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Elections BC official removes signs from a Polling Place in the riding of Vancouver-Fairview. George Heyman won the riding for the NDP with 47% of the popular vote. Photo by sqwabb. Click to enlarge.[/caption]
In British Columbia, the politics is like the weather -- unpredictable, and unexplainable. Monday it rained in Vancouver; at one point, standing on the South-East corner of West Broadway and Granville, got you soaked by rain, but just two doors east on West Broadway, you were dry, and puzzled.
Yesterday British Columbians went to the polls and defied pollsters and pundits by re-electing the governing Center-Right B.C. Liberal party to an amazing fourth consecutive term, but turfed the Premier herself.
The B.C. Liberals won a majority of 50 seats in the Provincial Legislature. The Center-Left B.C. New Democratic Party (NDP), touted as sure-winners for weeks, stayed in Opposition with 33 seats. The B.C. Green Party, in an historic win, earned it's first-ever Provincial seat. The dreaded B.C. Conservative Party wasn't a factor, with less than five percent of the popular vote, and no seats at all. One seat was won by an Independent.
However, the Premier, and leader of the B.C. Liberals, Christy Clark, lost her own seat in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey to NDP challenger David Eby .
Clark had first won the riding, two years ago, by narrowly beating Eby, after she had been named B.C. Liberal Leader, to replace three-term Premier Gordon Campbell, who'd resigned following a backlash over his government's introduction of a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
Under Clark, the HST was extinguished, and she distanced herself from Campbell's policies and people, but was still expected to suffer the wrath of voters who were seen as just plain tired of the Liberals after 12 years. For virtually all the run-up to yesterday's vote, The NDP, under it's appealing, and clearly competent leader Adrian Dix, were seen as sure winners over the inexperienced Clark and her tired Liberal party.
The same pundits who earlier predicted The Liberal loss, will now explain to us why they won, but increasing uncertainty over the B.C. economy probably played a big part -- devil you know, and all that.
Comprehensive election results are everywhere, including here.
Elections BC official removes signs from a Polling Place in the riding of Vancouver-Fairview. George Heyman won the riding for the NDP with 47% of the popular vote. Photo by sqwabb. Click to enlarge.[/caption]In British Columbia, the politics is like the weather -- unpredictable, and unexplainable. Monday it rained in Vancouver; at one point, standing on the South-East corner of West Broadway and Granville, got you soaked by rain, but just two doors east on West Broadway, you were dry, and puzzled.
Yesterday British Columbians went to the polls and defied pollsters and pundits by re-electing the governing Center-Right B.C. Liberal party to an amazing fourth consecutive term, but turfed the Premier herself.
The B.C. Liberals won a majority of 50 seats in the Provincial Legislature. The Center-Left B.C. New Democratic Party (NDP), touted as sure-winners for weeks, stayed in Opposition with 33 seats. The B.C. Green Party, in an historic win, earned it's first-ever Provincial seat. The dreaded B.C. Conservative Party wasn't a factor, with less than five percent of the popular vote, and no seats at all. One seat was won by an Independent.
However, the Premier, and leader of the B.C. Liberals, Christy Clark, lost her own seat in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey to NDP challenger David Eby .
Clark had first won the riding, two years ago, by narrowly beating Eby, after she had been named B.C. Liberal Leader, to replace three-term Premier Gordon Campbell, who'd resigned following a backlash over his government's introduction of a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
Under Clark, the HST was extinguished, and she distanced herself from Campbell's policies and people, but was still expected to suffer the wrath of voters who were seen as just plain tired of the Liberals after 12 years. For virtually all the run-up to yesterday's vote, The NDP, under it's appealing, and clearly competent leader Adrian Dix, were seen as sure winners over the inexperienced Clark and her tired Liberal party.
The same pundits who earlier predicted The Liberal loss, will now explain to us why they won, but increasing uncertainty over the B.C. economy probably played a big part -- devil you know, and all that.
Comprehensive election results are everywhere, including here.
Vancouver-Fairview results.
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