Maurine Karagianis

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Maurine Karagianis
MLA for Esquimalt-Royal Roads
Incumbent
Assumed office 2005
Personal details
Political party	New Democrat
Residence	Esquimalt, British Columbia
Occupation	businessperson, municipal councillor

Maurine Karagianis (born August 17, 1950) is a Canadian politician, currently the New Democratic Party MLA for the riding of Esquimalt-Royal Roads in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

She was first elected in the 2005 election, garnering almost 50 percent of votes cast and 2,895 more votes than the next closest candidate.^[1] She was re-elected in 2009 to the new constituency of Esquimalt-Royal Roads.

In August 2007, Karagianis was appointed the Official Opposition Critic for the Ministry of Transportation in New Democrat leader Carole James' shadow cabinet. She had previously served as the Official Opposition Critic for the Ministry Children and Family Development, and, prior to that, the Ministry of Small Business and Revenue. Following the 2009 election, Maurine was again appointed as the Official Opposition Critic for the Ministry of Children and Family Development. In April 2011, Maurine was appointed Official Opposition Caucus Whip and presently continues to serve in this position.

Prior to serving as an MLA, she was elected as a municipal councillor in Esquimalt in 1996, and re-elected in 1999 and again in 2002. She is an entrepreneur, opening her own retail fashion store, operating a wholesale venture and a successful import/export business. She was also a co-founder of the Sunshine Folkfest in Powell River, BC.

Starting in 1998, she served three years with the provincial government as assistant to three NDP cabinet ministers – first in the Social Services ministry and then in Transportation and Highways. She recently ran a consulting company that works with non-profit organizations and First Nations communities to create affordable housing.

Electoral results

v t e British Columbia general election, 2001: Esquimalt-Metchosin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Arnie Hamilton	9,544	45.79%	$41,647
	New Democratic	Maurine Karagianis	6,258	30.03%	$19,636
	Green	Marilyn Sundeen	3,685	17.68%	$3,878
	Marijuana	Christopher John Davies	534	2.56%	–
	Conservative	Bill Clarke	322	1.55%	$941
	Unity	Bob Ward	268	1.29%	$367
	Independent	Rick Berglund	105	0.50%	$117
	Independent	Scott Attrill	68	0.33%	$100
	Independent	Gerry McVeigh	57	0.27%	$116
Total valid votes			20,841	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			86	0.41%
Turnout			20,927	69.49%

v t e British Columbia general election, 2005: Esquimalt-Metchosin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Maurine Karagianis	11,939	49.65%
	Liberal	Tom Woods	9,226	38.37%
	Green	Jane Sterk	2,489	10.35%
	Democratic Reform	Graeme Rodger	392	1.63%

v t e British Columbia general election, 2009: Esquimalt-Royal Roads
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Maurine Karagianis	11,514	52.92%
	Liberal	Carl Ratsoy	6,579	30.24%
	Green	Jane Sterk	3,664	16.84%

References

↑ http://www.elections.bc.ca/elections/sov05/esm.pdf

External links

v t e Current members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Liberal	Clark Anton Ashton Barnett Bennett Bernier Bing Bond Cadieux Coleman Dalton de Jong Fassbender Foster Gibson Hamilton Horne Hogg Hunt Kyllo Lake Larson Lee Letnick Martin McRae Morris Oakes Plecas Pimm Polak Reid Reimer Rustad Michelle Stilwell Moira Stilwell Stone Sturdy Sullivan Sultan Tegart Thomson Thornthwaite Throness Virk Wat Wilkinson Yamamoto Yap

New Democrat	Dix Austin Bains Chandra Herbert Chouhan Conroy Corrigan Darcy Donaldson Eby Elmore Farnworth Fleming Fraser Hammell Heyman Holman Horgan James Karagianis Krog Kwan Macdonald Mungall Popham Ralston Rice Robinson B. Routley D. Routley Shin Simons Simpson Trevena

Green ¹	Weaver

Independent	Huntington

¹ Interim Party leader Adam Olsen is not currently sitting as an MLA.

Persondata
Name	Karagianis, Maurine
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	August 17, 1950
Place of birth
Date of death
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