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A FRACTURED right wing has given
NDP candidate Helmut Giesbrecht victory by
less than 600 votes in Skcena.

Giesbrecht topped the polls with 5,147

‘votes or 40.3 per cent of the vote - a drop of
about six per cent from 1991.

“We worked hard at it,” Giesbrecht told
reporters al his victory party held at the
Terrace Inn last night.

He made particular reference to the strong
support he received from the native villages

inthe riding. Those votes propelled him over

the top. ©

“You simply can’t discard one entire part
of your constituency,” said Giesbrecht in a
nol-too-veiled reference to Reform MP Mike
Scott’s position on aboriginal affairs.

Giesbrecht also hinted he would nat turn
down a cabinet post, mentioning highways
and parks as areas in which he is interested.

Liberal Rick Wozney’s 4,550 voles and

’ Reform B.C. contender Andy Burton’s 2,654

voles would have topped Giesbrecht had the
opposition not been divided.

Helnut Giesbrecht NDP
Rick Wozney

Liberal

Andy Burton Reform 2,654 = 20.8%
Dave Serry Social Credit 239 1.9%
Doug Bodnar Green 191 1.5%

40.3%
35.6%

3,147
4,550

Nowhere was the loss more painful than in
the Liberal campaign headquarters, where
supporters shook their heads as results came
in.

In conceding defeal, Wozney blamed the
split vate for his defeal and said there would
have been a different story. if a single can-
didate had run against Giesbrecht.

“We would have dealt a severe blow ta the
NPP and won this riding,” Wozney said.

The Reform party, he said, had spoiled the
chance for free enterprise in the riding.

When asked if the Liberals would have

tried harder to form an alliance with Reform,
looking at the final results, campaign manag-
er Linda Hawes seemed to have some regrets.

“There were so many basic tenets in both
of our platforms that we agreed wholeheart-
edly on,” said Hawes.

But she said accusations of back room
dealing and dirty tricks down south made it
extremely difficult for either party to
approach the other.

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