The financial documents are out for the candidates who ran in last fall’s provincial election, showing who got the biggest party boost to win the constituency votes.
The disclosures submitted to Elections BC came out today, Jan. 28, to publicly report the income and expenses for the 16 Tri-City contenders running in the five constituencies for the BC NDP, BC United, BC Conservative, BC Green and Libertarian parties, and as an independent.
But one incumbent who did not file by the Jan. 17 deadline is now fined $500: Coquitlam–Burke Mountain MLA Jodie Wickens.
Wickens is now required to file her disclosures by Feb. 18. (On Jan. 29, she told the Tri-City News she has since paid the fine.)
BC Conservative leader John Rustad (Nechako Lakes) and Sonia Furstenau (Victoria–Beacon Hill), who quit Jan. 28 as the leader of the BC Green Party, also did not file their forms in time; however, Elections BC granted them extensions due to “extenuating circumstances.”
In total, the BC NDP under Premier David Eby received $7.6 million in contributions for the October election while the BC Conservatives took in $6.1 million, according to the disclosures filed.
Here’s what came in and went out during the Tri-City campaigns (asterisk denotes winner):
Coquitlam–Burke Mountain
- Stephen Frolek (Conservative)
- Income: $90,430
- Expenditures: $40,794
- *Jodie Wickens (NDP)
- Income: n/a
- Expenditures: n/a
Coquitlam–Maillardville
- *Jennifer Blatherwick (NDP)
- Income: $91,241
- Expenditures: $66,130
- Ken Holowanky (Independent)
- Income: $3,426
- Expenditures: $2,970
- Hamed Najafi (Conservative)
- Income: $50,722
- Expenditures: $35,562
- Nicola Spurling (Green)
- Income: $6,009
- Expenditures: $11,203
New Westminster–Coquitlam
- Maureen Curran (Green)
- Income: $7,511
- Expenditures: $3,327
- Ndellie Massey (Conservative)
- Income: $9,335
- Expenditures: $5,586
- *Jennifer Whiteside (NDP)
- Income: $78,749
- Expenditures: $50,505
Port Coquitlam
- Keenan Adams (Conservative)
- As a BC United candidate:
- Income: $5,114
- Expenditures: $4,864
- As a BC Conservative candidate:
- Income: $23,381
- Expenditures: $15,671
- As a BC United candidate:
- Adam Bremner-Akins (Green)
- Income: $2,485
- Expenditures: $2,485
- Lewis Dahlby (Libertarian)
- Income: $512
- Expenditures: $512
- *Mike Farnworth (NDP)
- Income: $39,574
- Expenditures: $31,778
Port Moody–Burquitlam
- Samantha Agtarap (Green)
- Income: $3,118
- Expenditures: $2,035
- *Rick Glumac (NDP)
- Income: $87,721
- Expenditures: $68,572
- Kerry van Aswegen (Conservative)
- Income: $95,283
- Expenditures: $71,343
According to the paperwork, van Aswegen received $69,454 in party transfers plus $4,625 from donors, including from Tri-City realtor Bill Laidler.
As for Blatherwick, she took in $70,280 in BC NDP transfers to get the seat previously held by Independent MLA Selina Robinson, who did not seek re-election.
And BC Conservative candidate Stephen Frolek got $59,743 in party transfers to battle the BC NDP’s Wickens; she won by 370 votes.
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