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Absentee vote count upholds Fassbender election victory Frank Bucholtz
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“There was consensus building with council and on staff to develop a Downtown Master Plan, and we Langley City Mayor Peter Fass- worked with council to get the bender is the MLA for Surrey-Fleet- Gateway of Hope (homeless shelter) in place. It was satisfying to be part wood. A count of about 2,000 absen- of the solution on those issues,” he tee ballots began Monday and was said. Fassbender said he is looking concluded Tuesday. Scrutineers have reported that Fassbender won forward to working on many of the the seat by about 200 votes, and same issues he tackled as mayor Elections BC will make it official from a provincial perspective, including policing, health care and Wednesday. On Tuesday night, the Fassbender transportation. He intends to submit his resigcampaign’s Twitter account nation as mayor in early July and @Fassbender4MLA said expects there will be a byelection in Fassbender’s final vote count put September. him 200 votes ahead of Brar. That Fassbender said he expects the has not been premier to name a new cabinet confirmed by sometime in early June. Elections BC. The vote counts in the other seven Fassbender Surrey ridings have been completed. was ahead of his In Surrey-Tynehead, Liberal canNDP opponent didate and former Langley RCMP Jagrup Brar by Insp. Amrik Virk was declared the 265 votes on winner. His final count was 9,172 election night, votes, to 7,539 for Avtar Bains of the but in the NDP, 2,040 for Barry Sikora of the results released BC Conservatives and 298 for Sukhi Tuesday, his lead Peter Gill of the B.C. Vision Party. had slipped by Fassbender The vote count is complete in one 99 votes to 166. of the two Langley ridings. Mary Vote totals released at that time, partway Polak won the Langley seat with through the count, were 8.727 for 14,039 votes. Andrew Mercier of the Fassbender, who represented the BC NDP received 7,403; John Cummins Liberals, and 8,561 for Brar, a three- of the BC Conservatives had 3,242 term MLA who was first elected in and Wally Martin of the Green Party Surrey-Panorama in a 2004 byelec- received 2,608 votes. The absentee ballots added tion. That represents an increase of 526 votes for Fassbender and 625 another 2,830 to the total votes cast. for Brar, from the election night Participation in the Langley riding was up by 3,809 voters from the totals. Fassbender told The Times on 2009 election turnout. Miranda GATHERCOLE/Langley Times Counting continues in the Fort Wednesday morning that he is Yousif Younan,5, pours a bucket of salmon fry into Latimer Creek at Maples Langley-Aldergrove riding, but there price of any competitor for an identical product. excited to win the seat, but the win Walmart® will match the advertised purchase Discovery Gardens Co-op, across from the Langley Events Centre on May 25. The is “bittersweet” as it marks an end will be no change in the outcome, as is only available with proof of the published in-store retail price for the identical product in an community gardens held a public fish release to help restore the creek. In attenLiberal Rich Coleman was farcurrent ahead to his time as Langley City mayor.Ad Match by a retailer combination promotions (e.g., gift from six Willoughby elementary schools that are dencesales, were students and parents on election night.in the local area. Not applicable to clearance He was first elected as mayor in advertisement with purchase), double or triple coupons, after-sale rebate offers, preferredpart customer discounts or random discounts taking in the Nature’s Classroom program at the Maples Discovery Gardens. 2005, after serving one term as a (e.g., scratch and save events) offered by other retailers, or to competitor misprints, or withdrawn or corrected councillor. advertisements. Applicable only to products currently in-stock at this store location. We reserve the right to limit
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