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In today’s News, a look at part five of amalgamation in Greater Victoria Part 5 of 5, Page A3
NEWS: Studio tour highlights art styles /A2 ARTS: Jamming at Ukelele Week /A16 SPORTS: Barbs third at sevens championship /A22
OAK BAYNEWS Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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Election battleground: Oak BayGordon Head Edward Hill News staff
The leafy neighbourhoods of Oak Bay-Gordon Head are poised to be a key provincial election battleground for Greater Victoria, featuring a potential three-way race between NDP-Liberal rivals from 2009 and a high-profile B.C. Green party newcomer. In a region dominated by the B.C. NDP, last election veteran B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong held on to her seat by 561 votes, slightly more than two per cent, against NDP hopeful Jessica Van der Veen. The four-term MLA faces Van der Veen again, and Green candidate Andrew Weaver, a headlinemaking climate scientist from the University of Victoria. Neighbourhood voting polls from 2005 and 2009 indicate the Liberals and Chong retained support in areas like Ten Mile Point, Uplands, Cadboro Bay and McNeill Bay. NDP support remained strong in Gordon Head and Mount Tolmie, and made inroads into neighbourhoods of Oak Bay. The Greens remained minor players. Whether Weaver and the Greens become a factor in this riding is the question, and if they are, where will they draw votes from? UVic political science professor Jamie Lawson said that dynamic is a hard puzzle in an electoral area that is largely white collar, holds some of the wealthiest postal codes in the city and has large population of seniors. Weaver could play the spoiler for the NDP and split the vote to re-elect Chong for a fifth term – the race could be a “war between the non-Liberal parties and the centre-left,” Lawson said.
Takedown Oak Bay High player Marie-Anne Dussault Gomez tackles Stelly’s secondary’s Madison Paquette during high school girls rugby action at the Oak Bay High school field Friday afternoon.
PLEASE SEE: Chong expects tight election race, Page A7
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