BC Liberals secure 4th term!

In a stunning fashion - the BC Liberals' shocked everyone, myself included, by securing a 4th term by securing 50 seats vs 33 for the BC NDP and 1 Green Party MLA in Oak Bay - Gordon Head and the first re-elected Ind. in Delta-South (Vicki Huntingdon), as of this writing (Tues May 14th at 11:38pm)

Closer to home - Donna Barnett was able to easily secure re-election vs Charlie Wyse by a vote of 6,924 to Wyse's 4,244.  Meanwhile in Cariboo-North, BC Liberal Coralee Oakes was able to squeeze up the middle and defeat incumbent MLA Bob Simpson by a vote of 5,459 (Oakes) to 4,933 (Simpson)

Up in Prince George -- both Mike Morris (PG - Mackenzie) and Shirley Bond (PG - Valemount) secured election

Down in Kamloops - both Terry Lake (Kamloops - North, BCL) and Todd Stone (Kamloops - South, BCL) secured election

Lessons from the election:

1) NDP was not agressive enough vs BC Liberal campaign.  Questions tonight include would this re-election for BC Liberals would have happened if Carole James was still NDP Leader....?

2) Tonight, BC Conservative Leader John Cummins says he'll stay on for the 2017 Provincial Election, but as Keith Baldrey says -- with the poor results tonight, changing the BC Conservatives' Leader will be necessary in order to ensure the BC Conservatives' go from 'fringe party' to 'mainstream party' status

3) Charlie Wyse's defeat effectively sees him not being the BC NDP Candidate for Cariboo-Chilcotin in 2017....

4) Remember the old saying -- "All politics are local".  I believe the push by Donna Barnett over 'New Prosperity' had a lot to do with the nearly 2,300 vote win by Ms. Barnett...

I currently don't see, unlike some others, any risk to Adrian Dix's leadership and I expect him to get a big thumbs-up at the next BC NDP Convention, but I admit I would be surprised if he stepped down as BC NDP Leader after only 1 election run under his belt...

I was pleased with the results tonight.  I'm saddened we won't see Bob Simpson on the provincial scene but I wish him and the other defeated candidates in the Cariboo-Chilcotin the very best in their future endeavours...

Next general election before voters' - Local Gov't elections in November of 2014