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



 * Conservative
 * Gary Lunn
 * align="right"|24,416
 * align="right"|37.15%
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 * New Democratic Party
 * Jennifer Burgis
 * align="right"|17,455
 * align="right"|26.54%
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 * Liberal
 * Sheila Orr
 * align="right"|17,144
 * align="right"|26.08%
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 * Green
 * Andrew Lewis
 * align="right"|6,533
 * align="right"|9.94%
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 * Western Block
 * Patricia O'Brien
 * align="right"|183
 * align="right"|0.27%
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 * }




 * Conservative
 * Gary Lunn
 * align="right"|22,050
 * align="right"|34.57%
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 * Liberal
 * David Mulroney
 * align="right"|17,082
 * align="right"|26.78%
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 * New Democratic Party
 * Jennifer Burgis
 * align="right"|13,763
 * align="right"|21.58%
 * align="right"|


 * Green
 * Andrew Lewis
 * align="right"|10,662
 * align="right"|16.71%
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 * Independent
 * Mary Moreau
 * align="right"|214
 * align="right"|0.33%
 * align="right"|
 * }


 * BC Liberal
 * Murray Robert Coell
 * align="right"|15,406
 * align="right"|54.29%
 * align="right"|


 * Green
 * Andrew Lewis
 * align="right"|7,211
 * align="right"|25.41%
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 * NDP
 * Paul Sam
 * align="right"|5,011
 * align="right"|17.66%
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 * Marijuana
 * Christina Racki
 * align="right"|491
 * align="right"|1.73%
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 * Independent
 * Balther Johannes Jensen
 * align="right"|257
 * align="right"|0.91%
 * align="right"|
 * }