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ITS A sign of the times. A jubilant Angus Ree hoists a bundle of Ree-election placards at his campaign
headquarters Wednesday night. The North Vancouver-Capilano riding incumbent garnered 57 per cent of
the vote with 12,940 votes. The win gives Ree a third term in office for the Socreds.

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Sunday, Oct. 26

All three North Shore
mecumbents re-elected

THE NORTH Shore's three incumbent Secial Credit MLAS
amide a predicted sweep of (he area's three ridings in Wed-

nesday's election,

Consistent with a News poll
conducted Oa. 16, which had
Social Credit candidates nine-to-
one favorites in’ West Van-
couver-Howe Sound, three-to-one
favorites in) North Vancouver-
Capilane and a litte better than
two-to-one favorites ine Nocth
Vancouver-Seymour, John
Reynolds, Angus Ree and Jack
Davis had littl trouble winning
their respective ridings.

NORTH VANCOUVER-Seymour
MLA dack Davis...returns to seat
he has held since 1975,

Unofficial turnout of registered
voters in the province was 71 per
cent. The unofficial count of
elected MLAs following Wednes-
day's vote was 49 for the Socreds
and 20 for the NDP.

On the North Shore, 69,638 of
the 94,445, or 73 per cent, of regis-
tered voters cast ballots.

All vote totals will be official 10
days from election day when all
votes from non-registered voters
cat under Section 80 of the Pro-
vineial Election Act have been

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

never in doubt: "We ran a good
campaign, but the other parties
can always do us harm so we have
to make sure that we stay a strong
aliernative to socialism."

Expressing his disappointment,
Carlin said, ‘‘We had hoped to do
better, but it’s pretty tough to win
in a two-week campaign.’

In 1983, Reynolds took the seat
with 17,218 votes, or 61.4 per cent
of the total vote.

His nearest challenger was the
NDP’s Claus Spiekermann with
6,766, or 24.1 per cent of the vote.

The Liberal candidate in 1983,
Mort Graham, managed 1,94]
votes or 6.9 per cent of the total.

WEST VANCOUVER-Howe
S und MEA Joba
Reynolds...Socred party feader
hopeful succeeds in holding riding.

Carlin said the fourfold increase
in West Vancouver-Howe Sound’s
Liberal vote ‘shows that people

MORE ELECTION PHOTOS: SEE PAGE 9

validated.

In West) Vancouver-Howe
Sound, an unofficial 23,881 voters
returned Reynolds with 12,864
votes, or 57 per cent of the totai,
compared with 6,060, or ° per
cent, for Liberal Ed Carlin, 51, his
closest challenger.

The riding's NDP candidate
David Manning, 47, garnered
percent of the tatal with 4,957 votes.

Revnolds said his victory was

are looking for an alternative.”

Of the 35,642 eligible voters in
1983, 79.4 per cent voted in West
Vancouver-Howe Sound. The
unofficial voter turnout for Wed-
nesday’s election in the riding was
73 per cent.

The West Vancouver-Howe
Sound returning office had no
estimate of how many Section 80

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