Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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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.
This lawn sign just turned up, just off Cambie Street -- there's an election coming. But I'm confused. What kind of "climate action" do they want? The group giving away these free lawn signs, Kids for Climate Action (K4CA), also has the cash to buy transit advertising. In the run-up to our May 14 Provincial Election here in British Columbia, they say they want to make sure the issue is addressed by the political parties and candidates. K4CA is not running candidates, they are running a PR campaign. They have previously performed a number of flashmob actions going back to, at least, the end of 2010. I really miss the point of this. To me this is busy work; people wanting to be seen to be doing something, when all we can really do is take it when it comes and learn to deal with the aftermath.
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