – 24.46% | Sindi Hawkins 15,575 – 46.00% | Keith Thompson 4,858 – 14.35% | Angie March 4,225 – 12.48% | Damon Klein 519 – 1.53% | George Lensen (SC) 399 – 1.18% | Clifford Jack Serwa | |||||||
Parksville-Qualicum | Leonard Krog 12,976 – 39.72% | Paul Reitsma 13,459 – 41.19% | Teunis Westbroek 3,955 – 12.11% | Garner Stone 1,669 – 5.11% | Mark Robinson 422 – 1.29% |
| Leonard Krog | |||||||
Peace River North | Brian Churchill 1,975 – 18.04% | Ben Knutson 3,137 – 28.66% | Richard Neufeld 5,299 – 48.41% | Neil Bitterman 169 – 1.54% |
| Richard Neufeld | ||||||||
Peace River South | Patrick Michiel 3,778 – 30.88% | Brian Haddow 3,774 – 30.85% | Jack Weisgerber 3,901 – 31.89% | Wade Alexander Allan 183 – 1.50% | Shane Hartnell 145 – 1.19% | Aime Girard (SC) 452 – 3.69% | Jack Weisgerber | |||||||
Port Coquitlam | Mike Farnworth 14,767 – 46.37% | Irene Barr 13,310 – 41.80% | Lawrence Glazer 1,335 – 4.19% | Rick Howard 1,789 – 5.62% | Debra Eilers 417 – 1.31% | Mike Farnworth | ||||||||
Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain | Jamie Ross 9,804 – 42.69% | Christy Clark 10,272 – 44.73% | Diane Friesen 1,039 – 4.52% | Margaret Connor 1,408 – 6.13% | Oz Catt 441 – 1.92% | Barbara E. Copping | ||||||||
Powell River-Sunshine Coast | Bill Forst 6,088 – 27.57% | Cameron Reid 3,911 – 17.71% | Don Atkinson 677 – 3.07% | Gordon Wilson 10,833 – 49.05% | D. Wendy Young 518 – 2.35% | Roslyn Griston (Common Sense) 57 – 0.26% | Gordon Wilson | |||||||
Prince George-Mount Robson | Lois Boone 4,713 – 40.67% | Lorna Dittmar 3,764 – 32.48% | Norm Lorenz 2,076 – 17.92% | Brian Self 788 – 6.80% | Richard Michael Zammuto 247 – 2.13% | Lois Boone | ||||||||
Prince George North | Paul Ramsey 5,837 – 39.58% | Bob Viergever 4,923 – 33.38% | Ron Hirvi 2,430 – 16.48% | Adele Graber 891 – 6.04% | Carolyn Linden 173 – 1.17% | Ken Benham 495 – 3.36% | Paul Ramsey | |||||||
Prince George-Omineca | Chuck Fraser 5,206 – 34.82% | Paul Nettleton 5,514 – 36.88% | Ron Ray 2,998 – 20.05% | Carole Fraser 1,023 – 6.84% | Todd Edward Romaine 209 – 1.40% | Len Fox | ||||||||
Richmond Centre | Doug Black 5,723 – 32.02% | Doug Symons 9,925 – 55.52% | Shamim Akbar 614 – 3.43% | Rob Oey 996 – 5.57% | Manoa Friedson 235 – 1.31% | Doug Symons | ||||||||
Richmond East | Balwant Sanghera 5,763 – 31.40% | Linda Reid 10,205 – 55.60% | Paula Peterson 792 – 4.32% | Marc G. Schaper 1,093 – 5.96% | Kevan Eric Hudson 235 – 1.28% | Linda Reid | ||||||||
Richmond-Steveston | Gail Paquette 5,041 – 29.61% | Geoff Plant 9,643 – 56.65% | Shirley Abraham-Kirk 556 – 3.27% | Pat Young 919 – 5.40% | Brian Gold 188 – 1.10% | Allan Warnke | ||||||||
Rossland-Trail | Ed Conroy 8,635 – 50.74% | Jim Greene 5,923 – 34.80% | Phillip Morris 1,366 – 8.03% | Kathy Plummer 660 – 3.88% | Clare Greidanus 434 – 2.55% | Ed Conroy | ||||||||
Saanich North and the Islands | Lynda Laushway 10,546 – 37.51% | Murray Robert Coell 13,374 – 47.57% | Ross Imrie 1,627 – 5.79% | Gary Lundy 1,533 – 5.45% | Wally du Temple 898 – 3.19% | Clive Tanner | ||||||||
Saanich South | Andrew Petter 11,394 – 46.11% | Frank Leonard 10,867 – 43.98% | Colin Knecht 676 – 2.74% | Cherie Dealey 1,198 – 4.85% | Jack Etkin 343 – 1.39% | Andrew Petter | ||||||||
Shuswap | Calvin White 7,869 – 31.63% | George Abbott 8,596 – 34.55% | Colin Mayes 5,617 – 22.58% | Bev Torrens 1,325 – 5.33% | Paul Stephen De Felice 237 – 0.95% |
| Shannon O'Neill | |||||||
Skeena | Helmut Giesbrecht 5,353 – 40.34% | Rick Wozney 4,718 – 35.56% | Andy Burton 2,744 – 20.68% | Doug Bodnar 205 – 1.54% | Dave Serry (SC) 249 – 1.88% | Helmut Giesbrecht | ||||||||
Surrey-Cloverdale | Charan Gill 8,831 – 29.82% | Bonnie McKinnon 14,297 – 48.27% | Stuart Clark 2,690 – 9.08% | Philip McCormack 2,417 – 8.16% | David Walters 366 – 1.24% | Ken Jones | ||||||||
Surrey-Green Timbers | Sue Hammell 10,278 – 50.11% | Bill Phelps 6,930 – 33.79% | Dominic Darmanin 1,183 – 5.77% | Gerard Baisch 1,150 – 5.61% | Romeo De La Pena 228 – 1.11% | Sue Hammell | ||||||||
Surrey-Newton | Penny Priddy 13,969 – 49.54% | Indra Thind 9,788 – 34.71% | Liaqat Bajwa 1,244 – 4.41% | Ian Brown 1,841 – 6.53% | Maureen A. MacDonald 340 – 1.21% | Penny Priddy | ||||||||
Surrey-Whalley | Joan Smallwood 7,396 – 50.14% | Judy Higginbotham 4,576 – 31.02% | John Conway 1,302 – 8.83% | Vlad Marjanovic 968 – 6.56% | Jens M. Haeusser 243 – 1.65% | Joan Smallwood | ||||||||
Surrey-White Rock | David Thompson 8,215 – 26.43% | Wilf Hurd 18,039 – 58.04% | David Secord 2,519 – 8.10% | Ahmad Bajwa 1,110 – 3.57% | Steve Chitty 677 – 2.18% |
| Wilf Hurd | |||||||
Vancouver-Burrard | Tim Stevenson 10,646 – 49.70% | Duncan Wilson 7,975 – 37.23% | Aletta Buday 671 – 3.13% | Laura McDiarmid 1,014 – 4.73% | Imtiaz Popat 563 – 2.63% | Emery O. Barnes | ||||||||
Vancouver-Fraserview | Ian Waddell 8,774 – 45.97% | Gulzar Cheema 8,394 – 43.98% | Tim Shreeve 643 – 3.37% | Andy Wong 815 – 4.27% | Stephen Samuel 225 – 1.18% | Bernie Simpson | ||||||||
Vancouver-Hastings | Joy MacPhail 9,894 – 54.01% | Raymond Leung 6,345 – 34.64% | Nazario Matino 568 – 3.10% | Joe Cafariello 824 – 4.50% | Irene L. Schmidt 486 – 2.65% | Joy MacPhail | ||||||||
Vancouver-Kensington | Ujjal Dosanjh 9,496 – 50.74% | Gim Huey 7,608 – 40.65% | Kirk Pankey 472 – 2.52% | Don Seykens 537 – 2.87% | Kelly White 349 – 1.86% | Ujjal Dosanjh | ||||||||
Vancouver-Kingsway | Glen Clark 10,525 – 55.46% | Francis Ho 6,997 – 36.87% | Graham Norton 367 – 1.93% | Julia Marks 518 – 2.73% | Marilyn Hogan 264 – 1.39% | Glen Clark | ||||||||
Vancouver-Langara | Ragini Rankin 5,515 – 30.08% | Val J. Anderson 11,038 – 60.20% | Christie Jung 519 – 2.83% | Philip Read 839 – 4.58% | Michael Airton 337 – 1.84% | Jerry Zen-Jih Chang (NLP) 89 – 0.49% | Val J. Anderson | |||||||
Vancouver-Little Mountain | Margaret Birrell 9,390 – 39.20% | Gary Farrell-Collins 12,036 – 50.25% | David J. Waine 489 – 2.04% | Ted Philip Badley 1,062 – 4.43% | Stuart Parker 714 – 2.98% | Tom Perry | ||||||||
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant | Jenny W. C. Kwan 11,155 – 64.05% | Anne Beer 4,243 – 24.36% | Wayne Marsden 354 – 2.03% | John Spark 584 – 3.35% | Paul Alexander 759 – 4.36% | Mike Harcourt | ||||||||
Vancouver-Point Grey | Jim Green 11,074 – 42.81% | Gordon Campbell 12,637 – 48.86% | Sager Jan 406 – 1.57% | Allison Mountstevens 857 – 3.31% | Ralph Maud 683 – 2.64% | Darlene R. Marzari | ||||||||
Vancouver-Quilchena | Roger Boshier 4,977 – 22.04% | Colin Hansen 15,509 – 68.68% | Jay Davison 495 – 2.19% | Richard Chave Sanderson 827 – 3.66% | Valerie Jerome 627 – 2.78% | Art Cowie | ||||||||
Victoria-Beacon Hill | Gretchen Brewin 11,960 – 52.51% | Howard Markson 7,636 – 33.52% | Ken Conrad 654 – 2.87% | Richard Fahl 1,093 – 4.80% | Stephen DeMeulenaere 1,008 – 4.43% | Gretchen Brewin | ||||||||
Victoria-Hillside | Steve Orcherton 11,585 – 53.32% | Sheila Orr 6,862 – 31.58% | Dan Willson 979 – 4.51% | Gary Beyer 1,227 – 5.65% | David Scott White 790 – 3.64% | Robin Blencoe | ||||||||
West Vancouver-Capilano | Daniel Reeve 3,486 – 14.90% | Jeremy Dalton 16,675 – 71.29% | Ted Shandro 1,326 – 5.67% | Marina Jurlina 1,182 – 5.05% | Matthew Ferguson 461 – 1.97% | Jeremy Dalton | ||||||||
West Vancouver-Garibaldi | Brenda Broughton 6,288 – 29.16% | Ted Nebbeling 12,326 – 57.17% | Jim Mercier 1,430 – 6.63% | Roland T. French 693 – 3.21% | Peggy Stortz 532 – 2.47% | David J. Mitchell | ||||||||
Yale-Lillooet | Harry Lali 7,081 – 41.06% | Jim Rabbitt 5,912 – 34.29% | John Calvin Stinson 3,419 – 19.83% | Richard Bennett 706 – 4.09% | Ed Vanwoudenberg (FCP) 124 – 0.72% | Harry Lali |
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The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 96, was the 10th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by European nations and organised by UEFA. It took place in England from 8 to 30 June 1996. It was the first European Championship to feature 16 finalists, following UEFA's decision to expand the tournament from eight teams.
General elections were held in India on 27 April, 2 May and 7 May 1996 to elect the members of the eleventh Lok Sabha. The elections resulted in a hung parliament with no single party having a clear majority. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had won the most seats, formed a short-lived government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. However, two weeks later the United Front coalition was able to secure a parliamentary majority and H. D. Deve Gowda of Janata Dal became Prime Minister. In 1997 Inder Kumar Gujral, also from the United Front, succeeded Gowda as Prime Minister. Due to the instability, early elections were held in 1998. The elections were the first since 1980 in which every states' seats were elected in a single election period.
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle.