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The Western Canada Concept Party of BC was a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was the British Columbia branch of the Western Canada Concept, a political party that operated at the federal level, advocating the separation of the four western provinces of Canada and the formation of a new country comprising British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
In the May 5, 1983, British Columbia provincial election, the party nominated 18 candidates. They won 14,185 votes, or 0.86% of the popular vote. Another western separatist party, the Western National Party, ran two candidates, who collected 474 votes (0.03% of the total).
In the October 22, 1986 general election, the party nominated one candidate, who won 322 votes, or 0.02% of the popular vote.
In the October 17, 1991 election, the party nominated 5 candidates, who collected 651 votes, or 0.04% of the popular vote.
The aim of the party is to promote the independence of WesternCanada (i.e., the provinces of BritishColumbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) from the rest of Canada.
Christie is also the leader of the WesternCanadaConceptParty of BritishColumbia, a political party that promotes separation at the provincial political level in BritishColumbia.
In the 2006 election, the party ran four candidates, received 1,094 votes, which is 0.0074% of the total votes cast, or 0.46% of the votes in those four electoral districts.
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