Gwen O'Mahony
| Gwen O'Mahony MLA | |
|---|---|
| MLA for Chilliwack-Hope | |
| In office April 19, 2012 – May 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Barry Penner |
| Succeeded by | Laurie Throness |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | New Democrat |
Gwen O'Mahony is a Canadian politician, who represented Chilliwack-Hope in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from April 2012 until May 2013 as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.[1]
O'Mahony was previously the party's candidate in Chilliwack-Hope in the 2009 provincial election, as well as running federally for the New Democrats in Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon in the 2011 federal election.
She became the first New Democrat ever to represent the area.
In the 2013 provincial election, O'Mahony was defeated by BC Liberal Party candidate Laurie Throness, the same Liberal candidate she had faced in the 2012 by-election.
Electoral record
| B.C. General Election 2013: Chilliwack-Hope | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Laurie Throness | 10,053 | 49.15 | ||
| New Democratic | Gwen O'Mahony | 7,364 | 36.01 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Henshall | 2,202 | 10.77 | ||
| Independent | Ryan McKinnon | 833 | 4.07 | ||
| Total Valid Votes | 20,452 | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| 2012 By-election Chilliwack-Hope[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Democrats | Gwen O'Mahony | 6,022 | 41.89 | +8 | ||
| Liberal | Laurie Throness | 4,593 | 31.95 | -22 | ||
| BC Conservative | John Martin | 3,615 | 25.15 | +18 | ||
| BC Libertarian | Lewis Dahlby | 145 | 1.01 | |||
| Total Valid Votes | 14,375 | 100 | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 26 | |||||
| Turnout | 14,401 | 41.12 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 2011 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Conservative | Mark Strahl | 28,160 | 57.20 | -5.12 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gwen O'Mahony | 12,691 | 25.78 | +7.02 | ||||
| Liberal | Diane Janzen | 5,320 | 10.81 | +2.29 | ||||
| Green | Jamie Hoskins | 2,706 | 5.50 | -3.27 | ||||
| Western Block | Clive Edwards | 180 | 0.37 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell | 173 | 0.35 | +0.11 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 49,230 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 152 | 0.31 | +0.04 | |||||
| Turnout | 49,382 | 58.99 | +1 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 83,713 | |||||||
| B.C. General Election 2009 Chilliwack-Hope | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Barry Penner | 8,985 | 53.28 | $67,073 | ||
| New Democrats | Gwen O'Mahony | 5,638 | 33.43 | $18,541 | ||
| BC Conservative | Hans Mulder | 1,198 | 7.10 | $250 | ||
| Green | Guy Durnin | 951 | 5.64 | – | $350 | |
| People's Front | Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell | 93 | 0.55 | $260 | ||
| Total Valid Votes | 16,865 | 100 | ||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 95 | 0.56 | ||||
| Turnout | 16,960 | 51.85 | ||||
References
- ↑ "NDP win both B.C. byelections; Liberals in second place". Vancouver Sun, April 20, 2012.
- ↑ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Port Moody-Coquitlam and Chilliwack-Hope By-elections" (PDF). Elections B.C. Retrieved 2013-03-07.