that 60% threshold was set higher than any previous BC referenda i.e. 50%+1 is all it took, including for the '51 referendum to introduce the preferential ballot used in '52 and '53; revoked by order-in-council by WAC once he secured a majority by pulling the plug on his own minority government.

The 57% approval / 77 out of 79 ridings was so daunting that Campbell was willing to acknowledge the overwhelming support for PR and threw the decision over to Carole James... who turned it down (with it being implicit the reason was to keep the Greens out of the Leg).  Sadly, she won her seat yesterday...but given 160,000 absentee ballots (avg 1840 seats per riding) not by enough to shut out the Green breathing up her hypocritical heels.

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