B.C. election: No ex-BC United candidates projected to win their seats
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The results are the final nail in the coffin for the onetime BC Liberals, who had been the official opposition before throwing their support behind the BC Conservatives.
None of the former BC United candidates who ran as independent or unaffiliated in the B.C. election are projected to win their seats — including five incumbent MLAs.
The results are the final nail in the coffin for the onetime BC Liberals, who had been the official opposition before the election but threw their weight behind the BC Conservatives in August amid sagging poll numbers.
The losses include some big names who had been in office for years, including longtime Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier, Kootenay-Rockies incumbent Tom Shypitka and West Vancouver-Capilano’s Karin Kirkpatrick, the last of whom had nearly retired from politics before the BC United implosion spurred her to mount an independent run.
Peace River North incumbent Dan Davies and Prince George-North Cariboo incumbent Coralee Oakes were the other two former United MLAs who lost their races Saturday.
All five past MLAs lost to Conservative candidates, many of them by large margins.
The suspension of the BC United campaign saw the Conservatives bring several United candidates under their banner as the two parties worked together to put forward the best slate of candidates to defeat the incumbent BC NDP.
But 18 United candidates chose to continue their campaigns but not as Conservatives, who have positioned themselves as more right-wing.
Conservatives were either elected or leading in all but six of those ridings, with the NDP elected or leading in the others.
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