Gwen O'Mahony
Gwen O'Mahony | |
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| MLA for Chilliwack-Hope | |
| In office April 19, 2012 – May 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Barry Penner |
| Succeeded by | Laurie Throness |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1972 or 1973 (age 51–52)[1] |
| Died | small |
| Resting place | small |
| Political party | New Democrat |
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Gwen O'Mahony (born 1972 or 1973) is a Canadian politician, who represented Chilliwack-Hope in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from April 2012 until May 2013 as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.[2]
O'Mahony was previously the party's candidate in Chilliwack-Hope in the 2009 provincial election, as well as running federally for the New Democrats in Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon in the 2011 federal election.
She became the first New Democrat ever to represent the area.
In the 2013 provincial election, O'Mahony was defeated by BC Liberal Party candidate Laurie Throness, the same Liberal candidate she had faced in the 2012 by-election.
Electoral record
| 2009 British Columbia general election: Chilliwack-Hope | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Barry Penner | 8,985 | 53.28 | $67,073 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gwen O'Mahony | 5,638 | 33.43 | $18,541 | ||||
| Conservative | Hans Mulder | 1,198 | 7.10 | $250 | ||||
| Green | Guy Durnin | 951 | 5.64 | $350 | ||||
| People's Front | Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell | 93 | 0.55 | $260 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 16,865 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 95 | 0.56 | ||||||
| Turnout | 16,960 | 51.85 | ||||||
| "Chilliwack-Hope B.C. Votes". CBC.ca. Retrieved 2009-04-12. | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election: Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Mark Strahl | 28,160 | 57.20 | -5.12 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gwen O'Mahony | 12,691 | 25.78 | +7.02 | ||||
| Liberal | Diane Janzen | 5,320 | 10.81 | +2.29 | ||||
| Green | Jamie Hoskins | 2,706 | 5.50 | -3.27 | ||||
| Western Block | Clive Edwards | 180 | 0.37 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell | 173 | 0.35 | +0.11 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 49,230 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 152 | 0.31 | +0.04 | |||||
| Turnout | 49,382 | 58.99 | +1 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 83,713 | |||||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, April 19, 2012: Chilliwack-Hope | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Gwen O'Mahony | 6,022 | 41.89 | +8 | ||||
| Liberal | Laurie Throness | 4,593 | 31.95 | -22 | ||||
| Conservative | John Martin | 3,615 | 25.15 | +18 | ||||
| Libertarian | Lewis Dahlby | 145 | 1.01 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 14,375 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 26 | |||||||
| Turnout | 14,401 | 41.12 | ||||||
| "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Port Moody-Coquitlam and Chilliwack-Hope By-elections" (PDF). Elections B.C. Retrieved 2013-03-07. | ||||||||
| 2013 British Columbia general election: Chilliwack-Hope | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Laurie Throness | 10,053 | 49.15 | |||||
| New Democratic | Gwen O'Mahony | 7,364 | 36.01 | |||||
| Conservative | Michael Henshall | 2,202 | 10.77 | |||||
| Independent | Ryan Ashley McKinnon | 833 | 4.07 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 20,452 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 117 | 0.57 | ||||||
| Turnout | 20,569 | 57.38 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[3] | ||||||||
References
- ^ Motivated by gov't cuts Henderson, Paul J. Chilliwack Times [Chilliwack, B.C] 21 Apr 2009: 5.
- ^ "NDP win both B.C. byelections; Liberals in second place". Vancouver Sun, April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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