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The 39th British Columbia general election was held on May 12, 2009, to elect members of the in the province of. The BC Liberals formed the government of the province prior to this under the leadership of. The BC NDP under the leadership of is the Official Opposition. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Click the map for more details. Premier before election Premier-designate The election was the first contested on a new electoral map , with the total number of constituencies increased from 79 in the previous legislature to 85. Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates which are the second Tuesday in May every four years. A was held in conjunction with the election. The election did not produce a significant change in the province's political landscape. The BC Liberals, who had been in power since the , were returned to power, constituting the first time in 23 years a party has won three elections in a row. As a result of the seat redistribution, both the Liberals and the New Democrats gained seats, and both parties increased their popular vote by less than one per cent over 2005. Each party lost two incumbent MLAs: the BC NDP's and , and the Liberals' and were defeated. All other seat changes in the election resulted from the new seats or from retiring incumbents. Voter turnout was 50. British Columbia Liberal Party Leader: The party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature after the 2005 provincial election. Having formed a majority government since 2001 the party promoted its own track record as the government. Much of the party's platform was revealed in the 2009 Budget which included a three-year fiscal plan including revenue expectations, tax measures, and spending priorities. The budget proposed cost savings from reduced budgets in half of the ministries, 76% less government advertising, public sector wage freezes, and less spending on government travel costs, contracted professional services, and discretionary spending. The BC Liberal platform, some of it already promised in the budget, advocates hospital improvements in Surrey, Victoria, Vernon, Fort St. New Democratic Party of British Columbia Leader: Under Carole James' leadership the won seats to 33 in the 2005 election and two by-elections in 2008. Green Party of British Columbia Leader: The ran a full slate of candidates, as it did in 2005 when it won over 9 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Its new leader was Jane Sterk, a former councillor. It supported the BC-STV proposal in the referendum. The party released its platform in a book titled British Columbia's Green Book, 2009—2013. Amongst other points, it advocated balanced budgets, reducing taxes on industry and business while increasing taxes on pollution, creating a Green Venture Capital Fund to invest in jobs, directing 1% from the PST to municipal governments, allowing municipalities to issue municipal bonds, creating a provincial police force, reducing tuition fees by 20%, increasing funding to post-secondary institutions, refunding full tuition fees to graduates who work and live in the province for five years after receiving their degree, banning use of cosmetic pesticides, expanding the Medical Service Plan to cover chiropractic, physiotherapy, eye exams, massage therapy, routine physical exams, and counselling for addictions , creating a Guaranteed Livable Income by unifying all current income support programs, supporting practices, regulating cannabis, halting river-based hydro projects pending a review of the environmental assessment process, re-establishing as a Crown corporation, halting the , using for rates, and creating a BC Legacy Fund from oil and gas royalties for municipal and rural community projects. Minor parties Leader: The Conservatives nominated 24 candidates, up from seven candidates in 2005 when they won 0. Their platform advocated, among other points, competitive and performance-based healthcare delivery within a publicly funded system, opposing the Recognition and Reconciliation Bill with Aboriginal peoples, returning treaty responsibility to the federal government, repealing the carbon tax and opposing a carbon trading system, expanding resource development including offshore drilling , reducing the PST by 1%, harmonizing the PST with the Federal GST, eliminating the Property Transfer Tax, rolling back salary increases of MLAs and senior government employees, permitting parents more choices in which schools to send their children to and funding the schools accordingly, repealing the , reducing tuition fees for students who meet certain standards in post-secondary education, light rail transit in southern Vancouver Island and in Chilliwack, eliminating tolls on bridges including a proposed toll on the , work requirements on public projects for criminals serving time in jail, a new program to address small crime separately from more serious crimes, creation of a program called to strengthen family dynamics and reduce negative youth behaviors, publishing a Criminal Offenders Registry, creating a substantive appeal process beyond the , enact a 'Right to a Free Vote' legislation for MLAs to freely vote in the Legislature, hold votes for federal senators, and implement a system for provincial elections. Leader: None The Libertarian Party ran six candidates in this election, as it did in 2005. The party supported reducing government involvement in delivery of health care, education, and car insurance; reducing taxes as services are privatized; and reducing government regulation on guns and drugs. Leader: The Marijuana Party ran one candidate in this election and endorsed the Green Party. In 2005 it ran 44 candidates, while in 2001 it ran a full slate. The party mainly advocates for based on the , the creation of a provincial constitution, and re-negotiating with the federal government the terms of confederation. According to its website its platform also includes the creation of a provincial police force, homogeneous schools and classes of students with similar abilities, reinstating alternative medical options such as physiotherapy, dental, and chiropractic into the and placing the Medical Services Plan under the jurisdiction of , making WorkSafe an enforcement agency only by moving its insurance component to ICBC, a moratorium on run-of-river hydro projects and fish farms, holding a referendums on the and the sale of Crown Corporations, and a judicial review of the sale of. Leader: The Communist Party of BC is the provincial branch of the national Communist Party. It had three candidates running in the 2009 election, as it did in 2005. The CPBC campaigned against BC-STV in favour of Mixed Member Proportional representation. Leader: The Nation Alliance Party is a new party that nominated two candidates in this election, both in Richmond ridings. The party seeks to promote the rights of ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. Among other points, it advocates promoting participation in the public affairs, promoting non-violence, and opposing. Leader: Charles Boylan The People's Front is the provincial wing of the which generally advocates, among other points, increased spending on health, education and other social programs, a moratorium on the debt, hereditary rights of the Aboriginal peoples, recognition of the equality of all languages and cultures, instituting , and rights for individuals to initiate legislation. It nominated four candidates in this election, down from five in 2005 and 11 in 2001. Leader: The BC Reform Party nominated four candidates. It had only one candidate in the 2005 election but nine in 2001 and a full slate of 75 in the 1996 election. According to its website, its platform includes, amongst other points, replacing the provincial income tax with a sales tax and a business tax on gross receipts, use of an employee payroll credit, repudiation of any carbon taxes and carbon credit trading, re-establishing public equity in BC Investment Management Corporation, re-establishment a system, restrictions on judicial reviews of legislative actions, and elections for local provincial court judges. According to its website, its platform includes, amongst other points, requiring sexual health and hygiene education in schools, requiring school districts to establish professional support programs to address discrimination of sexual minorities, providing provincial funding for institutes studying and teaching human sexuality or researching sexuality policy issues, reserve designate areas for nudists on all public parks and beaches larger than one hectare, establish a Sex Worker Empowerment Program as an agency providing counseling, education, and advocacy to sex workers, requiring municipalities to treat sex toy businesses as other retail businesses, repeal sex negative regulations, requiring all long term care institutions to articulate a sexuality policy that is non-judgmental about residents' sexuality, creating a Sex-Positive Press Council to expose overt and subtle censorship in BC media, changing to Eros Day to celebrate and encourage sex-positive expression, and proclaiming a statutory holiday. Leader: The Western Canada Concept had one candidate running in this election, down from two candidates in the 2005 election. The party strongly advocates independence for western Canada, and amongst other points advocates for legislation, strong private property rights, balanced budgets, promotion of rather than multiculturalism, and with a volunteer armed forces. Leader: The WLP is an anti- political movement that hopes to achieve and ends through, among other things, the promotion of a four-day, 32-hour work-week. The party had 2 candidates down from 11 in 2005. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of. Leader: The party nominated one candidate in 2005 and two in 2009. Among other points, it advocates publishing reports explaining where every tax dollar is spent, free votes in the legislature, making all campaign promises legally binding, requiring MLAs hold public townhall-style meetings at least once every four months, labelling products sold in BC indicating environmental standards, adding generating capacity to existing dams, opening dam project areas to recreational use, providing periodic written statements detailing the cost of each citizen's use of the health care system, provide to post-secondary students who continue to live and work in BC after graduation, permit more private post-secondary institutions, requiring all people serving time in jail to work to pay for the cost of their incarceration, legalization of marijuana, eliminate the property transfer tax, disallow restrictions on and minimum home sizes, harvesting all Pine Beetle affected timber immediately, limiting the total allowable yearly fishing catch rather than regulating length of the fishing season , require weekly educational programs for anyone receiving welfare payments, provide before and after school childcare, permitting private insurance companies to compete with ICBC. April 10, 2008, passage of the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 moving BC from 79 to 85 constituencies. October 29, 2008, by-elections in and , both won by the New Democrats. April 14, 2009, the campaign will officially begin when the is issued. April 24, 2009 1pm close of nominations for the election. May 12, 2009, Election day. Debates There was one TV debate featuring the leaders of the three major parties: , , and on all three major BC networks on Sunday May 3 at 5:00 p. CKNW had a debate of the three leaders on April 23 from 8:30 a. CBC Radio One had a debate of the three leaders on April 21 at 7:30 a. Retrieved December 26, 2011. Northern British Columbia Electoral District Candidates Incumbent Liberal NDP Green Other 4,949 Byron Goerz 3,133 Gerard Riley 559 Mike Summers Refed. Kootenays Electoral District Candidates Incumbent Liberal NDP Green Other Mark McKee 5,093 7,419 Sarah Svensson 907 Norm Macdonald 8,404 Troy Sebastian 5,844 Jen Tsuida 549 Cons. Broughton Work Less 124 Kevin Krueger 12,548 Tom Friedman 8,132 Bev Markle 1,529 Maria Dobi Cons. Jacques 5,605 10,488 Paul Musgrave 1,324 Dallas Hills Refed. Greater Victoria Electoral District Candidates Incumbent Liberal NDP Green Other Carl Ratsoy 6,579 11,514 3,664 Maurine Karagianis Jody Twa 6,866 11,520 James Powell 1,749 John Horgan 11,877 Jessica Van der Veen 11,316 Steven Johns 2,330 Ida Chong 13,120 12,875 Tom Bradfield 3,220 Murray Coell Robin Adair 11,215 11,697 Brian Gordon 1,664 West Can. Retrieved May 11, 2017. Archived from on 2011-06-09. Archived from on 2011-05-27. Accessed December 21, 2015. Archived from on 2011-07-14. Archived from on 2011-05-15.

Among other Punjabis in the fray were four-time member Harry Lali and three-time member Jagrup Singh Brar of NDP. The Surrey Museum is affiliated withharry brar burnaby, and. The city is also home to South Asian Broadcasting's ethnic radio station and the Asian Journal del. Surrey was incorporated in 1879, and encompasses land formerly occupied by a number of -speaking aboriginal groups. Broughton Work Less 124 Kevin Krueger 12,548 Tom Friedman 8,132 Bev Markle 1,529 Maria Dobi Cons. Amrik Virk, an inspector in Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMPwon on Liberals prime from Surrey Tynehead constituency. April 24, 2009 1pm close of nominations for the election. Population 2016 517,887 History The land that now encompasses was first inhabited by the Katzie, the Semiahmoo and the Kwantlen First Nations, who established settlements along the Fraser River, at Crescent Con and elsewhere.