Media Advisory: 2014 BC NDP Leadership Contestant Financing Reports Available

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 5, 2014

VICTORIA – The 2014 BC NDP leadership contestant financing reports are available for public inspection at the Elections BC office, Suite 100 – 1112 Fort St, Victoria BC, and on the Elections BC website.

The deadline for filing the leadership contestant financing reports with the Chief Electoral Officer was July 30, 2014. These reports are required to contain the following information on leadership contestant financial activities:

• political contributions accepted
• contestant expenses incurred
• transfers of money, goods or services received and given
• fundraising function information
• other income received and expenditures made
• loans and guarantees

Two leadership contestants were required to file financing reports by July 30, 2014. Both contestants filed the required reports by the deadline.

Elections BC’s Financial Reports and Political Contributions system allows the public to search and download political contribution data and view scanned images of financial reports filed under the Election Act and Recall and Initiative Act.

Links:

Scanned reports

• http://bit.ly/1p7SG2V

S-A1 political contribution data

• http://bit.ly/1zQYvVO

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Contact:
Andrew Watson
Communications Coordinator
Elections BC
Phone: 250-952-6537
Email: Andrew.Watson@elections.bc.ca
Website: elections.bc.ca

Elections BC is a non-partisan Office of the Legislature responsible for administering electoral processes in British Columbia in accordance with the Election Act, Recall and Initiative Act, Referendum Act, and the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act.