2005 British Columbia general election

The 2005 British Columbia general election was held on May 17, 2005, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. 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 main opposition was the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), whose electoral representation was reduced to two MLAs in the previous provincial election in 2001.

2005 British Columbia general election

← 2001 May 17, 2005 2009 →
79 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 40 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	58.19%^[1] 2.75 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Gordon Campbell Carole James Adriane Carr Party Liberal New Democratic Green Leader's seat Vancouver-Point Grey Victoria-Beacon Hill Ran in Powell River-Sunshine Coast (lost) Last election 77 2 0 Seats won 46 33 0 Seat change 31 31 0 Popular vote 807,118 731,719 161,849 Percentage 45.80% 41.52% 9.18% Swing 11.82% 19.96% 3.22%
Popular vote map by riding. Traditional areas of NDP support returned to the party fold after the preceding wipeout. Colourblind-friendly version
Premier before election Gordon Campbell Liberal Premier after election Gordon Campbell Liberal

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• Results of 2005 British Columbia, Canada General Election

The BC Liberals retained power, with a reduced majority of 46 out of 79 seats, down from the record 77 out of 79 in 2001. Voter turnout was 58.2 per cent.

Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates: the second Tuesday in May every four years. This was the first provincial election for which elector data in the provincial elector list was synchronised with the National Register of Electors.^[2]

Coincidental with the general election, BC voters also voted on whether or not to change the province's electoral system. A majority voted for change.

Electoral reform referendum

The BC electoral reform referendum was held in conjunction with this election. This referendum asked voters whether or not they support the proposed electoral reforms of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, which included switching to a single transferable vote (STV) system. Had it been approved by 60% of voters in 60% of ridings), the new electoral system would have been implemented for the general election in 2009. Although the proposed reform attracted a clear majority (58% of the popular vote in favour, with 77 out of 79 ridings showing majority support), the level of support was just short of that required for mandatory implementation. A new vote on a revamped version of STV was held in conjunction with the 2009 British Columbia general election.

Results by party

• Source

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				2001	Dissolution	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Gordon Campbell	79	77	72	46	-40.30%	807,118	45.80%	-11.82%
	New Democratic	Carole James	79	2	3	33	+1,550%	731,719	41.52%	+19.96%
	Green	Adriane Carr	79	-	-	-	-	161,842	9.18%	-3.22%
	Democratic Reform	Tom Morino	38	*	1	-	*	14,022	0.80%	*
	Marijuana	Marc Emery	44	-	-	-	-	11,519	0.65%	-2.57%
	Conservative	Barry Chilton	7	-	-	-	-	9,623	0.55%	+0.4%
	Work Less	Conrad Schmidt	11	*	-	-	*	1,642	0.09%	*
	Libertarian	(vacant)	6	*	-	-	*	1,053	0.06%	*
	Platinum	Jeff Evans	11	*	-	-	*	779	0.04%	*
	Refederation	(vacant)	4	*	-	-	*	675	0.04%	*
	Social Credit	(vacant)	2	-	-	-	-	502	0.03%	-0.09%
	Your Political Party	James Filippelli	1	*	-	-	*	442	0.03%	*
	Western Canada Concept	Douglas Christie	2	*	-	-	*	387	0.02%	*
	People's Front	Charles Boylan	5	-	-	-	-	383	0.02%	-0.03%
	Youth Coalition	(vacant)	2	*	-	-	*	369	0.02%	*
	Moderates	(vacant)	2	*	-	-	*	367	0.02%	*
	Reform	(vacant)	1	-	-	-	-	365	0.02%	-0.2%
	British Columbia Party	Grant Mitton	2	*	-	-	*	362	0.02%	*
	Sex	John Ince	3	*	-	-	*	305	0.02%	*
	Bloc	Paddy Roberts	3	*	-	-	*	282	0.02%	*
	Freedom	K.M. Keillor	2	-	-	-	-	282	0.02%	-
	Communist	George Gidora	3	-	-	-	-	244	0.01%	-0.01%
	Unity	Daniel Stelmacker	1	-	-	-	-	224	0.01%	-3.22%
	Emerged Democracy	Tony Luck	1	*	-	-	*	151	0.01%	*
	Patriot	Andrew Hokhold	2	-	-	-	-	90	0.01%	-
	Independent / Non-affiliated		28	-	1	-	-	17,599	1.00%	+0.03%
Vacant					2
Total			418	79	79	79		1,762,343	100%	+5.43%

* denotes that the party did not contest the election in question

Popular vote Liberal   45.80% NDP   41.52% Green   9.18% Others   3.50%

Seats summary Liberal   58.23% NDP   41.77%

Results by region

Party name			Van.	Van. East Sub.	North Shore/ Sun. C.	Rich./ Delta/ Surrey	Van. Island	Fraser Valley	Interior	North	Total
	BC Liberal	Seats:	5	4	4	7	4	7	9	6	46
		Popular Vote:	44.3%	44.9%	49.6%	48.2%	40.7%	53.2%	44.9%	48.8%	45.8%
	New Democrats	Seats:	5	4	1	5	9	1	6	2	33
		Popular Vote:	43.7%	45.3%	30.7%	39.6%	47.1%	35.2%	41.5%	38.7%	41.5%
Total seats:			10	8	5	12	13	8	15	8	79
Parties that won no seats:
	Green	Popular Vote:	9.6%	7.7%	18.0%	7.1%	9.6%	8.9%	8.6%	7.1%	9.2%
	Democratic Reform	Popular Vote:	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	1.4%	0.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%
	Marijuana	Popular Vote:	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%
	Conservative	Popular Vote:	-	-	0.4%	0.1%	-	-	2.4%	-	0.6%
	Work Less	Popular Vote:	0.4%	-	0.2%	xx	0.1%	-	-	-	0.1%
	Libertarian	Popular Vote:	0.3%	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1%
	Platinum	Popular Vote:	0.1%	0.1%	-	xx	-	0.2%	-	-	xx
	Refederation	Popular Vote:	-	-	0.1%	-	0.1%	-	-	-	xx
	Social Credit	Popular Vote:	0.1%	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	Your Political Party	Popular Vote:	-	0.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	Western Canada Concept	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	xx
	People's Front	Popular Vote:	0.1%	-	-	-	xx	-	xx	xx	xx
	Youth Coalition	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	-	-	xx
	Moderates	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	-	-	xx
	Reform	Popular Vote:	-	-	0.3%	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	British Columbia Party	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	0.2%	xx
	Sex	Popular Vote:	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx
	Bloc	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1%	-	xx
	Freedom	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	xx	0.1%	-	-	xx
	Communist	Popular Vote:	xx	-	-	xx	-	-	xx	-	xx
	Unity	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	xx
	Emerged Democracy	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	-	xx
	Patriot	Popular Vote:	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx	-	xx
	Independents/ No Affiliation	Popular Vote:	0.2%	0.3%	-	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%	3.1%	1.0%

xx Denotes party received less than 0.1%

Timeline

Pre-campaign period

• August 30, 2001 - Bill 7, Constitution Amendment Act is passed, fixing the date of the election at May 17, 2005.
• November 13, 2002 - Liberal MLA Paul Nettleton accuses the government of a secret plan to privatize BC Rail as well the BC Hydro electric utility. He is removed from caucus several days later and sits as an Independent Liberal until the 2005 election, when he unsuccessfully ran in Prince George-Mount Robson against Shirley Bond. BC Rail was subsequently sold to CN in what other bidders have described as a corrupted process, and BC Hydro's administrative arm was sold to Accenture.
• January 9, 2003 - Premier Gordon Campbell is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on Maui. Because drunk driving is not a criminal offence in the state of Hawaii, but only a misdemeanour, Campbell did not resign his seat as he would have had to in Canada, and due to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) he attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a series of speaking engagements condemning drinking and driving.
• November 23, 2003 - Carole James is elected as leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.
• December 28, 2003 - the RCMP execute search warrants on various locations in the Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria, including offices in the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, in relation to suspicious dealings in relation to the bidding process for the sale of BC Rail (see BC Legislature Raids).
• March 22, 2004 - Liberal MLA Elayne Brenzinger quits the caucus citing a "secret agenda" being undertaken by Premier Campbell in relation to the sale of BC Rail.^[3]
• September 17, 2004 - Deputy Premier Christy Clark, whose house had been searched under warrant by the RCMP in connection with the BC Legislature Raids investigation, quits politics saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.
• October 22, 2004 - New Democrat Jagrup Brar wins a by-election in Surrey-Panorama Ridge with 53.6% of the vote, a swing of 33.7% to the NDP from the 2001 result. One of Brar's competitors was Green leader Adriane Carr who captured 8.4% of the vote.
• December 14, 2004 - In the wake of revelations he had been under surveillance by the RCMP in connection with dealings concerning the sale of BC Rail, Liberal Finance Minister Gary Farrell-Collins abruptly resigns from cabinet and the legislature despite having been named co-chair of the Liberal re-election campaign a month earlier. The move requires Premier Campbell to undertake a minor cabinet shuffle.
• January 15, 2005 - The Democratic Reform British Columbia party is created out of a merger of the British Columbia Democratic Coalition and the All Nations Party of British Columbia. The party also boasts the support of key elements of the Reform Party of British Columbia. Prior to the official creation of this party, the Democratic Coalition and Reform BC jointly nominated a candidate for the Surrey-Panorama Ridge by-election.
• January 19, 2005 - Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger joins DRBC, adding a third party to the Legislative Assembly for the first time since Gordon Wilson folded his Progressive Democratic Alliance party and joined the NDP.
• January 31, 2005 - Liberal MLA and then-cabinet minister Sandy Santori resigns from his seat in the Legislature in a dispute over the deletion of emails by Premier Gordon Campbell's Deputy Minister to the Premier, Ken Dobell.^[4]
• February 15, 2005 - New Liberal Finance Minister Colin Hansen introduces what is widely viewed as an "election budget" which promised $1.3 billion in new spending, tax cuts and an economic surplus.
• March 11, 2005 - Attorney-General Geoff Plant announces that he will not seek re-election.
• March 15, 2005 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board chair Carole Taylor announces that she will run for the Liberals in the riding of Vancouver-Langara. Premier Gordon Campbell endorses Taylor's candidacy.
• March 29, 2005 - The consortium of television stations organizing the leaders' debate announces that the leaders of the Liberal, New Democratic, and Green parties will be invited to participate in the debate.
• April 13, 2005 - The NDP and Green Party release their platforms in Victoria.

Campaign period

• April 19, 2005 - The writ of election is issued (not "dropped" as in past elections), dissolving the Legislature and beginning the official campaign period.
• April 20, 2005 - The NDP becomes the first party to complete a province-wide nomination slate.
• April 22, 2005 - NDP candidate Rollie Keith withdraws his candidacy in Chilliwack-Kent after telling the Vancouver Province that he was "impressed" when he met Slobodan Milošević and that he did not believe there had been war crimes committed in Kosovo.
• May 3, 2005 - The leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties meet in a televised debate. Commentators indicate the debate was either a draw or a win for Green leader Adriane Carr. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted online following the debate showed that 33% of debate views thought the debate produced no clear winner, 31% felt NDP leader Carole James won, 23% felt Liberal leader Gordon Campbell won while only 12% saw Carr as the winner.
• May 17, 2005 - CBC projects a BC Liberal majority government at 9:05 p.m. local time.
• June 22, 2005 - Tim Stevenson, who lost to Lorne Mayencourt by 11 votes, asks the Supreme Court of British Columbia to order a new election in Vancouver-Burrard due to 70 ballots that could not be counted because they had not been initialed by election officials.

Opinion polls

Voter intention polling

 

Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level

Polling firm	Last day of survey	Source	Liberal	NDP	Green	Unity	Other	ME	Sample
Voting results			45.80	41.52	9.18	0.01	3.49
Strategic	11 May 2005	HTML	49	36	13	—	2	—	—
Ipsos	10 May 2005	1 · 2	47	39	11	—	3	± 3.5	1,050
Mustel	9 May 2005		45	40	12	—	3	—	—
Robbins SCE	5 May 2005	HTML	39	40	13	—	8	—	—
The writ of election is issued (19 April 2005)
Ipsos	26 April 2005	1 · 2	46	39	13	—	2	± 3.5	1,050
Nordic	6 April 2005		43	34	14	—	8	—	—
Ipsos	14 March 2005	1 · 2	46	39	12	—	4	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	30 November 2004	1 · PDF	44	41	12	0	3	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	15 September 2004	1 · PDF	40	38	16	3	3	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	7 July 2004	1 · 2	37	38	18	4	3	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	7 March 2004	1 · 2	39	42	12	5	1	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	8 December 2003	1 · PDF	41	37	14	5	4	± 3.5	800
Carole James is elected as NDP leader (23 November 2003)
Ipsos	9 September 2003	1 · PDF	45	31	17	4	4	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	12 May 2003	1 · PDF	44	28	18	5	5	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	10 March 2003	1 · PDF	44	30	19	3	3	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	13 January 2003	1 · PDF	41	34	18	3	4	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	9 December 2002	1 · PDF	44	31	17	5	3	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	11 September 2002	HTML	43	28	19	5	5	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	11 June 2002	HTML	48	25	18	5	5	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	8 May 2002	1 · 2	45	27	20	4	4	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	11 March 2002	1 · 2	48	28	16	3	5	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	10 December 2001	1 · 2	50	21	17	8	3	± 3.5	800
Ipsos	21 September 2001	HTML	62	15	14	3	5	—	—
Joy MacPhail is appointed as NDP interim leader (16 June 2001)
Election 2001			57.62	21.56	12.39	3.23	5.20

Besides the usual public polling by market research firms, other organizations have been attempting to predict the results of the upcoming election using alternate methods. Results suggest that all three projections below underestimated NDP seats and overestimated Liberal seats:

UBC's Election Stock Market tracks the prices of contracts whose value depend on election results: [1]
Popular vote: Lib 44.5%, NDP 35.9%, Green 13.9%, Other 5.3%
Seats: Lib 48.6 (61.5), NDP 29.4 (37.2), Other 1.6 (2.0)
(values in parentheses are values of actual contracts, in cents)

The Election Prediction Project aggregates submissions from the Internet and subjectively predicts winners based on the submissions (see methodology):
Seats: Lib 50, NDP 29, Other 0

Will McMartin at the progressive online newspaper The Tyee makes his predictions by looking at "historic election results and selected demographics, as well as public opinion polls, regional sources and input from Election Central readers" (see details):
Seats: Lib 51, NDP 28, Other 0.

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  BC battleground map based on the predictions by Will McMartin on .

Political parties

British Columbia has Canada's least restrictive elections laws with regard to political party registration, and consequently there are currently nearly 50 parties registered with Elections BC, by far the most of any jurisdiction in the country. Twenty-five parties contested the 2005 election, also a considerably greater number than anywhere else in Canada.

See also: List of political parties in Canada § British Columbia

British Columbia Liberal Party

Leader: Gordon Campbell The BC Liberals won 77 of 79 seats in the 2001 election. At dissolution, the party held 72 seats. One member elected as a Liberal left the party to sit as a member of Democratic Reform British Columbia; one member elected as a Liberal left to sit as an independent; the party lost one by-election to the opposition New Democratic Party; and two former Liberal seats were vacant when the election was called. In 2005 election, the Liberal party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature, yet still won the election.

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

Leader: Carole James The NDP's legislative caucus was reduced from a majority to just two seats in the 2001 election. It won another seat in an October 2004 by-election to bring the total to three. Carole James led the NDP to 33 seats to become the Leader of the Opposition.

Green Party of British Columbia

Leader: Adriane Carr The Green Party ran 72 candidates in 2001, winning 12 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Some argued that the Green Party support peaked in 2001, drawing on dissatisfied NDP voters, and they would remain incapable of winning a seat in 2005 under the First-Past-the-Post system; others believed that if there had been four or more competitive parties in this election, the Greens might elect a handful of members. Alternatively, if they had received more votes, they would have been more likely to win a seat. The Greens may benefit if a later election is conducted using the proposed BC-STV system. In 2005, the Greens received 9% of the popular vote and no seats.

Democratic Reform British Columbia

Leader: Tom Morino Democratic Reform British Columbia is a new party created in early 2005 by the merger of the British Columbia Democratic Coalition—a coalition of minor centrist parties— with the All Nations Party of British Columbia and key elements of the Reform BC. Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger, a former Liberal, became DRBC's first MLA on January 19, 2005. Controversially, no invitation was extended for Morino to participate in the leader's debate.

British Columbia Marijuana Party

Leader: Marc Emery The BC Marijuana Party nominated 43 candidates in this election. It was the only party other than the Liberals and NDP to run candidates in all 79 districts in 2001. The party chose not to run in certain districts and instead endorse New Democrat and Green candidates who publicly favour the legalization of marijuana. Party founder Marc Emery ran against Solicitor General Rich Coleman, an anti-drug hardliner, in staunchly conservative Fort Langley-Aldergrove. He gained controversy early in the campaign for claiming that the government spends too much money on senior citizens.

Minor parties

	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 work-week. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of voluntary simplicity. It nominated 11 candidates, all in urban ridings.		Platinum Party of Employers Who Think and Act to Increase Awareness Leader: Jeff Evans Nominated eleven candidates.
	British Columbia Conservative Party Leader: Barry Chilton Nominated seven candidates. Former provincial affiliate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada		British Columbia Libertarian Party No registered leader Nominated six candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Libertarian Party of Canada
	People's Front Leader: Charles Boylan Nominated five candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).		Western Refederation Party of British Columbia No registered leader A new autonomist/separatist party that nominated four candidates around the province.
	Communist Party of British Columbia Leader: George Gidora Nominated three candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Communist Party of Canada.		Sex Party Leader: John Ince Nominated three candidates in the City of Vancouver. Billed itself as "the world's first sex-positive party."
	Bloc British Columbia Party Leader: Paddy Roberts Libertarian separatist movement. Nominated three candidates in the Interior.		British Columbia Social Credit Party No registered leader Although Social Credit governed British Columbia for most of the period from 1952 to 1991, the party is now a minor party, with little organization or support. It nominated the minimum two candidates in order to retain party status this election.
	Freedom Party of British Columbia Leader: Kenneth Montgomery Keillor Nominated two candidates.		British Columbia Patriot Party Leader: Andrew Hokhold Nominated two candidates.
	Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia Leader: Doug Christie Although the WCC did not run in the 2001 election, it has been a constant, if minor, force in the BC political fringes for decades. Christie, its controversial leader, and a second candidate were nominated by the party in Greater Victoria.		British Columbia Party Leader: Grant Mitton The BC Party is also a relatively old minor party, one of several populist conservative organizations that attempted to fill the vacuum after the collapse of Social Credit in the mid-nineties. This was the first election in which it nominated candidates. It nominated two candidates. A third possible candidate, Summer Davis in Surrey-Tynehead, ran as an independent.
	British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement No registered leader The majority of the Moderates, including leader Matthew Laird, joined DRBC. The party's registration did not lapsed, however. The two candidates running under its banner opposed the merger.		British Columbia Youth Coalition No registered leader. Nominated two candidates.
	British Columbia Unity Party Interim Leader: Daniel Stelmacker BC Unity finished fourth in 2001, winning slightly over 3% of the vote with a slate of 56 candidates. It stood poised to potentially benefit from right-of-centre voters disenchanted with Campbell, but instead fell victim to serious internal division following a failed merger with the BC Conservative Party, which led to Chris Delaney's resignation as party leader. It appointed Daniel Stelmacker as its interim leader until it can hold a full leadership convention in the autumn of 2005. Stelmacker was its only nominated candidate, in Skeena riding.		Reform Party of British Columbia No registered leader Aborted mergers with BC Unity and DRBC drained supporters left and right from BC Reform, leaving only a tiny core of what was briefly BC's third party. Party founder Ron Gamble was the party's sole candidate in North Vancouver-Lonsdale.
	Your Political Party of British Columbia Leader: James Filippelli YPP appears to be a one-man political movement; its website made mention of no figures other than Filippelli, the party's founder and leader, who was its sole candidate in this election. He ran in Port Moody-Westwood.		Emerged Democracy Party of British Columbia Leader: Tony Luck Nominated one candidate, Rob Nordberg, in Surrey-Green Timbers.

Candidates

The deadline for candidate registration was Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

• Names in bold indicate party leaders and cabinet ministers.
• The victorious Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for each district has a coloured bar to the left of his or her name.
• Incumbents who did not seek re-election are denoted by †

Northern British Columbia

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Bulkley Valley-Stikine		Dennis MacKay 6729		Doug Donaldson 5177		Leanna Mitchell 769		Nipper Kettle 354		Reginald Gunanoot 205		Jack Kortmeyer (BCP) 175 Frank Martin (PF) 41		Dennis MacKay
North Coast		Bill Belsey 4185		Gary Coons 5845		Hondo Arendt 629				Dave Johns 211				Bill Belsey
Peace River North		Richard Neufeld 5498		Brian Churchill 2511		Clarence Apsassin 638						Leonard Joseph Seigo (Ind.) 613		Richard Neufeld
Peace River South		Blair Lekstrom 5810		Pat Shaw 3296		Ariel Lade 956								Blair Lekstrom
Prince George-Mount Robson		Shirley Bond 5885		Wayne Mills 4994		Don Roberts 1053				Matt Burnett 241		Paul Nettleton (Ind.) 2158		Shirley Bond
Prince George North		Pat Bell 7697		Deborah Poff 5598		Denis Gendron 1201		Mike Mann 241		Steve Wolfe 235		Leif Jensen (Ind.) 443		Pat Bell
Prince George-Omineca		John Rustad 8622		Chuck Fraser 6184		Andrej DeWolf 1393		Erle Martz 479						Paul Nettleton
Skeena		Roger Harris 5807		Robin Austin 6166		Patrick Hayes 616						Daniel Stelmacker (Unity) 224		Roger Harris

Kootenay, Columbia and Boundary

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Columbia River-Revelstoke		Wendy McMahon 5750		Norm Macdonald 7460		Andy Shadrack 1217								Wendy McMahon
East Kootenay		Bill Bennett 8060		Erda Walsh 7339		Luke Gurbin 1389								Bill Bennett
Nelson-Creston		Blair Suffredine 5862		Corky Evans 12896		Luke Crawford 2724				Phillip McMillan 276		Brian Taylor (Bloc BC) 173		Blair Suffredine
West Kootenay-Boundary		Pam Lewin 6180		Katrine Conroy 13318		Donald Pharand 1561						Barry Chilton (Con) 802 Glen Millar (Not Affil) 180 A.J. van Leur (Bloc BC) 59		vacant

Okanagan and Shuswap

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Kelowna-Lake Country		Al Horning 12247		John Pugsley 7390		Kevin Ade 2541		Alan Clarke 1793		David Thomson 341				John Weisbeck†
Kelowna-Mission		Sindi Hawkins 13827		Nicki Hokazono 8189		Paddy Weston 3308				Shilo Lavallee 320		Steve Roebuck (Comm.) 94		Sindi Hawkins
Okanagan-Vernon		Tom Christensen 11566		Juliette Cunningham 8995		Erin Nelson 1867				Michael Toponce 260		Colin Black (Con.) 3095 Gordon Campbell (Not Affil) 945 Tibor Tusnady (Patr.) 48		Tom Christensen
Okanagan-Westside		Rick Thorpe 12148		Joyce Procure 6873		Angela Reid 2262		Janice Money 1051						Rick Thorpe
Penticton-Okanagan Valley		Bill Barisoff 13650		Garry Litke 10197		James Cunningham 2669						Jane Turnell (Ind.) 660		Bill Barisoff
Shuswap		George Abbott 11024		Calvin White 8281		Barbara Westerman 1394				Chris Emery 356		Beryl Ludwig (Con.) 2330 Paddy Roberts (Bloc BC) 50 Andrew Hockhold(Patr.) 42		George Abbott

Thompson and Cariboo

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Cariboo North		Steve Wallace 7084		Bob Simpson 7353		Douglas Gook 835				James Michael Delbarre 281				John Wilson†
Cariboo South		Walt Cobb 7163		Charlie Wyse 7277		Ed Sharkey 851						Michael Orr (Ind.) 532		Walt Cobb
Kamloops		Claude Richmond 11261		Doug Brown 9886		Frank Stewart 1723						Terry Bojarski (Con.) 797		Claude Richmond
Kamloops-North Thompson		Kevin Krueger 11648		Mike Hanson 9635		Grant Fraser 1689				Keenan Todd 321		Bob Altenhofen (Con.) 795		Kevin Krueger
Yale-Lillooet		Lloyd Forman 7009		Harry Lali 8489		Mike McLean 1583		Arne Zabel 185				Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell (PF) 115		Dave Chutter†

Fraser Valley

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Abbotsford-Clayburn		John van Dongen 11047		Michael Nenn 5555		Lance Pizzariello 1428				Ian Gilfilian 198		Kenneth Montgomery Keillor (FP) 199		John van Dongen
Abbotsford-Mount Lehman		Mike de Jong 11325		Taranjit Purewal 6132		Jed Anderson 1359		Bob Klassen 472		Tim Felger 392				Mike de Jong
Chilliwack-Kent		Barry Penner 11368		Malcolm James 6534		Hans Mulder 1651						David Anderson (Mod.) 240 Colin Wormworth (BCYC) 103		Barry Penner
Chilliwack-Sumas		John Les 11995		John-Henry Harter 6477		Norm Siefken 1731		Brian Downey 315				Augustine Lee (BCYC) 266 James Solhiem (Mod.) 127		John Les
Fort Langley-Aldergrove		Rich Coleman 15454		Shane Dyson 7597		Andrea Welling 2529				Marc Emery 374		Stephen Davis (Plat.) 183		Rich Coleman
Langley		Mary Polak 12877		Dean Morrison 8303		Kathleen Stephany 3042				Chris Scrimes 278		Lee Davies (Plat.) 180		Lynn Stephens
Maple Ridge-Mission		Randy Hawes 12095		Jenny Stevens 11896		Bill Walsh 2633				Carol Gwilt 314		Chum Richardson (Ind.) 312 Keith Smith (Plat.) 53		Randy Hawes
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows		Ken Stewart 10861		Michael Sather 11786		Mike Gildersleeve 1869		Rick Butler 534		Denise-Colleen Briere-Smart 360				Ken Stewart

Surrey

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Surrey-Cloverdale		Kevin Falcon 16429		Ted Allen 7640		Pierre Rovtar 2280		Joseph Vollhoffer 305						Kevin Falcon
Surrey-Green Timbers		Brenda Locke 5619		Sue Hammell 10836		Sebastian Sajda 791		Ravi Chand 142		Amanda Boggan 225		Rob Norberg (ED) 151 Harjit Singh Daudharia (Comm.) 52		Brenda Locke
Surrey-Newton		Daniel Igali 6473		Harry Bains 10741		Dan Deresh 876		Harry Grewal 268				Gordon Scott (WLP) 123 Jeff Robert Evans (Plat.) 72		Tony Bhullar†
Surrey-Panorama Ridge		Bob Hans 8573		Jagrup Brar 11553		Romeo De La Pena 1370				Troy Chan 234				Jagrup Brar
Surrey-Tynehead		Dave Hayer 12052		Barry Bell 9469		Sean Orr 1095				Don Briere 243		Summer Davis (Ind.) 380 Gary Hoffman (Ind.) 223		Dave Hayer
Surrey-Whalley		Barb Steele 4949		Bruce Ralston 8903		Roy Whyte 1238		Elayne Brenzinger 607		Neal Magnuson 302		Joe Pal (Not Affil) 139 Melady Belinda Earl (Plat.) 50		Elayne Brenzinger
Surrey-White Rock		Gordon Hogg 16462		Moh Chelali 7511		Ashley Hughes 3051		Ron Dunsford 87				David James Evans (Con.) 1340		Gordon Hogg

Richmond and Delta

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Delta North		Jeannie Kanakos 9480		Guy Gentner 10481		John Hague 1711				John Shavluk 224		David Andrew Wright (BCP) 187		Reni Masi†
Delta South		Val Roddick 9112		Dileep Athaide 5828		Duane Laird 1131				Julian Wooldridge 139		Vicki Huntington (Ind.) 8043 George Mann (Not Affil) 58		Val Roddick
Richmond Centre		Olga Ilich 10908		Dale Jackaman 6051		Chris Segers 1436				Matt Healy 231				Greg Halsey-Brandt†
Richmond East		Linda Reid 11652		Gian Sihota 6692		Michael Wolfe 1530				Heidi Farnola 191		Mohamud Ali Farah (Ind.) 207		Linda Reid
Richmond-Steveston		John Yap 13859		Kay Hale 7334		Egidio Spinelli 1934		Daniel Ferguson 282						Geoff Plant†

Vancouver's eastern suburbs

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Burnaby-Edmonds		Patty Sahota 9599		Raj Chouhan 10337		Suzanne Deveau 2192								Patty Sahota
Burnaby North		Richard T. Lee 10421		Pietro Calendino 10356		Richard Brand 1763		Matthew Laird 316						Richard T. Lee
Burnaby-Willingdon		John Nuraney 8754		Gabriel Yiu 8355		Pauline Farrell 1482		Tony Kuo 947		John Warrens 214		Tom Tao (Ind.) 142		John Nuraney
Burquitlam		Harry Bloy 10054		Bart Healey 9682		Carli Travers 1619				Peter Grin 191		Graham Fox (Not Affil) 125		Harry Bloy
Coquitlam-Maillardville		Richard Stewart 10001		Diane Thorne 10532		Michael Hejazi 1415				Brandon Steele 236		Paul Geddes (Lbt.) 173 Nattanya Andersen (Plat.) 69		Richard Stewart
New Westminster		Joyce Murray 9645		Chuck Puchmayr 13226		Robert Broughton 2416		John Warren 152		Christina Racki 293		Greg Calcutta (Plat.) 42		Joyce Murray
Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain		Greg Moore 10752		Mike Farnworth 11844		Bill Aaroe 1691						Anthony Yao (SC) 228 Lewis Dahlby (Lbt.) 90		Karn Manhas†
Port Moody-Westwood		Iain Black 14161		Karen Rockwell 9848		Kathy Heisler 1670						James Filippelli (YPP) 442 Arthur Crossman (Ind.) 227		Christy Clark†

Vancouver

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Vancouver-Burrard		Lorne Mayencourt 12009		Tim Stevenson 11998		Janek Kuchmistrz 3698		Ian McLeod 82				John Clarke (Lbt.) 388 Lisa Voldeng (WLP) 170 John Ince (Sex) 111 Antonio Ferreira (Plat.) 27		Lorne Mayencourt
Vancouver-Fairview		Virginia Greene 12114		Gregor Robertson 13009		Hamdy El-Rayes 2479						Patrick Clark (Sex) 121 Scott Yee (Ind.) 102 Malcolm Janet Mary van Delst (WLP) 95		vacant
Vancouver-Fraserview		Wally Oppal 9895		Ravinder Gill 8783		Doug Perry 1374				Shea Campbell 650				Ken Johnston†
Vancouver-Hastings		Laura McDiarmid 6910		Shane Simpson 11726		Ian Gregson 1928				Stephen Payne 188		Carrol Woolsey (SC) 274 Dennise Brennan (WLP) 247 Will Offley (Ind.) 130 Catherine Millard Saadi (Plat.) 68		Joy MacPhail†
Vancouver-Kensington		Patrick Wong 8949		David Chudnovsky 10573		Cody Matheson 1273				John Gordon 266		Charles Boylan (PF) 99		Patrick Wong
Vancouver-Kingsway		Rob Nijjar 7894		Adrian Dix 10038		Stuart MacKinnon 1212				Steven Lay 219		Donna Petersen (PF) 77 Yvonne Tink (Sex) 73		Rob Nijjar
Vancouver-Langara		Carole Taylor 11181		Anita Romaniuk 6520		Doug Warkentin 1591				Mark Gueffroy 144		Christopher De Wilde (Libert.) 184 Charlie Brunet-Latimer (WLP) 152		Val Anderson†
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant		Juliet Andalis 4298		Jenny Kwan 12974		Raven Bowen 2066		Imtiaz Popat 43		Chris Bennett 308		Mike Hansen (Ind.) 205 Niki Westman (WLP) 187 Peter Marcus (Comm.) 98 Kirk Anton Moses (Plat.) 17		Jenny Kwan
Vancouver-Point Grey		Gordon Campbell 12498		Mel Lehan 10248		Damian Kettlewell 4111				Yolanda Perez 138		Tom Walker (WLP) 126 Jeff Monds (Libert.) 44 Gudrun Kost (Plat.) 18		Gordon Campbell
Vancouver-Quilchena		Colin Hansen 16394		Jarrah Hodge 5131		Lorinda Earl 2538				Rhiannon Rose 175		Katrina Chowne (Libert.) 174		Colin Hansen

North Shore and Sunshine Coast

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
North Vancouver-Lonsdale		Katherine Whittred 9375		Craig Keating 8391		Terry Long 2562		Matt Wadsworth 163		Rebecca Ambrose 209		Ron Gamble (Ref.) 365		Katherine Whittred
North Vancouver-Seymour		Daniel Jarvis 14518		Cathy Pinsent 7595		John Sharpe 3013				Darin Neal 212		Christine Ellis (WLP) 169		Daniel Jarvis
Powell River-Sunshine Coast		Maureen Clayton 7702		Nicholas Simons 11099		Adriane Carr 6585						Allen McIntyre (RefedBC) 156		Harold Long†
West Vancouver-Capilano		Ralph Sultan 14665		Terry Platt 3900		Lee White 2648				Jodie Giesz-Ramsay 147		Ben West (WLP) 122		Ralph Sultan
West Vancouver-Garibaldi		Joan McIntyre 11808		Lyle Fenton 4947		Dennis Perry 6235						Barbara Ann Reid (Cons.) 464		Ted Nebbeling†

Vancouver Island

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Alberni-Qualicum		Gillian Trumper 9788		Scott Fraser 13988		Jack Thornburgh 1912		Jennifer Fisher-Bradley 292		Michael Mann 401		James Dominic King (Ind.) 209		Gillian Trumper
Comox Valley		Stan Hagen 14068		Andrew Black 13261		Chris Aikman 2833		Don Davis 187		Miracle Emery 214		Bruce O'Hara (WLP) 83 Mel Garden (RefedBC) 67 Barbara Biley (PF) 51		Stan Hagen
Cowichan-Ladysmith		Graham Bruce 11425		Doug Routley 14014		Cindy-Lee Robinson 1950		Brian Johnson 238				Jim Bell (Ind.) 307 Jeremy Harold Smyth (FP) 83		Graham Bruce
Nanaimo		Mike Hunter 8657		Leonard Krog 13226		Doug Catley 2933				Matt Dillon 294		Brunie Brunie (Ind.) 204 Linden Shaw (RefedBC) 169		Mike Hunter
Nanaimo-Parksville		Ron Cantelon 16542		Carol McNamee 12432		Jordan Ellis 2714				Richard Payne 198		Bruce Ryder (RefedBC) 283		Judith Reid†
North Island		Rod Visser 10804		Claire Trevena 11464		Phillip Stone 1874		Dan Cooper 699				Lorne James Scott (Ind.) 471		Rod Visser

Greater Victoria

Electoral district	Candidates												Incumbent
	Liberal		NDP		Green		DRBC		Marijuana		Other
Esquimalt-Metchosin		Tom Woods 9650		Maurine Karagianis 12545		Jane Sterk 2672		Graeme Rodger 409						Arnie Hamilton†
Malahat-Juan de Fuca		Cathy Basskin 10528		John Horgan 12460		Steven Hurdle 2610		Tom Morino 1256				Pattie O'Brien (WCC) 180		Brian Kerr†
Oak Bay-Gordon Head		Ida Chong 13443		Charley Beresford 12016		Stephen Hender 2379		Lyne England 278				Lindsay Budge (Ind.) 176		Ida Chong
Saanich North and the Islands		Murray Coell 13781		Christine Hunt 11842		Ken Rouleau 4846		Ian Bruce 1092						Murray Coell
Saanich South		Susan Brice 12380		David Cubberley 12809		Brandon McIntyre 2018		Brett Hinch 223				Douglas Christie (WCC) 207 Kerry Steinemann (Ind.) 161		Susan Brice
Victoria-Beacon Hill		Jeff Bray 8621		Carole James 16081		John Miller 3077		David McCaig 169				Benjamin McConchie (Ind.) 124 Ingmar Lee (Ind.) 123		Jeff Bray
Victoria-Hillside		Sheila Orr 7028		Rob Fleming 13911		Steve Filipovic 2933		Jim McDermott 360				Katrina Herriot (WLP) 168		Sheila Orr

References

1. (PDF). Elections BC. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
2. "Elections BC and Elections Canada will Amalgamate Voters Lists" (PDF). Victoria, British Columbia: Elections British Columbia. 21 May 2004. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
3. Hansard, October 6, 2004, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog
4. Delete button wipes out 'transparency' in government: Called for 'thorough, complete, diligent investigation', Michael Smyth, The Province June 25, 2009, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog

Further reading

• Mutimer, David, ed. (2012). Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 2005. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442643857.

External links

• • Elections BC - Statement of Votes - 38th Provincial General Election
  • Elections BC - Errata to Statutory Reports of the May 17, 2005
• CBC - BC Votes 2005
• The Tyee Election Central: Battleground BC
• Simulation of 2005 Election with STV Ridings
• electionprediction.org - BC 2005
• UBC Election Stock Market B.C. 2005
• Prof. Antweiler's "Voter Migration Matrix" Election Forecasting Tool