tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226571842026-04-02T23:37:36.234-07:00Victoria VisionVictoria BC is an interesting city off of the coast of BC. I think it has everything to be one of the great cities on earth other than the public will to be the best.Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.comBlogger1564125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-78636144021723227112023-02-08T19:22:00.001-08:002023-02-08T19:22:50.971-08:0021 Gun Salute for the Lieutenant Governor February 6, 2023Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-88263125619302694432023-02-05T19:34:00.001-08:002023-02-05T19:34:33.176-08:00Solar Panels for 525 Superior Street - Capital ParkBernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-55046567039549320102022-08-31T08:46:00.004-07:002022-08-31T08:46:55.989-07:002022 Election Cycle I have revived writing and documenting the local elections.   I am behind where I want to be due to some depression issues.   I hope to be functional and get to posting things shortly, please bear with meBernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-23615011664849396592022-08-18T11:53:00.002-07:002022-08-18T11:53:52.249-07:001999 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Election Results 1 Director to be electedBrian Henson   883Diane Bernard  752Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-25653871541321884352022-08-16T15:48:00.001-07:002022-08-16T15:48:45.560-07:002018 City of Duncan Election ResultsResults for the Mayor's Race Michelle P Staples 494  Martin L Barker    468  Sharon E Jackson   330 Daniel R Helmer     456 Councillors to be electedTom M Duncan       750 IncumbentJenni Capps        675 Stacy L Middlemiss 672 Garry F Bruce    611 Carol Newington    547 Bob Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-66075097413917918282022-08-15T17:48:00.003-07:002022-08-16T09:01:18.222-07:001974 and the CRD had a Housing Crisis: Interview with Les Passmore Reflecting on 33 years on Saanich Council and His Retirement From page 8 of the December 4th, 1974, Daily Colonist Reality leaves big imprint Still, after 33 years Passmore’s an idealist by Lorraine Atherton Les Passmore has watched Saanich grow in the last 40 years, and in spite of the municipality’s population explosion, burgeoning residential and commercial development and attendant sewer and servicing headaches, the change that disturbs him Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-65050811241083131352022-08-14T15:45:00.000-07:002022-08-14T15:45:03.995-07:002018 Ladysmith Election Results MayorArron Stone - Acclaimed - IncumbentCouncil - 6 to be electedTricia McKay            1,419Jeff Virtanen           1,264Marsh Stevens           1,228 (ran for mayor in 2014)Duck (Donald) Paterson  1,093 (-317) incumbent Robert Johnson          1,027Malcolm StanfredBernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-55755534531090328502022-08-14T12:53:00.001-07:002022-08-14T12:53:15.817-07:00December 12th 2020 City of Victoria Election ResultsDec 12, 2020 By-election to fill the seat left vacnet after Laurel Collins was elected as the MP for Victoria in the fall 2019 federal election.    Due to COVID the election was postponed and finally held on December 12th 2020Stephen Andrew      6,937 - came 9th in 2018 electionStefanie Hardimann  3,783 - Together VictoriaRochan Vickery        Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-28847865799284601052018-10-24T18:07:00.001-07:002018-10-24T18:23:03.605-07:00Looking at the last winner and first loser in Saanich, Victoria and Langford from the 1990s to 2018On Vibrant Victoria Rob Randall took an interesting look at what it takes to win the 8th seat for Victoria council.  I thought I would look at this in some more detail to see what patterns might emerge Saanich Election     8th place            9th place               Margin  1993     Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-73612532144865930562018-10-24T11:36:00.000-07:002018-10-24T11:37:33.167-07:002018 SD#64 Gulf Islands School District Election ResultsSalt Spring Island - 3 Trustees to be elected Tisha Boulter acclaimed Stefanie Denz acclaimed Robert Pingle acclaimed incumbent Mayne Island -  1 Trustee to be elected Janelle Lawson acclaimed Pender Islands - 1 Trustee to be elected Gregory Lucas acclaimed Galiano Island - 1 Trustee to be elected Shelley Lawson 429 incumbent Deblekha Guin  338 Saturna Island - 1 Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-54804782273568543472018-10-24T11:27:00.000-07:002018-10-24T11:29:32.456-07:002018 Islands Trust Election Results for Trustees within the CRDThese are only the results for trustees elected from within the CRD Salt Spring Island - 2 Trustees to be elected Laura Patrick    2,324 Peter Grove      1,937 incumbent Kylie Coates       717 Darryl Martin      705 Howard Holzapfel   536 Sabrina Ali        398 Galiano - 2 Trustees to be elected Jane Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-4551287115216679092018-10-24T10:47:00.001-07:002018-10-24T11:00:05.314-07:002014 CRD Electoral Areas Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2011 election) Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Mike Hick incumbent acclaimed Salt Spring Island Electoral Area Total votes 2,477 (-951) Wayne McIntyre 1,923 (+594) incumbent Garth Hendren    554 (+171) Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area Total votes 2,857 David Howe     1,988 incumbent elected by acclamation in 2011 Stephen Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-10441506475007233382018-10-23T20:40:00.004-07:002018-10-23T20:40:32.796-07:002014 SD #93 Conseil Scolaire Francophone Election Results for the Vancouver Island South WardOne trustee is elected to the Francophone School Authority from Southern Vancouver Island Marc-Andre Ouellette 69 Marie-Nicole Dubois  61 Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-68720350885579389782018-10-23T20:35:00.003-07:002018-10-23T20:42:25.715-07:002018 SD #93 Conseil Scolaire Francophone Election Results for the Vancouver Island South Ward1 Trustee to be elected Marie-Pierre Lavoie    120 Marc-Andre Ouellette    70 (+1) incumbent Pierre-Paul Angelblazer 17 Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-44337585766312344642018-10-23T20:27:00.007-07:002018-10-23T20:27:57.668-07:002018 SD#63 Saanich School District Election ResultsCentral Saanich - 2 Trustees to be elected Tim Dunford 2,861 Alicia Holman 2,551 Megan Desroches 2,399 Saanich - 2 Trustees to be elected - both elected by acclamation Victoria Martin - incumbent Teri Vanwell North Saanich - 2 Trustees to be elected - both elected by acclamation Elise McMurphy - incumbent Sheila Stelck Sidney - 1 Trustee to be elected - elected by acclamation Nola Silzer Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-86912023888788745992018-10-23T17:36:00.004-07:002018-10-23T20:29:35.104-07:002018 SD #62 Sooke School District Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from the 2014 election) Belmont Zone - 4 Trustees to be elected Ravi Parmar        5,760 (+2,092) incumbent Bob Beckett        4,920 Diana Seaton       4,690 (+1,622) incumbent Wendy Hobbs        4,669 (+834) incumbent Turdy Spiller      4,068 (+1,867) Russ Chipps&nbspBernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-11570951868346734522018-10-23T17:23:00.002-07:002018-10-23T17:26:55.942-07:00SD #61 Greater Victoria School District Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from the 2014 election) Trustees - 9 to be elected Ann Whiteaker   23,250 (+2,998) incumbent Diane McNally   22,790 (+2,733) incumbent Elaine Leonard  22,676 (+4,821) incumbent Nicole Duncan   21,728 (+7,481) Jordan Waters   20,315 (+3,477) incumbent Rob Paynter     20,103 (+1,177) incumbent Tom Ferris&Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-42208030412422018932018-10-23T17:13:00.000-07:002018-10-24T10:52:04.322-07:002018 CRD Electoral Area Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2014 election) Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Total votes 1,033  Mike Hicks       849 incumbent who was acclaimed in 2014 Daniel Yates     184 Saltspring Electoral Area Total votes 3,465 (+988) Gary Holman    2,307 Robin Williams 1,158 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area Total votes Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-4097394339599265332018-10-23T17:09:00.001-07:002018-10-23T17:09:18.991-07:002018 View Royal Municipal Election Results(the numbers in brackets are changes from the 2014 election) 2,244 voted out of 7,637 29.38%  Mayor David Screech was acclaimed as mayor Council - 4 to be elected Damian Kowalewich 1,581 incumbent, won 2017 by-election John Rogers       1,464 (-35) incumbent Ron Mattson       1,409 (-8) incumbent Gery Lemon        1,307 Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-26418632252227113192018-10-23T15:38:00.002-07:002022-08-14T12:56:00.032-07:002018 City of Victoria Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2014 election) 29,707 (+5,042) voted of 68,297 (+5,213) 43.50% (4.40 pp) Mayor Lisa Helps            12,642 (+3,442) incumbent Stephen Hammond        8,717 NewCouncil.ca Mike Geoghegan         4,335 Bruce McGuigan         2,377 Rob Duncan      Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-777745840067543012018-10-23T14:49:00.001-07:002018-10-23T14:50:36.474-07:002018 Sooke Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2014 election) 4,078 (+197) voted of 9,862 (+508)  41.35% (-0.14 pp) Mayor Maja Tait        2,299 (-228) incumbent Kevin Pearson    1,623 sitting councillor Mick Rhodes        135 Council - 6 to be elected Brenda Parkinson 2,250 (+216) incumbent Megan McMath     2,184 Ebony Logins&Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-18373922366257986832018-10-23T14:30:00.002-07:002018-10-23T14:32:45.207-07:002018 Sidney Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2014 election) 4,691(+780) voted out of 9,183 (+83) 51.08% (+9.10 pp) Mayor Cliff McNeil-Smith 3,740 (+2,560) Steve Price          929 (-383) incumbent Council - 6 to be elected Barbara Fallot    3,341 (+1,256) incumbent Peter Wainwright  3,144 (+1,098) incumbent Terri O'Keeffe    3,088 Sara Duncan  &Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-82424704605678052902018-10-22T16:44:00.006-07:002018-10-22T16:45:51.130-07:002018 Oak Bay Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2014) 7,232(+1,174) voted of 13,499(-608*) 53.57%(+10.63 pp) Mayor Kevin Murdoch     5,042 sitting councillor Nils Jensen       2,138 (-1,502) incumbent Council - 6 to elected Hazel Braithwaite 5,149 (+1,603)incumbent Tara Ney          4,001 (+590) incumbent Carine Green      3,871Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-85746958825536475332018-10-22T16:20:00.004-07:002018-10-22T16:22:01.807-07:002018 North Saanich Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets are changes from 2014 election) 4,008 (-804) voted of 9,214 (+159)  43.50% (-9.64 pp) Mayor Geoff Orr          2,592 sitting councillor Dorothy Hartshorne 1,415 (-843) Council - 6 to elected - all acclaimed Joscelyn Barnard Heather Gartshore   incumbent Jack McClintock     incumbent Brett Smyth  Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-3655935870879632002018-10-22T15:52:00.004-07:002018-10-22T15:53:37.279-07:002018 Metchosin Municipal Election Results(numbers in brackets reflect changes from 2014 election) 1,619 (+35) voted out of 3,713 (-574*) 43.60% (+6.65 pp) Mayor John Ranns re-elected by acclamation Council - 4 to be elected Andy MacKinnon    1,109 (+41) incumbent Sharie Epp          895 Kyara Kahakauwila   820 (-8) incumbent Marie-Terese Little 739 Brian Domney        Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.com0