Yesterday was Election Day in British Columbia! The previous Government was tied with 41 New Democrats and 41 "Liberals" (a right wing coalition of Liberals and Conservatives). There were also three Greens who agreed to vote with the New Democrats for consideration of some of their issues. It was an uneasy alliance where the New Democrats lived in fear of one or two of their members getting sick or injured and unable to attend the votes. This uneasy situation came to a head when the Greens refused to back the NDP on a major Labour issue which would have made it easier for workers to form a Union. My friend and Premier John Horgan called an election about six months before he had to in order to get the majority he needed to govern.
John Horgan was extremely popular and polls showed right from the start that the NDP was going to do well and they did. The results last night showed the polls were correct. The evening ended with NDP - 55. Liberal - 29 and Green - 3. It is a comfortable NDP Majority. These results are not final as the 500,000 mail-in ballots will not be counted for two weeks. These mail-in ballots are expected to break in favour of the NDP so our numbers may actually increase.
It was a happy evening for me, one which would have been so much better to have been shared with Norma who had such a great insight into each and every riding. She would have been a very happy woman!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ndp-wins-bc-2020-analysis-horgan-1.5776167
Now onto four years of progress!
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected...it was exciting ! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteThe campaign was everything but exciting because the NDP did everything on line, no Trump-like rallies or door to door campaigning. The results on the other hand, were very exciting when my Party did even better than I expected they would do and can still pick up another seat or two with the final count.
DeleteBoohoo for Skeena...used to be an NDP stronghold. I think the candidate was the issue although I don't know her.
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