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2009 British Columbia general election
← 2005 May 12, 2009 2013 →
85 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
43 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout50.99%[1] Decrease 7.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Gordon Campbell Carole James Jane Sterk
Party Liberal New Democratic Green
Leader since September 11, 1993 November 23, 2003 October 21, 2007
Leader's seat Vancouver-Point Grey Victoria-Beacon Hill Ran in Esquimalt-Royal Roads (Lost)
Last election 46 seats 33 seats 0 seats
Seats won 49 35 0
Seat change Increase3 Increase2 Steady0
Popular vote 751,661 691,564 134,570
Percentage 45.82% 42.15% 8.21%
Swing Increase0.03% Increase0.62% Decrease0.97%
Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Click the map for more details.
Premier before election

Gordon Campbell
Liberal

Premier after election

Gordon Campbell
Liberal

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 the 2001 provincial election, were returned to power, constituting the first time in 23 years a party had won three elections in a row in British Columbia. As a result of the seat redistribution, both the Liberals and the New Democrats gained seats, and both parties increased their popular vote by less than one per cent over 2005. Each party lost two incumbent MLAs: the BC NDP's Jenn McGinn and Charlie Wyse, and the Liberals' John Nuraney and Wally Oppal were defeated. All other seat changes in the election resulted from the new seats or from retiring incumbents.

Voter turnout was 50.99% of eligible voters (1,651,567 registered voters).

2008 redistribution of ridings[edit]

Main article: 2008 British Columbia electoral redistribution

An Act was passed in 2008 providing for an increase of seats from 79 to 85, upon the next election.[2]The following changes were made:

Abolished ridings New ridings
Renaming of districts
Drawn from other districts
Division of districts
Reorganization of districts
  1. ^ From parts of Surrey-Green Timbers, Surrey-Newton and Surrey-Cloverdale.
  2. ^ Also taking in part of Maple Ridge-Mission.
  3. ^ Also taking in part of Malahat-Juan de Fuca.
  4. ^ Also taking in part of Nanaimo.
  5. ^ Also taking in part of Vancouver-Fairview.

Political parties[edit]

British Columbia Liberal Party[edit]

 

Leader: Gordon Campbell

The BC Liberal party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature after the 2005 provincial election. Having formed a majority government since 2001 the party promoted its own track record as the government. Much of the party's platform was revealed in the 2009 Budget which included a three-year fiscal plan including revenue expectations, tax measures, and spending priorities. The budget proposed cost savings from reduced budgets in half of the ministries, 76% less government advertising, public sector wage freezes, and less spending on government travel costs, contracted professional services, and discretionary spending. The budget plan proposed to increase spending by $4.8 billion over 3 years for healthcare, $300 million over three years for social services, and $800 million more annually for education, as well as some new funding for childcare, policing, victims services, and social housing. The BC Liberal platform, some of it already promised in the budget, advocates hospital improvements in Surrey, Victoria, Vernon, Fort St. John and Kelowna; travel and accommodation assistance to families who must travel long distances to be with their children when they are receiving care; new measures to help remote communities get new access to fresh fruit and vegetables; provide citizens electronic access to their health records; establishing voluntary five-year-old kindergarten classes; establishing a law school at Thompson Rivers University, a medical school at UBC Okanagan, and a Wood Design and Innovation Centre at UNBC; doubling the BC Training Tax Credit; exempting the first $20,000 of seniors' pension income from income tax; legislating a Residents Bill of Rights for seniors living in residential care facilities and a registry for residential care aides; installing cameras to monitor school yards and high-risk public areas; outlaw dumping of raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and help build a new sewage treatment plan for Greater Victoria.[3]

New Democratic Party of British Columbia[edit]

 

Leader: Carole James

Under Carole James' leadership the NDP won 33 seats in the 2005 election and two by-elections in 2008. Among other points, its platform involved repealing the carbon tax, instituting a cap and trade plan of greenhouse gas emissions, adopting California's tough vehicle tailpipe emission standards, expanding the capacity and efficiency of public hospitals, instituting health care wait time guarantees, a 1-year small business tax holiday, freezing post-secondary tuition fees, hire more Crown Prosecutors, restoring public oversight to BC Ferries, restricting raw log exports, increasing the minimum wage to $10/hr indexed to inflation, placing a moratorium on new private run-of-the-river power projects, reinstating the Buy BC program, creating a new Rural Economic Development Fund, and promoting farm gate sales of agricultural products (including meat).[4]

Green Party of British Columbia[edit]

 

Leader: Jane Sterk

The Green Party ran a full slate of candidates, as it did in 2005 when it won over 9 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Its new leader was Jane Sterk, a former Esquimalt councillor. It supported the BC-STV proposal in the referendum. The party released its platform in a book titled British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013. Amongst other points, it advocated balanced budgets, reducing taxes on industry and business while increasing taxes on pollution, creating a Green Venture Capital Fund to invest in green collar jobs, directing 1% from the PST to municipal governments, allowing municipalities to issue municipal bonds, creating a provincial police force, reducing tuition fees by 20%, increasing funding to post-secondary institutions, refunding full tuition fees to graduates who work and live in the province for five years after receiving their degree, banning use of cosmetic pesticides, expanding the Medical Service Plan (to cover chiropractic, physiotherapy, eye exams, massage therapy, routine physical exams, and counselling for addictions), creating a Guaranteed Livable Income by unifying all current income support programs, supporting harm reduction practices, regulating cannabis, halting river-based hydro projects pending a review of the environmental assessment process, re-establishing BC Ferries as a Crown corporation, halting the Gateway Program, using usage based insurance for ICBC rates, and creating a BC Legacy Fund from oil and gas royalties for municipal and rural community projects.[5]

Minor parties[edit]

  British Columbia Conservative Party

Leader: Wilf Hanni

The Conservatives nominated 24 candidates, up from seven candidates in 2005 when they won 0.55% of the vote. In spite of his low profile party leader Wilf Hanni participated in a leaders' "Forum" in May 2009.[6] Their platform advocated, among other points, competitive and performance-based healthcare delivery within a publicly funded system, opposing the Recognition and Reconciliation Bill with Aboriginal peoples, returning treaty responsibility to the federal government, repealing the carbon tax and opposing a carbon trading system, expanding resource development (including offshore drilling), reducing the PST by 1%, harmonizing the PST with the Federal GST, eliminating the Property Transfer Tax, rolling back salary increases of MLAs and senior government employees, permitting parents more choices in which schools to send their children to and funding the schools accordingly, repealing the Corren Agreement, reducing tuition fees for students who meet certain standards in post-secondary education, light rail transit in southern Vancouver Island and in Chilliwack, eliminating tolls on bridges (including a proposed toll on the Port Mann Bridge), work requirements on public projects for criminals serving time in jail, a new program to address small crime separately from more serious crimes, creation of a program called Communities That Care to strengthen family dynamics and reduce negative youth behaviors, publishing a Criminal Offenders Registry, creating a substantive appeal process beyond the BC Human Rights Tribunal, enact a 'Right to a Free Vote' legislation for MLAs to freely vote in the Legislature, hold votes for federal senators, and implement a preferential voting system for provincial elections.[7]

  British Columbia Libertarian Party

Leader: None

The Libertarian Party ran six candidates in this election, as it did in 2005. The party supported reducing government involvement in delivery of health care, education, and car insurance; reducing taxes as services are privatized; and reducing government regulation on guns and drugs.[8]

  British Columbia Marijuana Party

Leader: Marc Emery

The Marijuana Party ran one candidate in this election and endorsed the Green Party. In 2005 it ran 44 candidates, while in 2001 it ran a full slate.[9]

  BC Refederation Party

Leader: Mike Summers

The Refederation Party nominated 22 candidates, up from four candidates in 2005 under its previous name the "Western Refederation Party of BC". The party mainly advocates for direct democracy based on the Swiss model, the creation of a provincial constitution, and re-negotiating with the federal government the terms of confederation. According to its website its platform also includes the creation of a provincial police force, homogeneous schools and classes of students with similar abilities, reinstating alternative medical options (such as physiotherapy, dental, and chiropractic) into the Medical Services Plan and placing the Medical Services Plan under the jurisdiction of Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, making WorkSafe an enforcement agency only by moving its insurance component to ICBC, a moratorium on run-of-river hydro projects and fish farms, holding a referendums on the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement and the sale of Crown Corporations, and a judicial review of the sale of BC Rail.[10]

  Communist Party of British Columbia

Leader: George Gidora

The Communist Party of BC is the provincial branch of the national Communist Party. It had three candidates running in the 2009 election, as it did in 2005. The CPBC campaigned against BC-STV in favour of Mixed Member Proportional representation. It advocates progressive tax based on ability to pay, raising the minimum wage to $16/hour indexed to the cost of living, ending the $6/hour training wage, holding a public inquiry into the sale of BC Rail, banning raw log exports, requiring by legislation the processing of timber locally for export, banning evictions for the purpose of renovation, scrapping the Gateway Program, holding elections for the TransLink board with a $1 single zone fare for the Lower Mainland, removing guns and tasers from transit police, eliminating tuition fees, expanding the apprenticeship program, lowering the voting age to 16, withdrawing from the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement, and reintegrating BC Transmission Corporation back into BC Hydro.[11]

  Nation Alliance Party

Leader: Wei Ping Chen

The Nation Alliance Party is a new party that nominated two candidates in this election, both in Richmond ridings. The party seeks to promote the rights of ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. Among other points, it advocates promoting participation in the public affairs, promoting non-violence, and opposing racialism.[12]

  People's Front

Leader: Charles Boylan

The People's Front is the provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) which generally advocates, among other points, increased spending on health, education and other social programs, a moratorium on the debt, hereditary rights of the Aboriginal peoples, recognition of the equality of all languages and cultures, instituting recall elections, and rights for individuals to initiate legislation.[13] It nominated four candidates in this election, down from five in 2005 and 11 in 2001.

  Reform Party of British Columbia

Leader: David Charles Hawkins

The BC Reform Party nominated four candidates. It had only one candidate in the 2005 election but nine in 2001 and a full slate of 75 in the 1996 election. According to its website, its platform includes, amongst other points, replacing the provincial income tax with a sales tax and a business tax on gross receipts, use of an employee payroll credit, repudiation of any carbon taxes and carbon credit trading, re-establishing public equity in BC Investment Management Corporation, re-establishment a Grand jury system, restrictions on judicial reviews of legislative actions, and elections for local provincial court judges.[14]

  Sex Party

Leader: John Ince

Billing itself as "the world's first sex-positive party", the Sex Party nominated three candidates in Vancouver ridings, as it did in 2005. According to its website, its platform includes, amongst other points, requiring sexual health and hygiene education in schools, requiring school districts to establish professional support programs to address discrimination of sexual minorities, providing provincial funding for institutes studying and teaching human sexuality or researching sexuality policy issues, reserve designate areas for nudists on all public parks and beaches larger than one hectare, establish a Sex Worker Empowerment Program as an agency providing counseling, education, and advocacy to sex workers, requiring municipalities to treat sex toy businesses as other retail businesses, repeal sex negative regulations, requiring all long term care institutions to articulate a sexuality policy that is non-judgmental about residents' sexuality, creating a Sex-Positive Press Council to expose overt and subtle censorship in BC media, changing Victoria Day to Eros Day to celebrate and encourage sex-positive expression, and proclaiming Valentine's Day a statutory holiday.[15]

  Western Canada Concept

Leader: Doug Christie

The Western Canada Concept had one candidate running in this election, down from two candidates in the 2005 election. The party strongly advocates independence for western Canada, and amongst other points advocates for anti-abortion legislation, strong private property rights, balanced budgets, promotion of cultural assimilation rather than multiculturalism, and compulsory public service with a volunteer armed forces.[16]

  Work Less Party of British Columbia

Leader: Conrad Schmidt

The WLP is an anti-materialist political movement that hopes to achieve socialist and green ends through, among other things, the promotion of a four-day, 32-hour work-week.[17] The party had 2 candidates down from 11 in 2005. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of voluntary simplicity.

  Your Political Party

Leader: James Filippelli

The party nominated one candidate in 2005 and two in 2009. Among other points, it advocates publishing reports explaining where every tax dollar is spent, free votes in the legislature, making all campaign promises legally binding, requiring MLAs hold public townhall-style meetings at least once every four months, labelling products sold in BC indicating environmental standards, adding generating capacity to existing dams, opening run-of-river dam project areas to recreational use, providing periodic written statements detailing the cost of each citizen's use of the health care system, provide forgivable loans to post-secondary students who continue to live and work in BC after graduation, permit more private post-secondary institutions, requiring all people serving time in jail to work to pay for the cost of their incarceration, legalization of marijuana, eliminate the property transfer tax, disallow restrictions on secondary suites and minimum home sizes, harvesting all Pine Beetle affected timber immediately, limiting the total allowable yearly fishing catch (rather than regulating length of the fishing season), require weekly educational programs for anyone receiving welfare payments, provide before and after school childcare, permitting private insurance companies to compete with ICBC.[18]

Timeline of the campaign[edit]

April 10, 2008, passage of the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 moving BC from 79 to 85 constituencies.

October 29, 2008, by-elections in Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview, both won by the New Democrats.

April 14, 2009, the campaign will officially begin when the writ is issued.

April 24, 2009 1pm close of nominations for the election.

May 12, 2009, Election day.

Debates[edit]

There was one TV debate featuring the leaders of the three major parties: Gordon Campbell, Carole James, and Jane Sterk on all three major BC networks on Sunday May 3 at 5:00 p.m.

CKNW had a debate of the three leaders on April 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

CBC Radio One had a debate of the three leaders on April 21 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion polls[edit]

Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level
Polling firm Last day
of survey 		Source Liberal NDP Green Cons. Other ME Sample
Voting results 45.82 42.15 8.21 2.10 1.72
Ipsos May 7, 2009 1 · 2 47 39 10 — 4 ±3.5 800
Mustel May 7, 2009 [1] 47 38 12 — 3 — —
Angus Reid May 6, 2009 [2] 44 42 10 2 2 ±3.1 1,013
Environics May 2, 2009 [3] 47 36 13 — 5 — —
Angus Reid April 28, 2009 [4][permanent dead link] 42 39 13 3 3 — —
Mustel April 7, 2009 [5] 52 35 12 — 1 ±4.5 483
Angus Reid March 25, 2009 [6] 43 37 13 4 3 — —
Ipsos March 24, 2009 [7] 46 35 15 — 4 — —
Mustel February 10, 2009 [8] 52 36 12 — 1 — —
Mustel January 15, 2009 [9] 47 33 16 — 4 — —
Election 2005 May 17, 2005 45.80 41.52 9.18 0.55 2.95


Results[edit]

Elections to the 39th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (2009)[19]
Party Leader Candidates Votes Seats
# ± % Change (pp) 2005 2009 ±
Liberal Gordon Campbell 85 751,661 55,457Decrease 45.82 0.02 0.02
 
 46
49 / 85
 3Increase
New Democratic Carole James 85 691,564 40,219Decrease 42.15 0.63 0.63
 
 33
35 / 85
 2Increase
Green Jane Sterk 85 134,616 27,233Decrease 8.21 -0.98
 
Conservative Wilf Hanni 24 34,451 24,828Increase 2.10 1.55 1.55
 
Independent 16 18,686 1,087Increase 1.14 0.14 0.14
 
 –
1 / 85
 1Increase
Marijuana Marc Emery 1 361 11,088Decrease 0.02 -0.63
 
Democratic Reform Did not campaign -0.80
 
Refederation Mike Summers 22 3,748 3,073Increase 0.23 0.19
Libertarian 6 1,486 433Increase 0.09 0.03
Reform David Charles Hawkins 4 1,106 741Increase 0.07 0.05
Nation Alliance Wei Ping Chen 2 818 818Increase 0.05 New
Communist George Gidora 3 433 189Increase 0.03 0.01
People's Front Charles Boylan 4 401 21Increase 0.02 –
Your Political Party James Filippelli 2 335 107Decrease 0.02 –
Work Less Conrad Schmidt 2 322 1,319Decrease 0.02 -0.07
Sex John Ince 3 319 14Increase 0.02 –
Western Canada Concept Doug Christie 1 235 152Decrease 0.01 -0.01
Total 345 1,640,542 100.00%

MLAs elected[edit]

Synopsis of results[edit]

Main article: Results of the 2009 British Columbia general election by riding
Results by riding - 2009 British Columbia general election[20]
Riding Winning party Turnout
[a 1] 		Votes[a 2]
Name 2005 Party Votes Share Margin
# 		Margin
% 		Lib NDP Grn Con Ind Oth Total
 
Abbotsford-Mission New Lib 10,371 58.36% 4,583 25.79% 52.10% 10,371 5,788 1,611 – – – 17,770
Abbotsford South New Lib 9,566 58.47% 5,369 32.82% 48.75% 9,566 4,197 1,244 1,019 334 – 16,360
Abbotsford West Lib Lib 8,992 55.81% 3,886 24.12% 52.86% 8,992 5,106 970 1,043 – – 16,111
Alberni-Pacific Rim NDP NDP 10,488 59.36% 4,883 27.64% 57.68% 5,605 10,488 1,324 – – 250 17,667
Boundary-Similkameen New Lib 6,681 37.45% 811 4.55% 62.31% 6,681 5,870 1,691 3,596 – – 17,838
Burnaby-Deer Lake Lib NDP 8,103 48.75% 512 3.08% 48.65% 7,591 8,103 928 – – – 16,622
Burnaby-Edmonds NDP NDP 8,647 51.94% 2,262 13.59% 49.07% 6,385 8,647 1,122 – – 493 16,647
Burnaby-Lougheed Lib Lib 9,207 48.45% 696 3.66% 53.59% 9,207 8,511 1,285 – – – 19,003
Burnaby North Lib Lib 9,880 48.19% 548 2.67% 53.85% 9,880 9,332 1,292 – – – 20,504
Cariboo-Chilcotin NDP Lib 6,259 47.85% 88 0.67% 62.93% 6,259 6,171 650 – – – 13,080
Cariboo North NDP NDP 7,004 49.51% 503 3.56% 60.24% 6,501 7,004 643 – – – 14,148
Chilliwack Lib Lib 8,138 44.61% 2,230 12.23% 50.87% 8,138 5,908 1,523 2,672 – – 18,241
Chilliwack-Hope Lib Lib 8,985 53.28% 3,347 19.85% 51.85% 8,985 5,638 951 1,198 – 93 16,865
Columbia River-Revelstoke NDP NDP 7,419 55.29% 2,326 17.33% 56.17% 5,093 7,419 907 – – – 13,419
Comox Valley Lib Lib 13,886 47.30% 1,378 4.69% 60.99% 13,886 12,508 2,577 – – 386 29,357
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain New Lib 8,644 56.83% 3,251 21.37% 48.87% 8,644 5,393 907 – – 266 15,210
Coquitlam-Maillardville NDP NDP 9,818 47.93% 673 3.29% 55.22% 9,145 9,818 1,040 – 481 – 20,484
Cowichan Valley New NDP 12,548 48.40% 3,290 12.69% 62.54% 9,258 12,548 3,058 924 – 139 25,927
Delta North NDP NDP 10,381 50.48% 1,891 9.20% 59.26% 8,490 10,381 938 756 – – 20,565
Delta South Lib Ind 9,977 42.50% 32 0.14% 68.59% 9,945 2,940 555 – 10,037 – 23,477
Esquimalt-Royal Roads NDP NDP 11,514 52.92% 4,935 22.68% 58.27% 6,579 11,514 3,664 – – – 21,757
Fort Langley-Aldergrove Lib Lib 15,139 61.09% 7,647 30.86% 57.63% 15,139 7,492 1,765 – – 387 24,783
Fraser-Nicola New NDP 6,703 49.12% 873 6.40% 63.38% 5,830 6,703 891 – – 223 13,647
Juan de Fuca NDP NDP 11,520 57.21% 4,654 23.11% 59.87% 6,866 11,520 1,749 – – – 20,135
Kamloops-North Thompson Lib Lib 9,830 46.94% 510 2.44% 55.05% 9,830 9,320 1,418 – – 375 20,943
Kamloops-South Thompson Lib Lib 12,548 53.86% 4,416 18.95% 57.56% 12,548 8,132 1,529 1,090 – – 23,299
Kelowna-Lake Country Lib Lib 10,281 52.11% 5,031 25.50% 47.25% 10,281 5,250 1,375 2,253 571 – 19,730
Kelowna-Mission Lib Lib 11,506 53.90% 5,940 27.83% 50.68% 11,506 5,566 1,563 2,531 130 51 21,347
Kootenay East Lib Lib 8,404 51.22% 2,560 15.60% 55.87% 8,404 5,844 549 1,612 – – 16,409
Kootenay West New NDP 12,126 66.65% 8,054 44.27% 59.10% 4,072 12,126 1,791 – – 204 18,193
Langley Lib Lib 13,282 56.55% 4,871 20.74% 55.09% 13,282 8,411 1,793 – – – 23,486
Maple Ridge-Mission Lib Lib 8,802 45.73% 68 0.35% 55.10% 8,802 8,734 1,387 – – 325 19,248
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows NDP NDP 9,772 47.07% 274 1.32% 56.90% 9,498 9,772 1,149 – 202 140 20,761
Nanaimo NDP NDP 11,877 53.33% 3,791 17.02% 57.12% 8,086 11,877 2,036 – – 272 22,271
Nanaimo-North Cowichan New NDP 12,888 54.33% 4,462 18.81% 61.45% 8,426 12,888 2,135 – – 271 23,720
Nechako Lakes Lib Lib 4,949 55.76% 1,816 20.46% 54.80% 4,949 3,133 559 – – 235 8,876
Nelson-Creston NDP NDP 9,060 54.83% 3,869 23.42% 60.30% 5,191 9,060 1,189 1,083 – – 16,523
New Westminster NDP NDP 13,418 56.36% 5,178 21.75% 55.99% 8,240 13,418 2,151 – – – 23,809
North Coast NDP NDP 5,097 57.33% 1,987 22.35% 57.14% 3,110 5,097 683 – – – 8,890
North Island NDP NDP 11,865 52.03% 2,928 12.84% 57.21% 8,937 11,865 1,670 – 333 – 22,805
North Vancouver-Lonsdale Lib Lib 10,323 49.16% 2,534 12.07% 55.56% 10,323 7,789 1,791 862 – 232 20,997
North Vancouver-Seymour Lib Lib 13,426 59.18% 7,214 31.80% 61.46% 13,426 6,212 2,116 931 – – 22,685
Oak Bay-Gordon Head Lib Lib 11,877 46.53% 561 2.20% 66.86% 11,877 11,316 2,330 – – – 25,523
Parksville-Qualicum Lib Lib 13,716 51.42% 3,580 13.42% 65.70% 13,716 10,136 2,573 – – 251 26,676
Peace River North Lib Lib 3,992 43.15% 1,093 11.81% 40.01% 3,992 1,293 1,010 – 2,899 58 9,252
Peace River South Lib Lib 4,801 63.08% 2,744 36.05% 44.00% 4,801 2,057 533 – 220 – 7,611
Penticton Lib Lib 10,346 43.96% 3,015 12.81% 56.16% 10,346 7,331 3,685 2,095 – 78 23,535
Port Coquitlam New NDP 11,121 54.71% 3,225 15.87% 55.21% 7,896 11,121 994 – – 315 20,326
Port Moody-Coquitlam New Lib 9,979 52.15% 2,365 12.36% 57.44% 9,979 7,614 1,261 – – 280 19,134
Powell River-Sunshine Coast NDP NDP 13,276 58.28% 5,458 23.96% 63.03% 7,818 13,276 1,436 – – 249 22,779
Prince George-Mackenzie Lib Lib 9,816 56.05% 3,364 19.21% 53.69% 9,816 6,452 1,245 – – – 17,513
Prince George-Valemount Lib Lib 9,072 50.61% 2,335 13.03% 51.95% 9,072 6,737 1,225 780 – 113 17,927
Richmond Centre Lib Lib 10,483 61.51% 5,534 32.47% 40.97% 10,483 4,949 1,213 – – 399 17,044
Richmond East Lib Lib 10,853 58.73% 4,855 26.27% 45.16% 10,853 5,998 1,211 – – 419 18,481
Richmond-Steveston Lib Lib 13,168 60.78% 7,243 33.43% 51.57% 13,168 5,925 1,491 1,082 – – 21,666
Saanich North and the Islands Lib Lib 13,136 44.93% 258 0.88% 66.82% 13,136 12,878 3,223 – – – 29,237
Saanich South NDP NDP 11,697 47.14% 482 1.94% 66.40% 11,215 11,697 1,664 – – 235 24,811
Shuswap Lib Lib 10,764 46.62% 3,713 16.08% 56.82% 10,764 7,051 2,539 2,374 – 361 23,089
Skeena NDP NDP 5,865 50.77% 1,537 13.30% 55.15% 4,328 5,865 467 893 – – 11,553
Stikine Lib NDP 4,274 50.41% 445 5.25% 65.28% 3,829 4,274 375 – – – 8,478
Surrey-Cloverdale Lib Lib 13,815 62.70% 7,248 32.90% 55.03% 13,815 6,567 1,651 – – – 22,033
Surrey-Fleetwood New NDP 8,852 50.15% 1,992 11.29% 53.96% 6,860 8,852 1,120 818 – – 17,650
Surrey-Green Timbers NDP NDP 10,966 72.73% 7,342 48.69% 51.13% 3,624 10,966 488 – – – 15,078
Surrey-Newton NDP NDP 10,709 68.93% 6,698 43.11% 51.12% 4,011 10,709 759 – – 58 15,537
Surrey-Panorama NDP Lib 11,820 54.26% 3,145 14.44% 56.71% 11,820 8,675 1,290 – – – 21,785
Surrey-Tynehead Lib Lib 8,814 52.50% 1,557 9.27% 49.71% 8,814 7,257 717 – – – 16,788
Surrey-Whalley NDP NDP 10,453 66.47% 6,370 40.51% 47.39% 4,083 10,453 1,189 – – – 15,725
Surrey-White Rock Lib Lib 15,121 62.05% 8,453 34.68% 61.84% 15,121 6,668 2,118 – – 464 24,371
Vancouver-Fairview NDP Lib 11,034 47.09% 1,153 4.92% 56.50% 11,034 9,881 2,232 – 165 122 23,434
Vancouver-False Creek New Lib 9,223 56.40% 4,721 28.87% 48.15% 9,223 4,502 2,144 385 73 27 16,354
Vancouver-Fraserview Lib Lib 9,549 49.29% 748 3.86% 51.09% 9,549 8,801 904 – – 118 19,372
Vancouver-Hastings NDP NDP 10,857 55.49% 4,534 23.17% 50.58% 6,323 10,857 2,012 – – 373 19,565
Vancouver-Kensington NDP NDP 9,930 52.55% 2,252 11.92% 51.98% 7,678 9,930 1,288 – – – 18,896
Vancouver-Kingsway NDP NDP 9,229 55.17% 2,711 16.21% 46.99% 6,518 9,229 699 – – 283 16,729
Vancouver-Langara Lib Lib 10,615 58.87% 4,275 23.71% 47.71% 10,615 6,340 1,075 – – – 18,030
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant NDP NDP 11,232 63.95% 7,578 43.15% 46.47% 3,654 11,232 2,507 – – 171 17,564
Vancouver-Point Grey Lib Lib 11,546 50.38% 2,314 10.10% 55.98% 11,546 9,232 2,012 – – 130 22,920
Vancouver-Quilchena Lib Lib 15,731 70.22% 11,085 49.48% 57.67% 15,731 4,646 2,024 – – – 22,401
Vancouver-West End New NDP 9,926 56.51% 4,191 23.86% 49.93% 5,735 9,926 1,582 – 36 286 17,565
Vernon-Monashee Lib Lib 9,015 37.27% 1,317 5.45% 53.73% 9,015 7,698 4,029 1,972 1,397 76 24,187
Victoria-Beacon Hill NDP NDP 13,400 55.37% 7,025 29.03% 57.18% 6,375 13,400 4,106 – 319 – 24,200
Victoria-Swan Lake NDP NDP 13,119 60.53% 7,365 33.98% 56.90% 5,754 13,119 2,628 – – 174 21,675
West Vancouver-Capilano Lib Lib 15,292 67.48% 12,001 52.95% 57.96% 15,292 3,291 1,699 710 1,489 182 22,663
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Lib Lib 10,101 54.91% 5,887 32.00% 53.07% 10,101 4,214 4,082 – – – 18,397
Westside-Kelowna Lib Lib 10,334 53.33% 4,678 24.14% 47.35% 10,334 5,656 1,617 1,772 – – 19,379
  1. ^ including spoilt ballots
  2. ^ parties receiving more than 1% of the popular vote, or fielding candidates in at least half of the constituencies, are listed separately.
  = Open seat
  = turnout is above provincial average
  = winning candidate was in previous Legislature
  = Incumbent had switched allegiance
  = Previously incumbent in another riding
  = Not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
  = Incumbency arose from by-election gain
  = other incumbents renominated
  = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
  = Multiple candidates

Summary analysis[edit]

Party candidates in 2nd place[20]
Party in 1st place Party in 2nd place Total
Lib NDP Ind
Liberal 48 1 49
New Democratic 35 35
Independent 1 1
Total 36 48 1 85
Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by party[20]
Parties 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
█ Liberal 49 36
█ New Democratic 35 48 2
█ Independent 1 1 7 6
█ Green 74 11
█ Conservative 9 14 1
█ Refederation 12 6
█ Libertarian 5
█ Communist 3
█ Reform 2 2
█ Nation Alliance 2
█ Sex 1 2
█ Work Less 1 1
█ Your Political Party 1 1
█ Western Canada Concept 1
█ People's Front 3
█ Marijuana 1
Resulting composition of the 39th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Source Party
Lib NDP Ind Total
Seats retained Incumbents returned 26 22 48
Open seats held - new MLAs 13 4 17
Open seats held - taken by MLA previously incumbent in another riding 1 1
Seats changing hands Incumbents defeated 2 1 3
Open seats gained 1 1 1 3
New seats New MLAs 3 1 4
MLAs previously incumbent in another riding 3 6 9
Total 49 35 1 85

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Electoral Districts Act, S.B.C. 2008, c. 14
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  4. ^ BC NDP election platform Archived April 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013: A Better Plan for British Columbia Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Campbell's Challenge from the Right: The BC Conservative Party Archived 2017-09-25 at the Wayback Machine, Bill Tieleman, The Tyee, April 7, 2009
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  8. ^ "BC Libertarian Party statement". Libertarian.bc.ca. May 13, 2009. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  9. ^ Pablo, Carlito (2009). B.C. Marijuana Party endorses Greens for provincial election Archived 2018-11-16 at the Wayback Machine The Georgia Straight. Accessed December 21, 2015.
  10. ^ BC Refederation Party policies Archived May 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Platform statement from the Communist Party of BC. Archived May 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Nation Alliance Party platform". Nationalliance.com. July 25, 2007. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  13. ^ MLPC. "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada program". Mlpc.ca. Archived from the original on May 15, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  14. ^ "Reform Party of British Columbia platform". Reformbc.net. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  15. ^ "Sex Party provincial platform". Sexparty.ca. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
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  19. ^ Elections BC 2009, p. 21.
  20. ^ a b c Elections BC 2009, pp. 32–34.

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