B.C. New Democrats score two byelection wins in Metro Vancouver ridings
VANCOUVER — Two newly elected New Democrats say they’ll advocate for children, education and affordable housing when they take their seats in British Columbia’s legislature.
Electors in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain voted on Tuesday to send New Democrats Melanie Mark and Jodie Wickens to Victoria.
Mark won easily in her Vancouver riding, securing almost 61 per cent of the vote and beating second-place candidate Pete Fry of the B.C. Green Party by more than 3,000 votes.
B.C. Liberal Gavin Dew placed a distant third, earning just 994 votes.