VANCOUVER – “We will not let you down,” said B.C. Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell to his supporters at his campaign headquarters before heading to a downtown Vancouver hotel for a victory party.
As predicted the B.C. Liberals roared to a landslide election victory yesterday winning 76 seats as voters embraced a promise of change and threw out NDP government. A week before election the NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh conceded defeat.
In a stunning defeat in the one of the strongest NDP ridings in Canada, Mr. Wong of the Liberals beat NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh in Vancouver-Kensington.
It is the biggest margin of victory since Frank McKenna’s Liberals won all 58 seats in the 1987 New Brunswick election.
The Liberals went into the election with a 50-point lead in public opinion polls and ran a nearly flawless campaign.
Campbell easily held his Vancouver-Point Grey seat and promised a new era of government marked by tax cuts and economic revival.
The surging Green party was virtually neck and neck, with the NDP (3 seats) and polled about 11 per cent support but didn’t win a single seat in the legislature.
