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Former B.C. premier Christy Clark announced Friday she would be resigning as leader of the Liberal party and as a member of the Legislative Assembly in Kelowna West. Here is a list of Clark’s political highlights:

As a child, Clark knocked

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on doors with her father, Jim Clark, who was running for the provincial Liberals when the party had little support in the province.

Clark won as student president

■ at Simon Fraser University, later saying it was “the nastiest politics I’ve ever been involved in.” She won by six votes, but was disqualified for forgetting to pay a small fine because she’d failed to remove campaign material.

First elected to the provincial

■ legislature in 1996 as an Opposition Liberal MLA in Port Moody.

Re-elected in 2001 in a Liberal

■ sweep and was appointed deputy premier and education minister.

Left politics in 2005 to

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spend time with her family, then made a failed bid to lead the Non-Partisan Association in a run to be mayor of Vancouver.

Hosted an afternoon radio

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talk show in Vancouver between 2007 and 2010 before leaving to seek the leadership of the B.C. Liberal party when Gordon Campbell quit as premier.

Clark won leadership race in

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2011 and walked directly into the premier’s office.

Despite predictions of a

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New Democrat victory, Clark led her party to power in the 2013 election.

Clark Liberals introduced

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five consecutive balanced budgets, leading Canada in job and economic growth.

Gave the go-ahead to the

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$8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam in northeast B.C., reached long-term labour peace with teachers and preserved old-growth forests in the Great Bear Rainforest.

The Liberals were elected to

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a minority government in May with 43 seats in the 87-seat legislature but lost a confidence vote after the New Democrats and Greens formed an agreement to govern.

The Canadian Press