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Powell River-Sunshine Coast is a provincial

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

electoral district

Electoral district

An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...

for the Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....

of British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Demographics

Population, 2001	45,406
Population Change, 1996–2001	1.1%
Area (km²)	39,009
Pop. Density (people per km²)	1.16

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....

is Nicholas Simons

Nicholas Simons

Nicholas Simons is a Canadian politician. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and member of the New Democratic Party. He represents the riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast.-Politics:...

, who was first elected in 2005, and was re-elected in the 2009 provincial election.

Election results

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|New Democrat

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...

|Nicholas Simons

Nicholas Simons

British Columbia Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...

Green Party of British Columbia

The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...

British Columbia Refederation Party

The B.C. Refederation Party is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada advocating direct democracy and reform to Canadian federalism...

|Allen McIntyre
|align="right"|249
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!align="left" colspan=3|Total valid votes
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|-

|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Nicholas Simons

Nicholas Simons

British Columbia Liberal Party

Green Party of British Columbia

|Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She is also a Councillor-elect on Vancouver City Council. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first leader from 1983 to 1985, whereafter the party...

|align="right"|6,147
|align="right"|25.62%
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|Refederation
|Allen McIntyre
|align="right"|149
|align="right"|0.62%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|23,990
!align="right"|100.00%
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|}

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| style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Harold Long
|align="right"|9,904
|align="right"|42.36%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$63,954
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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Gordon Wilson

Gordon Wilson (Canadian politician)

Gordon Wilson is a former provincial politician in British Columbia. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of BC from 1987–1993, leader and founder of the Progressive Democratic Alliance from 1993–1997, and in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Finance and Minister of Employment, Investment...

Green Party of British Columbia

|Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr

British Columbia Marijuana Party

The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....

|Dana Albert Larsen
|align="right"|812
|align="right"|3.48%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$4,499
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|23,381
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|99
!align="right"|0.42%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|23,480
!align="right"|76.33%
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|}

|-

|PDA

Progressive Democratic Alliance

The Progressive Democratic Alliance was a centrist political party in British Columbia, Canada founded by Gordon Wilson, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Powell River—Sunshine Coast....

|Gordon Wilson

Gordon Wilson (Canadian politician)

|align="right"|10,833
|align="right"|49.05%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$18,579

|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Liberal Party

Reform Party of British Columbia

The Reform Party of British Columbia is a populist right wing political party in British Columbia, Canada. Although its name is similar to the defunct Reform Party of Canada, the provincial party was founded before the federal party was and it did not have any formal association with...

Green Party of British Columbia

|D. Wendy Young
|align="right"|518
|align="right"|2.35%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$834

|Common Sense
|Roslyn Griston
|align="right"|57
|align="right"|0.26%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$272
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|22,084
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|66
!align="right"|0.30%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|22,150
!align="right"|75.37%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-

| style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Gordon Wilson

Gordon Wilson (Canadian politician)

|align="right"|11,486
|align="right"|54.69%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$42,914

|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Social Credit Party

The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

Green Party of British Columbia

|Janet E. Calder
|align="right"|161
|align="right"|0.77%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$439

|Independent
|Lynwood A. Jacob
|align="right"|66
|align="right"|0.31%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$200
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|21,004
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|300
!align="right"|1.41%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|21,304
!align="right"|82.61%
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|}

Sources:

1. Elections BC

2. SUMMARIES OF PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND BY-ELECTIONS, BRITISH COLUMBIA 1928 TO 1969.By: BRITISH COLUMBIA. CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, Published: 1969, McMaster University Government Publications.

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