BC Election

Apparently there’s been a provincial election. Polls closed an hour ago or thereabouts but in this hyper technological, super advanced world, nobody will know the results for weeks.

Officials with Elections BC said more than 700,000 votes have been cast by mail-in ballot, which must be tabulated manually due the timing of the Oct. 24 election. The results that would generally be available hours after the polls close, they added, will be postponed for weeks while the votes are counted.
 
The setup may have been different had the election taken place a year from now as scheduled, but NDP Leader John Horgan announced the surprise campaign, citing the need for political stability during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For God’s sake, just locate the polling stations in Home Depot stores where it’s safe, and mandate in-person voting.

Results here.

My BC election commentary follows.

58 Replies to “BC Election”

  1. The election about Horgans need for self-affirmation, and, he will probably get it.

    Life is great when you go $15 Billion in the hole, promise to continue doing it, and no one thinks taxes need to be raised or ever will be. Oh, and it’s easy to get re-elected when you’re opponents have few if any ideas that are different than your own.

    Nirvana. Until government finances hit the wall, but apparently massive deficits never have to be paid back and borrowing is awesome at 1%

  2. BC provincial election results:

    http://results.elections.bc.ca/

    Dippers are leading, no surprise there. Also, no surprise about the results in the Peace River North and Peace River South ridings. They don’t like the Dippers there.

    1. And BC becomes more divided than ever, where only VAncouver and the Island can control the government. The interior of BC will be viewed as flyover country by the socialists, just a bunch of hicks by the urban SJWs and urban environmental warriors

      1. While I was at UBC more than 40 years ago, it became abundantly clear that Lotusland regarded the interior and north of BC as flyover country. The people who lived “out there” were thought to be nothing but rubes and hillbillies.

        Anybody who moved there and didn’t become a commie eco-loonie wasn’t made to feel welcome, but they were always welcome to supply Lotusland with electricity and natural gas.

        1. I watch the Prince George and/or Kamloops news quite often (I know I have to do something about my addiction).
          So I was flabbergasted to hear the mayor of PG excitably say one morning that Horgan was the FIRST BC PREMIER to ever visit that city of about 80 to 100 thousand people.
          You got to be kidding me.
          You mean none of those lazy political buggers could find the time to visit the north and interior of BC where much of the wealth has been found and created to make that province rich?
          Those people would join WEXIT in a flash because we sure wouldn’t treat them like that.

          1. Even WAC Bennett personally commissioned the first 3 generators at the dam named after him. I was there in 1968 and watched him throw the switch from the other side of the underground power house.

            I’m pretty sure that he might have paid a visit to Hudson’s Hope and/or Fort St. John while he was there.

          2. I did first year engineering at the College of New Caledonia. I was a member of the Young Socreds while there. We had the provincial Minister of Education come for a talk while I was there. Shortly before that, we tried to do a democracy awareness poster titled “WHO CARES?” talking about how less than 10% of the student body voted in student elections.

            Some wit decided to combine the two, and photo-copied “WHO CARES?” overtop of the meeting time with the minister, and replace the original notices with their “wit”.

            We collected a half-dozen of the copies, made more copies of that, and hand-wrote different messages on each copy about where voting came from, why it’s important, why folks should pay attention to elections, how holding some to lower standards and a form of corruption, and other items. We then posted the “revised” “wit” on all of the bulletin boards available to all students.

            When the minister arrived, it was standing room only.

            I hadn’t thought about this in years, thanks for the reminder.

    2. As long as the ENDP are referred to as socialists or dippers very little will change. Start calling them Communists. The same goes for the Lieberals … refer to them as Communists.

  3. There were Green supporters, about 20, on 17th St. in Courtenay this morning, waving placards and grinning like fools. I think I saw the “event horizon” of the “Black Hole of stupidity” trying to suck people in.

  4. The BIG ONE is Long long overdue no….??

    May that cleanse the entire LEFT Coast from Baja to the Queen Charlottes…
    And with an potential Asteroid hitting the EAST Coast…we could end up having a nice little country of Western Ont to Field BC.

    There has got to be some indigenous type fire dance I can do to get this shit happening..?? no..?? Damn, then My god I think i’ma gonna need a drink. Leftism is the REAL pandemic and it will in the end, kill us all.

    1. The only objection I’d have to the west coast earthquake is that I have an elderly aunt, my mother’s older sister, living on the island. She’s one of the two immediate relatives I still have left in this country.

    2. I liked Field, a quick jaunt from Jasper for a Kokanee run, in 1975. A little retirement town for CP types. Great scenery and quiet.

  5. B.C. voters wisely rejected the Liberals. The NDP are not much but the Liberals,the Party of cronyism,carbon taxes and 3P power projects, the Party that delayed the pipelines until they didn’t get built, iow,Alberta’s worst enemy, got their asses kicked soundly tonight.
    B.C. Liberals and federal Liberals are interchangeable,and B.C. voters recognized that and defeated them. Liberals in every Province are of the same ilk as their federal counterparts, as we have seen demonstrated many times, and they needed to be humbled.

    We didn’t jump from the frying pan into the fire,for once.

    1. You’ve never lived in BC, have you? The provincial Liberals are the closest to a conservative party, which, considering that it’s BC, isn’t saying much.

      1. I grew up there. They chose the name BC Liberals for a reason. Why vote NDP lite, when you can have full strength NDP.

        That’s why I left.

        1. They DIDN’T choose the name! They inherited it when Gordon Campbell took over the party.

      2. BADR

        Times have changed. Yes, you describe the early iteration of the BCLibs led by Campbell, but by the time Christy stole the leadership, she clearly steered it in the Big L Liberal direction. As Don described, those are not conservative policies. And the policies that Wilkinson ran on, would be straight out of the NDP playbook. The old Socreds are gone, gone, gone.

        Sure, there’s still the vestige of somewhat of a coalition, look at the interior seats, but, the conservative vote, where it existed, hurt the Libs and cost them a couple seats. Namely Chilliwack, a place that NEVER elects the NDP.

        I can never vote for the Libs again, ever. Living in a hardcore NDP riding pretty much makes my vote irrelevant, as does almost anywhere on the island. The sheep have been raised to bleat for government help about everything.

        A $1000 BRIBE doesn’t hurt either, to vote NDP, in case one can’t make up their minds.

  6. “the right has long been hegemonic”

    Huh?

    My parents and I were in Lotusland on summer holidays shortly before Wacky Bennett’s Socreds were given the boot in 1972. I remember seeing handbills stuck on lampposts that had the slogan “Dictatorship ended in 1945” on them. To make them real catchy to the lefties, one of the letters in “Dictatorship” was styled as a swastika.

    Lotusland has been that way ever since. Any party, any politician even slightly to the right of Mao or Stalin was considered to be the scum of the earth.

  7. The BC Liberals, about as “conservative” as any other Conservative party in Canada – delivered the NDP/Green alliance a balanced budget when they took over and Horgan, knowing the mindlessness of the mindless mushy middle of the electorate correctly bought them off with years of deficits leaving those evil fiscally conservative BC Liberals in the dustbin tonight. It also helped that Horgan promised every household that had income under $125,000 a thousand dollar voting bonus oops I mean COVID assistance should the NDP prove victorious. Free stuff is all it takes to rule in the deranged dominion. Stupid politics for very stupid people.

    1. “Free stuff”. The battle cry of the BC interior towns, when I lived, worked and ran a business there. From Atlin down to Hope and places in between. Alberta used to be a welcome respite to that mantra, but not any more today. We’ve all become Teranna, with the same demographics and thought processes. Even the Maritimes haven’t escaped.

  8. We’ll probably have 2 or 3 terms of ndp reign now. Between him and Trudeau I guess life will get a hell of a lot more expensive now.

  9. The people voted for “more free money” in a pandemic…that is all.

    Prosit!!

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North

    1. Actually, the “Liberals” had better promised free money. No PST for a year. The little people did not get it, as they are busy on social media or are told how to vote at “church” or by family.

      The Wilkinson free ride was an obvious lefty ploy, and it did not even work! I think the average IQ here in Vancouver is now about 96 and over 40% of the population do not speak or read English (or French, haha, none here) well.

  10. I mentioned earlier that Peace River North (which includes Fort St. John) voted against the Dippers, but that might be misleading.

    There were a few lefty eco-hippies there even while I was growing up. I remember a few of them in high school. One of them was a hard-core socialist and I think she even had her own show on the local radio station at the time.

    But there was a hangout for those fruitloops in town called “Damlahagit”, the name being some native term or expression. From what I heard, it was one weird place.

    I don’t think it was open for very long as I’m sure that it closed by the time I was in university in the early 1970s. Maybe, when someone brags about being in FSJ for a long time, I should ask them if they remember it. If they don’t, then they’re mere rookies in town.

      1. L – There is a definite East vs West thing going on in BC! The red paint, which in this case is the more conservative by BC standards, has a corridor that extends all the way to the coast emerging near the southern tip of Alaska. This junction is just north of Kitimat. Once the operators of the LNG plant start voting they could swing that area a bit to the right. It’s a giant leap to say that this Red corridor would vote for Wexit, but even New Zealand had a change of heart after their 1984 bankruptcy. “Between 1984 and 1995 New Zealand changed from a closed and centrally controlled economy to one of the most open countries in the OECD. ” https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/jeclit/v34y1996i4p1856-1902.html. BC, and Canada in general, may have to emulate what New Zealand did back in 1984.

  11. Now that Whoregun and Unifor have consolidated their power look for a heavy handed China Virus clampdown.

    1. Yeah, I wonder.

      Horgan clearly has a hidden agenda, that warranted absolute power for his decrees.

      So, what’s coming? A doubling of the carbon tax? Extra taxes on homeowners? Mileage based car insurance? Cancelling Site C? There’s clearly an issue that will be very bad news for his NDP, that he needed at least 3 years to recover from. Not that his lapdog media would EVER grill him on it, Unifor has their marching orders after all.

      Politics 101

  12. “the right has long been hegemonic” is indeed the dumbest fucking thing. I lived and worked there off an on over the decades and conservative it wasn’t.

  13. Sorry, but no matter how it’s phrased there will never be a conservative government in BC until actually have an actual conservative on the ballot.
    All the choices are left and further to the left, then this cockamamie line about how there is a liberal party that isn’t really liberal.
    The voters that vote conservative have an expectation that they should actually have that option on the ballot
    And if they don’t
    They don’t cast a ballot.

    Here’s a thought experiment
    How many of the current choices would be appealing to a lefty?
    All of them.

  14. Surprisingly the CBC admitted yesterday that all the recent immigrants will help the NDP win the election. Blackie’s migrants love free stuff.

    1. Robert, I like the word “cisheteropatriarchal”, an adjective I believe. Rex Murphy ridiculed the word in a recent NP column. Cisheteropatriarchy clearly is hegemonic. Clearly, for sure.

  15. Resistance is futile.
    The neo-Marxist Borg are not going to be beaten.
    Get what you can for you and yours and mind your privacy.

    Chef John has some good recipes.

    1. That’s my plan. Look after me and mine and otherwise participate as little as possible in things that they control.

  16. Social Credit was indeed hegemonic in BC from 1952 to 1991, excepting a 1972-75 NDP interregnum. As late as the late 1980s Bill Vander Zalm led the most conservative government in Canada, possibly even in North America as a whole.

    Even into the 90s and beyond BC elected more Reformers to parliament than Alberta did in 3 straight elections, 1993, 1997 and 2000. But those days are over as BC politics have moved sharply leftward both provincially and federally over the past 20 years.

    Saskatchewan has taken the opposite trajectory, from an on-and-off (mostly on) NDP hegemony lasting from 1944 all the way to 2007, to a budding Sask. Party hegemony today.

    For generations Sask. politics were the leftist mirror image (CCF/NDP) of rightist Alberta politics (Socreds, PCs), but now they are like centre-right twins. As BC has moved away from the Alberta model Saskatchewan has moved closer.

    This election shows the need for a separation movement *within* BC, namely to partition the province between the conservative Interior and the ultra-liberal Coast.

    The BC Liberals won 18 of 22 seats in the Interior, down 1 from 2017. But they won only 11 of the 65 seats on the Coast, down 13 from the last election. Either the Interior separates from the Coast or they can look forward to living under Leftist eco-multicult-LGBT hegemony till the end of time.

    1. That geographic divide is also in large part an immigration-fueled demographic divide. Problem is the Interior is being invaded by Lower Mainlanders at an alarming rate. They’re gobbling up real estate and businesses like there’s no tomorrow. If Wexit doesn’t happen fast, it’s toast.

      1. Problem is the Interior is being invaded by Lower Mainlanders at an alarming rate.

        They’ve infested and contaminated Fort St. John in the years since I moved away after I got my B. Sc. in the late 1970s. They moved there, wanting to escape the environment of Lotusland, but they didn’t leave their poisonous ideologies behind.

  17. There are 5,110,917 people living in British Columbia
    Total Registered Voters (as of Sept 26) 3,485,858
    Provincial total 1,208,326 voted
    544,083 voted for the extreme socialists.

    Of the population of the land of lotus eaters @10% voted for the extreme socialists.
    Of the total registered voters @15% voted for the extreme socialists.
    Of those that actually voted @45% voted for the extreme socialists.

    Of course there is that part of population that is not eligible to vote.
    Results as of this minute.

    What does that mean?

  18. Well maybe the center-right will actually start a serious rebuild. That can start by dropping ‘Liberal’ from their nameplate. If grassroots work stands for anything the Greens are winning. Here in Nelson-Creston the Greens nearly knocked the NDP off. The Liebels were never really in it. They have not done any organizing work in this riding for decades.

    Bottom line is that the center-right is losing the demographic battle as the left controls the education system and the media. It is a combination that will not be defeated long term unless tactics are changed.

  19. I clicked on the various links 5 times and I still cannot come to a results page. I gave up.

    Technology rules.

    shakeyjay.ca

  20. As a conservative I have participated in the election process since I became of age, that was a long time ago and now in a galaxy far, far away. I have served as a poll supervisor, poll clerk, and scrutineer in many elections and took my citizenship seriously. After I retired I had more time and in 2015 I watched as the Conservative party threw the election away because from the local perspective the party would not campaign aggressively against the opposition. If you cannot point out to the electorate where your ideals differ from your opposition and why you have a better platform, then you do not deserve to be elected. This primary failure has been escalated by the opposition to the extent that today to express conservative ideals is to be vilified. The example of how Harper was vilified by the opposition and the media during his tenure has been adopted and expanded in America today. Perhaps fortunately President Trump is not a politician and had no qualms about fighting both Republicans and Democrats in their own arena. The upcoming American election is beyond a doubt the last hope for Western civilization. The quagmire that became the Brexit referendum is an example of how the ballot has been made redundant, the first nail in the coffin of Democracy hammered home in the proverbial birthplace, and now the advent of mail in ballots is truly the last shovelful of dirt thrown on the grave. The last thing to do is erect a headstone, Democracy, born 15th June 1215, and after many long and valiant struggles and battles against oppression and ignorance has finally succumbed , 3rd November 2020. The socialist, communists, liberals, democrats, and their ilk will no doubt dance upon the grave.

    1. Well written but we must remember “Flander’s Field “ “ From failing hands we throw the touch “ If you should fail we shall not sleep”
      We are failing and if B.C. is lost then Alberta and Saskatchewan the home of the pioneers must take up the quarrel with the foe!

      We must leave Canada and make a country our Grandparents would be proud of!

  21. Conservative not even on the ballot.
    Another sign Canada is never coming back.
    Venezuala here we come.

  22. The first thing out of Whoreagains mouth this am was The environment(anti-pipeline drivel no doubt) and UN/Native treaty rights(massive giveaways of the province to special interest groups based in the commie US!

    1. Perhaps that’s the hidden agenda, regarding the massive giveaway about to happen to the natives.

      How about a new Native Tax on every BC homeowner? Cuz, we are “settlers” on THEIR land………. There is something coming that he will be hated for, but feels “he has to do it”.

      There is something big to happen, that he wanted “to put politics behind us!” as he repeated ad nauseum.

      Penalizing the successful, is a mandatory socialist dictat. If you own a home in BC, apparently, one is filthy rich. Just filthy, and to be despised. This is where I believe, Horgan will come after us to feed his welfare dreams for “the homeless”

      And it seems a doubling of the carbon tax would not be a surprise. Cuz we’re doomed, tipping point, killing people, etc. Its all BCs fault of course, and BC will solve the world’s problems……………

      1. How about a new Native Tax on every BC homeowner? Cuz, we are “settlers” on THEIR land……….

        I spoke with someone who has a relative on the Sunshine Coast. According to her, if one excavates soil as part of a construction project, one can’t simply haul it away. It has to be sifted through and examined for “artifacts”. (“Hello, Ancestors R Us? I’m making a land claim and I need a carton of arrowheads, say, 500 year vintage…..”)

        I remember when, 50 years ago, much of BC was claimed by one native group or another. A lot of lawyers got rich with all the subsequent negotiations and treaties. It seems now that it was all for nothing.

        1. 120% of BC is claimed by the natives, even they argue with each other about whose territory is whose. I guess it depends on which band invaded the other band and took slaves last.

          The excavation issue you mention, is where “known” ancient native settlements were located (generally), typically, near bodies of water, shorelines, beaches. Many of these exist, Departure Bay shoreline, along the Gorge in Victoria, Tsawwassen areas, GUlf Islands, and more. If the homeowner excavates in these areas, they MUST (law) hire an archeological firm for a study, plus a token native, who must be there to inspect every shovel full of dirt and sift it. Needless to say, this costs well into the 6 figures to placate the natives for a few arrowheads.

          Legislation brought to you by the previous Big L Liberal (not conservative) government

          1. If the homeowner excavates in these areas, they MUST (law) hire an archeological firm for a study, plus a token native, who must be there to inspect every shovel full of dirt and sift it.

            I noticed that there’s an historical “consulting” firm in Fort St. John as well. Three guesses as to whose history is of interest.

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