Posted on 05/17/2005 6:38:41 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
Polls are closing at 8:00 Pacific (11:00 Eastern)! With Free Dominion down, I think this is the best place for the thread.
Ok, hook us up friend, whom are we voting for and against?
don't mind me...just sniffin' around.
Current Premier (same as Governor) is Gordon Campbell, a libertarian-conservative running in the BC "Liberal" Party (they are not really Liberal). Likely to be re-elected.
Key opponent: Carole James, NDP (socialist)
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_2005
Welcome and good luck!
Thanks! My prediction is 'Liberal' 55, NDP 23, Green 1. (There are 79 seats in the house, 40 are needed for a majority. The 'Liberals' are our allies here, as they are really Conservatives under a Liberal name)
Liberal used to be a respectable term, representing a belief in Free Trade.
Not that I know of; the focus has been on his "anti-union" record
Polls have closed, still no returns in yet.
Districts leading (very early): NDP 3, LIB 2 (5/79 reporting)
Single Transferable Vote referendum: No results yet
Liberals won but the drunk voters in BC gave the NDP a large number of seats. Yikes!
I voted BC Liberal to keep the NDP out. To me it is a parallel to the 2004 US election. John Kerry was a great evil that needed to be kept out of power. The NDP period in BC was the darkest period of BC history. The BC Liberals could have eaten kittens. I still would have voted for them to keep the Marxists from power.
Good for you - at least the BC 'Liberals' are nothing like the federal Liberals, they are actually conservatives under a Liberal banner...
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