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VANCOUVER – Voters in an upscale Vancouver neighbourhood will head to the polls at the moment in a byelection that would put the brand new chief of the British Columbia Liberals again within the province’s legislature.
Kevin Falcon, a former cupboard minister who took the helm of the Opposition social gathering in February, is hoping to signify Vancouver-Quilchena in Victoria.
Former Liberal chief Andrew Wilkinson, who received the using with 56 per cent of the vote in 2020, resigned the seat to clear a approach for Falcon to sit down within the legislature.
NDP candidate Jeanette Ashe, a political scientist who’s married to Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, says her marketing campaign has targeted on reminding voters that Falcon was a minister when the federal government made deep spending cuts that also have an effect on the province.
Three different candidates are additionally operating in at the moment’s byelection: Wendy Hayko of the B.C. Inexperienced Social gathering, Dallas Brodie for the Conservatives and Libertarian Sandra Filosof-Schipper.
Elections BC says preliminary outcomes ought to are available shortly after the polls shut at 8 p.m. as a result of digital tabulators are getting used to rely the ballots for the primary time in a B.C. provincial election.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed April 30, 2022.
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