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Richmond North Centre
Richmond North Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada that was created in the 2015 redistribution from parts of Richmond Centre and Richmond East Richmond East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was replaced by the Richmond-Queensborough electoral district after the British Columbia electoral redistribution, 2015. Demographic .... It was first contested in the 2017 election. Demographics History This riding has elected the following Members of Legislative Assembly: Election results Student vote results Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program in Canada that holds mock elections in elementary and high schools alongside general elections (with the same candidates and same electoral system). References External links Hi-Res Map (pdf) British Columbia provincial electoral districts Politics of Richmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Wat
Teresa Wat (, born 1949 or 1950) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 British Columbia general election, 2013 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Richmond North Centre as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party and was appointed Minister of International Trade, and Minister Responsible for the Asia Pacific Strategy and Multiculturalism on June 10, 2013, by Premier Christy Clark. While provincial minister of trade, Wat worked to court Huawei, China Poly Group, and other companies to invest in British Columbia. Wat is the president and CEO of Mainstream Broadcasting Corporation CHMB AM1320 and has also served as the news director at CHNM-DT, Channel M Television (now OMNI BC), and previously served as a communications advisor at B.C.'s Cabinet Policy and Communications Secretariat. In 2010, Wat was appointed to the Canadian Women Voters Congress Advisory Board and was appointed one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 British Columbia General Election
The 2017 British Columbia general election was held on May 9, 2017, to elect 87 members (MLAs) to the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 41st Parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 40th Parliament prior to this general election, the British Columbia Liberal Party formed the government under the leadership of Christy Clark, while the British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP), under the leadership of Adrian Dix and then John Horgan, formed the Official Opposition; the Green Party of British Columbia were also represented in the legislature with sole MLA and later leader Andrew Weaver. It was the first election contested on a new electoral map completed in 2015, and the total number of constituencies had increased from 85 to 87. New districts were added in Richmond and Surrey, while the boundaries of 48 existing electoral districts were adjusted. The election saw no party win a majority of seats for the first time since the 1952 election: the Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Provincial Electoral Districts
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British Columbia Action Party
The BC Action Party was a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada. It nominated six candidates in the 2001 British Columbia election. These candidates won 1,718 votes (1.31% of the total in the ridings in which they ran). BCAP candidates ran in ridings in Okanagan, Kelowna and Surrey, and placed last in all six ridings. The party's best showing was in Okanagan Westside, where its candidate won 921 votes (4.4% of the total). The party was later de-registered by the BC elections commission A new party with the same name was registered in October 2013 a provincial political party to field candidates in British Columbia provincial elections. It nominated two candidates in the 2017 provincial election, neither of whom was elected. It ran no candidates in the 2020 British Columbia general election. See also * List of political parties in British Columbia Prior to 1903, there was no strong party discipline in the province, and governments rarely lasted more than two years a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mock Election
A mock election is an election for educational demonstration, amusement, or political protest reasons to call for free and fair elections. Less precisely it can refer to a real election purely for advisory (essentially without power) committees or forums such as some student councils, particularly those that chiefly emulate a real legislative body. For educational purposes Secondary schools sometimes organize mock elections to introduce young people to the concept of elections before they have reached their voting age. The elections aim to give the participants an understanding of democracy, the role of government and parliament. The experience helps encourage future young voters to cast a ballot. They can have real or fake candidates depending on the school and what the mock election is for. For a change to democratic elections As a way to introduce democratic elections in Bhutan, in preparation for the Bhutanese general election in 2008, a mock election was held on April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proportional Representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divisions (political parties) of the electorate. The essence of such systems is that all votes cast - or almost all votes cast - contribute to the result and are actually used to help elect someone—not just a plurality, or a bare majority—and that the system produces mixed, balanced representation reflecting how votes are cast. "Proportional" electoral systems mean proportional to ''vote share'' and ''not'' proportional to population size. For example, the US House of Representatives has 435 districts which are drawn so roughly equal or "proportional" numbers of people live within each district, yet members of the House are elected in first-past-the-post elections: first-past-the-post is ''not'' proportional by vote share. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-past-the-post Voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their vote for a candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins even if the top candidate gets less than 50%, which can happen when there are more than two popular candidates. As a winner-take-all method, FPTP often produces disproportional results (when electing members of an assembly, such as a parliament) in the sense that political parties do not get representation according to their share of the popular vote. This usually favours the largest party and parties with strong regional support to the detriment of smaller parties without a geographically concentrated base. Supporters of electoral reform are generally highly critical of FPTP because of this and point out other flaws, such as FPTP's vulnerability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 British Columbia Electoral Reform Referendum
A referendum on electoral reform took place by mail-in ballot between October 22 and December 7, 2018, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. 61.3 percent of voters supported maintaining the first-past-the-post voting system rather than switching to a proportional representation voting system, which was supported by 38.7 percent of voters. This was British Columbia's third referendum on electoral reform, following ones in 2005 and 2009. Voters were asked two questions: first, what electoral system should be used to determine election results—the existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system or a proportional representation (PR) system; and second, what type of proportional voting system should be used if PR were chosen. In the second question, voters were asked to rank three proportional representation voting systems: dual-member proportional representation, mixed-member proportional representation, and rural–urban proportional representation. The referendum fulfilled an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections BC
Elections BC (formally the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of British Columbia) is a non-partisan office of the British Columbia legislature responsible for conducting provincial and local elections, by-elections, petitions, referendums, plebiscites in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its federal equivalent is Elections Canada. Responsibilities Elections BC is a non-partisan office of the British Columbia Legislature responsible for conducting provincial and local elections, by-elections, petitions, referendums, plebiscites in British Columbia. Elections BC compiles and maintains a list of eligible voters as well as sets and adjusts the boundaries of electoral districts.http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/about/what-we-do/ Elections BC What We Do web page. Accessed October 21, 2015. Elections BC is also responsible for regulating campaign financing and advertising and the registration of political parties. To retain their official status, political parties mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond East
Richmond East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was replaced by the Richmond-Queensborough electoral district after the British Columbia electoral redistribution, 2015. Demographics Geography History Member of Legislative Assembly Its only MLA was Hon. Linda Reid, a former teacher. She was first elected in 1991 and represents the British Columbia Liberal Party. Ms. Reid was appointed Minister of State for Early Childhood Development on June 5, 2001. Election results , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total Valid Votes !align="right", 18,481 , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total Rejected Ballots !align="right", 184 !align="right", 0.99% , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", 18,665 !align="right", 45.16% , - , - , NDP , Gian Sihota , align="right", 6,692 , align="right", 33.01% , align="right", , align="right", $16,623 , Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Vancouver
The Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD), or simply Metro Vancouver, is a Canadian political subdivision and corporate entity representing the metropolitan area of Greater Vancouver, designated by provincial legislation as one of the 28 regional districts in British Columbia. The organization was known as the Regional District of Fraser–Burrard for nearly one year upon incorporating in 1967, and as the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) from 1968 to 2017. Metro Vancouver borders Whatcom County, Washington, to the south, the Fraser Valley Regional District to the east, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to the north, and the Nanaimo Regional District and Cowichan Valley Regional District across the Strait of Georgia to the west. The MVRD is under the direction of 23 local authorities and delivers regional services, sets policy and acts as a political forum. The regional district's most populous city is Vancouver, and Metro Vancouver's administrative off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Centre (provincial Electoral District)
Richmond Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was replaced by the Richmond North Centre district after the British Columbia electoral redistribution, 2015. History MLAs Election results , - , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total Valid Votes !align="right", 17,044 !align="right", 100% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total Rejected Ballots !align="right", 166 !align="right", 0.96% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", 17,210 !align="right", 40.97% !align="right", *FPTP = First Past The Post, BC-STV = Single Transferable Vote , - , - , NDP , Dale Jackaman , align="right", 6,051 , align="right", 32.49% , align="right", , align="right", $11,266 , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total Valid Votes !align="right", 18,626 !align="right", 100% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
