Green Party of British Columbia
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Green Party of British Columbia
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| Leader | Andrew Weaver |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Victoria, BC |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| Political position | Centre |
| Colours | Green, Blue, Yellow |
| Seats in Legislature |
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The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1983 and won its first seat in the provincial legislature in the 2013 provincial election. The party is headquartered in Victoria.
The Green Party of BC promotes the principles of participatory democracy, sustainability, social justice, respect for diversity, ecological wisdom, and nonviolence.
The first Green Party in North America was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 6, 1983 It registered as a provincial society and a political party shortly before the 1983 provincial election. It fielded four candidates and received 0.19% of the vote under the leadership of Adriane Carr. In a federal by-election in the riding of Mission—Port Moody the same year, Betty Nickerson was the Green Party of Canada's first federal candidate, but the party's status was not yet recognized by Elections Canada. She appears in electoral records as an "independent" candidate.
Adriane Carr stepped back from active involvement in the party in 1985, and the party abolished the position of leader. Thereafter, it was represented in the media by three spokespersons. In the 1986 provincial election, the party won 0.23% of the vote and fielded nine candidates. In 1988, in response to a proposal to field only female candidates in the following election, Carr and her husband Paul George returned briefly to active involvement to defeat the proposal. From 1988 to 1992, the party was deeply divided between supporters of Carr and Greenpeace founder Jim Bohlen and its Ecofeminist Caucus. During this period, its internal politics were dominated by a compromise faction led by electoral reform activist Steve Kisby.
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