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James Chumsa is the Communist Party of BC candidate for Cowichan Valley, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He ran federally for the Communist Party of Canada in Nanaimo—Ladysmith in 2019, receiving 104 votes (about 0.14 percent). In a Nanaimo News Bulletin questionnaire that year he said he was born and raised on Vancouver Island, grew up in the Cowichan Valley, and had just finished a B.A. in sociology, with a history minor, at Vancouver Island University. He called that campaign his first. No other provincial or local candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.