Communist Party of British Columbia
Communist Party of British Columbia | |
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Active provincial party | |
Leader | Kimball Cariou |
Founded | 1924 |
Headquarters | 706 Clark Drive Vancouver, British Columbia V5L 3J1 |
Ideology | |
National affiliation | Communist Party of Canada |
Seats in the Legislative Assembly | 0 / 87 |
Website | |
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The Communist Party of British Columbia is the provincial section of the Communist Party of Canada in British Columbia. From the 1945 election to the 1956 election, it was known as the Labor-Progressive Party, initially due to the Communist Party having been banned under the Defence of Canada Regulations.
Kimball Cariou, formerly the long-time editor of People's Voice, became the party's leader in December 2020.[1]
Newspapers
[edit]In contrast to other provincial sections of the Communist Party of Canada, the Communist Party of British Columbia published many newspapers of its own for nearly six decades, including the B.C. Worker's News (1935–1937), People's Advocate (1937–1940), Vancouver Clarion (1940–1941), Pacific Advocate (1942–1945),[2] and Pacific Tribune (1946–1992).[3][page needed]
Electoral history
[edit]Election | Candidates | Seats won | Votes | % |
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1937 | 1 | 0 | 567 | 0.14% |
19411 | — | — | — | — |
Elections as "Labor-Progressive Party" | ||||
1945 | 21 | 0 | 16,479 | 3.52% |
1949 | 2 | 0 | 1,660 | 0.24% |
1952 | 5 | 0 | 2,514 | 0.33% |
1953 | 25 | 0 | 7,496 | 1.03% |
1956 | 14 | 0 | 3,381 | 0.41% |
Elections as "Communist Party of BC" | ||||
1960 | 19 | 0 | 5,675 | 0.57% |
1963 | 4 | 0 | 849 | 0.09% |
1966 | 6 | 0 | 1,097 | 0.14% |
1969 | 4 | 0 | 482 | 0.05% |
1972 | 5 | 0 | 862 | 0.08% |
1975 | 13 | 0 | 1,441 | 0.11% |
1979 | 7 | 0 | 1,159 | 0.08% |
1983 | 4 | 0 | 837 | 0.05% |
1986 | 3 | 0 | 722 | 0.03% |
1991 | 3 | 0 | 92 | 0.01% |
1996 | 3 | 0 | 218 | 0.01% |
2001 | 4 | 0 | 381 | 0.02% |
2005 | 3 | 0 | 244 | 0.01% |
2009 | 3 | 0 | 433 | 0.03% |
2013 | 4 | 0 | 388 | 0.02% |
2017 | 6 | 0 | 802 | 0.04% |
2020 | 5 | 0 | 786 | 0.04% |
2024 | 3 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Notes
1 Communist Party banned under the Defence of Canada Regulations
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ "BC Communists hold online convention". People's Voice. December 9, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
- ^ Thorn 2017, p. 185.
- ^ Communist Party of Canada 1982.
Sources
[edit]Books
[edit]- Communist Party of Canada (1982). Canada's Party of Socialism. Toronto: Progress Books. ISBN 0-919396-45-3.
Journal articles
[edit]- Thorn, Brian (2017). ""A Colourful Crowning Ceremony": Images of Class, Gender, and Beauty in World War II-Era Canadian Communism". Labour / Le Travail. 80: 185–211. doi:10.1353/llt.2017.0047. ISSN 0700-3862. JSTOR 44820585. S2CID 149016684.
External links
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