Andrew Lewis (Canadian politician)
Andrew Lewis is a former Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2004 to 2006, and a prominent member of the Green Party of British Columbia.
He is a 45-year-old landscaper who came from the United Kingdom to Vancouver Island in the early 1990s.
He first became nationally visible in the 2001 British Columbia provincial election, winning 25% of the vote in BC's largest riding, Saanich North and the Islands. He won the most Green votes of any riding, and second-strongest percentage showing to Adriane Carr on the Sunshine Coast. The party as a whole polled 12.4% across BC.
In the 2004 federal election, Lewis ran again in a substantially larger federal riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands and won 16.7% of the vote and also posted the first victory in a polling division ever for his federal party and in fact won 17 of 238 polls. The party as a whole polled 4.3% across Canada.
Lewis achieved some visibility in the major media which was intrigued by the story of a Green running to win.
He didn't run in the 2005 provincial election due to a "nomination freeze" imposed by the Green Party of BC, and an illness in the family. He ran again in Saanich—Gulf Islands in the 2006 federal election but lost one-third of his 2004 vote share winning only 9.9% of the ballots cast.
He ran again in Saanich—Gulf Islands in the 2008 federal election, getting 10.5% of the vote.
[edit] Electoral record
| Canadian federal election, 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Gary Lunn | 24,416 | 37.15% | ||
| New Democratic Party | Jennifer Burgis | 17,455 | 26.54% | ||
| Liberal | Sheila Orr | 17,144 | 26.08% | ||
| Green | Andrew Lewis | 6,533 | 9.94% | ||
| Western Block | Patricia O'Brien | 183 | 0.27% | ||
| Canadian federal election, 2004 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Gary Lunn | 22,050 | 34.57% | ||
| Liberal | David Mulroney | 17,082 | 26.78% | ||
| New Democratic Party | Jennifer Burgis | 13,763 | 21.58% | ||
| Green | Andrew Lewis | 10,662 | 16.71% | ||
| Independent | Mary Moreau | 214 | 0.33% | ||
| British Columbia general election, 2001 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| BC Liberal | Murray Coell | 15,406 | 54.29% | ||
| Green | Andrew Lewis | 7,211 | 25.41% | ||
| NDP | Paul Sam | 5,011 | 17.66% | ||
| Marijuana | Christina Racki | 491 | 1.73% | ||
| Independent | Balther Johannes Jensen | 257 | 0.91% | ||
[edit] External links
- Going Green in a place that's fertile ground for the individualist reprinting Globe and Mail article
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