The 2017 British Columbia general election was held on May 9, 2017. It was the first election contested on a new electoral map completed in 2015. The total number of constituencies had increased from 85 to 87. The election saw no party win a majority of seats for the first time since 1952.
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The 2017 British Columbia general election was held on May 9, 2017. It was the first election contested on a new electoral map completed in 2015. The total number of constituencies had increased from 85 to 87. The election saw no party win a majority of seats for the first time since the 1952 election. It marked the end of the Liberal majority government that had led the province since the 2001 election. In the 40th Parliament prior to this general election, the British Columbia Liberal Party formed the government under the leadership of Christy Clark. The BC Green Party were also represented in the legislature with sole MLA and later leader Andrew Weaver. On July 18, John Horgan became the new premier, while Weaver and the other Green MLAs did not join the Cabinet or take any official roles in the new government. On February 2, 2016, two by-elections occurred in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain to replace Jenny Kwan and Douglas Horne, who had both resigned to seek election in the 2015 Canadian federal election. On August 13, 2013, Jane Sterk announced she would resign as Green Party leader; Adam Olsen was appointed interim leader on August 25, 2013.
On June 29, Clark’s speech from the throne was voted down, and Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon invited Horgan to form a government. Despite the victory, Clark was defeated by NDP candidate David Eby in her riding of Vancouver-Point Grey but was later elected in the Westside-Kelowna riding by-election in July 2013 following Ben Stewart’s resignation of his seat the previous month so that she could return to the Legislature. On April 11, 2017, the writ was dropped on April 11. Advance voter registration ended April 11 and Advance voting was from April 29 to 30, then began again May 3 and lasted until May 6 before the general election on May9. In preparation for the 2017 provincial election, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 2014 increased the number of electoral districts from85 to 87 and required that the number. of electoral Districts in the North, Cariboo-Thompson, and the Columbia-Kootenay regions not be decreased despite their lower populations.
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