2009 British Columbia general election

Canadian provincial election September 2023 2009 British Columbia general election British Columbia parliamentary no no no 2005 British Columbia general election 2005 2013 British Columbia general election 2013 85 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 43 seats were needed for a majority May 12, 2009 38th Parliament of British Columbia 39th Parliament of British Columbia 50.99%B.C. Voter Participation: 1983 to 2013 http://142.34.128.33/docs/stats/bc-voter-participation-1983-2013.pdf Elections BC May 11, 2017 March 28, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190328040547/https://142.34.128.33/docs/stats/bc-voter-participation-1983-2013.pdf dead 7.2 pp x150px BC Liberal nohash Gordon Campbell September 11, 1993 BC Liberal name Vancouver-Point Grey 46 seats 49 3 751,661 45.82% 0.03% x150px BC NDP nohash Carole James November 23, 2003 BC NDP name Victoria-Beacon Hill 33 seats 35 2 691,564 42.15% 0.62% x150px BC Green nohash Jane Sterk October 21, 2007 BC Green name Ran in Esquimalt-Royal Roads (Lost) 0 seats 0 134,570 8.21% 0.97% British_Columbia_Provincial_Election_2009.svg 350px 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 Gordon Campbell BC Liberal name Gordon Campbell Premier after election BC Liberal name The 2009 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 was 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 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 had won three elections in a row in British Columbia. Polling at the start of the year had shown the Liberals on-track to be returned with an increased majority, but a late shift in voter intentions from the Green Party to the NDP would ultimately lead to a near-repeat of the previous election four years prior. 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. Voter turnout was 50.99% of eligible voters (1,651,567 registered voters). 2008 redistribution of ridings 2008 British Columbia electoral redistribution An Act was passed in 2008 providing for an increase of seats from 79 to 85, upon the next election.Electoral Districts Act S.B.C. 2008 14 https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/hstats/hstats/1527588285 The following changes were made: Abolished ridings New ridingsRenaming of districts Abbotsford-Mount Lehman Abbotsford West Alberni-Qualicum Alberni-Pacific Rim Bulkley Valley-Stikine Stikine Burnaby-Willingdon Burnaby-Deer Lake Burquitlam Burnaby-Lougheed Cariboo South Cariboo-Chilcotin Chilliwack-Kent Chilliwack-Hope Chilliwack-Sumas Chilliwack East Kootenay Kootenay East Esquimalt-Metchosin Esquimalt-Royal Roads Kamloops Kamloops-South Thompson Malahat-Juan de Fuca Juan de Fuca Nanaimo-Parksville Parksville-Qualicum Okanagan-Vernon Vernon-Monashee Okanagan-Westside Westside-Kelowna Penticton-Okanagan Valley Penticton Prince George North Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George-Valemount Prince George-Omineca Nechako Lakes Surrey-Panorama Ridge Surrey-Panorama Victoria-Hillside Victoria-Swan Lake West Vancouver-Garibaldi West Vancouver-Sea to SkyDrawn from other districts Surrey-FleetwoodFrom parts of Surrey-Green Timbers, Surrey-Newton and Surrey-Cloverdale.Division of districts Abbotsford-Clayburn Abbotsford-MissionAlso taking in part of Maple Ridge-Mission. Abbotsford South Cowichan-Ladysmith Cowichan ValleyAlso taking in part of Malahat-Juan de Fuca. Nanaimo-North CowichanAlso taking in part of Nanaimo. Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-False CreekAlso taking in part of Vancouver-Fairview. Vancouver-West EndReorganization of districts Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Moody-Westwood Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Coquitlam West Kootenay-Boundary Yale-Lillooet Boundary-Similkameen Fraser-Nicola Kootenay West a 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.BC Liberals http://www.bcliberals.com/platform/strong_leadership_and_stable_government/ British Columbia Liberal Party platform Bcliberals.com 2011-05-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110609200305/http://www.bcliberals.com/platform/strong_leadership_and_stable_government/ 2011-06-09 New Democratic Party of British Columbia  Leader: Carole James Under Carole James' leadership the NDP won 33 seats 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).BC NDP election platform https://web.archive.org/web/20090412093345/http://www.bcndp.ca/why-ndp/BCNDP-platform-2009 April 12, 2009 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.British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013: A Better Plan for British Columbia https://web.archive.org/web/20090427134453/http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/greenbook April 27, 2009 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.Campbell's Challenge from the Right: The BC Conservative Party https://web.archive.org/web/20170925170132/https://thetyee.ca/News/2009/04/07/ConservativeChallenge/ 2017-09-25 , Bill Tieleman, The Tyee, April 7, 2009 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.http://www.bcconservative.com/ British Columbia Conservative Party platform Bcconservative.com 2011-05-15 2011-05-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20110509101644/http://www.bcconservative.com/ live  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.http://www.libertarian.bc.ca/election2009/index.html BC Libertarian Party statement Libertarian.bc.ca 2009-05-13 2011-05-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110527193254/http://www.libertarian.bc.ca/election2009/index.html 2011-05-27  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.Pablo, Carlito (2009). B.C. Marijuana Party endorses Greens for provincial election https://web.archive.org/web/20181116103808/https://www.straight.com/article-200892/bc-marijuana-party-goes-green 2018-11-16 The Georgia Straight. Accessed December 21, 2015.  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.BC Refederation Party policies https://web.archive.org/web/20090523225836/http://refedbc.com/siteA/page55/page58/page58.html May 23, 2009  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.Platform statement from the Communist Party of BC. https://web.archive.org/web/20090505010929/http://www.cpcbc.ca/program.html May 5, 2009  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.http://www.nationalliance.com/our-party.htm Nation Alliance Party platform Nationalliance.com 2007-07-25 2011-05-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110714155838/http://www.nationalliance.com/our-party.htm 2011-07-14  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.MLPC http://www.mlpc.ca/program/MLPCprogram.html Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada program Mlpc.ca 2011-05-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110515163210/http://www.mlpc.ca/program/MLPCprogram.html 2011-05-15 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.http://www.reformbc.net/ Reform Party of British Columbia platform Reformbc.net 2011-05-15 2011-07-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716134212/http://www.reformbc.net/ live  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.http://www.sexparty.ca/about-us/platform-provincial Sex Party provincial platform Sexparty.ca 2011-05-15 2011-05-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20110527141519/http://www.sexparty.ca/about-us/platform-provincial live  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.http://www.westcan.org/principles_and_goals.htm Western Canada Concept Party of BC principles Westcan.org 1989-03-15 2011-05-15 2011-06-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20110613232556/http://www.westcan.org/principles_and_goals.htm live  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.http://www.worklessparty.org/ Work Less Party Work Less Party 2011-05-15 2020-11-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20201114001746/http://www.worklessparty.org/ live 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.http://www.yppofbc.com/platform.html YPP-of-BC Platform 2009-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144626/http://www.yppofbc.com/platform.html 2011-07-18 dead 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 + Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level Polling firmLast day of survey SourceLiberalNDP Green Cons. Other ME Margin of Error SampleVoting results45.8242.158.212.101.72IpsosMay 7, 2009124739104±3.5800MustelMay 7, 2009473812 3Angus ReidMay 6, 200944421022±3.11,013EnvironicsMay 2, 2009473613 5Angus ReidApril 28, 2009November 2016 InternetArchiveBot yes 42391333MustelApril 7, 20095235121±4.5483Angus ReidMarch 25, 200943371343IpsosMarch 24, 20094635154MustelFebruary 10, 20095236121MustelJanuary 15, 20094733164Angus ReidAugust 25, 200827 August 2008 NDP Edges Ruling BC Liberals Nine Months Before Election https://www.cbc.ca/bc/news/bc-080827-angus-reid-voting-poll.pdf Angus Reid Strategies 24 June 2026 CBC3841147±3.5802 2005 British Columbia general electionMay 17, 200545.8041.529.180.552.95 Results +Elections to the 39th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (2009)Elections BC 2009 21PartyLeaderCandidatesVotesSeats # ± % Change (pp) 2005 2009 ± BC Liberal row-nameGordon Campbell 85 751,661 55,457 45.82 0.02 −5 1em background:green4649 85 BC Liberal3 BC NDP row-nameCarole James 85 691,564 40,219 42.15 0.63 −5 1em background:green3335 85 BC NDP2 BC Green row-nameJane Sterk 85 134,616 27,233 8.21 -0.98 −5 1em background:red BC Conservative row-nameWilf Hanni 24 34,451 24,828 2.10 1.55 −5 1em background:green BC Independent row-name 16 18,686 1,087 1.14 0.14 −5 1em background:green –1 85 BC Independent1 BC Marijuana row-nameMarc Emery 1 361 11,088 0.02 -0.63 −5 1em background:red BC DRBC row-nameDid not campaign -0.80 −5 1em background:red BC Refederation row-nameMike Summers 22 3,748 3,073 0.23 0.19 BC Libertarian row-name 6 1,486 433 0.09 0.03 BC Reform row-nameDavid Charles Hawkins 4 1,106 741 0.07 0.05 BC Nation Alliance row-name Wei Ping Chen 2 818 818 0.05 New BC Communist row-nameGeorge Gidora 3 433 189 0.03 0.01 BC People's Front row-nameCharles Boylan 4 401 21 0.02 – BC YPP row-nameJames Filippelli 2 335 107 0.02 – BC WLP row-nameConrad Schmidt 2 322 1,319 0.02 −0.07 BC Sex row-nameJohn Ince 3 319 14 0.02 – BC Western Canada Concept row-nameDoug Christie 1 235 152 0.01 −0.01Total 3451,640,542 100.00% Vote and seat summaries Ternary plots – shift of electoral support (2005–2009) 350 200 yes center Electoral districts identified by colours of winning parties File:Ternary BC2005.svg 2005 Ternary plot of 2005 results File:Ternary BC2009.svg 2009 Ternary plot of 2009 results MLAs elected #A51B12 Abbotsford-Mission: Randy Hawes #A51B12 Abbotsford South: John van Dongen #A51B12 Abbotsford West: Mike de Jong #F4A460 Alberni-Pacific Rim: Scott Fraser #A51B12 Boundary-Similkameen: John Slater #F4A460 Burnaby-Deer Lake: Kathy Corrigan #F4A460 Burnaby-Edmonds: Raj Chouhan #A51B12 Burnaby-Lougheed: Harry Bloy #A51B12 Burnaby North: Richard Lee #A51B12 Cariboo-Chilcotin: Donna Barnett #F4A460 Cariboo North: Bob Simpson #A51B12 Chilliwack: John Les #A51B12 Chilliwack-Hope: Barry Penner #F4A460 Columbia River-Revelstoke: Norm Macdonald #A51B12 Comox Valley: Don McRae #A51B12 Coquitlam-Burke Mountain: Douglas Horne #F4A460 Coquitlam-Maillardville: Diane Thorne #F4A460 Cowichan Valley: Bill Routley #F4A460 Delta North: Guy Gentner #DCDCDC Delta South: Vicki Huntington #F4A460 Esquimalt-Royal Roads: Maurine Karagianis #A51B12 Fort Langley-Aldergrove: Rich Coleman #F4A460 Fraser-Nicola: Harry Lali #F4A460 Juan de Fuca: John Horgan #A51B12 Kamloops-North Thompson: Terry Lake #A51B12 Kamloops-South Thompson: Kevin Krueger #A51B12 Kelowna-Lake Country: Norm Letnick #A51B12 Kelowna-Mission: Steve Thomson #A51B12 Kootenay East: Bill Bennett #F4A460 Kootenay West: Katrine Conroy #A51B12 Langley: Mary Polak #A51B12 Maple Ridge-Mission: Marc Dalton #F4A460 Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows: Michael Sather #F4A460 Nanaimo: Leonard Krog #F4A460 Nanaimo-North Cowichan: Doug Routley #A51B12 Nechako Lakes: John Rustad #F4A460 Nelson-Creston: Michelle Mungall #F4A460 New Westminster: Dawn Black #F4A460 North Coast: Gary Coons #F4A460 North Island: Claire Trevena #A51B12 North Vancouver-Lonsdale: Naomi Yamamoto #A51B12 North Vancouver-Seymour: Jane Thornthwaite #A51B12 Oak Bay-Gordon Head: Ida Chong #A51B12 Parksville-Qualicum: Ron Cantelon #A51B12 Peace River North: Pat Pimm #A51B12 Peace River South: Blair Lekstrom #A51B12 Penticton: Bill Barisoff #F4A460 Port Coquitlam: Mike Farnworth #A51B12 Port Moody-Coquitlam: Iain Black #F4A460 Powell River-Sunshine Coast: Nicholas Simons #A51B12 Prince George-Mackenzie: Pat Bell #A51B12 Prince George-Valemount: Shirley Bond #A51B12 Richmond Centre: Rob Howard #A51B12 Richmond East: Linda Reid #A51B12 Richmond-Steveston: John Yap #A51B12 Saanich North and the Islands: Murray Coell #F4A460 Saanich South: Lana Popham #A51B12 Shuswap: George Abbott #F4A460 Skeena: Robin Austin #F4A460 Stikine: Doug Donaldson #A51B12 Surrey-Cloverdale: Kevin Falcon #F4A460 Surrey-Fleetwood: Jagrup Brar #F4A460 Surrey-Green Timbers: Sue Hammell #F4A460 Surrey-Newton: Harry Bains #A51B12 Surrey-Panorama: Stephanie Cadieux #A51B12 Surrey-Tynehead: Dave Hayer #F4A460 Surrey-Whalley: Bruce Ralston #A51B12 Surrey-White Rock: Gordon Hogg #A51B12 Vancouver-Fairview: Margaret MacDiarmid #A51B12 Vancouver-False Creek: Mary McNeil #A51B12 Vancouver-Fraserview: Kash Heed #F4A460 Vancouver-Hastings: Shane Simpson #F4A460 Vancouver-Kensington: Mable Elmore #F4A460 Vancouver-Kingsway: Adrian Dix #A51B12 Vancouver-Langara: Moira Stilwell #F4A460 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant: Jenny Kwan #A51B12 Vancouver-Point Grey: Gordon Campbell #A51B12 Vancouver-Quilchena: Colin Hansen #F4A460 Vancouver-West End: Spencer Chandra Herbert #A51B12 Vernon-Monashee: Eric Foster #F4A460 Victoria-Beacon Hill: Carole James #F4A460 Victoria-Swan Lake: Rob Fleming #A51B12 West Vancouver-Capilano: Ralph Sultan #A51B12 West Vancouver-Sea to Sky: Joan McIntyre #A51B12 Westside-Kelowna: Ben Stewart Synopsis of results + Results by riding – 2009 British Columbia general electionElections BC 2009 32–34 Riding Winning party Turnoutincluding spoilt ballots Votesparties receiving more than 1% of the popular vote, or fielding candidates in at least half of the constituencies, are listed separately.Name 2005Party Votes Share Margin#Margin% Lib NDP Grn Con Conservative Ind Independent or no affiliation Oth Other minor parties Total   Abbotsford-Mission New Lib 10,371 58.36% 4,583 25.79% 52.10% 10,371 5,788 1,611 – – – 17,770 Abbotsford South New Lib 9,566 58.47% 5,369 32.82% 48.75% 9,566 4,197 1,244 1,019 334 – 16,360 Abbotsford West Lib Lib 8,992 55.81% 3,886 24.12% 52.86% 8,992 5,106 970 1,043 – – 16,111 Alberni-Pacific Rim NDP NDP 10,488 59.36% 4,883 27.64% 57.68% 5,605 10,488 1,324 – – 250 17,667 Boundary-Similkameen New Lib 6,681 37.45% 811 4.55% 62.31% 6,681 5,870 1,691 3,596 – – 17,838 Burnaby-Deer Lake Lib NDP 8,103 48.75% 512 3.08% 48.65% 7,591 8,103 928 – – – 16,622 Burnaby-Edmonds NDP NDP 8,647 51.94% 2,262 13.59% 49.07% 6,385 8,647 1,122 – – 493 16,647 Burnaby-Lougheed Lib Lib 9,207 48.45% 696 3.66% 53.59% 9,207 8,511 1,285 – – – 19,003 Burnaby North Lib Lib 9,880 48.19% 548 2.67% 53.85% 9,880 9,332 1,292 – – – 20,504 Cariboo-Chilcotin NDP Lib 6,259 47.85% 88 0.67% 62.93% 6,259 6,171 650 – – – 13,080 Cariboo North NDP NDP 7,004 49.51% 503 3.56% 60.24% 6,501 7,004 643 – – – 14,148 Chilliwack Lib Lib 8,138 44.61% 2,230 12.23% 50.87% 8,138 5,908 1,523 2,672 – – 18,241 Chilliwack-Hope Lib Lib 8,985 53.28% 3,347 19.85% 51.85% 8,985 5,638 951 1,198 – 93 16,865 Columbia River-Revelstoke NDP NDP 7,419 55.29% 2,326 17.33% 56.17% 5,093 7,419 907 – – – 13,419 Comox Valley Lib Lib 13,886 47.30% 1,378 4.69% 60.99% 13,886 12,508 2,577 – – 386 29,357 Coquitlam-Burke Mountain New Lib 8,644 56.83% 3,251 21.37% 48.87% 8,644 5,393 907 – – 266 15,210 Coquitlam-Maillardville NDP NDP 9,818 47.93% 673 3.29% 55.22% 9,145 9,818 1,040 – 481 – 20,484 Cowichan Valley New NDP 12,548 48.40% 3,290 12.69% 62.54% 9,258 12,548 3,058 924 – 139 25,927 Delta North NDP NDP 10,381 50.48% 1,891 9.20% 59.26% 8,490 10,381 938 756 – – 20,565 Delta South Lib Ind 9,977 42.50% 32 0.14% 68.59% 9,945 2,940 555 – 10,037 – 23,477 Esquimalt-Royal Roads NDP NDP 11,514 52.92% 4,935 22.68% 58.27% 6,579 11,514 3,664 – – – 21,757 Fort Langley-Aldergrove Lib Lib 15,139 61.09% 7,647 30.86% 57.63% 15,139 7,492 1,765 – – 387 24,783 Fraser-Nicola New NDP 6,703 49.12% 873 6.40% 63.38% 5,830 6,703 891 – – 223 13,647 Juan de Fuca NDP NDP 11,520 57.21% 4,654 23.11% 59.87% 6,866 11,520 1,749 – – – 20,135 Kamloops-North Thompson Lib Lib 9,830 46.94% 510 2.44% 55.05% 9,830 9,320 1,418 – – 375 20,943 Kamloops-South Thompson Lib Lib 12,548 53.86% 4,416 18.95% 57.56% 12,548 8,132 1,529 1,090 – – 23,299 Kelowna-Lake Country Lib Lib 10,281 52.11% 5,031 25.50% 47.25% 10,281 5,250 1,375 2,253 571 – 19,730 Kelowna-Mission Lib Lib 11,506 53.90% 5,940 27.83% 50.68% 11,506 5,566 1,563 2,531 130 51 21,347 Kootenay East Lib Lib 8,404 51.22% 2,560 15.60% 55.87% 8,404 5,844 549 1,612 – – 16,409 Kootenay West New NDP 12,126 66.65% 8,054 44.27% 59.10% 4,072 12,126 1,791 – – 204 18,193 Langley Lib Lib 13,282 56.55% 4,871 20.74% 55.09% 13,282 8,411 1,793 – – – 23,486 Maple Ridge-Mission Lib Lib 8,802 45.73% 68 0.35% 55.10% 8,802 8,734 1,387 – – 325 19,248 Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows NDP NDP 9,772 47.07% 274 1.32% 56.90% 9,498 9,772 1,149 – 202 140 20,761 Nanaimo NDP NDP 11,877 53.33% 3,791 17.02% 57.12% 8,086 11,877 2,036 – – 272 22,271 Nanaimo-North Cowichan New NDP 12,888 54.33% 4,462 18.81% 61.45% 8,426 12,888 2,135 – – 271 23,720 Nechako Lakes Lib Lib 4,949 55.76% 1,816 20.46% 54.80% 4,949 3,133 559 – – 235 8,876 Nelson-Creston NDP NDP 9,060 54.83% 3,869 23.42% 60.30% 5,191 9,060 1,189 1,083 – – 16,523 New Westminster NDP NDP 13,418 56.36% 5,178 21.75% 55.99% 8,240 13,418 2,151 – – – 23,809 North Coast NDP NDP 5,097 57.33% 1,987 22.35% 57.14% 3,110 5,097 683 – – – 8,890 North Island NDP NDP 11,865 52.03% 2,928 12.84% 57.21% 8,937 11,865 1,670 – 333 – 22,805 North Vancouver-Lonsdale Lib Lib 10,323 49.16% 2,534 12.07% 55.56% 10,323 7,789 1,791 862 – 232 20,997 North Vancouver-Seymour Lib Lib 13,426 59.18% 7,214 31.80% 61.46% 13,426 6,212 2,116 931 – – 22,685 Oak Bay-Gordon Head Lib Lib 11,877 46.53% 561 2.20% 66.86% 11,877 11,316 2,330 – – – 25,523 Parksville-Qualicum Lib Lib 13,716 51.42% 3,580 13.42% 65.70% 13,716 10,136 2,573 – – 251 26,676 Peace River North Lib Lib 3,992 43.15% 1,093 11.81% 40.01% 3,992 1,293 1,010 – 2,899 58 9,252 Peace River South Lib Lib 4,801 63.08% 2,744 36.05% 44.00% 4,801 2,057 533 – 220 – 7,611 Penticton Lib Lib 10,346 43.96% 3,015 12.81% 56.16% 10,346 7,331 3,685 2,095 – 78 23,535 Port Coquitlam New NDP 11,121 54.71% 3,225 15.87% 55.21% 7,896 11,121 994 – – 315 20,326 Port Moody-Coquitlam New Lib 9,979 52.15% 2,365 12.36% 57.44% 9,979 7,614 1,261 – – 280 19,134 Powell River-Sunshine Coast NDP NDP 13,276 58.28% 5,458 23.96% 63.03% 7,818 13,276 1,436 – – 249 22,779 Prince George-Mackenzie Lib Lib 9,816 56.05% 3,364 19.21% 53.69% 9,816 6,452 1,245 – – – 17,513 Prince George-Valemount Lib Lib 9,072 50.61% 2,335 13.03% 51.95% 9,072 6,737 1,225 780 – 113 17,927 Richmond Centre Lib Lib 10,483 61.51% 5,534 32.47% 40.97% 10,483 4,949 1,213 – – 399 17,044 Richmond East Lib Lib 10,853 58.73% 4,855 26.27% 45.16% 10,853 5,998 1,211 – – 419 18,481 Richmond-Steveston Lib Lib 13,168 60.78% 7,243 33.43% 51.57% 13,168 5,925 1,491 1,082 – – 21,666 Saanich North and the Islands Lib Lib 13,136 44.93% 258 0.88% 66.82% 13,136 12,878 3,223 – – – 29,237 Saanich South NDP NDP 11,697 47.14% 482 1.94% 66.40% 11,215 11,697 1,664 – – 235 24,811 Shuswap Lib Lib 10,764 46.62% 3,713 16.08% 56.82% 10,764 7,051 2,539 2,374 – 361 23,089 Skeena NDP NDP 5,865 50.77% 1,537 13.30% 55.15% 4,328 5,865 467 893 – – 11,553 Stikine Lib NDP 4,274 50.41% 445 5.25% 65.28% 3,829 4,274 375 – – – 8,478 Surrey-Cloverdale Lib Lib 13,815 62.70% 7,248 32.90% 55.03% 13,815 6,567 1,651 – – – 22,033 Surrey-Fleetwood New NDP 8,852 50.15% 1,992 11.29% 53.96% 6,860 8,852 1,120 818 – – 17,650 Surrey-Green Timbers NDP NDP 10,966 72.73% 7,342 48.69% 51.13% 3,624 10,966 488 – – – 15,078 Surrey-Newton NDP NDP 10,709 68.93% 6,698 43.11% 51.12% 4,011 10,709 759 – – 58 15,537 Surrey-Panorama NDP Lib 11,820 54.26% 3,145 14.44% 56.71% 11,820 8,675 1,290 – – – 21,785 Surrey-Tynehead Lib Lib 8,814 52.50% 1,557 9.27% 49.71% 8,814 7,257 717 – – – 16,788 Surrey-Whalley NDP NDP 10,453 66.47% 6,370 40.51% 47.39% 4,083 10,453 1,189 – – – 15,725 Surrey-White Rock Lib Lib 15,121 62.05% 8,453 34.68% 61.84% 15,121 6,668 2,118 – – 464 24,371 Vancouver-Fairview NDP Lib 11,034 47.09% 1,153 4.92% 56.50% 11,034 9,881 2,232 – 165 122 23,434 Vancouver-False Creek New Lib 9,223 56.40% 4,721 28.87% 48.15% 9,223 4,502 2,144 385 73 27 16,354 Vancouver-Fraserview Lib Lib 9,549 49.29% 748 3.86% 51.09% 9,549 8,801 904 – – 118 19,372 Vancouver-Hastings NDP NDP 10,857 55.49% 4,534 23.17% 50.58% 6,323 10,857 2,012 – – 373 19,565 Vancouver-Kensington NDP NDP 9,930 52.55% 2,252 11.92% 51.98% 7,678 9,930 1,288 – – – 18,896 Vancouver-Kingsway NDP NDP 9,229 55.17% 2,711 16.21% 46.99% 6,518 9,229 699 – – 283 16,729 Vancouver-Langara Lib Lib 10,615 58.87% 4,275 23.71% 47.71% 10,615 6,340 1,075 – – – 18,030 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant NDP NDP 11,232 63.95% 7,578 43.15% 46.47% 3,654 11,232 2,507 – – 171 17,564 Vancouver-Point Grey Lib Lib 11,546 50.38% 2,314 10.10% 55.98% 11,546 9,232 2,012 – – 130 22,920 Vancouver-Quilchena Lib Lib 15,731 70.22% 11,085 49.48% 57.67% 15,731 4,646 2,024 – – – 22,401 Vancouver-West End New NDP 9,926 56.51% 4,191 23.86% 49.93% 5,735 9,926 1,582 – 36 286 17,565 Vernon-Monashee Lib Lib 9,015 37.27% 1,317 5.45% 53.73% 9,015 7,698 4,029 1,972 1,397 76 24,187 Victoria-Beacon Hill NDP NDP 13,400 55.37% 7,025 29.03% 57.18% 6,375 13,400 4,106 – 319 – 24,200 Victoria-Swan Lake NDP NDP 13,119 60.53% 7,365 33.98% 56.90% 5,754 13,119 2,628 – – 174 21,675 West Vancouver-Capilano Lib Lib 15,292 67.48% 12,001 52.95% 57.96% 15,292 3,291 1,699 710 1,489 182 22,663 West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Lib Lib 10,101 54.91% 5,887 32.00% 53.07% 10,101 4,214 4,082 – – – 18,397 Westside-Kelowna Lib Lib 10,334 53.33% 4,678 24.14% 47.35% 10,334 5,656 1,617 1,772 – – 19,379 a #B9E5B9 silver = Open seat #F5F5DC silver = turnout is above provincial average #DCDCDC silver = winning candidate was in previous Legislature #EABB94 silver = Incumbent had switched allegiance #FFFF00 silver = Previously incumbent in another riding #EEBBBB silver = Not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature #87CEFA silver = Incumbency arose from by-election gain #DCD0FF silver = other incumbents renominated #FFA07A silver = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada #F0E68C silver = Multiple candidates Summary analysis + Party candidates in 2nd placeElections BC 2009 32–34 Party in 1st place Party in 2nd place TotalLib NDP IndBC Liberal row-name 48 1 49BC NDP row-name 35 35BC Independent row-name 1 1 Total36 48 1 85 + Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by partyElections BC 2009 32–34 Parties 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5thBC Liberal colour&name49 36 BC NDP colour&name35 48 2 BC Independent colour&name1 1 7 6BC Green colour&name 74 11 BC Conservative colour&name 9 14 1BC Refederation colour&name 12 6BC Libertarian colour&name 5 BC Communist colour&name 3 BC Reform colour&name 2 2BC Nation Alliance colour&name 2 BC Sex colour&name 1 2BC WLP colour&name 1 1BC YPP colour&name 1 1BC Western Canada Concept colour&name 1 BC People's Front colour&name 3BC Marijuana colour&name 1 + Resulting composition of the 39th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Source PartyLibNDPIndTotalSeats retained Incumbents returned26 22 48Open seats held – new MLAs13 4 17Open seats held – taken by MLA previously incumbent in another riding1 1Seats changing hands Incumbents defeated2 1 3Open seats gained1 1 1 3New seats New MLAs3 1 4MLAs previously incumbent in another riding3 6 9Total49 35 1 85 References Sources 2009 Statement of Votes - 39th Provincial General Election https://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/2009GE/2009-GE-SOV.pdf Victoria Elections BC 0227-9207 Elections BC 2009 Further reading Mutimer David Canadian Annual Review of Politics 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