Media Advisory: 2013 Westside-Kelowna By-election Financing Reports Available

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2013

VICTORIA – The 2013 Westside-Kelowna by-election financing reports of candidates, registered political parties, registered constituency associations and election advertising sponsors are available for public inspection at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Suite 100 – 1112 Fort Street, and on the Elections BC website. 

Financing reports must be filed with the Chief Electoral Officer within 90 days after a by-election.  The filing deadline for the by-election reports was 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 8, 2013.  The reports include expenses of each filer and information regarding contributions they received. 

A financing report for the BC Conservative Party was not filed by the deadline established by the Election Act.  The report may be filed by November 7, 2013 with a late filing fee of $500. 

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/1fA12Mq  

S-A1 political contribution data

• Candidates – http://bit.ly/1gHKktH  
• Political parties
  • BC Liberal Party – http://bit.ly/1fA1udM
  • BC NDP – http://bit.ly/1eol5KB
• Constituency associations – http://bit.ly/19Ps9kz   

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Contact:
Don Main
Communications Manager
Elections BC
Phone: 250-387-1709
Email: Don.Main@elections.bc.ca 
Website: www.elections.bc.ca  

Elections BC is a non-partisan Office of the Legislature responsible for the administration of the Election Act, Recall and Initiative Act and conduct of referenda under the Referendum Act.