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Flooding wreaks havoc on B.C. Election Day BRENT RICHTER
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Oct. 19 was a historic day on the North Shore – in politics and weather. Voters elected their first-ever BC Green Party MLA, along with a new Conservative and returned two NDP incumbents, all while near-record amounts of rainfall pelted the North Shore. Jeremy Valeriote of the BC Greens topped the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky polls with 38.15 per cent of the vote. In West Vancouver-Capilano, BC Conservative Lynne Block won a seat in the Legislature for the resurgent rightwing party, while voters in North Vancouver-Lonsdale and North Vancouver-Seymour re-elected incumbents Bowinn Ma and Susie Chant by comfortable margins – 64.6 per cent and 52.6 per cent respectively. With nearly all the votes counted Saturday night, the NDP finished with 46 seats – one short of a majority government. The Conservatives finished with 45 and the Green Party, two. If those results hold and no ridings flip via official recounts this week, Valeriote is likely to hold a disproportionate amount of influence in the new legislature, said Sanjay Jeram, senior lecturer in political science at SFU. “I think it’s pretty straightforward, especially as we have 2017 in the bag,” he said, referencing the minority Continued on A36
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A Deep Cove resident looks over the extensive damage to properties on the 2700 block of Panorama Drive on Monday following a weekend of massive rainfall. See Page 4 for details on flooding on the North Shore. NICK LABA / NSN
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