Alexa Loo

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Alexa Loo
盧仙泳
Alexa Loo
Member of the Richmond, British Columbia City Council
Assumed office
2014
Personal details
Born (1972-10-06) October 6, 1972 (age 49)
Richmond, British Columbia
NationalityCanadian
Political partyBC Liberal
Children2
Professionsnowboarder

Alexa Loo (born October 6, 1972) is a Canadian snowboarder and city council member for Richmond, British Columbia City Council. As a snowboarder, she competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.[1]

Snowboarding career highlights[]

  • Loo became the first Canadian woman to earn a medal in alpine snowboarding when she won a bronze medal in the woman's parallel giant slalom (PGS) at the World Cup in Plan de Corones, Italy.
  • Finished ninth in PGS at the World Cup Lac Beauport, Quebec.
  • Gold medalist in PGS at the Nor Am Cup in Copper Mountain (Colorado).
  • Eighth in PGS at the 2005 World Cup, Tandadalen, Sweden.
  • 16th in PGS at the 2005 World Cup in Sapporo-Makomanai, Japan.
  • 17th in PGS at the 2005 World Cup in Bardonecchia, Italy.
  • Silver medalist in parallel slalom at the 2005 NorAm Cup PSL, Sun Peaks, British Columbia.
  • 14th in PGS at the 2004 World Cup, Soelden, Austria.
  • Finished 20th overall in the PGS at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

Loo served as the athlete representative to the International Ski Federation (FIS) and for many years sat on the board of directors of AthletesCAN [2] - the association of Canada's national team athletes. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, where she competed as both a rower and swimmer for the Thunderbirds, in 1994.[3]

Work in local politics[]

Loo was elected as a city councillor for Richmond, British Columbia City Council in the 2014 municipal elections, and was re-elected for a second term in 2018.[4]

Jump to Provincial Politics[]

Loo ran in the 2020 British Columbia general election held on October 24, 2020. She lost in the preliminary count by 184 votes, however mail-in votes have yet to be counted.

Electoral history[]

Provincial Elections[]

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2020 British Columbia general election: Richmond South Centre
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Henry Yao 6,743 50.67 +10.39 $37,030.55
Liberal Alexa Loo 6,564 49.33 +0.61 $50,107.69
Total valid votes 13,307 100.00 –
Rejected ballots 207 1.53 +0.34
Turnout 13,514 40.12 −6.58
Registered voters 33,685
New Democratic gain from Liberal Swing +4.89
Source: Elections BC[5][6]

Municipal Elections[]

Top 8 candidates elected — Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold

2018 British Columbia municipal elections: Richmond City Council
Party Council candidate Vote %
  RITE Richmond Carol Day (X) 20,871 7.01
  Richmond Citizens' Association Harold Steves (X) 19,136 6.43
  Richmond Community Coalition Chak Au (X) 18,026 6.05
  Richmond First Bill McNulty (X) 17,242 5.79
  Richmond Citizens' Association Kelly Greene 16,464 5.53
  Richmond First Linda McPhail (X) 15,521 5.21
  RITE Richmond Michael Wolfe 13,627 4.58
  Independent Alexa Loo (X) 13,212 4.44
  Richmond First Derek Dang (X) 13,115 4.40
  Richmond First Andy Hobbs 12,336 4.14
  Richmond Citizens' Association Judie Schneider 11,672 3.92
  Richmond Community Coalition Ken Johnston (X) 11,161 3.75
  Richmond Community Coalition Jonathan Ho 11,140 3.74
  Richmond Citizens' Association Jack Trovato 10,915 3.67
  Richmond First Sunny Ho 8,933 3.00
  RITE Richmond Niti Sharma 8,917 2.99
  RITE Richmond Henry Yao 8,467 2.84
  Richmond First Peter Liu 8,357 2.81
  Richmond Community Coalition Parm Bains 7,973 2.68
  Independent John Roston 7,961 2.67
  Richmond Community Coalition Melissa Zhang 7,708 2.38
  Independent Kerry Starchuk 6,959 2.34
  Independent Jason Tarnow 5,720 1.92
  Independent Adil Awan 4,278 1.44
  Independent Manjit Singh 4,134 1.39
  Independent Dennis Page 3,478 1.17
  Independent Andy Chiang 3,337 1.12
  Independent Theresa Head 3,251 1.09
  Independent Patrick J. Saunders 2,241 0.75
  Independent Zhe Zhang 2,241 0.75
2014 British Columbia municipal elections: Richmond City Council
Party Council candidate Vote %
  Richmond First Bill McNulty 17,417 7.08
  Richmond Community Coalition Chak Au 15,742 6.40
  Richmond First Linda McPhail 15,679 6.37
  Richmond First Derek Dang 14,844 6.03
  Independent Harold Steves 14,417 5.86
  Carol Day 13,389 5.44
  Richmond Community Coalition Ken Johnston 12,792 5.20
  Independent Alexa Loo 12,595 5.12
  Richmond First Andy Hobbs 12,013 4.88
  Michael Wolfe 11,765 4.78
  Richmond Community Coalition Dan Baxter 9,952 4.04
  Richmond Community Coalition Kirby Graeme 9,869 4.01
  Richmond Community Coalition Sal Bhullar 8,965 3.64
  Independent Dave Semple 8,566 3.48
  Richmond First Elsa Wong 8,500 3.45
  Richmond Community Coalition Helen Quan 8,375 3.40
  Sunny Ho 6,926 2.81
  Grace Tsang 6,222 2.53
  Independent Roy Sakata 5,824 2.37
  Independent Jerome Dickey 4,708 1.91
  Independent Henry Juin-Hsien Yao 4,412 1.79
  Independent Jennifer Huang 3,977 1.62
  Adil Awan 3,587 1.46
  Independent Janos Bergman 3,248 1.32
  Independent Don Montgomery 2,997 1.22
  Independent Laura Nastasa 2,295 0.93
  Independent Patrick S. Saunders 2,108 0.86
  Independent Kristian von Schalburg 1,619 0.66
  Independent Gary Yuill 1,406 0.57
  Independent Lee Gildemeester 1,258 0.51
  Independent Jun L. Wuyan 694 0.28

References[]

  1. ^ Olympic results
  2. ^ "AthletesCAN website - Prior Board Members List". Archived from the original on 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
  3. ^ Drexhage, Glenn. "Hooked on racing: Grad's grace under pressure". UBC Reports. University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Veteran Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie wins sixth term". Vancouver Sun. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

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