The British Columbia general election of 2001 was the 37th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 18, 2001, and held on May 16, 2001. Voter turnout was 55.4 per cent of all eligible voters. The incumbent New Democratic Party of British ColumbiaNew Democratic Party had been rocked by scandal that had led to the resignation of leader Glen Clark.

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  • The British Columbia general election of 2001 was the 37th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 18, 2001, and held on May 16, 2001. Voter turnout was 55.4 per cent of all eligible voters. The incumbent New Democratic Party of British ColumbiaNew Democratic Party had been rocked by scandal that had led to the resignation of leader Glen Clark. Clark was replaced by the well-respected Ujjal Dosanjh. Dosanjh was not, however, able to restore the party's public image, and the NDP was soundly defeated by the Liberal Party of British ColumbiaLiberal Party, led by former Vancouver mayor Gordon Campbell (Canadian_politician)Gordon Campbell. The Liberals won over 57% of the popular vote, and all but two of the 79 seats in the provincial legislature--the most lopsided result in the province's history. The NDP, on the other hand, lost almost half of the share of the popular vote that it had won in the British Columbia general election, 19961996 election, while its seat count fell from 39 seats to only two--those of Education Minister Joy MacPhail and Community Development Minister Jenny Kwan. The NDP suffered the second-worst defeat of a sitting provincial government in Canada, eclipsed only by the New Brunswick general election, 1987New Brunswick election of 1987, in which the governing Progressive Conservative Party of New BrunswickTories were completely wiped off the map. The defeat was attributed to massive vote splitting with the Green Party of British ColumbiaGreens, which in many cases allowed the Liberals to sneak up the middle and win. Dosanjh lost his own seat, along with every member of the Cabinet except MacPhail and Kwan. The Speaker refused to allow MacPhail and Kwan to be recognized as an official caucus despite the fact they represented the only other party in the chamber. The British Columbia Unity Party had been created as a union of conservative parties. Initially, British Columbia Reform PartyReform BC, the British Columbia Social Credit PartySocial Credit, the British Columbia Party, and the Family Coalition Party of British ColumbiaFamily Coalition Party had joined under the "BC Unity" umbrella. By the time the election was called, however, only the Family Coalition Party and a large majority of Reform BC segments had remained in the BC Unity coalition. The other parties had withdrawn to continue independently. Ron Gamble, sometime leader and sometime president of the renewed Reform BC continued his opposition to conservative mergers, consistently proclaiming a "Say No to Chris Delaney & BC Unity" policy, until Unity's eventual collapse in 2004 after a failed second attempt at a merger with BC Conservatives. The result of all this was a massive landslide win by the BC Liberals in 2001, the likes of which had not been seen in some time. Gordon Campbell's Liberals won 77 of the 79 seats available.
  • L'élection générale britanno-colombienne de 2001 fut déclenchée le 18 avril 2001 et fut tenue le 16 mai afin d'élire les députés de la 37 législature à l'Assemblée législative de la Colombie-Britannique. Il s'agit de la 37 élection générale depuis l'adhésion de la Colombie-Britannique à la confédération canadienne en tant que 6 province du Canada en 1871. Le Parti libéral de la Colombie-Britannique, dirigé par Gordon Campbell, rafle tous les sièges à l'Assemblée législative sauf deux, et forme un gouvernement majoritaire.
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  • The British Columbia general election of 2001 was the 37th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 18, 2001, and held on May 16, 2001. Voter turnout was 55.4 per cent of all eligible voters. The incumbent New Democratic Party of British ColumbiaNew Democratic Party had been rocked by scandal that had led to the resignation of leader Glen Clark.
  • L'élection générale britanno-colombienne de 2001 fut déclenchée le 18 avril 2001 et fut tenue le 16 mai afin d'élire les députés de la 37 législature à l'Assemblée législative de la Colombie-Britannique. Il s'agit de la 37 élection générale depuis l'adhésion de la Colombie-Britannique à la confédération canadienne en tant que 6 province du Canada en 1871.
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