Democratic Reform British Columbia

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Democratic Reform British Columbia




Active Provincial Party
Founded	January 15, 2005


Leader	Graeme Rodger
President	George OBriain
Headquarters	Box 21 4466 West Saanich Rd Victoria, B.C. V8Z 3E9

Political ideology	Centrism, Populism
International alignment	None
Colours	Maroon, Dark Green

Website	http:/www.drbc.ca

Democratic Reform British Columbia (Democratic Reform BC or DRBC) is a progressive/centrist political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It is the result of a merger between the British Columbia Democratic Coalition (an umbrella grouping of the British Columbia Democratic Alliance, British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement and British Columbia Labour Party) and the All Nations Party of British Columbia. It also attracted some members of the Reform Party of British Columbia, including its president, and all its executive. In the year preceding the formation of Democratic Reform BC, Tom Morino had previously founded the British Columbia Democratic Alliance which later became the British Columbia Democratic Coalition after a merger with a number of other fringe parties. This provided the momentum for the mergers with Reform Party and the All Nations Party to form DRBC.

DRBC had one member in the Legislative Assembly, Elayne Brenzinger, who was elected as a BC Liberal in 2001 but left the party and sat as an Independent from March 22, 2004 to January 19, 2005.

DRBC claims to be "fiscally responsible, socially progressive, while supporting the Single Transferable Vote" system of electorial reform proposed for provincial elections.

The party held its founding convention on January 15, 2005 in White Rock, British Columbia, and adopted a policy manual and constitution. Tom Morino was unanimously elected as interim party leader.

It planned to run candidates in all 79 ridings in the 2005 provincial election, but was unable to run more than 38. None were elected as the party received only 14,023 votes throughout the province, or 0.80% of all votes. Morino received 4.65% of the votes in his riding, and Brenzinger received 3.75% of the votes in her riding. With limited and spoaratic coverage from the established media, the highest any DRBC candidate placed in their local race was fourth.

On June 1, Morino announced his departure from politics to care for his ailing wife. Morino officially resigned at the party's annual general meeting October 1, 2005 in Kelowna. He was replaced as leader by Graeme Rodger.

[edit] Leaders

Tom Morino (January 2005 - October 2005)
Graeme Rodger (October 2005 - present)

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Preceded by British Columbia Democratic Coalition and All Nations Party of British Columbia	Democratic Reform British Columbia 2005 -	Succeeded by Current political party