2005 Candidates (as received from Elections B.C.):
- Lloyd George Forman, BC Liberal Party
- Harry Lali, New Democratic Party of B.C.
- Mike McLean, Green Party of BC
- Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell, People's Front
Districts Profile:
This south-central B.C. riding abuts the U.S. border in the south and stretches northwest to beyond the community of Gold Bridge. Highway 3 cuts through it in the south, running from Hope in the west to Keremeos in the east. Other communities include Lillooet, Logan Lake, Lytton, Merritt and Princeton. The economic base varies from region to region, with the Fraser Canyon dependent on tourism, Hope on logging and transportation, and Princeton on lumber milling and copper mining. There's ranching in the South Cariboo and coal deposits in Hat Creek Valley. At $51,205, the riding has the province's sixth-lowest average family income and its 10th-highest unemployment rate: 12.5 per cent. Immigrants account for 12 per cent of the people here, while aboriginals make up 23.1 per cent – B.C.'s third-highest proportion.
Political History:
The incumbent in Yale-Lillooet is Liberal Dave Chutter. In 2001 he beat runner-up Victor York of the NDP by a margin of more than 3-to-1. Preceding Chutter was New Democrat Harry Lali, who won office in 1991 by unseating then-incumbent James Rabbitt of the Social Credit Party by 683 votes. Rabbitt tried again in 1996 but was rebuffed by nearly twice as many votes. Rabbitt had been more fortunate a decade before, winning office by a 529-vote margin over the NDP's Howard McDiarmid. Before that, the MLAs here were New Democrat Bill Hartley (1963-75) and Socred Tom Waterland (1975-86).
In 2001, the voter turnout in Yale-Lillooet was 69 per cent – just below the provincial average.
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