C2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 29, 1996

History repeats
itself in Skeena

Kitimat strength was again key to the NDP win here

AS IT WAS in 1991, so it
is in 1996, New Democratic
Party candidate’ Helmut
Giesbrecht has won ancther
term in office. But, once
again, he. needed Kitimat and
the rural vote to doit...

Giesbrecht lost the Terrace
race, coming in with some’200
less votes: than Liberal can-
didate Rick Wozney.-

In Thornhill and rural
Terrace, it was a tight contest
between Wozney, Giesbrecht
and Reform candidate Andy
Burton. Ail three candidates
showed strong support, each
receiving between 750 and
800 votes.

But in Kitimat, Giesbrecht
broke away from the crowd,
taking some 2,157 votes, 400
more than Wozney. Burton
was left behind with 846.

Giesbrecht was also strong
in the Kitwanga area, taking
some 284 votes, three times
more than either Burton or
Wozney could muster.

The incumbent was further
supported by ~ the
Kitsumkalum and Kitimaat
Village Reserves where he
received nearly 94 per cent of
the popular vote.

Still, all was not roses for
Giesbrecht, as his popularity
waned in Lakelse and
Kemano,

In fact, Giesbrecht won this
election with less of the popu-

Area

Kitimat

Terrace
Thornhill/Rural
Kltwanga

& Area

Kitsumkalum &
Kitamaat Village

Lakelse
Kemano

HOW SKEENA VOTED

Lib | Ref

NDP
215/
1615

1754
1812
760

846
913

776 757

284; 89] 91

361 14] 4
55} 106 | 77
22{ 51] 21

lar vote than he garnered in his
last campaign.

In 1991, Giesbrecht took
ithe Skeena riding with 5,597
votes, beating out Social
Credit candidate Dave Parker
by 831 ballots. This time
around, Giesbrecht only took
5,147.

~Giesbrecht lost in Terrace
then too, with Parker passing
him by a slim 135 votes.
Liberal candidale Juanita
Hatton was third, picking up
nearly half of her 1,629 votes
here in her hometown.

But it wasn’t so close in
Kitimat where Giesbrecht
blew by Parker for 852 votes,
152 more than the combined
apposition could muster.

Turnout was high in 1991,
as 72.5 per cent of Skeena’s
16,828 eligible voters cast
their ballots. That was five per
cent higher than the previous
election in 1986,

This time the turn out was
even greater, as 12,781 visited
the ballot box, nearly 600
more than did four years
earlier.

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