The search to replace Ted Nebbeling will begin later this month, according to the West-Vancouver Garibaldi MLA.
Nebbeling, who has represented the riding for the B.C. Liberals since 1996, is stepping down from politics and that means his party will be looking for a replacement candidate.
Nebbeling said this week the West Vancouver-Garibaldi candidate search will begin late in June."The riding association is responsible for finding a candidate that suites the riding as a whole," Nebbeling said.
The MLA said that the Liberal riding association will publicly announce that it is looking for nominees when the association is ready to go through the process of finding its candidate.
"Three or four people have already shown interest," said Nebbeling.
Once candidates for the Liberal nomination come forward they have to fill out a questionnaire made up of hundreds of questions.
"If the riding association feels they are honourable people, then head office does the vetting and if everything is kosher then the party will accept you as a candidate," Nebbeling said.
"I would expect, as the president of the riding association, that we may have someone in place as early as October or as late as March of 2005," said Dave Davenport.
For those interested in taking over Nebbeling's job the former Whistler mayor and councillor said it is good for those interested in being the representative for the riding to have good connections throughout the region.
"I knew West Vancouver and Whistler, I knew 撸奶社区and Bowen Island and the smaller communities," Nebbeling said.
To date, no candidates have officially declared their intention to seek the B.C. Liberal nomination for the local riding. The other provincial parties are yet to publicly launched their nomination processes as well.
The next provincial election is set for May 17, 2005. That election date was chosen in 2001 after the B.C. Liberals passed legislation that sets fixed election dates every four years.
