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jawnbcWell 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...
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Date: 2005-05-19 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-19 01:17 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2005-05-19 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-23 05:23 am (UTC)It was a fascinating election, and I was much relieved by the results (not that I wanted the Liberals to win, but I worried that the NDP might take another shit kicking.)
It shocks me still that a man who was arrested for impaired driving in another country can not only finish the term, but get re-elected.
I'd blame it on the famous B.C. bud, but the political scene in B.C. has been demented for so long, you'd have to go back to Amor de Cosmos and all them crazy-ass fellas.
When you coming back this way, Dr. Jawn?
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Date: 2005-05-23 09:39 am (UTC)We arrive 16 August, have a week of mad apartmenthunting, then off to see Max's parents in Andorra for a week.....then back to Vancouver 30 August.
I am soooo counting the sleeps!