It has become clear that the riding is controlled from the North, perhaps as it should be.

Good try, but it takes more than a well known name in PG. We are not the capital of Northern BC. Fort St. John clearly is.

We get what we truly vote for, or in this case we get for what we don’t vote for.

If the same percentage of southern members had have voted as our northern brothers it would have clearly been a different outcome.

If that is control, so be it. I prefer to call it complacency

Congratulations to all candidates who made this major commitment. Now let's all support Bob going forward!

I can just hope that Bob is not another Harpo Puppet We do not need invisible reps in Ottawa.

What do you expect? FSJ is clearly more business-friendly. PG is a hub of nasty, useless socialists. If people here quit laying on the couch and asking "where's mine?" and got a damn job, maybe we'd have more of a say in things.

I thought Colin would have gotten more votes, but if more members showed up at the meetings that were held in the Peace country, it is no surprise that a candidate from the Peace was the lucky winner. May he do well, for his ENTIRE constituency
(please don't forget Mack. & PG, Bobby)
metalman

Cameron Stoltz....LOL!

@runner .... whats to say that we southerners didnt vote ....

I dont think Kinsly is the right person ... and I dont trust Stolz to run a lemonade stand....

IMHO the right man won the seat

Just an observation or two (or three).

1) PG isn't, never was and never will be BC's so called "northern capitol ". BC's "northern capitol" is something like never never land - Something that only exists in the minds of children ( or the feeble minded).

2) Jeez, gamblor, bitter or what. Take a pill.

3) bowzone_mikey; you nailed it.

"Now let's all support Bob going forward!"

Can't the conservatives all just support Bob?

What's with this going forward business?

Does he have a tendency to go backwards?

"If people here quit laying on the couch and asking "where's mine?"

???????

Easy for you to say!!. We don't have gas and oil. Bunch of blue eyed sheiks watching as the energy prices keep going up and up and up ..... and they are reaping the benefits off us so-called lazy people who keep stuffing money into their pockets. We can only do that because we have had to learn to use our brains. ;-)

Just maybe the conservative voters looked at the track record of the present PG city council member and a past PG mayor and saw what kind of a mess the city of PG is in financially and how they continue to totally ignore the wishes of the residents of PG and conservative party members decided they want to send someone to Ottawa that actually listen to their constituents and were not just another body at the trough.
Let's hope when the civic election rolls around a bit more of the present PG city council deadwood is left by the roadside.

"What do you expect? FSJ is clearly more business-friendly. PG is a hub of nasty, useless socialists. If people here quit laying on the couch and asking "where's mine?" and got a damn job, maybe we'd have more of a say in things"

What does a city being "business friendly" (whatever that means) have to do with who gets the nod to be the Conservative delegate?

As an aside, wasn't FSJ basically just a place on the highway to stop for gas and food on the way to Alaska up until the Oil and Gas boom hit? I see them as being basically what PG was in the 60's and 70's, except that they are 1/5th the size and even fewer people want to move there than here. Oh and their roads are even worse than ours.

Here is a question for you. IF FSJ can grow to the size of PG and as a result, have the capacity to develop all of those "non business" things (more parks, more hockey rinks, a University, etc.), would that make them "un-business friendly", or would it just be the natural evolution that occurs when a large town grows into a medium sized city?

The bulk of the population in this riding is in the north, not in Prince George - it is after all a city that is split into two federal ridings. It is no surprise that such a strong candidate from the North was victorious, nor that another strong candidate from the North came second.
Cudos to all who put their names forward and campaigned for this position. The real job starts in preparing for the long-anticipated federal election.

Maybe Kinsley will understand that we don't need any more old men in Ottawa now. Maybe he'll finally realize that he's not the celebrity he thinks himself to be. I was rooting for Zimmer all the way. So far, he appears to have more brains than the rest of them combined.

He better get started campaigning right away--looks like another general erection is about to take place according to the "At Issue" panel on CBC. Andrew Coine says "no way" and I hope he's right.

Dirtyrottenresearcher for a "researcher" shouldn't you do some research?

I checked wikipedia and for the riding it says there are 105,000 people. I then checked Fort St John at 17,402, Dawson Creek at 11,094, Chetwynd at 2833, Fort Nelson at 4514, Mackenzie at 4539 and maybe another 10,000 for the really small places. That leaves roughly 50,000 for Prince George in this riding. I know that sounds off since PG only has a population of 70-80 thousand people total. So 50,000 sounds a bit high.

But overall, PG does make up a large part of this riding. Maybe what could have been a factor is hardly any conservative members bothered to vote in PG. They might have had a better voting percentage in Dawson Creek and Fort St John.

while Gamblor is dissing PG,and praising the virtues of Ft.St.John and the rest of the northern half of the province,I hear the mayor of said Ft.St.John is telling everyone to stop whining and get to work improving the transportation of the north.Well the mayor of that city,can't leave town on city business,with any women,unless he has a chaperone and many people in Ft.Nelson have a problem with crack.What does any of this,including the people of PG being couch potatoes,have to do with Zimmer winning the seat?Good for Zimmer,I hope he does a good job!

MKW, what matters is not the general population, but rather registered voters. There are simply more north of Prince George than in it, and I agree, your number of 50,000 for Prince George-Peace River is far too high. As well, the other key point in candidate selection is how many party members there are in each area, and there are certainly more Conservative voters (and likely party members) in the Ft. St.John, Dawson Creek, and northern areas than there are in Prince George. Wiki sources are suspect (if you don't like their numbers, just change them.), so you shouldn't rely on wiki sources - check with Stats Canada and Elections Canada. According to Elections Canada:

The electoral district of Prince George--Peace River (British Columbia) has a population of 105,865 with 72,063 registered voters and 200 polling divisions.

This page will give you a poll by poll result of the last election.http://www.elections.ca/scripts/resval/ovr_39ge.asp?ddlEDRes_prov=59&lang=e

There were 70,345 registered voters. 53.3% turnout. If you sort the 237 or so polling stations that are shown by the % of conservative votes, you have to go down 96 polling stations to get to the highest % conservative vote south of the Rockies. That is a Mackenzie polling station, #20, which gave a 63.5% conservative vote.

There is one exception to that. The top conservative polling station is #3 Summit Lake with a 95% Conservative vote (19 votes).

There were 19 stations with 80% or higher Conservative vote. 43 stations with between 70% upo to, but not including 80%. There were 33 more stations before one gets to the Mackenzie polling station.

So, the conservative votes are predominately to the north of the Rockies. Given that, I would think that the membership is also the highest north of the Rockies.

Polls in the City of Prince George have about 19,000 registered voters. There are certainly voters in the outlying areas, but those are less than there are in the many smaller but significant communities north of the Rockies.

Mackenzie + PG ~ 21,600 registered voters.

FSJ + DC + FN + TR + Chetwynd ~ 26,000 registered voters.

I suspect Colin knew what he was heading into but took the gamble anyway.

The PG Peace River Riding is North of the Nechako River, and would include North Nechako (Where Kinsley lives) Chief Lake and the Hart Hiway. So in fact very little of the riding is in Prince George and of course only a percentage of those in Prince George would be registered Conservatives.

The strength of the riding has always been MacKenzie, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, Taylor, Ft St John, Ft Nelson, Tumbler Ridge, Pouce Coupe, etc; There would not be very many people North of Bear Lake who would have heard of Colin Kinsley, and if they did they would not support him.

It is good, that they have nominated someone who would be interested in their concerns. Colin would be only interested in his concerns.

There is some talk that the :Provincial Conservatives will try and rise up from the dead, and run candidates in the next Provincial Election. Maybe Colin will try and get the nomination for the Provincial Conservatives.

I'm not sure that I'm conservative but I am sure that Kinsley is not on my raar and I'm definately nogt liberal.

Looks to me like Zimmy won his lottery for life. Payable every month. I'm OK with that only because a certain other guy didn't win. I'm happier about that than anything else. Maybe the certain party who din't win will have had the opportunity to network a bit more, on the plus side. I will wait for him to be offered a little job with the Harper bunch as a little gratis for at least trying. Such is politics.

Im dont think that the Harper bunch would want anything to do with the certain other guy who didnt win.

Hmmm? Great minds thinking alike? I wonder. Hee hee hee.