Kash Heed is the only Vancouver-area B.C. Liberal MLA on the list drawn up by HST opponents for possible recall.

Kash Heed is the only Vancouver-area B.C. Liberal MLA on the list drawn up by HST opponents for possible recall.

If a recall petition against Heed is successful, expect two of his opponents on the previous provincial ballot to run in a by-election in the Vancouver-Fraserview constituency.

“That will be an extension of the last election,” the NDP's Gabriel Yiu, who was a candidate in Vancouver-Fraserview, told the Straight in a phone interview.

Yiu maintained that the vote in May 2009 was “not a fair election” because of the tactics employed by the Heed camp. In the last days of the campaign, voters in Vancouver-Fraserview received anonymous Chinese-language pamphlets claiming that the NDP had plans to legalize drugs and prostitution. The province has appointed a second special prosecutor to look into the conduct of Heed's campaign.

Jodie Emery of the B.C. Green Party also plans to take another crack at the South Vancouver electoral district.

Even though a by-election will likely see the HST as the main campaign issue, she doesn't see any difficulty arising from her party's stand in favour of a harmonized sales tax.

“The B.C. Green Party does support an HST, but we thought it should be 10 percent and not 12 percent,” Emery told the Straight in a phone interview. “And that it should have been voted in the legislature and approved by the people, instead of being forced on them.”

Heed won the Vancouver-Fraserview election in 2009 with 9,549 votes. Yiu got 8,801, while Emery came a distant third with 904 votes.

Canvassers for the anti–HST citizen-initiative petition gathered the signatures of 7,962 out of the 38,262 registered voters in Vancouver-Fraserview. For a recall campaign to succeed, 40 percent of registered voters in a constituency must sign the recall petition, paving the way for a by-election.

Heed didn't make himself available for comment before the Straight 's deadline.