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| | British Columbia Marijuana Party Polls 3.5% in Provincial Elections, May Morph Into Multi-Issue "Freedom Party" |
 | | The British Columbia Marijuana Party (BCMP), the insurgent provincial electoral force greased with $150,000US of cannabis entrepreneur Marc Emery's profits and represented by a colorful cast of campaigners (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/180.html#bcparty), fell short of pre-election predictions, but managed to garner some 52,000 votes and score five third-place finishes in the province's 79 legislative assembly districts. |
 | | In last week's elections, only the national Liberal and New Democratic parties managed to do as well, while the other minor parties, the BC Greens and the Unity Party, were unable to run candidates for many districts. |
 | | Party leader Brian Taylor, who got 785 votes in the West Kootenay Boundary district, was upstaged by his 25-year-old daughter Teresa, who captured the party's highest popular vote total with 1,136 and polled 5.6% in the conservative Okanagan-Westside district. |
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