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	British Columbia general election, 1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Columbia general election of 1996 was the thirty sixth provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
		It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
		The election was called on April 30, 1996, and held on May 28, 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_1996 (313 words)

	British Columbia general election, 1912 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Columbia general election of 1912 was the thirteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
		The election was called on February 27, 1912, and held on March 28, 1912.
		In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_1912 (355 words)

	Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Elections must be held at least once in five years, but within that period the prime minister may at any time request the crown to dissolve Parliament and call for new elections.
		Domestically the long ministry of Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42), during the reigns of George I and George II, was a period of relative stability that saw the beginnings of the development of the cabinet as the chief executive organ of government.
		In 1945, the first general elections in ten years were held (they had been postponed because of the war) and Clement Attlee and the Labour party were swept into power.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreatBri.html (7942 words)

	Genealogical Resources - BC Archives
		British Columbia Census returns for 1881, 1891, and 1901 are all available on microfilm at the BC Archives.
		Generally, the main entries in the catalogues are based on the name of the organization or individual that produced the record, though there are cross references by subject and location.
		A listing of holdings of British Columbia newspapers on microfilm is available on-line that lists newspapers alphabetically by community, and provides a reference number to the self-serve microfilm collection.
	www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca /textual/general/genealog.htm (2258 words)

	Women & Canadian Elections
		At the close of nominations for the 2004 election, there were 391 women and 1,294 men among the 1685 candidates who had successfully filed their papers with Elections Canada.
		In the 2000 elections, 373 women were among the 1808 candidates; this figure represents 20.6% of the total.
		The 1993 federal election witnessed the emergence of a significant gender gap in support for the new party of the right: women were much less likely than men to vote Reform, a trend that continued in the 1997 federal election.
	www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/women.html (1798 words)

	FAQ municipal elections BC
		General Voting Day for local government elections in the province of British Columbia is always the third Saturday in November.
		Elections British Columbia is responsible for running elections and by-elections for Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the province of British Columbia.
		If you are a resident of British Columbia, own property in the local government and are otherwise qualified, you may be able to vote as a non-resident property elector.
	www.municipalelections.com /faq_elections.html (3241 words)

	Past Canadian Elections - Historical Results & Analysis
		Compare the summary results of 37 general elections held between 1867 to 2004 with each party's share of the votes and seats, as well as the number of candidates and overall voter turnout.
		For a background to the 2006 election you can view and the standings of the political parties in Parliament at the time it was dissolved in late November 2005.
		A resident of British Columbia, Paul Bryan, was prosecuted for publishing the results from 2000 federal elections from Atlantic Canada at his web site www.electionresultscanada.com before the pools had closed elsewhere in the country.
	www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/past_elections.html (376 words)

	IFES - A project of the Center for Transitional and Post Conflict Governance
		British Columbia is considering a historic change to its electoral system that proponents believe will hold the Canadian province’s government more accountable.
		Because of the referendum’s timing, Elections BC must prepare for the 2009 general election under both the current and the single transferable vote systems.
		The project in British Columbia is the latest example of how IFES works in countries with mature democracies, as well as in the developing world.
	www.ifes.org /ctpcg-project.html?projectid=british_columbia (850 words)

	Operation Sold Out II: The Failed General Strike in British Columbia in 2004 \| NEFAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This critical account of the failed general strike movement in British Columbia is written from an anarchist perspective within the events, as both a participant and observer.
		There are four general sections to this account: a brief introduction to the history of labor unrest leading up to failed general strike, a precise description of those events, a critical analysis of the situation as it emerged, and some conclusions for the labor movement in general and revolutionary left in particular.
		While militants had, through their agitation, shaped the desire for a general strike and brought it to the forefront of public consciousness, they had simultaneously failed to create organizations that could ensure the practical application of the principles from which the desire for a general strike stemmed.
	nefac.net /node/1947 (4718 words)

	Elections around the World
		This election was the first time that parties were allowed to post representatives at all 40 000 polling stations as well as being given the vote tallies at the end of polling.
		general election of 2 June 1999, Thabo Mbeki took over the presidency from Nelson Mandela after the ruling ANC party won 66.4 per cent of the vote.
		General Wiranto (Golkar) along with at least four other candidates registered to compete for the presidency of the world’s fourth most populous country.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/POL/WorldElections.htm (3308 words)

	FairVote - Electoral Reform in British Columbia
		These results from British Columbia show clearly how obvious the limitations of winner-take-all are, in contrast to the advantages of choice voting.
		In British Columbia, if choice voting were adopted, the current single member districts would be combined into multi-member districts.
		Although the effort to switch to proportional representation in Canada at a national level may be blocked, five provinces, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, are considering the adoption of proportional representation.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=515 (1569 words)

	Elections Canada On-Line \| Media
		Election advertising posted to the public on the Internet before election day need not be withdrawn, but it cannot be amended once the flout period has begun.
		Therefore, the current state of the law is that this provision is in force for the 39th general election.
		On May 20, 2005, the British Columbia Court of Appeal held that section 329 of the Act was constitutional.
	www.elections.ca /content.asp?section=med&document=jan1606&dir=pre&lang=e&textonly=false (374 words)

	Cities and Towns - Hometown Canada
		Both the Governor General of Canada, who exercises the prerogatives of the head of state (the monarch), and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
		British claims to North America date from 1497, when John Cabot reached what he called Newfoundland, though it is unclear whether Cabot landed in current Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Maine.
		Coastal British Columbia is an exception: it enjoys a temperate climate with much milder winters than the rest of the country.
	www.hometowncanada.com (5275 words)

	Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Elections
		The data from the 1997 election study are available on-line; the raw frequencies for a number of variables in their massive survey can be read directly with your browser, or you can download the full data set in SPSS format to analyze on your own computer.
		Elections Canada provides the interim election results for the country as a whole, by province and by major metropolitan area.
		Vancouver 1999 Local General Election Results - You can also read the results of the plebiscite held on what Vancouverites wished to do with their municipal electoral system.
	www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/elections.html (1123 words)

	Thomson Nelson - Political Science Resource Centre
		Visit New Zealand Elections for more information about this system and the history of its adoption in time for the 1996 general election.
		The raw survey data from the 1997 and 2004 elections are available for the CES and for the 1984-2000 election studies from York University.
		Elections Canada provides the official results of the 1997 and 2000 general elections on line.
	polisci.nelson.com /elections.html (1396 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: British Columbia Attorney General Furious Over Court Ruling
		When 18-year-old Poonam Randhwa was killed, allegedly by a man who had stalked her for over a year, Dosanjh began a school and college-wide campaign to expose the tactics of stalkers.
		The attorney-general, whose name is frequently mentioned as a possible premier in British Columbia, is seen by many people in the province as being extra tough on the criminals.
		And Chris Simmons, the British Columbia chair of Canadians Against Violence Everywhere, said she was appalled that the nation's highest court had ignored the strongest plea by the attorney general.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/may/31us2.htm (377 words)

	45 Indo-Canadians contesting elections: Indians Abroad - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With 45 Indo-Canadians in the fray for Canada's general elections, the Parliament is bound to see some representation from the community regardless of which party wins the January 23 vote.
		Alberta and British Columbia have a Conservative bent while the Liberal Party draws most of its seats from Ontario, where of late, the opposition parties have been trying to gain ground with ethnic minorities.
		Elections Canada, the country's election commission, disseminates electoral information in 27 languages including English and major Indian languages like Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali, a testament to the multicultural fabric of this country.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/5967_1599072,001600060001.htm (542 words)

	BPG Home Page
		Activities of the British Politics Group include annual sponsorship of panels on British politics at the largest political science meeting in the world, that of the American Political Science Association, a quarterly newsletter, an annual bibliography of books on British politics published in the United Kingdom.
		British Politics Group panels at the APSA in recent years have featured a variety of topics and participants.
		Panels have included such diverse topics as analysis of recent general elections, the legacy of Thatcherism, Northern Ireland, party politics, the future of socialism, representation of gender and ethnic groups, law and order, reform of the civil service, Britain and the European Union, the role of parliament, and the teaching of British politics.
	www.uc.edu /bpg (439 words)

	municipal elections British Columbia BC
		municipal elections British Columbia BC Across BC general elections are held every three years for mayors, councillors, regional district electoral area directors, school board trustees and Islands Trust trustees pursuant to the BC Local Government Act (RSBS 1996 Chapter 323) Part 3 and 4.
		General voting day is always the third Saturday in November.
		Check your property tax receipt to confirm in which municipality you reside and are eligible to vote in.
	www.municipalelections.com (134 words)

	Election Information - Penticton, Okanagan, BC
		All Mayors, Councillors, and School Trustees are elected for a three-year term, and elections are held throughout the province every third year on the third Saturday in November.
		At the same time as local elections are held, referenda may be held on questions affecting municipalities and regional districts
		It provides an overview of the electoral process in British Columbia and a summary of the steps you need to take to run as a candidate in the local election.
	www.penticton.ca /city/city_clerk/elections/default.asp (818 words)

	Elections BC
		Under the Constitution Act, provincial general elections are now held on fixed dates.
		The next provincial general election will be held on May 12, 2009.
		General Voting Day – Tuesday, May 17, 2005 from 8 a.m.
	www.elections.bc.ca /elections/elections-results.htm (391 words)

	Poll: The democratic deficit through voting erosion
		It is likely that Elections BC would be able to identify the number of voters who fit any of the categories in this poll who contributed to total votes in the last provincial election, save perhaps for the mentally infirm.
		For British Columbians including one ROBBINS ‘witness’ who saw two of the three circumstances first hand at a polling station in Burquitlam, the situation is very distressing indeed.
		This is a digit dialing of 565 respondents throughout the lower mainland of British Columbia between May 24th - 26th, 2005.
	www.robbinssceresearch.com /polls/poll_186.html (620 words)

	Results of 2005 British Columbia, Canada General Election - Wikinews
		Results are still coming in, and no party has won an overall majority in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia yet.
		Held in conjunction with the general election was the British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005, where voters were asked to decide whether to switch from the First Past the Post electoral system to the Single Transferable Vote electoral system.
		A 60% Yes vote as well as a simple majority in 48 of the 79 ridings are needed for the measure to pass.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Results_of_2005_British_Columbia,_Canada_General_Election (369 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: Voter Almanac - British Columbia Provincial Election Information
		In the 1996 and 2001 general elections, Campbell was elected to represent the constituency of Vancouver-Point Grey.
		Gordon Campbell was sworn in as British Columbia's 34th Premier on June 5, 2001.
		She was a member of the Greater Victoria School Board from 1990-2001, and also had involvement at the national level, serving as the Vice-President of the Canadian School Boards Association.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /election/quick/bc.html (652 words)

	ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF BRITISH COLUMBIA v. McDONALD
		A general enactment like the Bill of Rights cannot and was never intended to repeal a specific enactment with- out expressly saying so.
		2(f) is a general subsequent statement which cannot, be taken to repeal the spe- cial and particular provisions of the Code pertinent sections; he held further that the statutory presumption was not one of guilt or innocence, but of fact, and convicted the accused.
		1 are governed by the general opening clause, which merely indicates that the several clauses have always existed in Canada, and always shall.
	library.usask.ca /native/cnlc/vol06/014.html (2819 words)

	UCSD - The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is well-intentioned, but it is very feeble compared with the opportunity voters in British Columbia have today.
		The proposal has little visibility in the midst of today's general election, because neither side has funded much of a campaign.
		Californians are less aware of this problem than British Columbians because third parties rarely even bother to run in our legislative elections and because so many of our districts are uncompetitive.
	www-irps.ucsd.edu /about/mn051705.php (713 words)

	British Columbia History
		This illustration shows the archway in Victoria, British Columbia, prepared for the visit of Lord Dufferin in 1876, to placate British Columbians, angry at the federal government for not living up to their promise of a transcontinental railway to the West coast.
		The Maritimes wanted nothing to do with Canada and their confederation ideas, however, the economic motives of Canada were the issue and confederation with the Maritimes was necessary as a prelude to the acquisition of the West, which offered an Empire for them to settle and exploit.
		In doing so, I am deeply impressed with the momentous character of the discussion into which we are about to enter, the grave importance of decision by which the fate of this our adopted country, British Columbia, must be influenced for better, for worse, for all time to come.
	www.westcan.org /westcan/bchist.htm (1600 words)

	Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform - IMPROVING DEMOCRACY IN B.C.
		"Election results will be fairer, reflecting a balance between votes and seats, voters will have more choice and candidates will work harder to earn their support," says the final report of the Assembly, Making Every Vote Count: The Case for Electoral Reform in British Columbia.
		The electoral system the Assembly members propose for the province is BC-STV, short for British Columbia Single Transferable Vote.
		Their final report and recommendation to the people of B.C. was submitted on 10 December 2004, and the Assembly then disbanded.
	www.citizensassembly.bc.ca /public (1097 words)

	Invest British Columbia
		In Canada, there are ordinarily 105 Senators appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister.
		Senators are chosen to represent the various provinces and territories of Canada and are appointed until the age of 75.
		British Columbia currently has six senators: Sen. Jack Austin, Sen. Pat Carney, Sen. Ross Fitzpatrick, Sen. Mobina Jaffer, Sen. Larry W. Campbell, and Sen. Gerry St. Germain.
	investbc.gov.bc.ca /CommunityProfiles/Display/default.aspx?page=government&pCommunityID=479 (112 words)

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