BC Liberal leader hopes to gain a seat in legislature through byelection

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Elections BC says preliminary results should come in shortly after the polls close today at 8 pm

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Apr 30, 2022 • 11 minutes ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation

Jeanette Ashe, NDP candidate in the Vancouver-Quilchena byelection; Kevin Falcon, the Liberal candidate; Wendy Hayko, the Green candidate.
Jeanette Ashe, NDP candidate in the Vancouver-Quilchena byelection; Kevin Falcon, the Liberal candidate; Wendy Hayko, the Green candidate. Photo by Mike Bell, John Lehmann, Mike Bell

Voters in an upscale Vancouver neighborhood will head to the polls today in a byelection that could put the new leader of the British Columbia Liberals back in the province’s legislature.

Kevin Falcon, a former cabinet minister who took the helm of the Opposition party in February, is hoping to represent Vancouver-Quilchena in Victoria.

Former Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson, who won the riding with 56 per cent of the vote in 2020, resigned the seat to clear a way for Falcon to sit in the legislature.

NDP candidate Jeanette Ashe, a political scientist who’s married to Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, says her campaign has focused on reminding voters that Falcon was a minister when the government made deep spending cuts that still affect the province.

Three other candidates are also running in today’s byelection: Wendy Hayko of the BC Green Party, Dallas Brodie for the Conservatives and Libertarian Sandra Filosof-Schipper.

Elections BC says preliminary results should come in shortly after the polls close at 8 pm because electronic tabulators are being used to count the ballots for the first time in a BC provincial election.

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