Now who will we vote for?

One-issue voters will have one less issue to vote on come Jan. 23.

B.C.'s Sex Party, which made a respectable, albeit predictable media splash in its provincial election debut in May, won't be fielding any candidates in the federal election.

Turns out the "sex-positive" party missed a 60-day deadline to become an official party.

"We couldn't get registered in time," Sex Party leader John Ince said in an interview yesterday. "We were anticipating a spring election like everybody else. When it was called in November we were not yet registered."

So Ince and co. will have to wait until another election to build on their B.C. performance, in which Ince ran in the hotly-contested Vancouver Burrard riding that was eventually won by B.C. Liberal Lorne Mayencourt.

Ince finished 6th out of 8 candidates, with 88 votes. According to Elections B.C. data, he earned his most votes (four) out of any voting area in a tiny zone bordered by Burrard and Drake streets to the northwest, and Howe and Pacific streets to the southeast. As this is typed, Sex Party political strategists are reportedly pouring over the data to grasp why people in this apartment complex, more than any other voting area, wanted a sex-positive government.

Ince is perhaps more famous for staging what was apparently the first live sex art show two years back, in which a threatened police bust never materialized. Ince also co-owns a Kitsilano sex store, the Art of Loving. I understand they're recruiting home party reps.