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Fraser-Nicola
Fraser-Nicola is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, established by the '' Electoral Districts Act, 2008''. It was first contested in the 2009 general election. Geography As of the 2020 provincial election, Fraser-Nicola comprises the southwestern portion of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, eastern portion of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and the eastern portion of the Fraser Valley Regional District. It is located in southern British Columbia. Communities in the electoral district consist of Merritt, Hope, Lillooet, Logan Lake, Lytton, Ashcroft Ashcroft may refer to: Places * Ashcroft, British Columbia, a village in Canada **Ashcroft House in Bagpath, Gloucestershire, England—eponym of the Canadian village * Ashcroft, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Ashcroft, Colorado, ..., and Cache Creek. Member of the Legislative Assembly Because of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Luck
Tony Luck is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 British Columbia general election, 2024 general election. He represents the electoral district of Fraser-Nicola as a member of the Conservative Party of British Columbia. Luck is a former councillor in both Mission, British Columbia, Mission and Merritt, British Columbia, Merritt, British Columbia. Early life and career Luck currently resides in Merritt with his wife Wanda. He is a father to nine children and grandfather to 25 children. Luck was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, raised in Richmond, and raised his family in Abbotsford. When he became an empty-nester in Mission, he moved to Merritt eight years ago to retire there. He has received two degrees from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996, and a Bachelor of Arts in history in 2006. He later served on the board of directors of the UFV Alumni Association, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lali
Harbhajan Singh "Harry" Lali (born August 10, 1955) is a former MLA in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Biography Lali spent eleven summers working in the forestry industry, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and South Asia Area Studies from the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, where he helped establish the Chair of Punjabi and Sikh Studies. He served one term as City Councillor in Merritt starting in 1988, and was an employment counsellor for the Merritt Outreach Program from 1986 until 1991. He is a member of BC United and former member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party and the longest serving South Asian Member of a Legislative Assembly in Canadian history, surpassing his former colleague Moe Sihota in June 2010. Provincial politics In the 1991 election he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as MLA for Yale-Lillooet by defeating one-term Social Credit incumbent James Rabbitt, and was re-elected in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Tegart
Jackie L. Tegart (born 1956) is a Canadian politician, who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election and remained in office until 2024. She represented the electoral district of Fraser-Nicola as a member of the BC United. In Opposition, she served as Chair of the Liberal Party Caucus, Official Opposition Critic for Education, and Assistant Deputy Speaker. Prior to her election, Tegart served three terms on the municipal council of Ashcroft Ashcroft may refer to: Places * Ashcroft, British Columbia, a village in Canada **Ashcroft House in Bagpath, Gloucestershire, England—eponym of the Canadian village * Ashcroft, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Ashcroft, Colorado, ..., and was on school board for 17 years. Election history |
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 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 British Columbia General Election
The 2020 British Columbia general election was held on October 24, 2020, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Legislative Assembly to serve in the 42nd Parliament of British Columbia, 42nd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The incumbent New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) won a majority government, making John Horgan the first leader in the history of the BC NDP to win a second consecutive term as premier. The incoming Legislature marked the first time the NDP commanded an outright majority government in BC since the 1996 British Columbia general election, 1996 election, as well as the first province-wide popular vote win for the party since 1991 British Columbia general election, 1991. Horgan called a snap election on September 21, 2020, the first early election in the province since the 1986 British Columbia general election, 1986 election. Horgan argued the call for an election a year before it was due was neces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope, British Columbia
Hope is a district municipality at the confluence of the Fraser River, Fraser and Coquihalla River, Coquihalla rivers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Hope is at the eastern end of both the Fraser Valley and the Lower Mainland region, and is at the southern end of the Fraser Canyon. To the east, over the North Cascades, Cascade Mountains, is the British Columbia Interior, Interior region, beginning with the Similkameen Country on the farther side of the Allison Pass in Manning Park. Located east of Vancouver, Hope is at the southern terminus of the British Columbia Highway 5#Coquihalla Highway, Coquihalla Highway and the western terminus of the Crowsnest Highway, locally known as the Hope-Princeton (Highways British Columbia Highway 5, 5 and British Columbia Highway 3, 3, respectively), where they merge with the Trans-Canada Highway (British Columbia Highway 1, Highway 1). Hope is at the eastern terminus of British Columbia Highway 7, Highway 7. As it lies at the eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lytton, British Columbia
Lytton is a village of about 250 residents in southern British Columbia, Canada, on the east side of the Fraser River and primarily the south side of the Thompson River, where it flows southwesterly into the Fraser. The community includes the Village of Lytton and the surrounding community of the Lytton First Nation, whose name for the place is Camchin, also spelled ''Kumsheen'' ("river meeting"). During heat waves, Lytton is often the hottest spot in Canada despite its location north of 50th parallel north, 50°N in latitude. In three consecutive days of June 2021, it broke the all-time record for List of extreme temperatures in Canada, Canada's highest temperature, ending at on June 29. This is the highest temperature ever recorded north of 45th parallel north, 45°N and higher than the all-time records for Europe and South America. The next day (June 30), Lytton wildfire, a wildfire swept through the valley, destroying the majority of the town. The Lytton area has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale-Lillooet
Yale-Lillooet was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared in the 1966 General Election, when it superseded the older Lillooet riding, which was one of the province's original twelve ridings, as well as the equally old Yale riding, parts of which were also in Yale-Lillooet. Yale-Lillooet was last contested in the 2005 General Election; in 2009 it was largely replaced by Fraser-Nicola, with the Fraser Canyon portions in the southwest transferred to Chilliwack-Hope and the town of Keremeos in the extreme southeast transferred to Boundary-Similkameen. Demographics Geography The riding was largely rural and wilderness in character despite its proximity to the Lower Mainland, it spanned the Bridge River-Lillooet, Ashcroft-Thompson Canyon, Fraser Canyon, Nicola and Similkameen Districts. Since creation its shape remained relatively unchanged despite some minor boundary adjustments, with (e.g.) Ashcroft- Cach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Electoral Redistribution, 2008
An electoral redistribution was undertaken in 2008 in British Columbia in a process that began in late 2005 and was completed with the passage of the ''Electoral Districts Act, 2008'' on April 10, 2008. The redistribution modified most electoral boundaries in the province and increased the number of MLAs from 79 to 85. The electoral boundaries created by the redistribution were first used in the 2009 provincial election. The provincial government mandated the BC Electoral Boundaries Commission to recommend new maps (for both BC-STV and the traditional " single-member plurality" SMP systems) prior to the second electoral reform referendum. The commission's preliminary report, delivered in August 2007, was received with concern by both the New Democratic Party opposition and the governing Liberal party. In addition to concerns about boundaries and size of individual ridings, the commission was criticized for shifting seats to the Lower Mainland (which was growing in population) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Electoral District
This is a list of the 93 provincial electoral districts (also informally known as ''ridings'' in Canadian English) of British Columbia, Canada, as defined by the 2021 electoral redistribution. These ridings came into effect for the 2024 British Columbia general election. British Columbia provincial electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia every election. Current electoral districts * Abbotsford-Mission * Abbotsford South *Abbotsford West *Boundary-Similkameen * Bulkley Valley-Stikine *Burnaby Centre *Burnaby East * Burnaby-New Westminster *Burnaby North *Burnaby South-Metrotown * Cariboo-Chilcotin *Chilliwack-Cultus Lake * Chilliwack North * Columbia River-Revelstoke *Coquitlam-Burke Mountain *Coquitlam-Maillardville *Courtenay-Comox *Cowichan Valley *Delta North *Delta South *Esquimalt-Colwood *Fraser-Nicola *Juan de Fuca-Malahat *Kamloops Centre *Kamloops-North Thompson *Kelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 since party politics was introduced into British Columbia. This trend broke in 2017, when the district was won by a BC Liberal despite a BC NDP government being sworn in. Demographics Geography As of the 2020 provincial election, Kamloops-North Thompson comprises the northeastern portion of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. It is located in central British Columbia. Communities in the electoral district consist of Kamloops Kamloops ( ) is a city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the North Thompson River, North and South Thompson Rivers, which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake. The city is the ad ..., north of the Thompson river, Clearwater, and Barriere. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Democratic Party Of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in British Columbia, political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party sits on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum and is one of the two major parties in British Columbia; since the 1990s, its rival was the Centre-right politics, centre-right BC United (formerly known as the BC Liberals) until the Conservative Party of British Columbia reconstituted itself for the 2024 British Columbia general election, with BC United withdrawing its candidates and endorsing the Conservatives. The party is formally affiliated with the federal New Democratic Party and serves as its provincial branch. The party was established in 1933 as the provincial wing of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; the party adopted the NDP name in 1961 as part of the national party's re-foundation. The CCF quickly established itself as a major party in BC: for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
