2005 British Columbia general election

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 2005 British Columbia general election

| country = British Columbia

| type = parliamentary

| ongoing = no

| party_colour = no

| party_name = no

| previous_election = 2001 British Columbia general election

| previous_year = 2001

| next_election = 2009 British Columbia general election

| next_year = 2009

| seats_for_election = 79 seats of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
40 seats were needed for a majority

| election_date = May 17, 2005

| outgoing_members = 37th Parliament of British Columbia

| elected_members = 38th Parliament of British Columbia

| turnout = 57.80%{{cite web |title=Statement of Votes - 38th Provincial General Election |url=https://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/2005GEResults/SOV-GEcomplete.pdf |publisher=Elections BC |access-date=September 25, 2023 |archive-date=September 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925171140/https://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/2005GEResults/SOV-GEcomplete.pdf |url-status=live }} {{increase}} 2.75 pp

| image1 = 165x165px

| colour1 = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Liberal|nohash}}

| leader1 = Gordon Campbell

| leader_since1 = September 11, 1993

| party1 = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Liberal|name}}

| leaders_seat1 = Vancouver-Point Grey

| last_election1 = 77 seats

| seats1 = 46

| seat_change1 = {{decrease}}31

| popular_vote1 = 807,118

| percentage1 = 45.80%

| swing1 = {{decrease}}11.82%

| image2 = 165x165px

| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|nohash}}

| leader2 = Carole James

| leader_since2 = November 23, 2003

| party2 = {{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|name}}

| leaders_seat2 = Victoria-Beacon Hill

| last_election2 = 2 seats

| seats2 = 33

| seat_change2 = {{increase}}31

| popular_vote2 = 731,719

| percentage2 = 41.52%

| swing2 = {{increase}}19.96%

| image3 = {{CSS image crop|Image = Adriane Carr of the Green Party.jpg|bSize = 240|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 165|oTop = 0|oLeft = 40}}

| colour3 = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Green|nohash}}

| leader3 = Adriane Carr

| leader_since3 = September 23, 2000

| party3 = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Green|name}}

| leaders_seat3 = Ran in Powell River-Sunshine Coast (lost)

| last_election3 = 0 seats

| seats3 = 0

| seat_change3 = {{steady}}

| popular_vote3 = 161,842

| percentage3 = 9.18%

| swing3 = {{decrease}}3.22%

| map_image = British Columbia general election, 2005 results by riding.svg

| map_size = 400px

| map_caption = Popular vote map by riding. Traditional areas of NDP support returned to the party fold after the preceding wipeout.

Colourblind-friendly version

| title = Premier

| before_election = Gordon Campbell

| before_party = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Liberal|name}}

| posttitle = Premier after election

| after_election = Gordon Campbell

| after_party = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Liberal|name}}

}}

{{wikinews|Results of 2005 British Columbia, Canada General Election}}

The 2005 British Columbia general election was held on May 17, 2005, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals) formed the government of the province prior to this general election under the leadership of Premier Gordon Campbell. The main opposition was the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), whose electoral representation was reduced to two MLAs in the previous provincial election in 2001.

The BC Liberals retained power, with a reduced majority of 46 out of 79 seats, down from the record 77 out of 79 in 2001. While the popularity of Campbell's government was affected by various factors such as its resolution of the Fast ferry scandal inherited from the previous NDP government, the sale of BC Rail, and Campbell being convicted for driving under the influence in January 2003, the overwhelming majority they earned at the previous election held up well enough for them to remain comfortably in control of the Legislative Assembly. Voter turnout was 58.2 per cent.

Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates: the second Tuesday in May every four years. This was the first provincial election for which elector data in the provincial elector list was synchronised with the National Register of Electors.{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/news/n_040520.pdf|format=PDF|title=Elections BC and Elections Canada will Amalgamate Voters Lists|location=Victoria, British Columbia|publisher=Elections British Columbia|date=21 May 2004|access-date=2011-03-30}}

Coincidental with the general election, BC voters also voted on whether or not to change the province's electoral system.

Electoral reform referendum

The BC electoral reform referendum was held in conjunction with this election. This referendum asked voters whether or not they support the proposed electoral reforms of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, which included switching to a single transferable vote (STV) system. Had it been approved by 60% of voters in 60% of ridings), the new electoral system would have been implemented for the general election in 2009. Although the proposed reform attracted a clear majority (58% of the popular vote in favour, with 77 out of 79 ridings showing majority support), the level of support was just short of that required for mandatory implementation. A new vote on a revamped version of STV was held in conjunction with the 2009 British Columbia general election.

Results

rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="width:15%"\|Party ! rowspan="2"\|Leader ! rowspan="2"\|Candidates ! colspan="6"\|Votes ! colspan="3"\|Seats
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:85%" \|+Elections to the 38th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (2005){{sfn\|Elections BC\|2005\|p=24}}
# ! ± ! % ! colspan="3" \| Change (pp) ! 2001 ! 2005 ! ± {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \|Gordon Campbell \|79 \|\| 807,118 \|\| 109,770{{decrease}} \|\| 45.80 \| {{bartable\| -11.82\|
2\|1em\|background:red}} \|77 \|{{Composition bar\|46\|79\|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal}}}} \|31{{decrease}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \|Carole James \| 79	731,783	388,677{{increase}}	41.52 \| {{bartable\| 19.96\|
2\|1em\|background:green}} \|2 \|{{Composition bar\|33\|79\|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP}}}} \|31{{increase}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Green\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \|Adriane Carr \| 79	161,849	35,382{{decrease}}	9.18 \| {{bartable\| -3.21\|
2\|1em\|background:red}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Independent\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| \| 28	17,599	2,284{{increase}}	1.00 \| {{bartable\| 0.04\|
2\|1em\|background:green}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|DRBC\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \|Tom Morino \| 32	14,022	14,022{{increase}}	0.80 \| {{bartable\| 0.80\|
2\|1em\|background:green}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Marijuana\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \|Marc Emery \| 44	11,449	39,757{{decrease}}	0.65 \| {{bartable\| -2.57\|
2\|1em\|background:red}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Unity\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \|Daniel Stelmacker \| 1	224	51,202{{decrease}}	0.01 \| {{bartable\| -3.22\|
2\|1em\|background:red}} {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Conservative\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Barry Chilton \| 7	9,623	6,243{{increase}}	0.55	0.33 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|WLP\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Conrad Schmidt \| 11	1,641	1,641{{increase}}	0.09	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Libertarian\|row-name}} \|	6	1,053	1,053{{increase}}	0.06	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Platinum\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Jeff Evans \| 11	779	779{{increase}}	0.04	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Refederation\|row-name}} \|	4	675	675{{increase}}	0.04	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Social Credit\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| C. Barbara Woolsey \| 2	502	1,446{{decrease}}	0.03	-0.09 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|YPP\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| James Filippelli \| 1	442	442{{increase}}	0.03	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Western Canada Concept\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Douglas Christie \| 2	387	387{{increase}}	0.02	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|People's Front\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Charles Boylan \| 5	380	340{{decrease}}	0.02	-0.02 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Youth Coalition\|row-name}} \|	2	369	369{{increase}}	0.02	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Moderate Democratic Movement\|row-name}} \|	2	367	367{{increase}}	0.02	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Reform\|row-name}} \|	1	365	3,074{{decrease}}	0.02	-0.20 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|British Columbia\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Grant Mitton \| 2	362	362{{increase}}	0.02	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Sex\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| John Ince \| 3	305	305{{increase}}	0.02	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Freedom\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| K.M. Keillor \| 2	282	42{{increase}}	0.02	– {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Bloc BC\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Paddy Roberts \| 3	282	282{{increase}}	0.02	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Communist\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| George Gidora \| 3	244	137{{decrease}}	0.01	-0.01 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Emerged Democracy\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Tony Luck \| 1	151	151{{increase}}	0.01	New {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Patriot\|row-name}} \|style="text-align:left;" \| Andrew Hokhold \| 2	90	8{{increase}}	0.01	–
colspan="3" style="text-align: left;" \|Total	412 ! colspan="2"\|1,762,343 ! colspan="2"\| 100.00%
colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" \| Rejected ballots \| 11,926	3,467{{increase}}
colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" \| Turnout \|1,774,269	174,504{{increase}} \|62.36%	8.59{{decrease}}
colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" \| Registered voters{{cite web \|title=B.C. Voter Participation: 1983 to 2013 \|url=http://142.34.128.33/docs/stats/bc-voter-participation-1983-2013.pdf \|publisher=Elections BC \|access-date=May 11, 2017 \|archive-date=March 28, 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328040547/https://142.34.128.33/docs/stats/bc-voter-participation-1983-2013.pdf \|url-status=dead }} \|2,845,284	590,364{{increase}}

MLAs elected

=Synopsis of results=

scope="col" \| Riding ! scope="col" colspan="8" \| Winning party ! scope="col" rowspan="3" \| Turnout including spoilt ballots ! scope="col" colspan="9" \| Votesparties receiving more than 1% of the popular vote, or fielding candidates in at least half of the constituencies, are listed separately. Democratic Reform is highlighted, as it received more votes than the Marijuana Party while having fewer candidates. Conservatives are also listed separately, as they achieved significant 3rd and 4th places in several districts.
class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="text-align:right; font-size:85%" \|+ Results by riding - 2005 British Columbia general election{{sfn\|Elections BC\|2005\|pp=37-39}}
rowspan="2" scope="col" \|Name ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" scope="col" \| 2001 ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" scope="col" \|Party ! rowspan="2" scope="col" \|Votes ! rowspan="2" scope="col" \|Share ! rowspan="2" scope="col" \|Margin # ! rowspan="2" scope="col" \|Margin % ! scope="col" \| Lib ! scope="col" \| NDP ! scope="col" \| Grn ! scope="col" \| {{abbr\|DR\|Democratic Reform}} ! scope="col" \| {{abbr\|Mari\|Marijuana}} ! scope="col" \| {{abbr\|Con\|Conservative}} ! scope="col" \| {{abbr\|Ind\|Independent or no affiliation}} ! scope="col" \| {{abbr\|Oth\|Other minor parties}} ! rowspan="2" scope="col" \| Total
scope="col" style="background-color:#A51B12;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#F4A460;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#99C955;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#DB7093;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#D2B48C;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#004AAD;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\| ! scope="col" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|
	colspan="2"\|	colspan="2"\|
style="text-align:left"\| Abbotsford-Clayburn \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,047	59.95%	5,492	29.80%	59.50%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,047	5,555	1,428	–	198	–	–	199	18,427
style="text-align:left"\| Abbotsford-Mount Lehman \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,325	57.55%	5,193	26.39%	57.97%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,325	6,132	1,359	472	392	–	–	–	19,680
style="text-align:left"\| Alberni-Qualicum \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 13,988	52.61%	4,200	15.80%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|69.02%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|9,788	13,988	1,912	292	401	–	209	–	26,590
style="text-align:left"\| Bulkley Valley-Stikine \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 6,279	48.30%	1,102	8.48%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|68.78%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|6,279	5,177	769	354	205	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|216	13,000
style="text-align:left"\| Burnaby-Edmonds \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,337	46.71%	738	3.34%	57.70%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|9,599	10,337	2,192	–	–	–	–	–	22,128
style="text-align:left"\| Burnaby North \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 10,421	45.59%	65	0.28%	59.76%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|10,421	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|10,356	1,763	316	–	–	–	–	22,856
style="text-align:left"\|Burnaby-Willingdon \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 8,754	44.00%	399	2.01%	57.36%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|8,754	8,355	1,482	947	214	–	142	–	19,894
style="text-align:left"\| Burquitlam \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 10,054	46.39%	372	1.72%	60.45%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|10,054	9,682	1,619	–	191	–	125	–	21,671
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Cariboo North \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 7,353	47.28%	269	1.73%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.26%	7,084	7,353	835	–	281	–	–	–	15,553
style="text-align:left"\| Cariboo South \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 7,277	45.99%	114	0.72%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|67.43%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|7,163	7,277	851	–	–	–	532	–	15,823
style="text-align:left"\| Chilliwack-Kent \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,368	57.14%	4,834	24.30%	58.71%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,368	6,534	1,651	–	–	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|343	19,896
style="text-align:left"\| Chilliwack-Sumas \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,995	57.36%	5,518	26.39%	59.98%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,995	6,477	1,731	315	–	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|393	20,911
style="text-align:left"\| Columbia River-Revelstoke \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 7,460	51.71%	1,710	11.85%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|62.47%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|5,750	7,460	1,217	–	–	–	–	–	14,427
style="text-align:left"\| Comox Valley \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 14,068	45.73%	807	2.62%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|68.34%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|14,068	13,261	2,833	187	214	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|201	30,764
style="text-align:left"\| Coquitlam-Maillardville \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,532	46.96%	531	2.37%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|63.41%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|10,001	10,532	1,415	–	236	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|242	22,426
style="text-align:left"\| Cowichan-Ladysmith \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 14,014	50.02%	2,589	9.24%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|71.86%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|11,425	14,014	1,950	238	–	–	307	83	28,017
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Delta North \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,481	47.46%	1,001	4.53%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.24%	9,480	10,481	1,711	–	224	–	–	187	22,083
style="text-align:left"\| Delta South \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 9,112	37.48%	1,069	4.40%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|70.81%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|9,112	5,828	1,131	–	139	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|8,101Vicki Huntington received 8,043 votes	–	24,311
style="text-align:left"\| East Kootenay \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 8,060	48.01%	721	4.29%	60.03%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|8,060	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|7,339	1,389	–	–	–	–	–	16,788
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Esquimalt-Metchosin \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 12,545	49.63%	2,895	11.45%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|66.89%	9,650	12,545	2,672	409	–	–	–	–	25,276
style="text-align:left"\| Fort Langley-Aldergrove \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 15,454	59.13%	7,857	30.06%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|65.06%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|15,454	7,597	2,529	–	374	–	–	183	26,137
style="text-align:left"\| Kamloops \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,261	47.58%	1,375	5.81%	61.81%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,261	9,886	1,723	–	–	797	–	–	23,667
style="text-align:left"\| Kamloops-North Thompson \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,648	48.36%	2,013	8.36%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|67.71%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,648	9,635	1,689	–	321	795	–	–	24,088
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Kelowna-Lake Country \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,247	50.37%	4,857	19.98%	54.88%	12,247	7,390	2,541	1,793	341	–	–	–	24,312
style="text-align:left"\| Kelowna-Mission \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 13,827	53.72%	5,638	21.91%	57.00%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|13,827	8,189	3,308	–	320	–	–	94	25,738
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Langley \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,877	52.18%	4,574	18.53%	61.68%	12,877	8,303	3,042	–	278	–	–	180	24,680
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Malahat-Juan de Fuca \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 12,460	46.09%	1,932	7.15%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|69.57%	10,528	12,460	2,610	1,256	–	–	–	180	27,034
style="text-align:left"\|Maple Ridge-Mission \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,095	44.30%	199	0.73%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|63.31%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|12,095	11,896	2,633	–	314	–	312	53	27,303
style="text-align:left"\| Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 11,786	46.38%	925	3.64%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.23%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|10,861	11,786	1,869	534	360	–	–	–	25,410
style="text-align:left"\| Nanaimo \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 13,226	51.90%	4,569	17.93%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|62.83%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|8,657	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|13,226	2,933	–	294	–	204	169	25,483
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Nanaimo-Parksville \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 16,542	51.42%	4,110	12.78%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|69.56%	16,542	12,432	2,714	–	198	–	–	283	32,169
style="text-align:left"\| Nelson-Creston \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 12,896	58.80%	7,034	32.07%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|67.88%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|5,862	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|12,896	2,724	–	276	–	–	173	21,931
style="text-align:left"\| New Westminster \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 13,226	51.32%	3,581	13.89%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|63.91%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|9,645	13,226	2,416	152	293	–	–	42	25,774
style="text-align:left"\| North Coast \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 5,845	53.77%	1,660	15.27%	60.86%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|4,185	5,845	629	–	211	–	–	–	10,870
style="text-align:left"\| North Island \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 11,464	45.29%	660	2.61%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|66.38%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|10,804	11,464	1,874	699	–	–	471	–	25,312
style="text-align:left"\|North Vancouver-Lonsdale \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 9,375	44.51%	984	4.67%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.31%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|9,375	8,391	2,562	163	209	–	–	365	21,065
style="text-align:left"\| North Vancouver-Seymour \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 14,518	56.92%	6,923	27.14%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|74.88%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|14,518	7,595	3,013	–	212	–	–	169	25,507
style="text-align:left"\| Oak Bay-Gordon Head \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 13,443	47.52%	1,427	5.04%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|73.63%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|13,443	12,016	2,379	278	–	–	176	–	28,292
style="text-align:left"\| Okanagan-Vernon \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,566	43.20%	2,571	9.60%	61.10%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,566	8,995	1,867	–	260	3,095	945	48	26,776
style="text-align:left"\| Okanagan-Westside \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,148	54.39%	5,275	23.62%	60.85%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|12,148	6,873	2,262	1,051	–	–	–	–	22,334
style="text-align:left"\| Peace River North \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 5,498	59.37%	2,987	32.26%	47.36%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|5,498	2,511	638	–	–	–	613	–	9,260
style="text-align:left"\| Peace River South \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 5,810	57.74%	2,514	24.99%	56.30%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|5,810	3,296	956	–	–	–	–	–	10,062
style="text-align:left"\| Penticton-Okanagan Valley \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 13,650	50.23%	3,453	12.71%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|62.61%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|13,650	10,197	2,669	–	–	–	660	–	27,176
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 11,844	48.14%	1,092	4.44%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.29%	10,752	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|11,844	1,691	–	–	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|318	24,605
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Port Moody-Westwood \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 14,161	53.75%	4,313	16.37%	60.57%	14,161	9,848	1,670	–	–	–	227	442	26,348
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Powell River-Sunshine Coast \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 11,099	43.45%	3,397	13.30%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|72.43%	7,702	11,099	6,585	–	–	–	–	156	25,542
style="text-align:left"\| Prince George-Mount Robson \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 5,885	41.06%	891	6.22%	58.41%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|5,885	4,994	1,053	–	241	–	style="background-color:#FFFF00;"\|2,158Paul Nettleton was the incumbent Liberal MLA in Prince George-Omineca.	–	14,331
style="text-align:left"\| Prince George North \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 7,697	49.93%	2,099	13.62%	61.55%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|7,697	5,598	1,201	241	235	–	443	–	15,415
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Prince George-Omineca \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 8,622	51.71%	2,442	14.65%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.22%	8,622	6,180	1,393	479	–	–	–	–	16,674
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Richmond Centre \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 10,908	58.56%	4,857	26.08%	49.42%	10,908	6,051	1,436	–	231	–	–	–	18,626
style="text-align:left"\| Richmond East \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,652	57.48%	4,960	24.47%	53.01%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,652	6,692	1,530	–	191	–	207	–	20,272
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Richmond-Steveston \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 13,859	59.20%	6,525	27.87%	59.87%	13,859	7,334	1,934	282	–	–	–	–	23,409
style="text-align:left"\| Saanich North and the Islands \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 13,781	43.66%	1,939	6.14%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|73.09%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|13,781	11,842	4,846	1,092	–	–	–	–	31,561
style="text-align:left"\| Saanich South \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 12,809	46.08%	429	1.54%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|72.03%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|12,380	12,809	2,018	223	–	–	161	207	27,798
style="text-align:left"\| Shuswap \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,024	46.96%	2,743	11.68%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.34%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|11,024	8,281	1,394	–	356	2,330	–	92	23,477
style="text-align:left"\| Skeena \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 6,166	48.12%	359	2.80%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|62.52%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|5,807	6,166	616	–	–	–	–	224	12,813
style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-Cloverdale \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 16,429	61.64%	8,789	32.97%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|65.49%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|16,429	7,640	2,280	305	–	–	–	–	26,654
style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-Green Timbers \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,836	60.82%	5,217	29.28%	56.69%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|5,619	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|10,836	791	142	225	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|203	17,816
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-Newton \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,741	57.89%	4,268	23.00%	60.42%	6,473	10,741	876	268	–	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|195	18,553
style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-Panorama Ridge \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 11,553	53.17%	2,980	13.71%	62.00%	8,573	style="background-color:#87CEFA;"\|11,553	1,370	–	234	–	–	–	21,730
style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-Tynehead \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,052	51.37%	2,583	11.01%	59.14%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|12,052	9,469	1,095	–	243	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|603	–	23,462
style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-Whalley \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 8,903	55.00%	3,954	24.43%	54.95%	4,949	8,903	1,238	style="background-color:#EABB94;"\|607	302	–	139	50	16,188
style="text-align:left"\| Surrey-White Rock \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 16,462	57.86%	8,951	31.46%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|67.91%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|16,462	7,511	3,051	87	–	1,340	–	–	28,451
style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Burrard \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,009	42.16%	11	0.04%	51.95%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|12,009	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|11,998	3,698	82	–	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|696	28,483
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Fairview \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 13,009	46.59%	895	3.21%	60.64%	12,114	13,009	2,479	–	–	–	102	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|216	27,920
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Fraserview \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 9,895	47.80%	1,112	5.37%	57.96%	9,895	8,783	1,374	–	650	–	–	–	20,702
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Hastings \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 11,726	54.61%	4,816	22.43%	55.43%	6,910	11,726	1,928	–	188	–	130	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|589	21,471
style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Kensington \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,573	49.97%	1,624	7.67%	58.46%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|8,949	10,573	1,273	–	266	–	–	99	21,160
style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Kingsway \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 10,038	51.44%	2,144	10.99%	54.19%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|7,894	10,038	1,212	–	219	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|150	19,513
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Langara \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,181	56.55%	4,661	23.57%	53.51%	11,181	6,520	1,591	–	144	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|336	19,772
style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Mount Pleasant \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 12,974	64.24%	8,676	42.96%	49.93%	4,298	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|12,974	2,066	43	308	–	205	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|302	20,196
style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Point Grey \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 12,498	45.98%	2,250	8.28%	60.94%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|12,498	10,248	4,111	–	138	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|188	27,183
style="text-align:left"\| Vancouver-Quilchena \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 16,394	67.16%	11,263	46.14%	61.64%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|16,394	5,131	2,538	–	175	–	–	174	24,412
style="text-align:left"\| Victoria-Beacon Hill \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 16,081	57.03%	7,460	26.46%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|64.12%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|8,621	16,081	3,077	169	–	–	style="background-color:#F0E68C;"\|247	–	28,195
style="text-align:left"\| Victoria-Hillside \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 13,926	57.00%	6,884	28.18%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|62.74%	style="background-color:#DCD0FF;"\|7,042	13,926	2,934	363	–	–	–	167	24,432
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| West Kootenay-Boundary \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 13,318	60.26%	7,138	32.30%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|68.63%	6,180	13,318	1,561	–	–	802	180	59	22,100
style="text-align:left"\| West Vancouver-Capilano \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 14,665	68.27%	10,765	50.11%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|66.14%	style="background-color:#DCDCDC;"\|14,665	3,900	2,648	–	147	–	–	122	21,482
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| West Vancouver-Garibaldi \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| 11,808	50.35%	5,573	23.76%	61.57%	11,808	4,947	6,235	–	–	464	–	–	23,454
style="background-color:#B9E5B9;" \|style="text-align:left"\| Yale-Lillooet \| style="background-color:#A51B12;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| Lib \| style="background-color:#F4A460;" \|	style="text-align:left;" \| NDP \| 8,432	48.90%	1,483	8.60%	style="background-color:#F5F5DC;"\|66.97%	6,949	style="background-color:#EEBBBB;"\|8,432	1,566	183	–	–	–	112	17,242

:{{Color box|#B9E5B9|border=silver}} = Open seat

:{{Color box|#F5F5DC|border=silver}} = turnout is above provincial average

:{{Color box|#DCDCDC|border=silver}} = winning candidate was in previous Legislature

:{{Color box|#EABB94|border=silver}} = Incumbent had switched allegiance

:{{Color box|#FFFF00|border=silver}} = Previously incumbent in another riding

:{{Color box|#EEBBBB|border=silver}} = Not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature

:{{Color box|#87CEFA|border=silver}} = Incumbency arose from by-election gain

:{{Color box|#DCD0FF|border=silver}} = other incumbents renominated

:{{Color box|#FFA07A|border=silver}} = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada

:{{Color box|#F0E68C|border=silver}} = Multiple candidates

=Summary analysis=

rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" \| Party in 1st place	colspan="4"\|Party in 2nd place	rowspan="2"\|Total
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" \|+ Party candidates in 2nd place{{sfn\|Elections BC\|2005\|pp=25-36}}
Lib	NDP	Grn	Ind
{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal\|row-name}} \|	44	1	1	46
{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|row-name}} \|33				33
colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" \| Total \|33	44	1	1	79

style="text-align:left;" \| Parties	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" \|+ Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by party{{sfn\|Elections BC\|2005\|pp=25-36}}
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|colour&name}} \|33	44	2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal\|colour&name}} \|46	33
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Green\|colour&name}} \|	1	74	4
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Independent\|colour&name}} \|	1	1	7	11
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Conservative\|colour&name}} \|		2	5
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Marijuana\|colour&name}} \|			25	15
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|DRBC\|colour&name}} \|			22	6
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Libertarian\|colour&name}} \|			2	3
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Refederation\|colour&name}} \|			2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Social Credit\|colour&name}} \|			2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Freedom\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Moderate Democratic Movement\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Sex\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|YPP\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Reform\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Unity\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|WLP\|colour&name}} \|				8
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|People's Front\|colour&name}} \|				3
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Platinum\|colour&name}} \|				2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Western Canada Concept\|colour&name}} \|				2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Youth Coalition\|colour&name}} \|				2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|British Columbia\|colour&name}} \|				1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Communist\|colour&name}} \|				1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Emerged Democracy\|colour&name}} \|				1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Progressive Nationalist\|colour&name}} \|				1

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" \|+ Resulting composition of the 38th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia !colspan="2" rowspan="2"\| Source !!colspan="5"\|Party
style="background: #A51B12; color: white" align="center" \|Lib \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|background}} align="center" \|NDP !Total
rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"\|Seats retained	style="text-align:left;"\|Incumbents returned \|36	1	37
style="text-align:left;"\|Open seats held \|10	1	11
rowspan="4" style="text-align:left;"\|Seats changing hands	style="text-align:left;"\|Incumbents defeated \|	20	20
style="text-align:left;"\|Open seats gained - new MLAs \|	8	8
style="text-align:left;"\|Open seats gained - taken by candidates who had previously been MLAs \|	2	2
style="text-align:left;"\|Byelection gains held \|	1	1
colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"\|Total \|46	33	79

Results by region

colspan=3\|Total seats: ! align="right"\|10 ! align="right"\|8 ! align="right"\|5 ! align="right"\|12 ! align="right"\|13 ! align="right"\|8 ! align="right"\|15 ! align="right"\|8 ! align="right"\|79
class="wikitable" ! align="center" colspan="3"\|Party name ! align="center"\|Van. ! align="center"\|Van. East Sub. ! align="center"\|North Shore/ Sun. C. ! align="center"\|Rich./ Delta/ Surrey ! align="center"\|Van. Island ! align="center"\|Fraser Valley ! align="center"\|Interior ! align="center"\|North ! align="center"\|Total {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal\|row}} \| rowspan="2"\|BC Liberal \| Seats: \| align="right"\|5 \| align="right"\|4 \| align="right"\|4 \| align="right"\|7 \| align="right"\|4 \| align="right"\|7 \| align="right"\|9 \| align="right"\|6 \| align="right"\|46 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal\|row}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|44.3% \| align="right"\|44.9% \| align="right"\|49.6% \| align="right"\|48.2% \| align="right"\|40.7% \| align="right"\|53.2% \| align="right"\|44.9% \| align="right"\|48.8% \| align="right"\|45.8% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|row}} \| rowspan="2"\|New Democrats \| Seats: \| align="right"\|5 \| align="right"\|4 \| align="right"\|1 \| align="right"\|5 \| align="right"\|9 \| align="right"\|1 \| align="right"\|6 \| align="right"\|2 \| align="right"\|33 {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|row}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|43.7% \| align="right"\|45.3% \| align="right"\|30.7% \| align="right"\|39.6% \| align="right"\|47.1% \| align="right"\|35.2% \| align="right"\|41.5% \| align="right"\|38.7% \| align="right"\|41.5%
colspan=17\|Parties that won no seats:
{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Green\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|9.6% \| align="right"\|7.7% \| align="right"\|18.0% \| align="right"\|7.1% \| align="right"\|9.6% \| align="right"\|8.9% \| align="right"\|8.6% \| align="right"\|7.1% \| align="right"\|9.2% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|DRBC\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"\|0.8% \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"\|0.6% \| align="right"\|1.4% \| align="right"\|0.7% \| align="right"\|0.9% \| align="right"\|1.0% \| align="right"\|0.8% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Marijuana\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.9% \| align="right"\|0.5% \| align="right"\|0.5% \| align="right"\|0.7% \| align="right"\|0.3% \| align="right"\|1.1% \| align="right"\|0.7% \| align="right"\|0.9% \| align="right"\|0.7% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Conservative\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.4% \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|2.4% \| align="right"
align="right"\|0.6% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|WLP\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.4% \| align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"\|xx \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Libertarian\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.3% \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Platinum\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Refederation\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Social Credit\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|YPP\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Western Canada Concept\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|People's Front\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"\|xx \| align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Youth Coalition\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Moderates\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Reform\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.3% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|British Columbia\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Sex\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Bloc\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Freedom\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Communist\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|xx \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Unity\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Emerged Democracy\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|0.1% \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Patriot\|row-name}} \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"
align="right"\|xx \| align="right"
align="right"\|xx {{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Independent\|row}} \|Independents/ No Affiliation \| Popular Vote: \| align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"\|0.3% \| align="right"
align="right"\|3.5% \| align="right"\|0.5% \| align="right"\|0.2% \| align="right"\|0.7% \| align="right"\|3.1% \| align="right"\|1.0%

xx Denotes party received less than 0.1%

Timeline

=Pre-campaign period=

August 30, 2001 - Bill 7, Constitution Amendment Act is passed, fixing the date of the election at May 17, 2005.
November 13, 2002 - Liberal MLA Paul Nettleton accuses the government of a secret plan to privatize BC Rail as well the BC Hydro electric utility. He is removed from caucus several days later and sits as an Independent Liberal until the 2005 election, when he unsuccessfully ran in Prince George-Mount Robson against Shirley Bond. BC Rail was subsequently sold to CN in what other bidders have described as a corrupted process, and BC Hydro's administrative arm was sold to Accenture.
January 9, 2003 - Premier Gordon Campbell is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on Maui. Because drunk driving is not a criminal offence in the state of Hawaii, but only a misdemeanour, Campbell did not resign his seat as he would have had to in Canada, and due to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) he attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a series of speaking engagements condemning drinking and driving.
November 23, 2003 - Carole James is elected as leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.
December 28, 2003 - the RCMP execute search warrants on various locations in the Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria, including offices in the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, in relation to suspicious dealings in relation to the bidding process for the sale of BC Rail (see BC Legislature Raids).
March 22, 2004 - Liberal MLA Elayne Brenzinger quits the caucus citing a "secret agenda" being undertaken by Premier Campbell in relation to the sale of BC Rail.[http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/2007/12/elaine-what-did-you-know.html Hansard, October 6, 2004, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog]
September 17, 2004 - Deputy Premier Christy Clark, whose house had been searched under warrant by the RCMP in connection with the BC Legislature Raids investigation, quits politics saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.
October 22, 2004 - New Democrat Jagrup Brar wins a by-election in Surrey-Panorama Ridge with 53.6% of the vote, a swing of 33.7% to the NDP from the 2001 result. One of Brar's competitors was Green leader Adriane Carr who captured 8.4% of the vote.
December 14, 2004 - In the wake of revelations he had been under surveillance by the RCMP in connection with dealings concerning the sale of BC Rail, Liberal Finance Minister Gary Farrell-Collins abruptly resigns from cabinet and the legislature despite having been named co-chair of the Liberal re-election campaign a month earlier. The move requires Premier Campbell to undertake a minor cabinet shuffle.
January 15, 2005 - The Democratic Reform British Columbia party is created out of a merger of the British Columbia Democratic Coalition and the All Nations Party of British Columbia. The party also boasts the support of key elements of the Reform Party of British Columbia. Prior to the official creation of this party, the Democratic Coalition and Reform BC jointly nominated a candidate for the Surrey-Panorama Ridge by-election.
January 19, 2005 - Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger joins DRBC, adding a third party to the Legislative Assembly for the first time since Gordon Wilson folded his Progressive Democratic Alliance party and joined the NDP.
January 31, 2005 - Liberal MLA and then-cabinet minister Sandy Santori resigns from his seat in the Legislature in a dispute over the deletion of emails by Premier Gordon Campbell's Deputy Minister to the Premier, Ken Dobell.[http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/2009/06/delete-button-wipes-out-transparency-in.html#links "Delete button wipes out 'transparency' in government: Called for 'thorough, complete, diligent investigation'", Michael Smyth, The Province June 25, 2009, quoted in the BC Legislature Raids blog]
February 15, 2005 - New Liberal Finance Minister Colin Hansen introduces what is widely viewed as an "election budget" which promised $1.3 billion in new spending, tax cuts and an economic surplus.
March 11, 2005 - Attorney-General Geoff Plant announces that he will not seek re-election.
March 15, 2005 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board chair Carole Taylor announces that she will run for the Liberals in the riding of Vancouver-Langara. Premier Gordon Campbell endorses Taylor's candidacy.
March 29, 2005 - The consortium of television stations organizing the leaders' debate announces that the leaders of the Liberal, New Democratic, and Green parties will be invited to participate in the debate.
April 13, 2005 - The NDP and Green Party release their platforms in Victoria.

=Campaign period=

April 19, 2005 - The writ of election is issued (not "dropped" as in past elections), dissolving the Legislature and beginning the official campaign period.
April 20, 2005 - The NDP becomes the first party to complete a province-wide nomination slate.
April 22, 2005 - NDP candidate Rollie Keith withdraws his candidacy in Chilliwack-Kent after telling the Vancouver Province that he was "impressed" when he met Slobodan Milošević and that he did not believe there had been war crimes committed in Kosovo.
May 3, 2005 - The leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties meet in a televised debate. Commentators indicate the debate was either a draw or a win for Green leader Adriane Carr. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted online following the debate showed that 33% of debate views thought the debate produced no clear winner, 31% felt NDP leader Carole James won, 23% felt Liberal leader Gordon Campbell won while only 12% saw Carr as the winner.
May 17, 2005 - CBC projects a BC Liberal majority government at 9:05 p.m. local time.
June 22, 2005 - Tim Stevenson, who lost to Lorne Mayencourt by 11 votes, asks the Supreme Court of British Columbia to order a new election in Vancouver-Burrard due to 70 ballots that could not be counted because they had not been initialed by election officials.

Opinion polls

=Voter intention polling=

File:Intentions de vote en Colombie-Britannique (2001-2005).svg]]

class="wikitable sortable mw-datatable" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%;line-height:14px" \|+ Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level
rowspan="2" \| Polling firm ! rowspan="2" \|Last day of survey ! rowspan="2" \| Source ! style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"\|Liberal ! style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"\|NDP !style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"\| Green !style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"\| Unity ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"\| Other ! rowspan="2" \| {{Abbr\|ME\|Margin of Error}} ! rowspan="2" \| Sample
style="line-height:5px;" !style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal}}" class="unsortable"\| !style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP}}" class="unsortable"\| !style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Green}}" class="unsortable"\| !style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Unity}}" class="unsortable"\| ! style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|CA\|Indépendant}};" data-sort-type="number"\|
style="background:#ffd" \|Voting results \| \| \|45.80 \|41.52 \|9.18 \|0.01 \|3.49 \| \|
Strategic \|11 May 2005 \| [http://www.vancouvertelevision.com/topnews.jsp?id=/news/stories/2005/05/news-20050512-01.htm HTML] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|49 \|36 \|13 \|{{N/A}} \|2 \|{{N/A}} \|{{N/A}}
Ipsos \|10 May 2005 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-election-day-nears-part-i-horserace-and-leadership 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2005-05/mr050513-1tb.pdf 2] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|47 \|39 \|11 \|{{N/A}} \|3 \|± 3.5 \|1,050
Mustel \|9 May 2005 \| [https://web.archive.org/web/20050525005706/http://www.mustelgroup.com/pr/20050510.htm HTML] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|45 \|40 \|12 \|{{N/A}} \|3 \|{{N/A}} \|{{N/A}}
Robbins SCE \|5 May 2005 \| [http://www.robbinssceresearch.com/polls/poll_171.html HTML] \| 39 \| style="background:#fce4cf"\|40 \| 13 \|{{N/A}} \| 8 \|{{N/A}} \|{{N/A}}
colspan=10 align="center" style="background-color:#CECECE;" \|The writ of election is issued (19 April 2005)
Ipsos \|26 April 2005 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-election-2005-part-ii-horserace-and-leadership 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2005-04/mr050429-2tb.pdf 2] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|46 \|39 \|13 \|{{N/A}} \|2 \|± 3.5 \|1,050
Nordic \|6 April 2005 \| {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050513071307/http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6881 HTML]}} \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|43 \| 34 \| 14 \|{{N/A}} \| 8 \|{{N/A}} \|{{N/A}}
Ipsos \|14 March 2005 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-liberals-break-deadlock 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2005-03/mr050317-2tb.pdf 2] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|46 \|39 \|12 \|{{N/A}} \|4 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|30 November 2004 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-provincial-politics-part-i 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-12/mr041209-2tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|44 \|41 \|12 \|0 \|3 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|15 September 2004 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/opportunity-passing-bc-ndp 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-09/mr040922-3tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|40 \|38 \|16 \|3 \|3 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|7 July 2004 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/dead-heat-british-columbia 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-07/mr040708-1tb.pdf 2] \| 37 \| style="background:#fce4cf"\|38 \| 18 \| 4 \| 3 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|7 March 2004 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/ndp-surges-ahead-bc-liberals 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-03/mr040317-1tb.pdf 2] \| 39 \| style="background:#fce4cf"\|42 \| 12 \| 5 \| 1 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|8 December 2003 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/ndp-closing-gap-british-columbia 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-12/mr031217-1tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|41 \|37 \|14 \|5 \|4 \|± 3.5 \|800
colspan=10 align="center" style="background-color:#CECECE;" \|Carole James is elected as NDP leader (23 November 2003)
Ipsos \|9 September 2003 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/same-old-same-old-bc-politics 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-09/mr030919-1tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|45 \|31 \|17 \|4 \|4 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|12 May 2003 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-liberals-mid-term-assessment 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-05/mr030529-3tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|44 \|28 \|18 \|5 \|5 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|10 March 2003 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-provincial-political-scene-0 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-03/mr030319-2tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|44 \|30 \|19 \|3 \|3 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|13 January 2003 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/premier-campbell-lives-another-day 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-01/mr030114-1tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|41 \|34 \|18 \|3 \|4 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|9 December 2002 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-4 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2002-12/mr021219-1tb.pdf PDF] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|44 \|31 \|17 \|5 \|3 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|11 September 2002 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-provincial-political-scene HTML] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|43 \|28 \|19 \|5 \|5 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|11 June 2002 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-june-2002 HTML] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|48 \|25 \|18 \|5 \|5 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|8 May 2002 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-public-still-backs-liberals-many-questioning-their-choice 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2002-05/mr020516-4tb.pdf 2] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|45 \|27 \|20 \|4 \|4 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|11 March 2002 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-liberals-weathering-storm 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2002-03/mr020321-1tb.pdf 2] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|48 \|28 \|16 \|3 \|5 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|10 December 2001 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-3 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2001-12/mr011218-1tb.pdf 2] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|50 \|21 \|17 \|8 \|3 \|± 3.5 \|800
Ipsos \|21 September 2001 \| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-2 HTML] \| style="background:#e4bab7"\|62 \|15 \|14 \|3 \|5 \|{{N/A}} \|{{N/A}}
colspan=10 align="center" style="background-color:#CECECE;" \|Joy MacPhail is appointed as NDP interim leader (16 June 2001)
style="background:#ffd" \|Election 2001 \| \| \|57.62 \|21.56 \|12.39 \|3.23 \|5.20 \| \|

class="wikitable sortable mw-datatable" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%;line-height:14px"

|+ Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level

rowspan="2" | Polling firm

! rowspan="2" |Last day
of survey

! rowspan="2" | Source

! style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"|Liberal

! style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"|NDP

!style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"| Green

!style="width:40px;" class="unsortable"| Unity

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| Other

! rowspan="2" | {{Abbr|ME|Margin of Error}}

! rowspan="2" | Sample

style="line-height:5px;"

!style="background:{{Canadian party colour|BC|Liberal}}" class="unsortable"|

!style="background:{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP}}" class="unsortable"|

!style="background:{{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}" class="unsortable"|

!style="background:{{Canadian party colour|BC|Unity}}" class="unsortable"|

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Indépendant}};" data-sort-type="number"|

style="background:#ffd"

|Voting results

|45.80

|41.52

|9.18

|0.01

|3.49

Strategic

|11 May 2005

| [http://www.vancouvertelevision.com/topnews.jsp?id=/news/stories/2005/05/news-20050512-01.htm HTML]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|49

|36

|13

|{{N/A}}

Ipsos

|10 May 2005

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-election-day-nears-part-i-horserace-and-leadership 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2005-05/mr050513-1tb.pdf 2]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|47

|39

|11

|{{N/A}}

|± 3.5

|1,050

Mustel

|9 May 2005

| [https://web.archive.org/web/20050525005706/http://www.mustelgroup.com/pr/20050510.htm HTML]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|45

|40

|12

|{{N/A}}

Robbins SCE

|5 May 2005

| [http://www.robbinssceresearch.com/polls/poll_171.html HTML]

| 39

| style="background:#fce4cf"|40

| 13

|{{N/A}}

| 8

|{{N/A}}

colspan=10 align="center" style="background-color:#CECECE;" |The writ of election is issued (19 April 2005)

Ipsos

|26 April 2005

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-election-2005-part-ii-horserace-and-leadership 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2005-04/mr050429-2tb.pdf 2]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|46

|39

|13

|{{N/A}}

|± 3.5

|1,050

Nordic

|6 April 2005

| {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050513071307/http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6881 HTML]}}

| style="background:#e4bab7"|43

| 34

| 14

|{{N/A}}

| 8

|{{N/A}}

Ipsos

|14 March 2005

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-liberals-break-deadlock 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2005-03/mr050317-2tb.pdf 2]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|46

|39

|12

|{{N/A}}

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|30 November 2004

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-provincial-politics-part-i 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-12/mr041209-2tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|44

|41

|12

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|15 September 2004

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/opportunity-passing-bc-ndp 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-09/mr040922-3tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|40

|38

|16

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|7 July 2004

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/dead-heat-british-columbia 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-07/mr040708-1tb.pdf 2]

| 37

| style="background:#fce4cf"|38

| 18

| 4

| 3

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|7 March 2004

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/ndp-surges-ahead-bc-liberals 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2004-03/mr040317-1tb.pdf 2]

| 39

| style="background:#fce4cf"|42

| 12

| 5

| 1

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|8 December 2003

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/ndp-closing-gap-british-columbia 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-12/mr031217-1tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|41

|37

|14

|± 3.5

|800

colspan=10 align="center" style="background-color:#CECECE;" |Carole James is elected as NDP leader (23 November 2003)

Ipsos

|9 September 2003

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/same-old-same-old-bc-politics 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-09/mr030919-1tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|45

|31

|17

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|12 May 2003

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-liberals-mid-term-assessment 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-05/mr030529-3tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|44

|28

|18

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|10 March 2003

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-provincial-political-scene-0 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-03/mr030319-2tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|44

|30

|19

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|13 January 2003

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/premier-campbell-lives-another-day 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2003-01/mr030114-1tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|41

|34

|18

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|9 December 2002

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-4 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2002-12/mr021219-1tb.pdf PDF]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|44

|31

|17

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|11 September 2002

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-provincial-political-scene HTML]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|43

|28

|19

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|11 June 2002

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-june-2002 HTML]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|48

|25

|18

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|8 May 2002

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-public-still-backs-liberals-many-questioning-their-choice 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2002-05/mr020516-4tb.pdf 2]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|45

|27

|20

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|11 March 2002

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-liberals-weathering-storm 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2002-03/mr020321-1tb.pdf 2]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|48

|28

|16

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|10 December 2001

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-3 1]{{,}}[https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/publication/2001-12/mr011218-1tb.pdf 2]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|50

|21

|17

|± 3.5

|800

Ipsos

|21 September 2001

| [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/bc-political-scene-2 HTML]

| style="background:#e4bab7"|62

|15

|14

|{{N/A}}

colspan=10 align="center" style="background-color:#CECECE;" |Joy MacPhail is appointed as NDP interim leader (16 June 2001)

style="background:#ffd"

|Election 2001

|57.62

|21.56

|12.39

|3.23

|5.20

Besides the usual public polling by market research firms, other organizations have been attempting to predict the results of the upcoming election using alternate methods. Results suggest that all three projections below underestimated NDP seats and overestimated Liberal seats:

UBC's Election Stock Market tracks the prices of contracts whose value depend on election results: [http://esm.ubc.ca/BC05/]

Popular vote: Lib 44.5%, NDP 35.9%, Green 13.9%, Other 5.3%

Seats: Lib 48.6 (61.5), NDP 29.4 (37.2), Other 1.6 (2.0)
(values in parentheses are values of actual contracts, in cents)

The [http://www.electionprediction.org/2005_bc/ Election Prediction Project] aggregates submissions from the Internet and subjectively predicts winners based on the submissions (see [http://www.electionprediction.org/method.html methodology]):

Seats: Lib 50, NDP 29, Other 0

Will McMartin at the progressive online newspaper [https://thetyee.ca/ The Tyee] makes [https://thetyee.ca/Election/Battleground/ his predictions] by looking at "historic election results and selected demographics, as well as public opinion polls, regional sources and input from Election Central readers" (see [https://thetyee.ca/Election/Battleground/2005/03/27/Battle1/ details]):

Seats: Lib 51, NDP 28, Other 0.

Bcvote2005-epp.png|BC battleground map based on the predictions aggregated by the [http://www.electionprediction.org/2005_bc/index.html Election Prediction Project].

Bcbattleground.PNG|BC battleground map based on the predictions by Will McMartin on [https://web.archive.org/web/20050507134547/http://www.thetyee.ca/Election/Battleground/ The Tyee].

Political parties

British Columbia has Canada's least restrictive elections laws with regard to political party registration, and consequently there are currently nearly 50 parties registered with Elections BC, by far the most of any jurisdiction in the country. Twenty-five parties contested the 2005 election, also a considerably greater number than anywhere else in Canada.

{{See also|List of political parties in Canada#British Columbia}}

=British Columbia Liberal Party=

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Liberal|background}}|

Leader: Gordon Campbell

The BC Liberals won 77 of 79 seats in the 2001 election. At dissolution, the party held 72 seats. One member elected as a Liberal left the party to sit as a member of Democratic Reform British Columbia; one member elected as a Liberal left to sit as an independent; the party lost one by-election to the opposition New Democratic Party; and two former Liberal seats were vacant when the election was called. In 2005 election, the Liberal party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature, yet still won the election.

=New Democratic Party of British Columbia=

{{Canadian party colour|BC|NDP|background}}|

Leader: Carole James

The NDP's legislative caucus was reduced from a majority to just two seats in the 2001 election. It won another seat in an October 2004 by-election to bring the total to three. Carole James led the NDP to 33 seats to become the Leader of the Opposition.

=Green Party of British Columbia=

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Green|background}}|

Leader: Adriane Carr

The Green Party ran 72 candidates in 2001, winning 12 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Some argued that the Green Party support peaked in 2001, drawing on dissatisfied NDP voters, and they would remain incapable of winning a seat in 2005 under the First-Past-the-Post system; others believed that if there had been four or more competitive parties in this election, the Greens might elect a handful of members. Alternatively, if they had received more votes, they would have been more likely to win a seat. The Greens may benefit if a later election is conducted using the proposed BC-STV system. In 2005, the Greens received 9% of the popular vote and no seats.

=Democratic Reform British Columbia=

{{Canadian party colour|BC|DRBC|background}}|

Leader: Tom Morino

Democratic Reform British Columbia is a new party created in early 2005 by the merger of the British Columbia Democratic Coalition—a coalition of minor centrist parties— with the All Nations Party of British Columbia and key elements of the Reform BC. Independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger, a former Liberal, became DRBC's first MLA on January 19, 2005. Controversially, no invitation was extended for Morino to participate in the leader's debate.

=British Columbia Marijuana Party=

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Marijuana|background}}|

Leader: Marc Emery

The BC Marijuana Party nominated 43 candidates in this election. It was the only party other than the Liberals and NDP to run candidates in all 79 districts in 2001. The party chose not to run in certain districts and instead endorse New Democrat and Green candidates who publicly favour the legalization of marijuana. Party founder Marc Emery ran against Solicitor General Rich Coleman, an anti-drug hardliner, in staunchly conservative Fort Langley-Aldergrove. He gained controversy early in the campaign for claiming that the government spends too much money on senior citizens.

=Minor parties=

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Work Less Party of British Columbia

Leader: Conrad Schmidt

The WLP is an anti-materialist political movement that hopes to achieve socialist and green ends through, among other things, the promotion of a four-day work-week. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of voluntary simplicity. It nominated 11 candidates, all in urban ridings.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Platinum|background}}|

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Platinum Party of Employers Who Think and Act to Increase Awareness

Leader: Jeff Evans

Nominated eleven candidates.

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British Columbia Conservative Party

Leader: Barry Chilton

Nominated seven candidates.

Former provincial affiliate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Libertarian|background}}|

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British Columbia Libertarian Party

No registered leader

Nominated six candidates.

Provincial affiliate of the Libertarian Party of Canada

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People's Front

Leader: Charles Boylan

Nominated five candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Refederation|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

Western Refederation Party of British Columbia

No registered leader

A new autonomist/separatist party that nominated four candidates around the province.

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Communist Party of British Columbia

Leader: George Gidora

Nominated three candidates. Provincial affiliate of the Communist Party of Canada.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Sex|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

Sex Party

Leader: John Ince

Nominated three candidates in the City of Vancouver. Billed itself as "the world's first sex-positive party."

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Bloc|background}}|

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Bloc British Columbia Party

Leader: Paddy Roberts

Libertarian separatist movement. Nominated three candidates in the Interior.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Social Credit|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

British Columbia Social Credit Party

No registered leader

Although Social Credit governed British Columbia for most of the period from 1952 to 1991, the party is now a minor party, with little organization or support. It nominated the minimum two candidates in order to retain party status this election.

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Freedom|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

Freedom Party of British Columbia

Leader: Kenneth Montgomery Keillor

Nominated two candidates.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Patriot|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

British Columbia Patriot Party

Leader: Andrew Hokhold

Nominated two candidates.

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Western Canada Concept|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia

Leader: Doug Christie

Although the WCC did not run in the 2001 election, it has been a constant, if minor, force in the BC political fringes for decades. Christie, its controversial leader, and a second candidate were nominated by the party in Greater Victoria.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|British Columbia|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

British Columbia Party

Leader: Grant Mitton

The BC Party is also a relatively old minor party, one of several populist conservative organizations that attempted to fill the vacuum after the collapse of Social Credit in the mid-nineties. This was the first election in which it nominated candidates. It nominated two candidates. A third possible candidate, Summer Davis in Surrey-Tynehead, ran as an independent.

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Moderate|background}}|

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British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement

No registered leader

The majority of the Moderates, including leader Matthew Laird, joined DRBC. The party's registration did not lapsed, however. The two candidates running under its banner opposed the merger.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Youth|background}}|

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British Columbia Youth Coalition

No registered leader.

Nominated two candidates.

{{Canadian party colour|BC|Unity|background}}|

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British Columbia Unity Party

Interim Leader: Daniel Stelmacker

BC Unity finished fourth in 2001, winning slightly over 3% of the vote with a slate of 56 candidates. It stood poised to potentially benefit from right-of-centre voters disenchanted with Campbell, but instead fell victim to serious internal division following a failed merger with the BC Conservative Party, which led to Chris Delaney's resignation as party leader. It appointed Daniel Stelmacker as its interim leader until it can hold a full leadership convention in the autumn of 2005. Stelmacker was its only nominated candidate, in Skeena riding.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Reform|background}}|

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Reform Party of British Columbia

No registered leader

Aborted mergers with BC Unity and DRBC drained supporters left and right from BC Reform, leaving only a tiny core of what was briefly BC's third party. Party founder Ron Gamble was the party's sole candidate in North Vancouver-Lonsdale.

{{Canadian party colour|BC|YPP|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

Your Political Party of British Columbia

Leader: James Filippelli

YPP appears to be a one-man political movement; its website made mention of no figures other than Filippelli, the party's founder and leader, who was its sole candidate in this election. He ran in Port Moody-Westwood.

|{{Canadian party colour|BC|Emerged Democracy|background}}|

|width=50% valign="top"|

Emerged Democracy Party of British Columbia

Leader: Tony Luck

Nominated one candidate, Rob Nordberg, in Surrey-Green Timbers.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/19971222155524/http://elections.bc.ca/ Elections BC]
[http://www.cbc.ca/bcvotes2005/ CBC - BC Votes 2005]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050421002013/http://www.canada.com/vancouver/bcvotes/index.html canada.com/The Vancouver Sun - BC Election 2005]
[https://thetyee.ca/Election/Battleground/ The Tyee Election Central: Battleground BC]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090706050758/http://www.electionalmanac.com/canada/britishcolumbia/ Election Almanac - British Columbia Provincial Election]
[http://bc.demochoice.org Simulation of 2005 Election with STV Ridings]
[http://www.electionprediction.org/2005_bc/index.html electionprediction.org - BC 2005]
[http://esm.ubc.ca/BC05/ UBC Election Stock Market B.C. 2005]
[http://esm.ubc.ca/BC05/forecast.php Prof. Antweiler's "Voter Migration Matrix" Election Forecasting Tool]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20010429065400/http://142.36.252.26/bcimg/ 2001 Election Candidate Financial Disclosures]

2005

Category:2005 elections in Canada

General election

Category:May 2005 in Canada

style="text-align:left;" \| Parties	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" \|+ Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by party{{sfn\|Elections BC\|2005\|pp=25-36}}
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|colour&name}} \|33	44	2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Liberal\|colour&name}} \|46	33
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Green\|colour&name}} \|	1	74	4
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Independent\|colour&name}} \|	1	1	7	11
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Conservative\|colour&name}} \|		2	5
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Marijuana\|colour&name}} \|			25	15
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|DRBC\|colour&name}} \|			22	6
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Libertarian\|colour&name}} \|			2	3
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Refederation\|colour&name}} \|			2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Social Credit\|colour&name}} \|			2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Freedom\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Moderate Democratic Movement\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Sex\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|YPP\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Reform\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Unity\|colour&name}} \|			1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|WLP\|colour&name}} \|				8
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|People's Front\|colour&name}} \|				3
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Platinum\|colour&name}} \|				2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Western Canada Concept\|colour&name}} \|				2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Youth Coalition\|colour&name}} \|				2
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|British Columbia\|colour&name}} \|				1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Communist\|colour&name}} \|				1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Emerged Democracy\|colour&name}} \|				1
style="text-align:left;" \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|Progressive Nationalist\|colour&name}} \|				1

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" \|+ Resulting composition of the 38th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia !colspan="2" rowspan="2"\| Source !!colspan="5"\|Party
style="background: #A51B12; color: white" align="center" \|Lib \|{{Canadian party colour\|BC\|NDP\|background}} align="center" \|NDP !Total
rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"\|Seats retained	style="text-align:left;"\|Incumbents returned \|36	1	37
style="text-align:left;"\|Open seats held \|10	1	11
rowspan="4" style="text-align:left;"\|Seats changing hands	style="text-align:left;"\|Incumbents defeated \|	20	20
style="text-align:left;"\|Open seats gained - new MLAs \|	8	8
style="text-align:left;"\|Open seats gained - taken by candidates who had previously been MLAs \|	2	2
style="text-align:left;"\|Byelection gains held \|	1	1
colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"\|Total \|46	33	79

2005 British Columbia general election

Electoral reform referendum

Results

MLAs elected

=Synopsis of results=

=Summary analysis=

Results by region

Timeline

=Pre-campaign period=

=Campaign period=

Opinion polls

=Voter intention polling=

Political parties

=British Columbia Liberal Party=

=New Democratic Party of British Columbia=

=Green Party of British Columbia=

=Democratic Reform British Columbia=

=British Columbia Marijuana Party=

=Minor parties=

References

Further reading

External links