Gavin Dew is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 British Columbia general election. He represents the electoral district of Kelowna-Mission as a member of the Conservative Party of British Columbia.[1][2][3]
Gavin Dew MLA | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for Kelowna-Mission | |
| Assumed office October 19, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Renee Merrifield |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | BC Conservatives (Current) BC United (Former) |
Early life and career
editDew holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Oxford.[4] He serves on the boards of the Business Council of British Columbia and the Veterans Transition Network, and is an advisor to Arthritis Canada.[4]
Dew is married with two kids.[5] In 2023, he moved to Kelowna and opened up a childcare facility with his wife.[6]
Political career
editIn 2016, Dew was the BC Liberal Party candidate in the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election.[7] He also ran in the 2022 British Columbia Liberal Party leadership election, where he was eliminated on the third ballot with 6.01% of the vote.[6]
Electoral record
edit| 2024 British Columbia general election: Kelowna-Mission | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Harpreet Badohal | |||||||
| Conservative | Gavin Dew | |||||||
| Unaffiliated | Ashley Ramsay | |||||||
| Green | Billy Young | |||||||
| Total valid votes | – | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | ||||||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, February 2, 2016: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Melanie Mark | 5,627 | 60.14 | −5.69 | $71,603 | |||
| Green | Pete Fry | 2,533 | 27.07 | +15.16 | $29,065 | |||
| Liberal | Gavin Dew | 1,056 | 11.29 | −7.46 | $66,547 | |||
| Libertarian | Bonnie Boya Hu | 79 | 0.84 | – | $250 | |||
| Your Political Party | Jeremy Gustafson | 61 | 0.65 | – | $454 | |||
| Total valid votes | 9,356 | 99.53 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 44 | 0.47 | −0.51 | |||||
| Turnout | 9,400 | 23.17 | −26.60 | |||||
| Registered voters | 40,561 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | −10.42 | ||||||
References
edit- ^ "BC election 2024 results: Kelowna-Mission | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
- ^ Johansen, Nicholas (October 19, 2024). "BC Conservative candidate Gavin Dew declared MLA-elect for Kelowna Mission - Kelowna News". Castanet. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ Seymour, Ron (October 21, 2024). "A can-Dew kind of guy". Penticton Herald. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ a b "Meet Gavin Dew B.C. Conservative candidate for Kelowna-Mission". Peace Arch News. October 4, 2024. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ MacNaull, Steve (October 19, 2024). "New Conservative Kelowna-Mission MLA Gavin Dew ready to get to work". KelownaNow. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ a b Johansen, Nicholas (October 19, 2024). "BC Conservative candidate Gavin Dew declared MLA-elect for Kelowna Mission - Kelowna News". www.castanet.net. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
- ^ Lee, Jeff (February 2, 2016). "NDP wins both provincial by-elections in Metro Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
See also
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