The 2005 British Columbia general election was held on May 17, 2005, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Province of

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(BC),

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. 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 Gordon Muir Campbell, (born January 12, 1948) is a retired Canadian diplomat and politician who was the 35th mayor of Vancouver from 1986 to 1993 and the 34th premier of British Columbia from 2001 to 2011. He was the leader of the British Co ...

. The main opposition was the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), whose electoral representation was reduced to two MLAs in the previous provincial election in 2001. The BC Liberals retained power, with a reduced majority of 46 out of 79 seats, down from the record 77 out of 79 in 2001. Voter turnout was 58.2 per cent. Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates: the second Tuesday in May every four years. This was the first provincial election for which elector data in the provincial elector list was synchronised with the National Register of Electors. Coincidental with the general election, BC voters also voted on whether or not to change the province's electoral system. A majority voted for change.

Electoral reform referendum

The BC electoral reform referendum was held in conjunction with this election. This referendum asked voters whether or not they support the proposed electoral reforms of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, which included switching to a

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(STV) system. Had it been approved by 60% of voters in 60% of ridings), the new electoral system would have been implemented for the general election in 2009. Although the proposed reform attracted a clear majority (58% of the popular vote in favour, with 77 out of 79 ridings showing majority support), the level of support was just short of that required for mandatory implementation. A new vote on a revamped version of STV was held in conjunction with the

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 ...

Results by party

Source
* denotes that the party did not contest the election in question

Results by region

xx Denotes party received less than 0.1%

Timeline

Pre-campaign period

* August 30, 2001 - ''Bill 7, Constitution Amendment Act'' is passed, fixing the date of the election at May 17, 2005. * November 13, 2002 -

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MLA Paul Nettleton accuses the government of a secret plan to privatize

BC Rail BC Rail is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918. In 1972 it was renamed to the British ...

as well the

BC Hydro The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia. It is the main electricity distributor, serving more than 4 million customers in most areas, with the exce ...

electric utility. He is removed from caucus several days later and sits as an ''Independent Liberal'' until the 2005 election, when he unsuccessfully ran in Prince George-Mount Robson against

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. BC Rail was subsequently sold to CN in what other bidders have described as a corrupted process, and BC Hydro's administrative arm was sold to Accenture. *January 9, 2003 - Premier

is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on Maui. Because drunk driving is not a criminal offence in the state of Hawaii, but only a misdemeanour, Campbell did not resign his seat as he would have had to in Canada, and due to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) he attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a series of speaking engagements condemning drinking and driving. * November 23, 2003 -

Carole James Carole Alison James (born December 22, 1957) is a Canadian politician and former public administrator, who represented Victoria-Beacon Hill in the MLA from 2005 to 2020. She is the former Leader of the Opposition in British Columbia and former ...

is elected as leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia. * December 28, 2003 - the RCMP execute search warrants on various locations in the Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria, including offices in the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, in relation to suspicious dealings in relation to the bidding process for the sale of BC Rail (see BC Legislature Raids). * March 22, 2004 - Liberal MLA Elayne Brenzinger quits the caucus citing a "secret agenda" being undertaken by Premier Campbell in relation to the sale of BC Rail. * September 17, 2004 - Deputy Premier Christy Clark, whose house had been searched under warrant by the RCMP in connection with the BC Legislature Raids investigation, quits politics saying she wanted to spend more time with her family. * October 22, 2004 - New Democrat Jagrup Brar wins a

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with 53.6% of the vote, a swing of 33.7% to the NDP from the 2001 result. One of Brar's competitors was

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leader

Adriane Carr Adriane Carr (born 1952) is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She is also a councillor on Vancouver City Council. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbi ...

who captured 8.4% of the vote. * December 14, 2004 - In the wake of revelations he had been under surveillance by the RCMP in connection with dealings concerning the sale of BC Rail, Liberal

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Gary Farrell-Collins abruptly resigns from cabinet and the legislature despite having been named co-chair of the Liberal re-election campaign a month earlier. The move requires Premier Campbell to undertake a minor cabinet shuffle. * January 15, 2005 - The Democratic Reform British Columbia party is created out of a merger of the

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and the

All Nations Party of British Columbia The All Nations Party was a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada. Its primary base of support was the First Nations aboriginal peoples of Canada. In the 2001 provincial election, the All Nations Party nominated six First Nations can ...

. The party also boasts the support of key elements of the

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. Prior to the official creation of this party, the Democratic Coalition and Reform BC jointly nominated a candidate for the

. * January 19, 2005 - Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger joins DRBC, adding a third party to the Legislative Assembly for the first time since Gordon Wilson folded his Progressive Democratic Alliance party and joined the NDP. * January 31, 2005 - Liberal MLA and then-cabinet minister Sandy Santori resigns from his seat in the Legislature in a dispute over the deletion of emails by Premier

's Deputy Minister to the Premier, Ken Dobell.''Delete button wipes out 'transparency' in government: Called for 'thorough, complete, diligent investigation', Michael Smyth, ''The Province'' June 25, 2009, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog
/ref> * February 15, 2005 - New Liberal Finance Minister Colin Hansen introduces what is widely viewed as an " election budget" which promised $1.3 billion in new spending,

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s and an

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. * March 11, 2005 - Attorney-General Geoff Plant announces that he will not seek re-election. * March 15, 2005 -

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board chair

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announces that she will run for the Liberals in the riding of Vancouver-Langara. Premier

endorses Taylor's candidacy. * March 29, 2005 - The consortium of

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s organizing the leaders' debate announces that the leaders of the Liberal, New Democratic, and Green parties will be invited to participate in the debate. * April 13, 2005 - The NDP and Green Party release their platforms in Victoria.

Campaign period

*April 19, 2005 - The

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is issued (not "dropped" as in past elections), dissolving the Legislature and beginning the official campaign period. *April 20, 2005 - The NDP becomes the first party to complete a province-wide nomination slate. *April 22, 2005 - NDP candidate Rollie Keith withdraws his candidacy in Chilliwack-Kent after telling the '' Vancouver Province'' that he was "impressed" when he met Slobodan Milošević and that he did not believe there had been war crimes committed in

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. *May 3, 2005 - The leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties meet in a televised debate. Commentators indicate the debate was either a draw or a win for Green leader Adriane Carr. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted online following the debate showed that 33% of debate views thought the debate produced no clear winner, 31% felt NDP leader Carole James won, 23% felt Liberal leader Gordon Campbell won while only 12% saw Carr as the winner. *May 17, 2005 - CBC projects a BC Liberal majority government at 9:05 p.m. local time. *June 22, 2005 - Tim Stevenson, who lost to Lorne Mayencourt by 11 votes, asks the Supreme Court of British Columbia to order a new election in Vancouver-Burrard due to 70 ballots that could not be counted because they had not been initialed by election officials.

Opinion polls

Voter intention polling

Intentions de vote en Colombie-Britannique (2001-2005)

Besides the usual public polling by market research firms, other organizations have been attempting to predict the results of the upcoming election using alternate methods. Results suggest that all three projections below underestimated NDP seats and overestimated Liberal seats: UBC's Election Stock Market tracks the prices of contracts whose value depend on election results

br /> Popular vote: Lib 44.5%, NDP 35.9%, Green 13.9%, Other 5.3%
Seats: Lib 48.6 (61.5), NDP 29.4 (37.2), Other 1.6 (2.0)
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Political parties

British Columbia has Canada's least restrictive elections laws with regard to

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registration, and consequently there are currently nearly 50 parties registered with

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, by far the most of any jurisdiction in the country. Twenty-five parties contested the 2005 election, also a considerably greater number than anywhere else in Canada.

British Columbia Liberal Party

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

Green Party of British Columbia

Democratic Reform British Columbia

British Columbia Marijuana Party

Minor parties

Candidates

The deadline for candidate registration was Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. *Names in bold indicate party leaders and cabinet ministers. *The victorious

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(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 †

Northern British Columbia

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Bulkley Valley-Stikine , , , Dennis MacKay
6729 , , Doug Donaldson
5177 , , Leanna Mitchell
769 , , Nipper Kettle
354 , , Reginald Gunanoot
205 , , Jack Kortmeyer ( BCP)
175
Frank Martin ( PF)
41 , , , Dennis MacKay , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, North Coast , , Bill Belsey
4185 , , , Gary Coons
5845 , , Hondo Arendt
629 , , , , Dave Johns
211 , , , , , Bill Belsey , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Peace River North , , , Richard Neufeld
5498 , , Brian Churchill
2511 , , Clarence Apsassin
638 , , , , , , Leonard Joseph Seigo (Ind.)
613 , , , Richard Neufeld , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Peace River South , , , Blair Lekstrom
5810 , , Pat Shaw
3296 , , Ariel Lade
956 , , , , , , , , , Blair Lekstrom , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Prince George-Mount Robson , , ,

5885 , , Wayne Mills
4994 , , Don Roberts
1053 , , , , Matt Burnett
241 , , Paul Nettleton (Ind.)
2158 , , , Shirley Bond , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Prince George North , , , Pat Bell
7697 , , Deborah Poff
5598 , , Denis Gendron
1201 , , Mike Mann
241 , , Steve Wolfe
235 , , Leif Jensen
(Ind.)
443 , , , Pat Bell , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Prince George-Omineca , , , John Rustad
8622 , , Chuck Fraser
6184 , , Andrej DeWolf
1393 , , Erle Martz
479 , , , , , , , Paul Nettleton , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Skeena , , Roger Harris
5807 , , ,

Robin Austin Robin Austin, is a Canadian businessman and former politician. Austin served as the New Democratic Party MLA for Skeena in the province of British Columbia. Austin was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election. Austin w ...

6166 , , Patrick Hayes
616 , , , , , , Daniel Stelmacker (

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)
224 , , , Roger Harris , -

Kootenay, Columbia and Boundary

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Columbia River-Revelstoke , , Wendy McMahon
5750 , , ,

Norm Macdonald Norman Gene MacdonaldThe capitalization of Norm Macdonald's surname has been inconsistently reported in publications such as ''TV Guide''. Books that discuss him, such as ''Shales'' (2003) and Crawford' (2000), as well as other sources such as ...

7460 , , Andy Shadrack
1217 , , , , , , , , , Wendy McMahon , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

East Kootenay The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. In the 2016 census, the population was 60,439. Its area is . The regional district offices are in Cranbrook, the larges ...

, , , Bill Bennett
8060 , , Erda Walsh
7339 , , Luke Gurbin
1389 , , , , , , , , , Bill Bennett , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Nelson-Creston Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding. ...

, , Blair Suffredine
5862 , , , Corky Evans
12896 , , Luke Crawford
2724 , , , , Phillip McMillan
276 , , Brian Taylor ( Bloc BC)
173 , , , Blair Suffredine , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

West Kootenay-Boundary West Kootenay-Boundary was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009. The seat combined the Rossland/Trail/Castlegar area (the putative ''West Kootenay'' component) that had previo ...

, , Pam Lewin
6180 , , ,

Katrine Conroy Katrine Conroy (' Thor-Larsen; born 1957 or 1958) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2005 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Kootenay West as a member of t ...

13318 , , Donald Pharand
1561 , , , , , ,

Barry Chilton Barry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Barry (name), including lists of people with the given name, nickname or surname, as well as fictional characters with the given name * Dancing Barry, stage name of Barry Richards (born c. 1950 ...

( Con)
802
Glen Millar (Not Affil)
180
A.J. van Leur
( Bloc BC)
59 , , , align=center, ''vacant'' , -

Okanagan and Shuswap

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kelowna-Lake Country , , , Al Horning
12247 , , John Pugsley
7390 , , Kevin Ade
2541 , , Alan Clarke
1793 , , David Thomson
341 , , , , , John Weisbeck† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kelowna-Mission , , , Sindi Hawkins
13827 , , Nicki Hokazono
8189 , , Paddy Weston
3308 , , , , Shilo Lavallee
320 , , Steve Roebuck ( Comm.)
94 , , , Sindi Hawkins , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Okanagan-Vernon Vernon-Monashee (name in effect from April 2009 onwards, previously Okanagan-Vernon from 1991 to 2009) is a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Co ...

, , , Tom Christensen
11566 , , Juliette Cunningham
8995 , , Erin Nelson
1867 , , , , Michael Toponce
260 , , Colin Black ( Con.)
3095
Gordon Campbell (Not Affil)
945
Tibor Tusnady ( Patr.)
48 , , , Tom Christensen , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Okanagan-Westside Okanagan-Westside was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009. It included the small cities of Westbank, Westside, Peachland, and Summerland, and extended from the city limit of ...

, , , Rick Thorpe
12148 , , Joyce Procure
6873 , , Angela Reid
2262 , , Janice Money
1051 , , , , , , , Rick Thorpe , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Penticton-Okanagan Valley , , , Bill Barisoff
13650 , , Garry Litke
10197 , , James Cunningham
2669 , , , , , , Jane Turnell
(Ind.)
660 , , , Bill Barisoff , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Shuswap , , , George Abbott
11024 , , Calvin White
8281 , , Barbara Westerman
1394 , , , , Chris Emery
356 , , Beryl Ludwig
( Con.)
2330
Paddy Roberts
( Bloc BC)
50
Andrew Hockhold( Patr.)
42
, , , George Abbott , -

Thompson and Cariboo

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Cariboo North Cariboo North is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was created by 1990 legislation dividing the previous two-member district of Cariboo, which came into effect for the 1991 BC election ...

, , Steve Wallace
7084 , , , Bob Simpson
7353 , , Douglas Gook
835 , , , , James Michael Delbarre
281 , , , , , John Wilson† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Cariboo South Cariboo South was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 1991 to 2009. Demographics Member of Legislative Assembly Its last MLA was Charlie Wyse, a former city councillor for William ...

, ,

Walt Cobb Walt Cobb (born 1944) is a Canadian politician, who served as a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005, representing the riding of Cariboo South Cariboo South was a provincial electoral district fo ...

7163 , , ,

Charlie Wyse Charlie Wyse (born September 12, 1946) is an educator and former Canadian politician, who was a New Democratic Member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia from 2005 to 2009. He represented the riding of Cariboo South. Wyse, a teach ...

7277 , , Ed Sharkey
851 , , , , , , Michael Orr
(Ind.)
532 , , , Walt Cobb , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kamloops , , , Claude Richmond
11261 , , Doug Brown
9886 , , Frank Stewart
1723 , , , , , , Terry Bojarski ( Con.)
797 , , , Claude Richmond , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-North Thompson is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was formerly considered a political bellwether for the next provincial government, having swung to the governing party ever ...

, , , Kevin Krueger
11648 , , Mike Hanson
9635 , , Grant Fraser
1689 , , , , Keenan Todd
321 , , Bob Altenhofen ( Con.)
795 , , , Kevin Krueger , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Yale-Lillooet , , Lloyd Forman
7009 , , , Harry Lali
8489 , , Mike McLean
1583 , , Arne Zabel
185 , , , , Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell ( PF)
115 , , , Dave Chutter† , -

Fraser Valley

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Abbotsford-Clayburn , , , John van Dongen
11047 , , Michael Nenn
5555 , , Lance Pizzariello
1428 , , , , Ian Gilfilian
198 , , Kenneth Montgomery Keillor ( FP)
199 , , , John van Dongen , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Abbotsford-Mount Lehman , , , Mike de Jong
11325 , , Taranjit Purewal
6132 , , Jed Anderson
1359 , , Bob Klassen
472 , , Tim Felger
392 , , , , , Mike de Jong , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Chilliwack-Kent , , , Barry Penner
11368 , , Malcolm James
6534 , , Hans Mulder
1651 , , , , , , David Anderson ( Mod.)
240
Colin Wormworth ( BCYC)
103 , , , Barry Penner , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Chilliwack-Sumas , , , John Les
11995 , , John-Henry Harter
6477 , , Norm Siefken
1731 , , Brian Downey
315 , , , , Augustine Lee ( BCYC)
266
James Solhiem ( Mod.)
127 , , , John Les , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Fort Langley-Aldergrove , , ,

Rich Coleman Richard Thomas Coleman (born c. 1956) is a Canadian politician and former police officer, who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia from 1996 to 2020, and is a former interim leader of the British Columbia Liberal P ...

15454 , , Shane Dyson
7597 , , Andrea Welling
2529 , , , ,

Marc Emery Marc Scott Emery (born February 13, 1958) is a Canadian cannabis rights activist, entrepreneur and politician. Often described as the "Prince of Pot", Emery has been a notable advocate of international cannabis policy reform, and has been active ...

374 , , Stephen Davis ( Plat.)
183 , , , Rich Coleman , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Langley , , , Mary Polak
12877 , , Dean Morrison
8303 , , Kathleen Stephany
3042 , , , , Chris Scrimes
278 , , Lee Davies ( Plat.)
180 , , , Lynn Stephens , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Maple Ridge-Mission , , , Randy Hawes
12095 , , Jenny Stevens
11896 , , Bill Walsh
2633 , , , , Carol Gwilt
314 , , Chum Richardson (Ind.)
312
Keith Smith ( Plat.)
53 , , , Randy Hawes , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows , , Ken Stewart
10861 , , ,

Michael Sather Michael Sather (born c. 1947) is a former MLA for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows in the Canadian province of British Columbia. As a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election ...

11786 , , Mike Gildersleeve
1869 , , Rick Butler
534 , , Denise-Colleen Briere-Smart
360 , , , , , Ken Stewart , -

Surrey

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Surrey-Cloverdale , , ,

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16429 , , Ted Allen
7640 , , Pierre Rovtar
2280 , , Joseph Vollhoffer
305 , , , , , , , Kevin Falcon , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Surrey-Green Timbers , ,

Brenda Locke Brenda Joy Locke is a Canadian politician, who served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005 and is the current mayor of Surrey, British Columbia. She represented the electoral district of Surrey-Green Timbers as a mem ...

5619 , , ,

Sue Hammell Sue Hammell (born June 18, 1945) is a Canadian politician who is the former MLA for Surrey-Green Timbers in the province of British Columbia for most of the years between 1991 and 2017, she retired and did not seek re-election in May 2017. Her ...

10836 , , Sebastian Sajda
791 , , Ravi Chand
142 , , Amanda Boggan
225 , , Rob Norberg ( ED)
151
Harjit Singh Daudharia ( Comm.)
52 , , , Brenda Locke , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Surrey-Newton , ,

Daniel Igali Baraladei Daniel Igali (born February 3, 1974 in Eniwari, Bayelsa State, Nigeria) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler who is an Olympic gold medallist. He lives in Surrey, British Columbia. Wrestling career As captain of the Nigerian wrestling tea ...

6473 , , , Harry Bains
10741 , , Dan Deresh
876 , , Harry Grewal
268 , , , , Gordon Scott ( WLP)
123
Jeff Robert Evans ( Plat.)
72 , , , Tony Bhullar† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

, , Bob Hans
8573 , , , Jagrup Brar
11553 , , Romeo De La Pena
1370 , , , , Troy Chan
234 , , , , , Jagrup Brar , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Tynehead was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The electoral district, firstly represented by Dave Hayer (2001–2013), then Amrik Virk (2013–2017).After the British Columbia ele ...

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Dave Hayer Dave Sukhdip Singh Hayer (born 1958) is a Canadian former politician for the province of British Columbia. He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Surrey-Tynehead from May 2001 to May 2013. Hayer is an Indo-Canadian who is the ...

12052 , , Barry Bell
9469 , , Sean Orr
1095 , , , , Don Briere
243 , , Summer Davis (Ind.)
380
Gary Hoffman (Ind.)
223 , , , Dave Hayer , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Surrey-Whalley Surrey-Whalley is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries. The newly created ri ...

, , Barb Steele
4949 , , , Bruce Ralston
8903 , , Roy Whyte
1238 , , Elayne Brenzinger
607 , , Neal Magnuson
302 , , Joe Pal (Not Affil)
139
Melady Belinda Earl ( Plat.)
50 , , , Elayne Brenzinger , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Surrey-White Rock , , , Gordon Hogg
16462 , , Moh Chelali
7511 , , Ashley Hughes
3051 , , Ron Dunsford
87 , , , , David James Evans ( Con.)
1340 , , , Gordon Hogg , -

Richmond and Delta

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Delta North , , Jeannie Kanakos
9480 , , , Guy Gentner
10481 , , John Hague
1711 , , , , John Shavluk
224 , , David Andrew Wright ( BCP)
187 , , , Reni Masi† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Delta South , , , Val Roddick
9112 , , Dileep Athaide
5828 , , Duane Laird
1131 , , , , Julian Wooldridge
139 , , Vicki Huntington (Ind.)
8043
George Mann (Not Affil)
58 , , , Val Roddick , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Richmond Centre , , , Olga Ilich
10908 , ,

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6051 , , Chris Segers
1436 , , , , Matt Healy
231 , , , , , Greg Halsey-Brandt† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Richmond East , , , Linda Reid
11652 , , Gian Sihota
6692 , , Michael Wolfe
1530 , , , , Heidi Farnola
191 , , Mohamud Ali Farah (Ind.)
207 , , , Linda Reid , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , , John Yap
13859 , , Kay Hale
7334 , , Egidio Spinelli
1934 , , Daniel Ferguson
282 , , , , , , , Geoff Plant† , -

Vancouver's eastern suburbs

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Burnaby-Edmonds , , Patty Sahota
9599 , , , Raj Chouhan
10337 , , Suzanne Deveau
2192 , , , , , , , , , Patty Sahota , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Burnaby North , , , Richard T. Lee
10421 , , Pietro Calendino
10356 , , Richard Brand
1763 , , Matthew Laird
316 , , , , , , , Richard T. Lee , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Burnaby-Willingdon , , ,

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8754 , , Gabriel Yiu
8355 , , Pauline Farrell
1482 , , Tony Kuo
947 , , John Warrens
214 , , Tom Tao (Ind.)
142 , , , John Nuraney , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Burquitlam , , ,

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10054 , , Bart Healey
9682 , , Carli Travers
1619 , , , , Peter Grin
191 , , Graham Fox (Not Affil)
125 , , , Harry Bloy , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Coquitlam-Maillardville , ,

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10001 , , , Diane Thorne
10532 , , Michael Hejazi
1415 , , , , Brandon Steele
236 , , Paul Geddes
( Lbt.)
173
Nattanya Andersen
( Plat.)
69 , , , Richard Stewart , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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9645 , , , Chuck Puchmayr
13226 , , Robert Broughton
2416 , , John Warren
152 , , Christina Racki
293 , , Greg Calcutta ( Plat.)
42 , , , Joyce Murray , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , Greg Moore
10752 , , , Mike Farnworth
11844 , , Bill Aaroe
1691 , , , , , , Anthony Yao
( SC)
228
Lewis Dahlby
( Lbt.)
90 , , , Karn Manhas† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Port Moody-Westwood , , , Iain Black
14161 , , Karen Rockwell
9848 , , Kathy Heisler
1670 , , , , , , James Filippelli ( YPP)
442
Arthur Crossman (Ind.)
227 , , , Christy Clark† , -

Vancouver

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Burrard
, , , Lorne Mayencourt
12009 , , Tim Stevenson
11998 , , Janek Kuchmistrz
3698 , , Ian McLeod
82 , , , , John Clarke ( Lbt.)
388
Lisa Voldeng ( WLP)
170
John Ince ( Sex)
111
Antonio Ferreira ( Plat.)
27 , , , Lorne Mayencourt , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Fairview , , Virginia Greene
12114 , , , Gregor Robertson
13009 , , Hamdy El-Rayes
2479 , , , , , , Patrick Clark ( Sex)
121
Scott Yee (Ind.)
102
Malcolm Janet Mary van Delst ( WLP)
95 , , , align="center", ''vacant'' , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Fraserview , , ,

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9895 , , Ravinder Gill
8783 , , Doug Perry
1374 , , , , Shea Campbell
650 , , , , , Ken Johnston† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Hastings , , Laura McDiarmid
6910 , , , Shane Simpson
11726 , , Ian Gregson
1928 , , , , Stephen Payne
188 , , Carrol Woolsey ( SC)
274
Dennise Brennan ( WLP)
247
Will Offley (Ind.)
130
Catherine Millard Saadi ( Plat.)
68 , , ,

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8949 , , , David Chudnovsky
10573 , , Cody Matheson
1273 , , , , John Gordon
266 , , Charles Boylan ( PF)
99 , , , Patrick Wong , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Kingsway , , Rob Nijjar
7894 , , , Adrian Dix
10038 , , Stuart MacKinnon
1212 , , , , Steven Lay
219 , , Donna Petersen
( PF)
77
Yvonne Tink ( Sex)
73 , , , Rob Nijjar , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Langara , , ,

11181 , , Anita Romaniuk
6520 , , Doug Warkentin
1591 , , , , Mark Gueffroy
144 , , Christopher De Wilde ( Libert.)
184
Charlie Brunet-Latimer ( WLP)
152 , , , Val Anderson† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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, , Juliet Andalis
4298 , , ,

Jenny Kwan Jenny Wai Ching Kwan (born 1967) is a Canadian politician who is the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver East. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Kwan was elected to the House of Commons in 2015. She she was previously a member o ...

12974 , , Raven Bowen
2066 , , Imtiaz Popat
43 , , Chris Bennett
308 , , Mike Hansen (Ind.)
205
Niki Westman ( WLP)
187
Peter Marcus ( Comm.)
98
Kirk Anton Moses ( Plat.)
17 , , , Jenny Kwan , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

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12498 , , Mel Lehan
10248 , , Damian Kettlewell
4111 , , , , Yolanda Perez
138 , , Tom Walker ( WLP)
126
Jeff Monds ( Libert.)
44
Gudrun Kost ( Plat.)
18 , , , Gordon Campbell , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Vancouver-Quilchena , , , Colin Hansen
16394 , , Jarrah Hodge
5131 , , Lorinda Earl
2538 , , , , Rhiannon Rose
175 , , Katrina Chowne ( Libert.)
174 , , , Colin Hansen , -

North Shore and Sunshine Coast

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, North Vancouver-Lonsdale , , , Katherine Whittred
9375 , , Craig Keating
8391 , , Terry Long
2562 , , Matt Wadsworth
163 , , Rebecca Ambrose
209 , , Ron Gamble ( Ref.)
365 , , , Katherine Whittred , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, North Vancouver-Seymour , , , Daniel Jarvis
14518 , , Cathy Pinsent
7595 , , John Sharpe
3013 , , , , Darin Neal
212 , , Christine Ellis
( WLP)
169 , , , Daniel Jarvis , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Powell River-Sunshine Coast , , Maureen Clayton
7702 , , , Nicholas Simons
11099 , ,

6585 , , , , , , Allen McIntyre ( RefedBC)
156 , , , Harold Long† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, West Vancouver-Capilano , , , Ralph Sultan
14665 , , Terry Platt
3900 , , Lee White
2648 , , , , Jodie Giesz-Ramsay
147 , , Ben West ( WLP)
122 , , , Ralph Sultan , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, West Vancouver-Garibaldi , , , Joan McIntyre
11808 , , Lyle Fenton
4947 , , Dennis Perry
6235 , , , , , , Barbara Ann Reid ( Cons.)
464 , , ,

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Vancouver Island

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Alberni-Qualicum , , Gillian Trumper
9788 , , , Scott Fraser
13988 , , Jack Thornburgh
1912 , , Jennifer Fisher-Bradley
292 , , Michael Mann
401 , , James Dominic King (Ind.)
209 , , , Gillian Trumper , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Comox Valley , , , Stan Hagen
14068 , , Andrew Black
13261 , , Chris Aikman
2833 , , Don Davis
187 , , Miracle Emery
214 , , Bruce O'Hara ( WLP)
83
Mel Garden ( RefedBC)
67
Barbara Biley ( PF)
51 , , , Stan Hagen , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke,

Cowichan-Ladysmith Cowichan-Ladysmith was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1991, and was eliminated when the legislature dissolved in ...

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Graham Bruce Graham Preston Bruce is a former Canadian politician. After serving as Mayor of North Cowichan, Bruce was elected as a Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991 in the electoral district of Cowichan- ...

11425 , , , Doug Routley
14014 , , Cindy-Lee Robinson
1950 , , Brian Johnson
238 , , , , Jim Bell (Ind.)
307
Jeremy Harold Smyth ( FP)
83 , , , Graham Bruce , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Nanaimo , , Mike Hunter
8657 , , , Leonard Krog
13226 , , Doug Catley
2933 , , , , Matt Dillon
294 , , Brunie Brunie (Ind.)
204
Linden Shaw ( RefedBC)
169 , , , Mike Hunter , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Nanaimo-Parksville , , , Ron Cantelon
16542 , , Carol McNamee
12432 , , Jordan Ellis
2714 , , , , Richard Payne
198 , , Bruce Ryder ( RefedBC)
283 , , , Judith Reid† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, North Island , , Rod Visser
10804 , , , Claire Trevena
11464 , , Phillip Stone
1874 , , Dan Cooper
699 , , , , Lorne James Scott (Ind.)
471 , , , Rod Visser , -

Greater Victoria

, - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Esquimalt-Metchosin , , Tom Woods
9650 , , , Maurine Karagianis
12545 , , Jane Sterk
2672 , , Graeme Rodger
409 , , , , , , , Arnie Hamilton† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Malahat-Juan de Fuca , , Cathy Basskin
10528 , , , John Horgan
12460 , , Steven Hurdle
2610 , , Tom Morino
1256 , , , , Pattie O'Brien ( WCC)
180 , , , Brian Kerr† , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Oak Bay-Gordon Head , , ,

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13443 , , Charley Beresford
12016 , , Stephen Hender
2379 , , Lyne England
278 , , , , Lindsay Budge (Ind.)
176 , , , Ida Chong , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Saanich North and the Islands , , , Murray Coell
13781 , , Christine Hunt
11842 , , Ken Rouleau
4846 , , Ian Bruce
1092 , , , , , , , Murray Coell , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Saanich South , , Susan Brice
12380 , , , David Cubberley
12809 , , Brandon McIntyre
2018 , , Brett Hinch
223 , , , , Douglas Christie ( WCC)
207
Kerry Steinemann (Ind.)
161 , , , Susan Brice , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Victoria-Beacon Hill , , Jeff Bray
8621 , , ,

16081 , , John Miller
3077 , , David McCaig
169 , , , , Benjamin McConchie (Ind.)
124
Ingmar Lee (Ind.)
123 , , , Jeff Bray , - , bgcolor=whitesmoke, Victoria-Hillside , ,

Sheila Orr Sheila Orr (born 1949 or 1950) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Victoria-Hillside in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is the deliberative assemb ...

7028 , , , Rob Fleming
13911 , , Steve Filipovic
2933 , , Jim McDermott
360 , , , , Katrina Herriot ( WLP)
168 , , , Sheila Orr , -

References

External links

Elections BC
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Elections BC - Statement of Votes - 38th Provincial General Election

Elections BC - Errata to Statutory Reports of the May 17, 2005

CBC - BC Votes 2005

The Tyee Election Central: Battleground BC

Election Almanac - British Columbia Provincial Election

Simulation of 2005 Election with STV Ridings

UBC Election Stock Market B.C. 2005

Prof. Antweiler's "Voter Migration Matrix" Election Forecasting Tool

2001 Election Candidate Financial Disclosures
{{British Columbia elections 2005 2005 elections in Canada 2005 in British Columbia May 2005 events in Canada