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Red wave rolls over North Shore VOTE 2015
Liberal sweep wipes out Conservatives, takes new riding BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
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The “red tide” washed up on the North Shore Monday night as all three ridings went to the Liberals. Green tech CEO Jonathan Wilkinson took North Vancouver from the Conservatives, as did former West Vancouver mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country and small business owner Terry Beech claimed the up-for-grabs new riding of Burnaby North-Seymour. While pollsters were cautiously predicting a Liberal minority, few anticipated the 184-seat majority that swept the country. Much like the Harper government, Trudeau’s is also a “false majority” with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote but 54 per cent of the seats in Parliament. The Conservatives will be the official Opposition, with 99 seats, although Stephen Harper will no longer lead them. The NDP, who portrayed themselves as a government in waiting when they enjoyed a rise in the polls six weeks ago, landed in third with 44 seats. The
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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau addresses the party faithful at a rally at the Pipe Shop at the Shipyards in North Vancouver Sunday afternoon, the day before his election win. In the background, a supporter holds aloft an old election ad depicting Trudeau’s grandfather, James Sinclair, a Liberal MP for the North Shore’s former Vancouver North and Coast-Capilano ridings in the 1940s and‘50s. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD Green Party maintained their lone seat in SaanichGulf Islands and the Bloc Quebecois enjoyed a small bump in Parliament after being largely eliminated from Parliament since 2011. UBC held a roundtable of professors from the political science department See Positive page 9
Liberal Wilkinson soundly wins North Van BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
North Vancouver’s seat in Parliament has been won by Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson in a runaway race that saw one of the highest voter turnout rates in
the province. When the final ballots had been counted, Wilkinson had 36,358 votes or 56.6 per cent overall. Former Conservative MP Andrew Saxton had 17,301 (26.9 per cent). The margin between the
two front-runners was large enough for Saxton to come to Wilkinson’s campaign party and concede the race in person around 8:30 p.m. The Green Party finished in third place with candidate Claire Martin netting 5,344 votes (8.5 per cent) – a
new record for the Greens in North Vancouver. New Democrat Carleen Thomas had 5,015 votes (7.8 per cent). North Vancouver had one of the highest voter See Conservatives page 11
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