2009 British Columbia general election

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 is the Official Opposition.

2009 British Columbia general election

May 12, 2009
85 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 43 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	50.99%[1] 7.2 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Gordon Campbell Carole James Jane Sterk Party Liberal New Democratic Green Leader since September 11, 1993 November 23, 2003 October 21, 2007 Leader's seat Vancouver-Point Grey Victoria-Beacon Hill Ran in Esquimalt-Royal Roads (Lost) Last election 46 33 0 Seats won 49 35 0 Seat change 3 2 0 Popular vote 751,661 691,564 134,570 Percentage 45.82% 42.15% 8.21% Swing 0.03% 0.62% 0.97%
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 after election Gordon Campbell Liberal

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 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.

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]

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]

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		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		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
				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	+0.19^1
	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.

1. The BC Refederation Party was previously known as the Western Refederation Party.

Popular vote Liberal   45.82% NDP   42.15% Green   8.21% Others   3.82%

Seats summary Liberal   57.65% NDP   41.18% Independent   1.18%

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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
Alberni-Pacific Rim		Dianne St. Jacques 5,605		Scott Fraser 10,488		Paul Musgrave 1,324		Dallas Hills (Refed.) 250		Scott Fraser
Comox Valley		Don McRae 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	Candidates									Incumbent
		Liberal		NDP		Green		Other
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

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• Elections BC: 2009 Voting Results

External links

• Elections BC
• BC Election 2009 by Sacha Peter with comprehensive information on the election
• Election Prediction Project - BC 2009
• UBC ESM Election Prediction Voter Transition Matrix
• TrendLines Research Weekly chart tracking of the Federal & BC seat projection models
• Legislative Assembly Library Election Weblinks

Party platforms

In order of release

• Conservative Party Platform (A Clear Vision for British Columbia)
• Green Party Platform 2009 (A Better Plan for BC)
• New Democratic Party Platform 2009 (Take Back Your BC)
• Liberal Party Platform 2009 (Keep BC Strong)