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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2024
S Q U A M I S H C H I E F. C O M
GREEN WIN
The Green Party’s Valeriote
TA C K E D ’ O R two-party ‘ I CO N ’ LOGO overcame C O R‘binary P O R A Tnarrative’ E / NON MASTHEAD / SOCIAL MEDIA to-earn
historic win
BRANDON BARRETT
bbarrett@piquenewsmagazine.com
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eremy Valeriote is certainly familiar with close calls; he’s less familiar with coming out on the winning end of one. Four years after coming within 60 votes of toppling incumbent Liberal MLA Jordan Sturdy, Valeriote won a tight race of his own Oct. 19, beating the upstart Conservatives’ Yuri Fulmer by less than three percentage points. Valeriote garnered 10,221 votes, representing 38.15 per cent of the count. Fulmer, PHOTO BY DAVID BUZZARD/FOR THE SQUAMISH CHIEF meanwhile, had earned 9,554 votes, 35.66 per Jeremy Valeriote celebrates at Howe Sound Inn & Brewing on Saturday night. cent of the vote, while the BC NDP’s Jen Ford garnered 7,017 votes and 26.19 per cent. “I’m extremely grateful for the people that he will likely have to continue fighting once in important. People see we are a serious party, we helped me get here and the voters of West office: that a Green in the legislature amidst a sea recommend science and evidence, we’re Vancouver-Sea to Sky who saw a different way, V E Rand S chose E D it,”+Valeriote C O Lsaid Owhen U Rreached P A Lat his E T Tprofessional E of orange or blue will not be able to affect major and capable of influence at all levels change in Victoria. of the B.C. Legislature and I think that allowed election watch party at Howe Sound Brewing “We’ll see in the next few weeks if that us to move forward,” he said. after the results were announced. narrative has any validity,” he said. “We don’t “I’m really sad about Sonia’s seat,” he went on, In the end, Sea to Sky voters went with their even know the results of tonight and where the referring to Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau conscience on election night, countering what final [seat] count lies and I think the speculation losing in her Victoria-Beacon Hill riding, “and I Valeriote called a two-party “binary narrative” that I won’t be able to be effective or be of think it reinforces that two-party narrative that I that effectively boiled down one of the most influence, I think it’s a mistaken understanding don’t think serves British Columbians and that unpredictable elections B.C. has ever seen to a of what an MLA is, which is to serve the people of we want to get away from.” choice between the governing NDP and the Valeriote fought through a related narrative his the riding and not necessarily be a part of the out-of-nowhere Conservatives. government or opposition.” political opponents latched onto at every “It just feels like the message that we need It’s true that much remains to be seen with opportunity throughout his campaign, and one more Greens resonated here, and that’s really
how the final balance of power will shake out in B.C. The provincial election turned out to be as close as pollsters predicted, with the final outcome sitting on a razor’s edge given that a pair of races were too close to call late Saturday night. At press time, the NDP was projected to claim 46 seats—one shy of a majority—to the Conservatives’ 45, and the Greens’ two, Valeriote’s included. As it turns out, however, close races in the Juan de FucaMalahat and Surrey City Centre electoral districts will go to judicial recount—as the Sea to GREEN: Continued on 2
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