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Well the BC provincial election has come and gone, though there are still a few loose threads to be tied up. Here's the results:
Liberal Party 45 seats (+1)
NDP 32 seats (+1)
Greens bupkis
The two (+1) reflect two riding results that will be recounted, in one (Cariboo South, in the interior), the NDP candidate leads by one frickin' vote. The other is Vancouver-Burrard in faaaabulous downtown Vancouver. This riding featured 4 openly/acknowledged/admitted/confirmed gay men as candidates--only one of whom I ever dated (Janek for the Greens), and for the record he's one of the few men I've ever dated that I didn't have sex with. So there. Anyhoo, the NDP's Tim Stevenson held the riding for 8 years and lost in the last election--where the NDP lost all but 2 seats. The guy he lost it to, Lorne Mayencourt (aside from working within a party that picks on poor and disabled people) really is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. This was a contentious campaign, but most thought Mayencourt's many stuff-ups (like doing a report on school-based bullying but not recommending specific anti-homophobia programmes, despite homophobia being cited as the most often form of school-based bias in BC) would get this clearly back to the NDP. As it now stands Mayencourt's got a 13 vote lead, but the've not done absentee ballots yet. My gut tells me both seats will end up Liberal.
The other interesting thing was a provincial=wide plebescite on changing the way MLAs (provincial MPs) are elected. The current first-past-the-post system elects one member per riding, with each riding being a distinct contest based on percentages. The plebescite asked if British Columbians wanted to switch to a single transferable vote system, where you elect several MPs from each of a smaller number of ridings, and you rank your preferences among the candidates available.
The STV system passed in all but 2 of 79 ridings (it had to pass in at least 48 of them), but it also had to pass province-wide at 60% or higher--numbers not set by law, actually. It polled 57%. A very strong statement about the desire to change the current system, since we know a fair number who voted no still want reform, just not this system.
Interesting, very very interesting.
Mucus production is reducing. A bit of energy today, but under the advice of my colleagues I'm staying home anyways. Sometimes it's just not nice to share...
Liberal Party 45 seats (+1)
NDP 32 seats (+1)
Greens bupkis
The two (+1) reflect two riding results that will be recounted, in one (Cariboo South, in the interior), the NDP candidate leads by one frickin' vote. The other is Vancouver-Burrard in faaaabulous downtown Vancouver. This riding featured 4 openly/acknowledged/admitted/confirmed gay men as candidates--only one of whom I ever dated (Janek for the Greens), and for the record he's one of the few men I've ever dated that I didn't have sex with. So there. Anyhoo, the NDP's Tim Stevenson held the riding for 8 years and lost in the last election--where the NDP lost all but 2 seats. The guy he lost it to, Lorne Mayencourt (aside from working within a party that picks on poor and disabled people) really is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. This was a contentious campaign, but most thought Mayencourt's many stuff-ups (like doing a report on school-based bullying but not recommending specific anti-homophobia programmes, despite homophobia being cited as the most often form of school-based bias in BC) would get this clearly back to the NDP. As it now stands Mayencourt's got a 13 vote lead, but the've not done absentee ballots yet. My gut tells me both seats will end up Liberal.
The other interesting thing was a provincial=wide plebescite on changing the way MLAs (provincial MPs) are elected. The current first-past-the-post system elects one member per riding, with each riding being a distinct contest based on percentages. The plebescite asked if British Columbians wanted to switch to a single transferable vote system, where you elect several MPs from each of a smaller number of ridings, and you rank your preferences among the candidates available.
The STV system passed in all but 2 of 79 ridings (it had to pass in at least 48 of them), but it also had to pass province-wide at 60% or higher--numbers not set by law, actually. It polled 57%. A very strong statement about the desire to change the current system, since we know a fair number who voted no still want reform, just not this system.
Interesting, very very interesting.
Mucus production is reducing. A bit of energy today, but under the advice of my colleagues I'm staying home anyways. Sometimes it's just not nice to share...
