Editing Recall election (section)

==== British Columbia ====
British Columbia's ''Recall and Initiative Act'', enacted in 1995, provides a process for recalling members of the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]].<ref name="elections bc">{{cite web |title=Recall |url=https://elections.bc.ca/recall-initiative/recall/ |website=Elections BC |date=13 December 2016 |access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> Voters in a provincial [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] can petition to have their Member of the Legislative Assembly removed from office once said MLA has been in office for at least 18 months. If over 40 percent of registered voters in the riding sign the petition and the petition is validated by [[Elections BC]], the Chief Electoral Officer informs the [[Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|Speaker of the Legislative Assembly]] and the member in question that the member has been recalled and their seat vacated. A [[by-election]] is called by the [[Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia]] as soon as possible to fill the vacant seat. The recalled MLA is permitted to run in the by-election for their former seat. Twenty-six recall petitions have been launched {{As of|2020|lc=y}}; of the six completed petitions returned to Elections BC, five were rejected for having too few valid signatures.<ref name="elections bc" /> The sixth, on the recall of MLA  [[Paul Reitsma]], was halted after Reitsma resigned in 1998 during the secondary verification stage.<ref name = "cbc recall" />