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Prest would run again

B.C. Green Party candidate reflects on election
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B.C. Green Party candidate Yvonne Prest at Fernie’s Valley Social on election night. Ezra Black/The Free Press

After receiving more votes than any other B.C. Green Party candidate in recent in history, Yvonne Prest said she would consider running again.

“Absolutely, one-hundred per cent,” she said on election night at Fernie’s Valley Social, her unofficial campaign headquarters.

The 31-year-old secondary school teacher received 1,814 votes, or about 11 per cent of the total.

She got more than three times the 549 votes received by Jennifer Tsuida, who was the last Green candidate to campaign in Kootenay East in 2009.

“I

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