Andrew Lewis (Canadian politician)

Andrew Lewis is a Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada and a prominent member of the Green Party of British Columbia.

He is a 41-year-old landscaper who came from the United Kingdom to Vancouver Island in the early 1990s.

He first became nationally visible in the 2001 British Columbia provincial election, winning 25% of the vote in BC's largest riding, Saanich North and the Islands. He won the most Green votes of any riding, and second-strongest percentage showing to Adriane Carr on the Sunshine Coast. The party as a whole polled 12.4% across BC.

In the 2004 federal election, Lewis ran again in a substantially larger federal riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands and won 16.7% of the vote and also posted the first victory in a polling division ever for his federal party and in fact won 17 of 238 polls. The party as a whole polled 4.3% across Canada.

Lewis achieved some visibility in the major media which was intrigued by the story of a Green running to win.

He didn't run in the 2005 provincial election due to a "nomination freeze" imposed by the Green Party of BC, and an illness in the family. He ran again in Saanich—Gulf Islands in the 2006 federal election but lost one-third of his 2004 vote share winning only 9.9% of the ballots cast.

Electoral record

|- | style="width: 130px" |Conservative |Gary Lunn |align="right"|22,050 |align="right"|34.57% |align="right"| |align="right"|$81,613 |Liberal |David Mulroney |align="right"|17,082 |align="right"|26.78% |align="right"| |align="right"|$61,819 |New Democratic Party |Jennifer Burgis |align="right"|13,763 |align="right"|21.58% |align="right"| |align="right"|$40,318 |- |Green |Andrew Lewis |align="right"|10,662 |align="right"|16.71% |align="right"| |align="right"|$79,731 |Independent |Mary Moreau |align="right"|214 |align="right"|0.33% |align="right"| |align="right"|$12 |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|63,771 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|159 !align="right"|0.25% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|63,930 !align="right"|73.97% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- | style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal |Murray Robert Coell |align="right"|15,406 |align="right"|54.29% |align="right"| |align="right"|$31,904 |- |Green |Andrew Lewis |align="right"|7,211 |align="right"|25.41% |align="right"| |align="right"|$9,124 |NDP |Paul Sam |align="right"|5,011 |align="right"|17.66% |align="right"| |align="right"|$17,902 |[...] |Christina Racki |align="right"|491 |align="right"|1.73% |align="right"| |align="right"|$1,833 |Independent |Balther Johannes Jensen |align="right"|257 |align="right"|0.91% |align="right"| |align="right"|$120 |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes !align="right"|28,376 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots !align="right"|86 !align="right"|0.30% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|28,462 !align="right"|75.94% !align="right"| !align="right"| |}

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Andrew Lewis (Canadian politician)

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See Also

John Grogan (Canadian politician)

Richard Thomas (Canadian politician)