of British Columbia Supplement 2002—2013 Electoral History ELECTORAL HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUPPLEMENT 2002—2013 Legislative LibraryLegislative of British Columbia A non-partisan Oce of the Legislature ELECTORAL HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SUPPLEMENT 2002—2013 Elections BC and the Legislative Library of British Columbia Victoria, B.C. 2014 Cover photos courtesy of the Parliamentary Education Office at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and the Office of Protocol. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction Part One Registered Political Parties 1 By-elections of the 37th Parliament 5 38th General Election 6 By-elections of the 38th Parliament 19 39th General Election 20 By-elections of the 39th Parliament 32 40th General Election 34 By-elections of the 40th Parliament 47 Parties and Elections 48 Elected Candidates 50 Plebiscites and Referenda 58 Initiative Petitions 90 Recall Petitions 92 Part Two Chief Electoral Officers 96 District Electoral Officers, Deputy District Electoral Officers and District Registrars of Voters 97 Part Three Royal and Special Commissions on Elections 106 Parliamentary Committees on Elections and Related Matters 107 Statutory History of Election Law 110 Electoral Redistribution 112 Election Act Regulations 113 Part Four Controverted and Voided Elections 116 Elected Candidates Who Did Not Take Their Seat in the Legislature 117 Electoral Highlights 118 Women Members of the Legislative Assembly 120 Part Five Premiers of British Columbia 124 Sessions of the Legislative Assembly 125 Part Six Sources 128 PREFACE This supplement to the Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871—1986 was prepared to continue the provision of a convenient and authoritative historical overview of electoral activities in the province of British Columbia since 1871. The data in this supplement, like the original volume and the first supplement, was gathered from a variety of sources but focuses primarily on Elections BC’s Statements of Votes and Reports of the Chief Electoral Officer, the Journals of the Legislative Assembly and the Statutes of British Columbia. This supplement lists the results of general elections, by-elections, referenda, recall petitions and initiative petitions from 2002 to 2013. We hope this supplement is as useful to readers as the original volume and first supplement proved to be. Keith Archer, PhD Peter GourlAy Chief Electoral Officer Director British Columbia Legislative Library of British Columbia INTRODUCTION This volume is a second supplement to the Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871—1986, continuing the historical record to the end of 2013. It contains details of the initiative petition and recall petitions that followed the 2001 General Election and all electoral activity up to and including the events of 2013: the 40th Provincial General Election, the Westside-Kelowna By-election and the initiative petition, An Initiative to Amend the Police Act. The period of 2002—2013 saw a number of firsts for the electoral process in British Columbia: the first referendum conducted entirely by mail-in ballot (2002); the establishment of Canada’s first online voter registration system (2004); the first general election in which prisoners serving a sentence longer than two years were entitled to vote (2005); and the first successful initiative petition (2010). Legislative developments have led to a number of changes to this supplement from the previous volumes. Multi-member electoral districts were discontinued following the 1986 General Election, and the ability of a candidate to run in more than one electoral district was eliminated in 1939. As such, those items have been removed from Part Four: Electoral Highlights and Women Members of this supplement. Legislative change has also meant that terminology used in this volume has been modernized throughout. For example, “polling day” is now “General Voting Day,” and “Returning Officer” is now “District Electoral Officer.” While the structure of this supplement is largely consistent with previous volumes, formatting and placement of certain information within the document has been altered to improve readability and usability. For example, the number of registered voters in an electoral district has been moved from the list of District Electoral Officers in Part Two to the Results by Electoral District in Part One. PART ONE Notes The results summaries of general elections, by-elections and referenda in Part One are immediately followed by the results by electoral district. The surnames of elected candidates appear in capital letters. Where party names have been abbreviated for space throughout the supplement, the full names can be found in the table of registered political parties on page 1. In previous volumes, “Member sworn in” was referred to as “Date Member took seat” in by-election results tables. Results PART ONE Registered Political Parties This list of registered political parties includes all political parties that were registered during the period covered by this supplement. Where a political party changed its name during this period, or changed its name as it appears on the ballot, this change is referenced. PARTY NAME BALLOT NAME ABBREVIATION Accountability British Columbia Party ABC ABC Advocational International Democratic Party of Advocational Party AID British Columbia All Nations Party of British Columbia All Nations ANP The Alternative Party Alternative Party AP The Annexation Party of British Columbia Annexation B.C. ANX Bald Eagle Party1 Bald Eagle Party BEP See also Free Canadian Party BC Allegiance Party BC Allegiance Party BCA BC First Party BC First FP BC Heritage Party2 BC Heritage Party BCHP See also Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia BC Marijuana Party BC Marijuana Party3 BCM BC NDP4 BC NDP5 NDP See also New Democratic Party of B.C. BC Refederation Party6 BC Refed7 REFD See also Western Independence Party of BC and Western Refederation Party BC Youth Coalition BC Youth Coalition BCYC B.C. Action Party B.C. Action Party BCAP *Not affiliated with British Columbia Action Party B.C. Democratic Alliance8 B.C. Democratic Alliance BCDA See also British Columbia Democratic Coalition and Democratic Reform B.C. B.C. Vision B.C. Vision BCV Bloc British Columbia Party9 The Bloc BC BLOC See also The Progressive Nationalist Party of British Columbia British Columbia Action Party BC Action Party BCAP *Not affiliated with B.C. Action Party British Columbia Citizens Alliance Now BC CAN BCCA British Columbia Conservative Party BC Conservative Party10 CP Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement 2002 —2013 1 PART ONE Results Registered political parties - continued PARTY NAME BALLOT NAME ABBREVIATION British Columbia Democratic Coalition8 British Columbia Democratic BCDC See also B.C. Democratic Alliance and Democratic Coalition Reform B.C. British Columbia Democratic Futures Party BC Democratic Futures BCDF British Columbia Excalibur Party BC Excalibur Party BCEX British Columbia Grey Party11 Grey Party of B.C. GREY See also Citizens Action Party British Columbia Labour Party B.C. Labour Party BCLP British Columbia Liberal Party BC Liberal Party LIB British Columbia Libertarian Party Libertarian LBN British Columbia Party British Columbia Party BCP British Columbia Patriot Party B.C. Patriot Party BCPA British Columbia Social Credit Party BC Social Credit Party12 SC British Columbia Unity Party BC Unity Party UPBC Canadian Alliance Party of British Columbia Alliance BC CAP The Central Party The Central Party CENT Centre Democratic Party Centre Democratic Party CD Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia2 Christian Heritage Party of B.C. CHP See also BC Heritage Party Citizens Action Party11 Citizens Action Party CIT See also British Columbia Grey Party Citizens Commonwealth Federation Citizens Commonwealth Federation CFED Coaltion British Columbia Coalition British Columbia CBC Communist Party of BC Communist Party of BC COMM Confederation Party of British Columbia Confederation Party of BC CONF Council of British Columbians Council of British Columbians COBC Democratic Idealists Party13 Democratic Idealists Party DIP See also Idealists Party Democratic Reform B.C.8 DR BC DRBC See also B.C. Democratic Alliance and British Columbia Democratic Coalition The Emerged Democracy Party of British Emerged Democracy Party of B.C. EDBC Columbia Enterprise Party of B.C. B.C. Enterprise ENT Feminist initiative of BC Feminist initiative FEM Free Canadian Party1 Free Canadian Party FRCA See also Bald Eagle Party The Freedom Party of British Columbia The Freedom Party FREE 2 Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement 2002 —2013 Results PART ONE Registered political parties - continued PARTY NAME BALLOT NAME ABBREVIATION Green Party Political Association of British Green Party of BC GP Columbia Helping Hand Party Helping Hand Party HH The Herb Party The Herb Party HERB Idealists Party13 Idealists Party IDEA See also Democratic Idealists Party Individual Rights Party of British Columbia Individual Rights Party IRP Link BC Link BC LBC The Moderate Democratic Movement Moderates14 MDM Nation Alliance Party N.A.P. NAP Natural Law Party of British Columbia Natural Law Party NLP New Democratic Party of B.C.4 New Democratic Party of B.C. NDP See also BC NDP New Wave New Wave NW None of the Above Party of BC None of the Above Party of BC NOTA Party Of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think Party of Citizens POC For Themselves And Be Their Own Politicians The People of British Columbia Millionaires B.C. Millionaires Party PBCM