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Charles Boylan is a Canadian radio

Radio

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broadcaster and political activist. He produces and hosts Wake up with co-op and Discussion, programs on CFRO 102.7; a community-run, co-operatively-owned, non-corporate radio station broadcasting from Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

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. Boylan has a BA (honours) in English, a master's degree in Canadian literature and TESL and has been a College teacher for 10 years.

Boylan has also run for political office federally and provincially as a representative of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)

The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

and People's Front respectively.

He currently serves as leader of People's Front.

Boylan is also known as an electoral reform activist, active in the movement for proportional representation since 1997 when he became a director of the BC Electoral Change Coalition led by Troy Lanigan of the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation. He was also an active campaigner for Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She is also a Councillor-elect on Vancouver City Council. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first leader from 1983 to 1985, whereafter the party...

's Free Your Vote initiative in 2001 and 2002.

Provincial elections

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|New Democrat

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...

British Columbia Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...

Green Party of British Columbia

The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...

British Columbia Libertarian Party

The British Columbia Libertarian Party is a libertarian political party in British Columbia, Canada.It first nominated candidates in the 1986 provincial election...

People's Front (British Columbia)

The People's Front is the British Columbia, Canada wing of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.In the 2001 British Columbia election, it nominated 11 candidates, received a total of 720 votes...

|Charles Boylan
|align="right"|122
|align="right"|0.73%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|16,739
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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|David Chudnovsky

David Chudnovsky (politician)

David Chudnovsky is a Canadian politician. As a member of the New Democratic Party, he was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Kensington on May 17, 2005. He served as Opposition Critic for Transportation...

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Patrick Wong

Patrick Wong

Patrick Wong is a former politician in British Columbia, Canada and was the Minister of State for Immigration and Multicultural Services from September 2004 to April 2005.-References:...

Green Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Marijuana Party

The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....

|John Patrick Gordon
|align="right"|266
|align="right"|1.26%
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|People's Front
|Charles Boylan
|align="right"|99
|align="right"|0.47%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|21,160
!align="right"|100.00%
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|}

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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Joy MacPhail

Joy MacPhail

Joy MacPhail is a former Canadian politician in British Columbia. A longtime member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 2005 and as a Minister of the Crown from 1993-1999, and 2000-2001.MacPhail was born in Hamilton,...

British Columbia Liberal Party

Green Party of British Columbia

|Ian Gregson

Ian Gregson

Ian Gregson is a disabled activist and author in British Columbia, Canada.He was born in St Helens, Lancashire, England on September 2, 1962. As a young boy his promising athletic career in track and field seemed to end on May 18, 1978 during his lunch hour at Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School ,...

British Columbia Marijuana Party

The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....

British Columbia Social Credit Party

The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

|Carrol Barbara Woolsey
|align="right"|222
|align="right"|1.15%
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|align="right"|$1,584

|People's Front
|Charles Boylan
|align="right"|119
|align="right"|0.63%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$97
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|19,233
!align="right"|100.00%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|134
!align="right"|0.70%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|19,367
!align="right"|68.11%
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Federal elections

2004,2006,2008 Federal Elections (Vancouver South
Vancouver South
Vancouver South is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1997, and since 2004. It covers the southern portion of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia....

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2000 Federal Election (Vancouver South—Burnaby
Vancouver South—Burnaby
Vancouver South was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.- Demographics :-History:...

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1997 Federal Election (Vancouver East
Vancouver East
Vancouver East is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935....

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