Today - BC voters' in the electoral district of Kelowna West were asked to select 1 person from a list of 5 to represent them for the remainder of the 2017-21 term of the BC Legislature and after all the ballots were counted, Ben Stewart running under the BC Liberals' flag retook his seat this evening after resigning in 2013 to allow former BC Premier Christy Clark to have a seat in the Legislature for the 2013-17 Term. Full unofficial results are below:
Name Affiliation Total Valid Votes % of Popular Vote
Shelley Cook BC NDP 3,197 23.47%
Kyle Geronazzo Libertarian 110 0.81%
Ben Stewart BC Liberal Party 7,692 56.46%
Robert Stupka BC Green Party 1,727 12.68%
Mark Thompson Conservative 898 6.59%
111 of 111 ballot boxes reported 13,624 100%
With the above results likely being declared official in the days to come, that leaves the MLA numbers in the BC Legislature as follows:
BC Liberals - 42
BC NDP - 41
BC Greens - 3
Independent - 1 (Darryl Plecas - House Speaker)
However, with the Confidence/Supply Agreement (click here) between the BC NDP/BC Greens signed in Summer 2017, the BC NDP will still continue as the provincial government until Fall 2021
Finally - in November, voters in any 1 of the 87 Provincial Electoral Districts, can begin recall proceedings against an MLA as per the Recall and Initiative Act - click here. There has been a lot of public discussion around initiating recall proceedings against current BC Legislature Speaker (and Abbotsford South MLA) Darryl Plecas however the legal requirement is 40% of voters' in an provincial electoral district signing a petition to recall its' MLA within 60 days of the recall petition being issued by the Chief Electoral Officer. Every recall petition ever issued has failed, although there was the recall petition against former BC Liberal MLA Paul Reitsma in June 1998 that came close to being successful but he resigned before the recall petition verification process was complete
~SF
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