All Nations Party of British Columbia

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The All Nations Party (ANP) was a smaller political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It had the most supporters among the First Nations , the various indigenous peoples of Canada. The party existed from 2001 to 2005.

The ANP held its inaugural meeting on January 27, 2001 in Kamloops . In founding documents, the party referred to itself as the first indigenous political party in British Columbia. The party leader Don Moses is a member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band and lives on their Shulus - reserve . The party named the representation of the interests of the indigenous peoples, especially in traditional land rights, health care and nature protection as goals.

Originally, the ANP wanted to put up twelve candidates for the 2001 election in British Columbia. The six candidates that the party ultimately nominated for the 2001 elections were also First Nations.

The party received 3,380 votes, which corresponds to 3.94% of the votes cast in the voting districts in which it ran. The ANP candidate had the greatest electoral success in the North Coast electoral district, which has an indigenous population of 40 percent. The ANP was in second place with 4.84%. In the constituency of Yale-Lillooet, party leader Don Moses achieved fourth place out of six candidates with 1126 votes (6.87% of the votes cast).

In 2004, the ANP participated in efforts to create a new Center Party. On January 16, 2005, she went into the Democratic Reform British Columbia .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ All Nations Party of British Columbia (ed.): All Nations Party of British Columbia holds first annual general meeting . Press release from January 23, 2001.
  2. ↑ Debora Lockyer Steel: New party gives BC voters another option . In: Raven's Eye . Volume 4, Issue 10 (2001), p. 5
  3. ^ Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement 1987-2001 . Legislative Library, Victoria, BC 2002.
  4. ↑ Candidates and election results of the ANP in the Canadian Elections Database
  5. ^ Moderate BC party holds first convention , CBC News , Jan. 16, 2005