About
Rana Nelson is the BC Green candidate for Columbia River-Revelstoke, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Her campaign’s financial agent is listed in Revelstoke. She was the Green Party of Canada candidate in Kootenay–Columbia in the 2021 federal election, nominated by acclamation, and received 2,577 votes (4.0 percent) in Elections Canada’s official results. Profiles at the time said she grew up in Saskatoon, worked as a lifeguard in Yellowknife, earned an English degree, and did writing and editing in Toronto, including work on a medical dictionary and in patient relations at a hospital. Her partner’s RCMP postings took the family to Telegraph Creek, Vancouver Island, the Yukon, Ottawa, and Saskatchewan before they settled in Revelstoke, where by 2021 they had lived about eight years and were raising three children. She has also worked with WorkBC in Revelstoke and helped on Abra Brynne’s 2019 Green campaign in the riding. She has described climate action, housing, and food security among her priorities.