BC Election

Leah Ballantyne is the BC NDP candidate for Abbotsford South on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Public legal profiles identify her as a lawyer from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, a Treaty 6 community, and as the first member of her Nation to become a lawyer. A 2023 UBC Allard School of Law speaker biography says she graduated from UBC law in 2005, was called to the bar in 2008, and completed a master’s in international law and governance at the University of Hawaii in 2017, where she was valedictorian. That profile says she has been licensed in Manitoba and British Columbia and has worked on Treaty and inherent rights, child and family services reform, and reclamation of former residential school sites, and has contributed to the Lower Fraser Fishery Alliance’s RELAW project on Indigenous law and fish habitat.

Bruce Banman is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Abbotsford South and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020. He was originally elected as a BC Liberal (later BC United), crossed the floor to the Conservatives in 2023—helping the party gain official status—and was re-elected as a Conservative in 2024 with about 62% of the vote. He later served as Conservative caucus whip, briefly left the caucus in 2026 amid leadership turmoil (sitting as an Independent and with CentreBC), then rejoined the Conservatives ahead of the October 24, 2026 election. Before provincial politics he was mayor of Abbotsford (2011–2014) and an Abbotsford city councillor (2018–2021). Raised in Chilliwack and long based in Abbotsford, he trained as a chiropractor (Western States Chiropractic College, 1997) and ran a small business before entering elected office.

Robin Roy is the OneBC candidate for Abbotsford South, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election after the party had already announced him. OneBC says he was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, spent his childhood in Chilliwack and Abbotsford, attending Unsworth Elementary and Yale Junior High, and that his family then lived almost 10 years in Victoria. He has spent his adult life in Langley and now lives in Abbotsford. The party says he started a construction company in Victoria, opened another after returning to the mainland, and in 1998 moved into information technology; he operates a computer-service company working with clients across the Lower Mainland. OneBC says he has been married for 34 years and has three adult children and one grandchild. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Gurpreet Chahal is the CentreBC candidate for Abbotsford West on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Jules Côté is the BC NDP candidate for Abbotsford West on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Born and raised in Abbotsford, she is a University of the Fraser Valley student who has volunteered with the local food bank, Starfish Pack, and her church, and has been active with the Worker Solidarity Network and the National Farmers’ Union. She was the federal NDP candidate for Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford in the 2025 federal election.

Korky Neufeld (Kornelius Neufeld) is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Abbotsford West and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024 with about 58% of the vote. He has also been identified with interim Conservative Party leadership roles amid the 2026 party turmoil. He is seeking re-election in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Before provincial politics he served about 15 years as an Abbotsford Board of Education trustee, including as chair and vice-chair, and was elected for two terms as a director of the BC School Trustees Association. His background also includes church ministry (pastor in Vancouver, then leading an Abbotsford congregation for over a decade) and construction work, including as a construction manager for Servicemaster Restore of the Fraser Valley.

Virender Dass is the OneBC candidate for Abbotsford-Mission on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Darryl Kropp is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Abbotsford-Mission in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. An Abbotsford resident for more than 25 years, he is a technology and operations executive at RedMane Technology and previously built lean management systems at Cascade Aerospace in Abbotsford. He has served on the board of First West Credit Union (Envision Financial), including as chair of the Governance and Nominations Committee, and has been a long-time board member and chair at Northview Community Church. He holds an ICD.D designation and is a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Pam Alexis is the BC NDP candidate for Abbotsford-Mission and the sitting MLA for the riding, first elected in 2020. She served as British Columbia’s Minister of Agriculture and Food (2022–2024) and previously as mayor of Mission (2018–2020), a Mission city councillor (2014–2018), and a school trustee (2005–2011). Before entering elected office she taught ESL in Japan and Texas, settled in Mission in 1996, and was active with the Mission Chamber of Commerce and local Rotary clubs. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria and a teaching PDP with a focus in English and theatre.

Lakhwinder Jhaj is the CentreBC candidate for Abbotsford-Mission on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. She was previously announced for the cancelled September 2026 Abbotsford-Mission by-election and is described by CentreBC as bringing community leadership and business experience, with priorities for families, farmers, seniors, newcomers and small-business owners. She has run across party lines before: for the BC NDP in Boundary-Similkameen (2009) and Abbotsford South (2013), and federally for the Liberal Party of Canada in Skeena–Bulkley Valley in 2021. CentreBC has framed that record as consistent with a centrist, cross-partisan approach focused on practical community solutions.

Jeff Monds is the Libertarian candidate for Abbotsford-Mission on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election, alongside NDP Pam Alexis, CentreBC Lakhwinder Jhaj, Conservative Darryl Kropp, and OneBC Virender Dass. The BC Libertarian Party’s 2026 candidate page lists him with the note “coming soon” and does not yet publish a biography.

Roly Russell is the BC NDP candidate for Boundary-Similkameen. He represented the riding as MLA from 2020 to 2024 and served as Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development. Born and raised in Grand Forks, he holds a Ph.D. in ecology focused on biodiversity, sustainability, and decision-making under uncertainty. Before provincial politics he served with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary and the Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments, sat on the Union of BC Municipalities executive, chaired a local credit union board, co-founded an agricultural society, and operated an organic farm. He helped coordinate community recovery after the 2018 Grand Forks floods and the 2021 atmospheric-river damage.

Keith Pomeroy is the OneBC candidate for Boundary-Similkameen on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Donegal Wilson is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Boundary-Similkameen and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024 when she defeated NDP incumbent Roly Russell. Born in Summerland and raised on a cattle ranch near Tulameen, she worked in administration for small businesses and non-profits, including at Central Mountain Air, before becoming executive director of the B.C. Snowmobile Federation in 2012. In that role she sat on ministerial committees, helped develop the Off-Road Vehicle Act, and worked with government as a stakeholder for about 12 years. She and her husband operate a small-engine business in Keremeos. In the Legislature she has served as Official Opposition critic for water, land, resource stewardship and wildlife management. In September 2026 she briefly left the Conservative caucus amid leadership turmoil, sat as an Independent and with CentreBC, then rejoined the Conservatives under interim leader Lorne Doerkson ahead of the October 24, 2026 election.

Frankie Abel is the BC NDP candidate for Bulkley Valley-Stikine on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Gitxsan-born (also known as Sii Lu Yee), she works in Indigenous relations and cultural safety for Community Living BC in rural northern B.C., including as Cultural Safety and Initiatives Lead and Indigenous Practice Advisor in the Smithers/Gitanmaax area. She has pursued Indigenous executive MBA studies at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business and has publicly advocated for Indigenous people with developmental disabilities.

Sharon Hartwell is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Bulkley Valley-Stikine and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024 when she defeated NDP cabinet minister Nathan Cullen. Born and raised in the Bulkley Valley, she is a longtime business owner and municipal leader who served on Telkwa village council and then as mayor of Telkwa for about 12 years (1995–2009). She represented small communities at the Union of BC Municipalities, was elected to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (including as vice-chair of transportation and infrastructure), chaired the North West Regional Hospital District, and sat on the Northern Health board. Party materials also identify her as Critic for Rural Infrastructure and Development and as caucus representative to the Conservative Party board. She previously ran provincially for the Progressive Democratic Alliance (1996) and the BC Liberals (2013).

Ed Ewald is the Christian Heritage Party of BC candidate for Bulkley Valley-Stikine on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Based in the Telkwa/Smithers area, he has served as board president of the Christian Heritage Party of BC, including ratification in that role at the party’s 2023 AGM in Smithers. Public biographical detail beyond his party board role is limited; he appears on the party’s board listings alongside CHP-BC leadership and is the party’s accepted nominee in the riding for October 24, 2026.

Anne Kang is the BC NDP candidate for Burnaby Centre and the sitting MLA for the area (first elected in 2017 for Burnaby-Deer Lake, now Burnaby Centre). She was appointed Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport in July 2025 and has previously held cabinet portfolios including Municipal Affairs, Advanced Education and Skills Training, Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, and Citizens’ Services, as well as parliamentary secretary roles for seniors and multiculturalism. She immigrated from Taiwan as a child, has lived in Burnaby for more than 30 years, and served three terms as a Burnaby city councillor. A former Burnaby school-district music teacher, she studied at UBC (music, education, and special education) and received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

Vikas Gautam is the CentreBC candidate for Burnaby Centre on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Beyond that accepted nomination, little independent biographical coverage of his occupation, community roles, or prior campaigns was found in news or party profiles at the time of research.

Shila Taheri is the BC Green candidate for Burnaby Centre, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party describes her as a labour leader, legal researcher, and human rights advocate with an LL.M. in international business law and an LL.B., plus further study in immigration and labour law. She has represented BCGEU members in grievances and workplace disputes and serves as first vice-chair of Local 803, chair of the Component 8 membership committee, and recording secretary of Component 8, roles also listed by the union. She is a wife and mother of two. Stated priorities include affordability, housing, public services, and jobs. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Joshua Domnich is the Conservative Party candidate for Burnaby Centre on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Rohini “Reah” Arora is the BC NDP candidate for Burnaby East and the sitting MLA, first elected on October 19, 2024, with 10,490 votes (about 51.9%), defeating Conservative Simon Chandler by more than 2,000 votes. Elections BC’s October 3, 2026 candidate report (6:00 p.m. stamp) lists her as Rohini Reah Arora; she previously appeared as Rohini Arora on the Oct 2 report and campaigned in 2024 as Reah Arora. She has served as deputy chair of the BC NDP government caucus and has been described as the first South Asian woman elected as a BC NDP MLA in Burnaby. Raised in Burnaby East’s Westridge neighbourhood, where her parents ran an independent pizza shop, she later worked in Alberta’s premier’s office and was director of organizing and campaigns at the BC Federation of Labour. A United Steelworkers Local 2009 member, she has served on USW national anti-racism and human-rights committees. In the 2022 Burnaby election she ran for city council with the Burnaby Citizens Association and finished ninth.

Peter Si is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Burnaby East, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party’s candidate page says he moved to Burnaby at age 12 and graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA in Political Science, History and International Studies. He has worked on municipal, provincial and federal campaigns, including as provincial campaign manager for Steve Kooner in Richmond-Queensborough (2024) and federal campaign director for James Yan in Burnaby Centre (2025), and has served as Richmond-Queensborough riding association president and Burnaby Centre EDA vice-president. For about two years he has worked in Victoria for the Conservative caucus. No prior candidacy of his own turned up in records checked for this profile.

De Ding is the OneBC candidate for Burnaby East on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Javad Shushtarian is the BC Green Party candidate for Burnaby East. Based in Burnaby, he has a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences from Simon Fraser University and has been completing a Bachelor of Science in nursing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Public profiles describe advocacy for accessible healthcare and community volunteering with organizations such as BC Poverty Reduction, Force of Nature Alliance, and the Crisis Centre of BC.

Janet Routledge is the BC NDP candidate for Burnaby North and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2020. She has served as Government Whip and previously as Parliamentary Secretary for Labour. Before provincial politics she spent more than three decades in the labour movement, including work with the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the BC Federation of Labour. She is a founding member of Everywoman’s Health Centre and has worked with organizations including CoDevelopment Canada and Toxic Free Canada.

Simon Chandler is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Burnaby North on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A longtime North Burnaby resident (Burnaby Heights and Brentwood), he ran for the Conservatives in Burnaby East in 2024 (about 40.5% of the vote) after an earlier Burnaby North nomination filing that year. He graduated from Trinity Western University with a BBA in accounting and has worked in public-practice accounting on tax and business advisory work. He served as an army cadet and in the Canadian Army Reserves as an infantry soldier, and as a community police volunteer. He also attended the Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa and earned a certificate in leadership and applied public affairs.

Maddy Kennedy-Parrott is the BC Green Party candidate for Burnaby North on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

David Xie is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Burnaby South-Metrotown, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The Conservatives confirmed and announced him on September 30, 2026. His New Burnaby civic profile says he has lived in Metro Vancouver his whole life and in Burnaby for almost a decade, where he and his wife are raising their son; that he is a UBC graduate and a recruitment professional; and that he has advocated on public safety, health care, government accountability, neighbourhood planning, and completion of Burnaby Hospital Phase 2. He had entered the October 17, 2026 Burnaby council election with New Burnaby. After the provincial election was called, he told Daily Hive he was no longer seeking a council seat, but that it was too late to take his name off the municipal ballot. The City of Burnaby’s candidate-withdrawal deadline had been September 18. No earlier provincial or federal candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Bryan Fockler is the BC Green Party candidate for Burnaby South-Metrotown in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. He is listed on Elections BC’s candidate report stamped October 2, 2026. No prior provincial, federal, or local candidacy was found in public election records reviewed for this profile.

Paul Choi is the BC NDP candidate for Burnaby South-Metrotown and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Trade in July 2025. A Korean-Canadian lawyer and community activist, he was nominated by the BC NDP for the Burnaby South-Metrotown seat ahead of the 2024 provincial election and won the riding that fall.

Andrew Rose is the OneBC candidate for Burnaby South-Metrotown, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election after the party had already posted his name. OneBC says he grew up in Ontario’s Niagara region, studied computer science at Brock University (artificial intelligence and software systems), worked at Amazon.com in Seattle until 2002, and then moved to British Columbia. He lives in Burnaby South with his wife, son, and daughter, volunteers on his children’s parent advisory council, helps run his strata, and has worked with organizations on how they deliver services. He frames the campaign around small business and systems design. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Raj Chouhan is the BC NDP candidate for Burnaby-New Westminster. He is Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and has represented Burnaby-area ridings in the legislature since first being elected in 2005, with re-elections through 2024. He immigrated to Canada in 1973 and built a long public profile in labour organizing and human-rights and anti-racism advocacy before and during his time as MLA.

Greg DePaco is the BC Green Party candidate for Burnaby-New Westminster on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Joe Latam is the Conservative Party candidate for Burnaby-New Westminster on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kathryn Askew is the BC NDP candidate for Cariboo-Chilcotin in the October 24, 2026 election. The Williams Lake Tribune reported on October 1, 2026 that she is a retired school teacher living in Canim Lake, with 32 years in education and leadership roles with the BC Teachers’ Federation and her local teachers’ union, including as local president and bargaining chair. The party announcement said she has received a national award for innovative teaching and volunteers with the Hawkins Lake Volunteer Fire Department, the Forest Grove Legion, and the Canim Lake Community Club. She is running against interim Conservative leader and incumbent MLA Lorne Doerkson.

Douglas Gook is the BC Green Party candidate for Cariboo-Chilcotin, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. A longtime Cariboo forestry and environment advocate, he has described himself as a student of ecological commerce with EcoForestry Institute studies and work through Silvequus Selection Systems on natural-selection forestry with First Nations and community partners. He is a director of the BC Environmental Network and Spirit Dance Cooperative Community and a founder of the Cariboo Horse Loggers Association (1980). He previously ran for the Greens in Cariboo North (including 2020), Nechako Lakes (2017 and 2024), and related contests, citing Mount Polley and forest policy among his motivations.

Lorne Doerkson is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Cariboo-Chilcotin and the sitting MLA for the riding, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. He joined the BC Conservatives in 2024 and has served as interim leader of the Official Opposition. A longtime Cariboo-Chilcotin resident, his pre-politics career included publishing, automotive sales, financial services, and small business. He is also known locally for volunteer work and community service.

Heather Maahs is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Chilliwack North and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. She previously served as a Chilliwack school trustee from 2008, winning re-election five times, and resigned from the board in December 2024 to focus on her legislative role. Public biographies highlight education and literacy advocacy. She and her late husband ran a construction company in the Chilliwack area.

Adila Shaukat is the BC NDP candidate for Chilliwack North on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. She is a founding member of Streams Foundation Canada in Chilliwack, a community group known for multicultural and intergenerational programs such as Coffee with Seniors. Public biographical detail beyond her community-volunteer role and NDP nomination is limited.

Dan Grice is the CentreBC candidate for Chilliwack North. A Fraser Valley real-estate and estate-planning lawyer with about 12 years’ experience, he lives in North Chilliwack and works as a solicitor handling real-estate transactions, wills, estates, and business incorporations. He grew up in the Fraser Valley, graduated from Robson Hall Law School (University of Manitoba) in 2013, and is a parent of two children in Chilliwack schools. He ran as an Independent in Chilliwack North in the 2024 provincial election and earlier as the Green Party of Canada candidate in Vancouver Quadra in 2008. He has long been involved in electoral-reform organizing, including the 2005, 2009, and 2018 referendums, and co-authored a paper for Elections Canada on voting modernization while in law school. CentreBC materials say he joined the party to offer a moderate alternative focused on the economy.

Kelli Paddon is the BC NDP candidate for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake. She previously served as MLA for Chilliwack-Kent (2020–2024) and as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity. Her earlier career included community support work, youth employment counselling, instruction, and policy and government-relations roles with Community Living BC. After leaving the legislature she founded Equiiti Strategic; she was selected as the NDP nominee for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake in September 2026.

Á’a:líya (A’aliya) Warbus is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She left the Conservative caucus in late August 2026, briefly sat as an Independent and joined CentreBC, then returned to the Conservatives in September 2026 after a leadership change, confirming she would run to keep the seat in the October 24 election. She has served as Official Opposition House Leader and housing critic. A member of the Stó:lō community, she previously worked as Director of Cultural Communications for the Stó:lō Xwexwilmexw Government and as a professor in Capilano University’s Indigenous Digital Film program, with earlier front-line work with youth at risk and in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She is the daughter of former lieutenant-governor Steven Point and educator Dr. Gwendolyn Point.

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.

Scott McInnis is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Columbia River-Revelstoke and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He has lived in Kimberley since 2010 and worked for about 15 years as a teacher and principal in public and independent schools. He rejoined the Conservative caucus after a brief stretch sitting as an independent and is seeking re-election in 2026. Local profiles also note volunteering with Elks Lodge #90 and basketball coaching.

Andrea Dunlop is the BC NDP candidate for Columbia River-Revelstoke. A retired high-school teacher from Windermere, she taught for about 30 years, including at David Thompson Secondary School, and spent a decade on the Windermere Community Association board. She previously ran for the same riding in the 2024 provincial election and was nominated again for 2026.

Jodie Wickens is the BC NDP candidate for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain and the sitting MLA. She first won the seat in a 2016 by-election, served until 2017, and was re-elected in 2024. She is Minister of Children and Family Development. Between legislative terms she held nonprofit leadership roles, most recently as Director of Programs and Services at SHARE Family & Community Services Society. She and her husband Brian have two children and have lived in Coquitlam for more than 20 years.

Ryan Peterson is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Public profiles identify him as president of LJT Ventures and as having served in leadership with the Business Council of British Columbia, including as board chair. Detailed campaign biography beyond that business-community role is limited in open sources; he is the Conservatives’ accepted nominee challenging the NDP-held riding for October 24, 2026.

Valerie Morrison is the BC Green Party candidate for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kaden Mann is the CentreBC candidate for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Nicola Spurling is the BC Green Party candidate for Coquitlam-Maillardville on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Jennifer Blatherwick is the BC NDP candidate for Coquitlam-Maillardville and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She serves as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity. She previously sat as a School District 43 (Coquitlam) trustee and worked as interim executive director of ACCESS Youth Outreach Services. Her education includes a BASc in animal physiology from the University of Winnipeg and an MEd in educational leadership from Yorkville University.

Matt Liang (Matthew Liang) is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Coquitlam-Maillardville in the 2026 provincial election. His nomination was accepted by Elections BC; publicly available biographical detail beyond that candidacy is limited.

Brennan Day is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Courtenay-Comox and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024 by a narrow margin (about 92 votes) over NDP incumbent Ronna-Rae Leonard. He briefly left the Conservative caucus in August 2026 to sit as an Independent, then rejoined the party in September ahead of the snap election. A longtime Comox Valley resident, he previously ran for the BC Liberals in 2020, has managed large-scale international projects, founded an industrial supply and training firm, and served as executive director of Eureka Support Society, a mental-health service provider in Courtenay. He holds degrees in political science and international relations from Vancouver Island University and has served as opposition critic for rural and seniors’ health.

Will Cole-Hamilton is the BC NDP candidate for Courtenay-Comox in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. A two-term Courtenay city councillor and chair of the Comox Valley Regional District, he withdrew from the municipal race after the snap provincial election was called. He has a background in law, is a former small business owner, previously served as a director with the Downtown Business Improvement Association, and has coached youth sports.

Jason Cook is the CentreBC candidate for Courtenay-Comox, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is his own financial agent, with a Courtenay address on the candidate list. The Times Colonist’s Vancouver Island roundup, last updated October 2, 2026, listed him for the riding, and CentreBC’s published slate includes him there. No party biography was available, and no earlier candidacy could be tied to this filing. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination remains limited.

Jay Van Oostdam is the BC Green candidate for Courtenay-Comox, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Born in Yellowknife and raised in Regina, he earned a biology degree at the University of Regina and a veterinary degree at the University of Saskatchewan, and began practice in Nanaimo. He later did post-doctoral work at UBC and a Master of Public Health in environmental epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. The Greens say he spent about 25 years with Health Canada and BC Environment on contaminants such as lead, mercury, PCBs, and DDT, including Arctic monitoring work. A longtime Green, he has written that he was arrested at Temagami in the 1990s and at Fairy Creek, and that he works with Save Our Forests Team–Comox Valley.

Debra Toporowski (Qwulti’stunaat) is the BC NDP candidate for Cowichan Valley and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. A member of the Cowichan Nation, she is a former two-term councillor for the Municipality of North Cowichan and a five-time councillor of Cowichan Tribes—described as the first woman elected to both councils at the same time. The NDP has highlighted her work on Indigenous watersheds and local services, with campaign priorities around housing, health care and affordability in the Cowichan Valley. She is seeking re-election on October 24, 2026.

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.

Bert Chen is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Cowichan Valley on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A lifelong British Columbian and Vancouver Island small-business owner, he grew up in a rural community where his family ran a gas station and has worked in remote communities across BC and the North, including infrastructure projects with First Nations. He owns a Vancouver Island firm that provides project management and construction services for power plants and other large industrial projects, including clean-power work on Vancouver Island and the BC coast. He has also served as long-time finance director for the Elks of Canada / BC Elks Association, supporting the organization’s charitable work and kids camps. He lives in the Cowichan area and sails out of Maple Bay.

Justin Douglas is the BC Green Party candidate for Cowichan Valley in the 2026 provincial election, as listed on Elections BC’s accepted nominations report. Public biographical detail beyond the nomination filing remains limited at the time of writing.

Todd Schierling is the BC NDP candidate for Delta North. He is president of the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Association and a suppression fire captain with the Surrey Fire Service, with firefighting service dating to 1996. Outgoing MLA Ravi Kahlon endorsed him when announcing he would not seek re-election in the riding.

Monica Mohan is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Delta North on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Local reporting earlier noted her nomination filing before party affiliation was widely confirmed; detailed public work-history coverage remains limited.

Kuldeep Rangi is the CentreBC candidate for Delta North in the 2026 provincial election. A Delta North community member and business owner, he operates a real estate marketing brokerage and has nearly a decade of banking experience with Scotiabank and First West Credit Union. CentreBC has described him as active in local organizations, sports, and community activities.

Jim McMurtry is the OneBC candidate for Delta South in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. A Tsawwassen resident and longtime teacher of English, French, and history (mainly in Surrey, briefly in Delta), he is a former college lecturer and principal with a Ph.D. in educational theory from the University of Toronto. He ran as an Independent in Surrey-Serpentine River in the 2024 provincial election (554 votes, about 2.8%) and for the People’s Party of Canada in Cloverdale—Langley City in the 2025 federal election. OneBC announced him for Delta South in late 2025; he is also running as an independent for Delta school trustee in the October 17, 2026 municipal election. Public coverage has centred on his 2021–2023 Abbotsford School District dismissal dispute over classroom comments about residential schools.

Skadi Green is the BC Green candidate for Delta South, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. She is her own financial agent; the address on the list is the party’s Victoria post-office box. The BC Green candidate page had not posted a biography for her at the time of this profile. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination filing remains limited.

Ian Paton is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Delta South and the sitting MLA since 2017. First elected as a BC Liberal (later BC United), he crossed to the Conservatives in 2024 and won re-election that year. In August–September 2026 he left the Conservative caucus, briefly joined CentreBC, then rejoined the Conservatives ahead of the October 24 election. He has served as agriculture/fisheries critic. A lifelong Delta resident and third-generation farmer, he ran a dairy farm and farm-auction business for decades, served as a Delta city councillor (2011–2017), and has volunteered as a firefighter and with local farm, hospital and community organizations.

Jason McCormick is the BC NDP candidate for Delta South. A Ladner resident and former TransLink bus driver, he is known as a public- and active-transportation advocate. He ran for the NDP in Delta South in 2024 against incumbent Ian Paton and was also the federal NDP candidate for Delta in 2025.

Darlene Rotchford is the BC NDP candidate for Esquimalt-Colwood and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Armed Forces Development and Veterans Affairs in November 2025 and also serves as the government’s military liaison; she previously was Parliamentary Secretary for Labour. She has more than 18 years’ experience in mental health and addictions work in Greater Victoria, led the Victoria Labour Council as president (2020–2023), and held BCGEU and BC Federation of Labour roles. Before the legislature she was an Esquimalt township councillor (2022–2024).

Sidney Coles is the BC Green Party candidate for Esquimalt-Colwood. The party announced her on September 29, 2026 and describes her as a journalist, communications professional, researcher, and former public servant based in Victoria. Its candidate profile says she has freelanced since 2021, including two years as a Local Journalism Initiative reporter with Capital Daily, with work in Ricochet, Canada’s National Observer, and the Toronto Star, often on climate and Indigenous land rights. She has been external communications manager for the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, held policy roles at Ontario’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of the Status of Women, and worked with Doctors Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She holds two PhDs from the University of Toronto, in comparative literature (2008) and applied psychology and human development (2024).

Dave Johnston is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Esquimalt-Colwood on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination remains limited at the time of writing.

Sid Tobias is the CentreBC candidate for Esquimalt-Colwood on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. He is the mayor of View Royal (elected 2022) and announced in October 2025 that he would not seek municipal re-election in 2026, citing interest in academic and consulting work after nearly 40 years in public service. His background includes about 24 years in the Canadian Armed Forces and roughly 11 years working for the provincial government. As mayor he emphasized livability, safety, affordability and sustainability, and publicly criticized provincial housing legislation’s local impacts.

Patrick Michell is the BC Green Party candidate for Fraser-Nicola on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The BC Green Party’s 2026 candidate page lists him as Chief Patrick Michell. A fuller biography did not load from that page in this update.

Tony Luck is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Fraser-Nicola and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. Party materials also identify him as interim Conservative Party leader. His background includes about 26 years with BC Hydro, a decade as a financial planner, work as a licensed realtor, and prior service as a councillor in Mission and Merritt plus Fraser Valley Regional District leadership roles.

Jason Leboe is the BC NDP candidate for Fraser-Nicola on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination filing remains limited at the time of writing.

David Evans is the BC Green Party candidate for Juan de Fuca-Malahat. A Vancouver Island entrepreneur based in the Sooke area, he developed Stick in the Mud café and community hub operations from 2007, employing staff across multiple locations before transferring operations to a community co-operative in 2023. He holds an Applied Arts degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, ran for the Greens in the riding in 2024, and was nominated again for 2026.

Shane Friesen is the OneBC candidate for Juan de Fuca-Malahat on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Dana Lajeunesse is the sitting BC NDP MLA for Juan de Fuca-Malahat, first elected in the 2024 provincial election after a judicial recount confirmed a narrow win. Born and raised in Jordan River, he worked in forestry until a workplace accident left him a wheelchair user; he later trained in mechanical engineering at Camosun College and worked as an engineering technician and instructor. He served on Sooke District Council from 2019 to 2024 and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Accessibility in November 2024. He is seeking re-election in 2026.

Mike Hicks is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Juan de Fuca-Malahat in the 2026 provincial election. He previously served as Capital Regional District director for the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area (about 2008–2022), covering communities including Otter Point, Shirley, Jordan River, and Port Renfrew. He announced a retirement from that local role ahead of the 2022 municipal election and later filed as the Conservative provincial nominee.

Jeff Brown is the Christian Heritage Party of BC candidate for Juan de Fuca-Malahat on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election (candidate report stamped October 3, 2026, 6:00 p.m.). His filing appears on the Elections BC update after the prior 5:00 p.m. stamp, alongside NDP incumbent Dana Lajeunesse, Conservative Mike Hicks, and Green David Evans. The CHP-BC candidates page reviewed at the time of research listed Christian McCay (Langford-Highlands) and Ed Ewald (Bulkley Valley-Stikine) but did not yet profile Brown; VoteMate and BC Ballot listings had not yet caught up to the 6:00 p.m. Elections BC update. Public sources reviewed did not independently confirm occupation or prior candidacy.

Rocky McAfee is the OneBC candidate for Kamloops Centre on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election (candidate report stamped October 3, 2026, 2:00 p.m.). Castanet Kamloops reported on October 2, 2026 that OneBC said it had selected candidates for both Kamloops ridings but had not yet released names; McAfee’s filing for Kamloops Centre appears on the subsequent Elections BC update (Deborah Friesen remains OneBC’s nominee in neighbouring Kamloops-North Thompson). OneBC’s public candidates page did not yet list him at the time of research, and no independent profile of his occupation or prior candidacy was found.

Thaelo Proctor is the Independent candidate for Kamloops Centre on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election (candidate report stamped October 3, 2026, 7:00 p.m.). Elections BC had briefly listed him under Kelowna Centre on the 6:00 p.m. report; the 7:00 p.m. update places him in Kamloops Centre with Conservative Peter Milobar, NDP Mike Wisla, BC Green Annelise Beach, and OneBC Rocky McAfee. Castanet Kamloops (Sept. 29, 2026) profiled him as a 23-year-old carpenter preparing an independent bid aimed at Kamloops Centre—growing up in Kamloops (North Shore and Brocklehurst schools), working about four years as a carpenter on the Sunshine Coast, then returning to the area about a year and a half before the campaign—with no previous political experience and a volunteer-heavy “service-first” approach. His nomination financial-agent address on the Elections BC report is in Kamloops.

Annelise Beach is the BC Green candidate for Kamloops Centre, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The financial agent on the list is Brittany Corby, at the party’s Victoria post-office box. The BC Green candidate page had not posted a biography for her at the time of this profile. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination filing remains limited.

Peter Milobar is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Kamloops Centre and the sitting MLA for the riding (elected 2024). He previously represented Kamloops-North Thompson (2017–2024) and has served as Official Opposition critic for Finance, among other shadow roles. Before provincial politics he was mayor of Kamloops for three terms and a city councillor, chaired the Thompson Regional Hospital District for five terms, and sat on the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board. He and his wife Lianne operate a local small business in Kamloops.

Mike Wisla is the BC NDP candidate for Kamloops Centre. Castanet reported that the party introduced him on October 1, 2026 as a political newcomer. He is 64, a former Ashcroft teacher, and a senior labour relations officer for occupational health and safety with the Health Sciences Association. He told reporters he has also worked in mining and forestry and is running so Kamloops is represented as work already underway continues. He faces Conservative incumbent Peter Milobar, who won the riding in 2024.

Kory Clark is the BC NDP candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Castanet Kamloops reported that the party introduced him, along with Mike Wisla in Kamloops Centre, to supporters at Yew Street Food Hall on the evening of October 1, 2026. Clark, 24, grew up in Cache Creek and has lived in Kamloops for six years. He has worked in health care for seven years, including as a community support worker with USW Local 1-417. He told Castanet he is running because he believes in the NDP’s vision and wants to represent Kamloops, and he named the cost of living, housing, and health care as key issues. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Ward Stamer is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024 with 17,930 votes (about 59.7%). He is the Official Opposition critic for forests and is seeking re-election on October 24, 2026. Before the legislature he was mayor of Barriere from 2018 until he resigned after the 2024 election (acclaimed in 2022), sat on Barriere council after the district’s incorporation, and chaired the Barriere Improvement District. He worked nearly 40 years as a logging contractor before selling the business in 2015, sought the federal Conservative nomination in Kamloops–Thompson–Cariboo in 2021 (losing to Frank Caputo), and has been a Lions Club member for more than 30 years. In 2026 his private member’s bill, the Dashboard Cameras in Commercial Vehicles Act, received royal assent. He has long lived in Barriere with his wife, Carleen.

Deborah Friesen is the OneBC candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. She had been named by OneBC before the nomination was filed. No prior candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile, and OneBC’s public candidate index reviewed for this pull had no biography. A BC Financial Services Authority licence lists Deborah Laura Friesen (known as Deborah Friesen) as a strata manager with Pacific Quorum (Okanagan) Properties Inc. in Kamloops; that listing has not been confirmed as this candidate.

Loyal Wooldridge is the BC NDP candidate for Kelowna Centre. An outgoing two-term Kelowna city councillor, he is not seeking re-election to municipal council while running provincially. He lost the 2024 Kelowna Centre race to Conservative Kristina Loewen by a very narrow margin and is contesting the riding again in 2026.

Bill Desrosiers is the OneBC candidate for Kelowna Centre on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kristina Loewen is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Kelowna Centre and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024 as the first representative of the new riding. She serves as Official Opposition critic for Prosperity and Social Development and Children and Family Development. A longtime Kelowna-area resident, her career includes real estate, work as a care aide, and practice as a doula and youth leader. She and her husband Andrew have four children.

Binny Boparai is the BC NDP candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. She is co-founder and president of Farming Karma Fruit Company, a Kelowna-area farm-to-table fruit business (public board listings use the name Binny Boparai-Gill). She serves on the Knowledge Network board and was re-elected as an incumbent director of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce for 2026–27, and has also served on Kelowna’s Agriculture Advisory Committee. Before farming full-time she studied engineering at UBC and worked in finance as a credit analyst. In 2023 she sought the BC United nomination in this riding; Pavneet Singh won that contest.

Alexandra Wright is the OneBC candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. OneBC’s candidate profile says she is a first-generation Canadian who earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Calgary and a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, practised law, then worked as a legal advisor in the energy sector. With her husband she incorporated a supply-chain consulting firm in 2013; they raise a daughter and run a family farm in Ellison. Castanet reported she was briefly the BC Conservative candidate for Kelowna-Mission in early 2024 before the party removed her; she later sued over that decision. OneBC named her for the Coldstream-area riding in 2026.

Pavneet Singh is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream. He is a vice-president of the Conservative Party of British Columbia and a Kelowna-area business owner with more than 25 years operating in the Okanagan, including Freshslice, Pita Pit, and gas-station retail locations.

Carter Mochinski is the BC Green Party candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Kelowna Capital News reported in February 2026 that he was a Grade 12 student at École George Elliot Secondary in Lake Country. He told Central Okanagan school trustees that an AP Passion to Action class drew him into climate advocacy, and that he and another student represented Canadian youth at the COP30 UN climate conference in Brazil in November 2025, where they interviewed participants and co-hosted a student broadcast. A detailed party biography beyond the Elections BC filing was not found.

Gavin Dew is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Kelowna-Mission and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He has served as Official Opposition critic for finance and for jobs, economic development, innovation and AI. A business leader and entrepreneur with a B.A. from UBC and an MBA from the University of Oxford, he previously sought the BC Liberal leadership in 2022 and ran for the BC Liberals in a Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election.

Abraham Nordine is the OneBC candidate for Kelowna-Mission on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Saoirse MacKinnon is the BC Green Party candidate for Kelowna-Mission on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Miriam Rycroft is the BC NDP candidate for Kelowna-Mission on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Little published biographical information connecting her to local work, elected office, or a public professional role in the Okanagan was found in news or party profiles at the time of research. Separate records of a Miriam Rycroft in Alberta government and federal NDP roles were not confirmed to be the same person.

Brittny Anderson is the BC NDP candidate for Kootenay Central and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020. She was appointed Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities in November 2024. She grew up in the Kootenays, studied at Selkirk College, UBC Okanagan, and Central European University, and previously served on Nelson City Council and the Regional District of Central Kootenay board, with professional work in environmental services and resource recovery.

Hunter Corrigal is the OneBC candidate for Kootenay Central on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. OneBC’s candidate page says he spent about twenty years fighting wildfires, working as a BC Sheriff Service officer, working in mining, and supporting students, and that he runs a small business and is raising two daughters. The page lists work as a plant and equipment operator and union steward at Teck Elkview, as an exploration project manager, as a wildfire initial-attack crew leader and incident commander, and as a search-and-rescue volunteer, plus City of Cranbrook encampment response and the Cranbrook Situation Table. It says he holds a diploma in tourism and recreation management from the College of the Rockies and a sheriff training certificate from the Justice Institute of BC, owns an exploration-logistics and hardscape company, and has been president of the Wildhorse Cycling Club and a Special Olympics ski coach.

Gordon Skulnec is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Kootenay Central. The Western Standard reported that the party introduced him on September 29, 2026 among a group of non-incumbent nominees, and he is on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24 election. Independent news profiles of his occupation or earlier public roles were not found at the time of research.

Nicole Charlwood is the BC Green Party candidate for Kootenay Central in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, her third provincial campaign for the Greens. In 2020 she ran in Nelson-Creston and finished second with 5,611 votes (about 32%). In 2024 she ran in Kootenay Central and finished third with 4,123 votes (about 18.7%). She has lived in the Nelson area for about 25 years, holds a degree in economics, and was a Nelson city councillor after a 2021 by-election until the 2022 municipal election. She has been a local Green campaign manager for about a decade and has served as executive director of the West Kootenay EcoSociety and of the West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative, and as an Elections Canada finance officer. Her public campaigning has emphasized health-care access, affordability, watershed protection, and forestry reform.

Stephen Hill is the OneBC candidate for Kootenay-Monashee on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election (candidate report stamped October 3, 2026, 5:00 p.m.). OneBC’s public candidates page did not yet list him at the time of research; BC Ballot and BCPoliTracker show him as OneBC’s filed nominee alongside NDP incumbent Steve Morissette, Conservative Warren Mirko, and Green Connie Larochelle. A Stephen Hill based in Rossland/Trail ran federally for the Conservative Party of Canada in British Columbia Southern Interior in 2011 (second place with 19,273 votes) and was described in Trail Times and Osoyoos Times coverage as a financial advisor and president of a financial-services business with offices in Trail and Grand Forks who moved to Rossland in 1994; public sources have not independently confirmed that this is the same person as the 2026 OneBC nominee.

Steve Morissette is the BC NDP candidate for Kootenay-Monashee and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development in November 2024. Before provincial politics he served six years as mayor of Fruitvale and four years as a councillor, sat as a municipal director on the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, and worked as Director of Operations for School District No. 20.

Connie Larochelle is the BC Green Party candidate for Kootenay-Monashee on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. A 2021 Neighbours United profile described a Connie Larochelle who moved with her husband from Victoria to Trail at the start of the pandemic to be near their daughter, a nurse at the local hospital, renovated an older house, and installed solar panels after decades of environmental advocacy. That community profile was not independently matched in 2026 campaign coverage, and a detailed party biography was not found.

Warren Mirko is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Kootenay-Monashee on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election, challenging NDP incumbent Steve Morissette. A Warfield resident since 2021 and acclaimed Warfield councillor heading into the October 2026 municipal election, he founded and leads the Public Land Use Society, a provincial non-profit focused on land-use policy and Crown land decision-making. He has more than 15 years in public relations, crisis response and risk management supporting regulators including BC Financial Services Authority, Engineers and Geoscientists BC and Transport Canada, and holds a BA in political science from UBC. He also works as a public-affairs consultant and writes on land use, resources and governance.

Keenan Dennehy is the BC Green Party candidate for Kootenay-Rockies on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Paul Heywood is the CentreBC candidate for Kootenay-Rockies on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Norma Blissett is the BC NDP candidate for Kootenay-Rockies. An outgoing Cranbrook city councillor, she is a retired teacher and forester. Local reporting ahead of the 2026 campaign notes her focus on workers, businesses, housing, and infrastructure.

AJ Wolfe is the OneBC candidate for Kootenay-Rockies on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Party announcements in late September 2026 named him to the OneBC slate; detailed public work-history coverage remains limited.

Pete Davis is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Kootenay-Rockies and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He serves as the party’s critic for Mining and Critical Minerals and is seeking re-election in 2026.

Charlene Smylie is the BC Green Party candidate for Ladysmith-Oceanside on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kris McNichol is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Ladysmith-Oceanside. A Parksville/Nanoose-area resident for more than 30 years and a local business owner, he previously ran federally for the Conservatives in Courtenay—Alberni in 2025. Community roles noted in campaign materials include coaching softball, serving as president of the Oceanside Minor Softball Association, past leadership of the Sproat Lake Water Sports Association, and volunteer firefighting.

Stephanie Higginson is the BC NDP candidate for Ladysmith-Oceanside and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Care Access in November 2025 and previously served as Government Caucus Chair. Before the legislature she was twice elected to the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Board of Education and served as president of the BC School Trustees’ Association during the COVID-19 period. A former secondary-school teacher with an MA in Educational Studies from UBC, she lives on a small farm in Cedar with her husband and two children.

Sean Flynn is the CentreBC candidate for Langford-Highlands on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for 2026. A Royal Canadian Navy veteran (Naval Warfare Officer from 2008) who lives in Langford with his wife and sons, he has worked as an independent defence contractor organizing training exercises at CFB Esquimalt and founded cryptocurrency startup RWD Capital in 2022. He was previously BC United’s nominee for the riding in 2024 before that party suspended its campaign.

Christopher Moon is the BC Green Party candidate for Langford-Highlands on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Public biographical detail beyond the accepted nomination is limited; Elections BC lists him among the Green Party’s 2026 nominees in the Capital Region riding held by NDP MLA Ravi Parmar.

Ravi Parmar is the BC NDP candidate for Langford-Highlands and the sitting MLA. He won a 2023 by-election in Langford-Juan de Fuca succeeding John Horgan, was re-elected in 2024 for Langford-Highlands, and serves as Minister of Forests and Deputy Government House Leader. He previously was Parliamentary Secretary for International Credentials. Raised in Langford by immigrant parents, he studied political science at the University of Victoria and spent nearly a decade as chair of the Sooke School District Board of Education, becoming one of the youngest board chairs in B.C.

Alex Thurlborn is the Independent candidate for Langford-Highlands on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Cindy Scott is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Langford-Highlands, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party describes her as a Langford business owner who has run KC Custom Designs Ltd., a home-building and renovation company, for more than 20 years. She and her husband, a local firefighter, have been married 32 years; she is a mother and grandmother. She created The Holiday Home Tour at Bear Mountain, which the party says ran for five years with proceeds to services including the Goldstream Food Bank. Stated priorities include accountability, health care, affordability, and public safety. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Christian McCay is the Christian Heritage Party of BC candidate for Langford-Highlands and the party’s provincial leader, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is the second CHP-BC nominee on the accepted list, after Ed Ewald in Bulkley Valley-Stikine. CHP-BC elected him leader, unopposed, at its annual general meeting in Abbotsford on October 18, 2025. The party described him as of Victoria and formerly of Campbell River; his financial-agent address is in Victoria (postal code V9C). CHP-BC says he became politically active around parental objections to the SOGI 123 school resource, organized meetings across the province, and took part in Saturday protests at the Victoria legislature against COVID-19 restrictions. His candidate statement says he grew up in a family business, is raising five children, has advocated for independent-school funding and for people experiencing homelessness, and has spoken to school boards, local governments, and MLAs. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Shelly Jan is the OneBC candidate for Langley-Abbotsford, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election after OneBC had named her. She ran for the BC Conservatives in Langley in 2020 (1,936 votes); that campaign biography said she had worked in education, health care, and with young people. In June 2024 she was the runner-up, reported as Shelly Jan Semmler, for the Conservative nomination in Langley-Abbotsford (150 votes to Harman Bhangu’s 220). She later filed as an independent and withdrew on October 1, 2024, after ballots were printed, so her name stayed on the ballot while officials told voters she had withdrawn.

Harman Bhangu is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Langley-Abbotsford and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He serves as Shadow Minister for Transportation and Tourism. A first-generation Canadian born in Surrey and based in Langley, he previously ran as a Conservative in the 2022 Surrey South provincial by-election.

Alex Joehl is the Libertarian candidate for Langley-Abbotsford on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The BC Libertarian Party’s 2026 candidate page says he has run provincially three times, in Langley East in 2017 and 2020 and in Langley-Abbotsford in 2024, and federally four times, most recently in 2025 in Langley Township–Fraser Heights. It says he finished third in the 2018 Township of Langley mayoral race, ran in a 2021 school-board by-election and for council in 2022, moved to Langley about eleven years ago, and has been meat-department manager at a major grocery store since 2012.

Erin Osborne is the BC NDP candidate for Langley-Abbotsford on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Little additional public biographical detail was available from open web sources at the time of this scan beyond her accepted nomination for the October 24, 2026 vote.

Melissa Snazell is the BC Green Party candidate for Langley-Abbotsford on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. An Aldergrove resident for more than a decade (Fraser Valley for about 25 years), she is a registered pharmacy technician and a single parent who has been studying public policy and geography with a focus on climate and sustainability. She previously ran for the BC Greens in Langley-Abbotsford in the 2024 provincial election (about 1,434 votes / 5.6%) and for the Green Party of Canada in Abbotsford—South Langley in the 2025 federal election.

Sam Meyer is the BC Green Party candidate for Langley-Walnut Grove on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election.

Kyle Stevenson is the CentreBC candidate for Langley-Walnut Grove on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Holly Isaac is the BC NDP candidate for Langley-Walnut Grove in the 2026 provincial election. A longtime Langley resident who lives in Walnut Grove, she has worked as a Canada Post relief letter carrier and previously as a bank teller and in telecommunications, and has volunteered as an executive financial assistant for a local non-profit. She has been active in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers as local first vice-president, shop steward, and media contact during the 2024 postal strike. She was the federal NDP candidate for Langley Township—Fraser Heights in the 2025 federal election. Born in Surrey and raised in Langley, she has lived in North Langley for more than three decades.

Misty Van Popta is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Langley-Walnut Grove and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. She has served as deputy whip and shadow minister for housing and infrastructure. Her career includes construction project management (including BlueCity Construction and Century Group), pharmaceutical software work, and ownership of Fort Langley Cyclery. She previously ran for Langley Township council.

Shubham Joshi (often styled Dr. Shubham Joshi in party materials) is the OneBC candidate for Langley-Willowbrook on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. OneBC announced his candidacy in late September 2026; detailed independent biographical coverage remains limited.

Andrew Mercier is the BC NDP candidate for Langley-Willowbrook. A labour lawyer and former MLA, he represented Langley from 2020 to 2024 and lost the newly drawn Langley-Willowbrook seat to Conservative Jody Toor in 2024. Raised in Langley, he earned a B.A. from the University of New Brunswick and a J.D. from Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law (2017). Before entering the Legislature he was legal counsel for Teamsters Local 213 and executive director of the BC Building Trades Council. In government he served as Parliamentary Secretary for Skills Training (2020–2022), Minister of State for Workforce Development (2022–2024), and Minister of State for Sustainable Forestry Innovation (2024). After leaving office he worked as chief of staff to Premier David Eby before seeking the nomination again for 2026.

Jody Toor is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Langley-Willowbrook and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. She has served as Official Opposition caucus chair and critic for citizen services. Before politics she owned and operated an integrative holistic healthcare clinic in the Langley/Surrey-Cloverdale area. A breast cancer survivor and community volunteer, she and her husband, optometrist Dr. Charn Toor, have two children.

Hudson Campbell is the BC NDP candidate for Maple Ridge East. He is a Maple Ridge–Pitt Meadows School District 42 trustee, elected in 2022 as one of B.C.’s youngest new trustees, and has worked as a constituency adviser to Education Minister Lisa Beare while completing studies in community and regional planning. Community roles include founding UPlan’s youth committee, leading the Maple Ridge Climate Hub, and serving as a 2024 BC Summer Games director.

Chris Hatchwell is the Independent candidate for Maple Ridge East on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Lawrence Mok is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Maple Ridge East and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. Born in Singapore, he moved to Canada in 1988 and has lived in Maple Ridge for more than 30 years. An electrical engineer and former crane-industry manager, he has more than 30 years’ experience in crane and hoist manufacturing, installation, sales, and safety training, and has taught business management and volunteered with the Maple Ridge Salvation Army.

Daniel Kite is the BC Green Party candidate for Maple Ridge East on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination filing remains limited at the time of writing.

Lisa Beare is the BC NDP candidate for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2020 and 2024. She was appointed Minister of Education and Child Care in November 2024 and previously held Citizens’ Services, Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, and Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills. She grew up in Maple Ridge, worked as a flight attendant (and has been described as a pilot in some official bios), holds a diploma in local government management from the University of Victoria, and entered politics as a Maple Ridge school-board trustee in 2014.

Doug Morneau is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party says he has lived in Maple Ridge for eight years with his wife, Heather; they have three adult children and five grandchildren. He served on the BC Assessment board, including finance, policy, and human-resources committees, and has about four decades in business, advising organizations such as Bell Media, BCAA, Lafarge, On Side Restoration, and the Independent Wood Processors Association of BC. He has led programs at Maple Ridge Community Church, sits on the local federal Conservative board, and has been an elder at Coquitlam Alliance Church and a director of Crossroads Hospice Society, a chamber of commerce, and a Rotary club.

Susan Einarsson is the OneBC candidate for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. OneBC’s page, posted before this filing, says she was born in Vancouver and has taught at BCIT for more than a decade after about 25 years as a news anchor and reporter. The party says she worked at CKNW/CFMI and News 1130, hosted a talk show on CJME Regina, produced television, reported on the arts for CBC, and has sat on a local federal Conservative board. She owns My Town Maple Ridge News Society, a Facebook and YouTube news outlet, and is also described as a writer, singer, painter, and grandmother. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Jordan Simmons is the CentreBC candidate for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Gracie MacDonald is the BC Green candidate for Mid Island-Pacific Rim, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party describes her as executive director of a community school society on Denman Island, including its food bank, and as a board member of a Denman affordable-housing nonprofit. She has been an elementary principal and has taught kindergarten through Grade 12 on Vancouver Island; earlier she was a journalist and a partner in an organic food business. She holds a Master of Education from the University of Victoria and an undergraduate degree from Concordia University. A BC Green of the same name ran in Saanich South in 2001 (3,823 votes); sources checked here do not confirm that was the same person.

Joshua Dahling is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Mid Island-Pacific Rim. Based in Port Alberni, he previously worked in the logging industry until 1998, lived in Nanaimo after relocating from Squamish, and moved to Port Alberni in 2018. He is open about his recovery and has spoken about experiencing homelessness and about three decades of sobriety. With his wife, Dr. Heather Mohan, he co-founded Lumara (Lumara Grief and Bereavement Care Society), a registered charity supporting people dealing with serious illness, grief, and bereavement. He ran unsuccessfully for Port Alberni city council in 2022 and was BC United’s nominated candidate for Mid Island-Pacific Rim in 2024 before withdrawing when that party exited the campaign. He is now running for the Conservatives in the October 24, 2026 election.

Josie Osborne is the BC NDP candidate for Mid Island-Pacific Rim and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She was appointed Minister of Health in November 2024 after earlier portfolios including Municipal Affairs; Land, Water and Resource Stewardship and Fisheries; and Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation. A fisheries biologist who worked for the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and later led an environmental education non-profit, she was mayor of Tofino (2013–2020) and held regional-district and hospital-district roles. She studied marine biology at UBC and resource management at SFU.

Sheila Malcolmson is the BC NDP candidate for Nanaimo-Gabriola Island and the sitting MLA, first elected in a 2019 by-election and re-elected in 2020 and 2024. She is Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction and previously served as Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment. Before provincial office she was federal MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith (2015–2019) and chaired the Islands Trust Council for six of her four terms. Earlier work included ecology, tourism, and small business; she holds a B.A. in Environmental and Resource Studies from Trent University and lives on Gabriola Island.

Anna Mary McKenzie is the BC Green Party candidate for Nanaimo-Gabriola Island on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Her candidate profile, as carried by VoteMate, describes her as a Cree journalist, policy adviser, child and youth advocate, and mother who has lived in Nanaimo for many years, a member of Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and the mother of a Snuneymuxw child. It says she started as a youth worker, volunteered with Fostering Change, advises with Spotlight: Child Welfare, reported on birth alerts, holds a UBC bachelor’s degree in First Nations and Indigenous Studies, and serves on the board of tâpwêwin media.

Mark MacDonald is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Nanaimo-Gabriola Island. A longtime Nanaimo media and business figure, he was managing editor of the Nanaimo Daily News, publisher of the Business Examiner, and president of the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce when it was named BC Chamber of the Year in 2003. He currently serves as president of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League. He ran federally for the Conservatives in Nanaimo-Ladysmith in 2015 and later sought a Regional District of Nanaimo Area C seat.

Sharleen Weatherley is the BC Green Party candidate for Nanaimo-Lantzville on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kelsey Pringle is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Nanaimo-Lantzville. A Nanaimo business owner, she runs Motivation Monday Marketing and co-founded EMPOWER Women Canada, and sits on the board of the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance. Campaign materials highlight health-care access priorities for the region, including a cardiac catheterization lab and patient-tower upgrades at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

George Anderson is the sitting BC NDP MLA for Nanaimo-Lantzville and is seeking re-election in the 2026 provincial election. Born and raised in Nanaimo, he was one of the youngest people elected to Nanaimo City Council and is a commercial lawyer who has chaired Vancouver Island University’s Board of Governors. He has volunteered with the Canadian Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee and Literacy Central Vancouver Island. As MLA he has advocated for Nanaimo Regional General Hospital upgrades and long-term care capacity in Lantzville.

Pepper Saltman is the Communist Party of BC candidate for Nanaimo-Lantzville in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. No prior provincial, federal, or local candidacy was found in public election records reviewed for this profile. In August 2025, People’s Voice published an article bylined Pepper Saltman about protests at the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges in Nanoose Bay during a visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Jesse Gervais is the BC NDP candidate for Nechako Lakes. A Fraser Lake municipal administrator, he also serves on the University of Northern British Columbia and Fraser Lake Community Foundation boards. Local reporting in September 2026 noted his nomination for the Oct. 24 provincial election.

Diane Black is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Nechako Lakes in the 2026 provincial election, appearing on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list after sitting MLA John Rustad decided not to seek re-election. Public biographical detail beyond that nomination is limited.

Clint Lambert is listed as an Independent candidate for Nechako Lakes on Elections BC’s accepted nominations report for the 2026 provincial election. He is a longtime Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako director for Electoral Area E (François/Ootsa Lake Rural) and was acclaimed to that local seat in 2026. Detailed additional biographical coverage beyond his regional-district role remains limited.

Michele Lau is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for New Westminster-Coquitlam in the 2026 provincial election, nominated to challenge NDP incumbent Jennifer Whiteside. She has a background in commercial finance, private banking, and business development spanning more than two decades with major Canadian banks including HSBC, RBC, BMO, and CIBC, and holds a UBC commerce degree and an SFU executive MBA.

Maureen Curran is the BC Green Party candidate for New Westminster-Coquitlam, announced by the party in late September 2026 and listed on Elections BC’s accepted nominations. A Coquitlam science and mathematics teacher for about 25 years, she also spent four years with Simon Fraser University’s teacher education program mentoring future educators. She holds a BSc from McGill and a master’s in physics from the University of Victoria, with research experience at TRIUMF. While raising two sons in New Westminster she has coached Little League, supported accessibility and cycling advocacy, and worked with New West Environmental Partners and the Climate Action HUB. She helped organize the Climate Safe Cities Coalition and participated in land-defence efforts tied to pipeline expansion (2019–2023).

Jennifer Whiteside is the BC NDP candidate for New Westminster-Coquitlam and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 for New Westminster (now New Westminster-Coquitlam). She was appointed Minister of Labour in November 2024 and previously served as Minister of Education and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. Before the legislature she was chief spokesperson and lead negotiator for the Hospital Employees’ Union and worked with community organizations and labour unions at the provincial and national level, including on living-wage campaigns and health-care and social-justice issues. Born and raised in New Westminster, she holds a History degree from Simon Fraser University.

Gerry Lenoski is the Unaffiliated candidate for New Westminster-Coquitlam on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Francis Racy is the BC Green Party candidate for North Coast-Haida Gwaii on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Rodney Proskiw is the Conservative Party candidate for North Coast-Haida Gwaii on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Tamara Davidson (Haida name Laanas) is the BC NDP candidate for North Coast-Haida Gwaii and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Minister of Environment and Parks in November 2024 and is the first Indigenous woman to represent the district. Before the legislature she spent more than 25 years in the federal public service in land management, Indigenous relations, and tourism, and served on the Council of the Haida Nation, including work advancing the Haida Nation Recognition Act. She lives in Skidegate on Haida Gwaii.

Sara Lopez is the BC NDP candidate for North Island on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Campbell River resident for more than a decade, she has raised her children close to their Kwakwaka’wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth community and family. Her career has been in non-profits, arts and culture, social justice and community service. As executive director of the Campbell River Art Gallery she successfully opposed a city move to remove the gallery’s tax-exempt status. She has also worked with Habitat for Humanity Vancouver Island North on affordable housing advocacy.

Anna Kindy is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for North Island and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. She serves as Official Opposition health critic/shadow minister for health and seniors. A physician and addiction specialist with more than 35 years in medicine, including work in remote Quebec and Campbell River, she also represented Canada in moguls skiing at the 1992 Albertville Olympics.

Benjamin Olsson is the BC Green Party candidate for North Island on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Richard Lambert is an Independent candidate for North Island in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Elections BC lists his nomination with a Campbell River address. Little additional public biographical information was readily available from news or official profiles at the time of research.

Joshua A Singer Johnson is the BC Green Party candidate for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election under that full legal name. A Joshua Johnson ran for the Greens in neighbouring North Vancouver-Seymour in 2017 (about 5,208 votes); trackers treat the 2026 Lonsdale filing as a distinct first listing under the fuller name. Additional public work-history detail beyond the nomination filing remains limited.

Trevor Withers is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for North Vancouver-Lonsdale. Party materials describe him as a North Vancouver local with a background in data visualization and political campaign strategy, including work supporting Conservative campaigns. Detailed independent biographical coverage beyond the nomination remains limited.

Bowinn Ma is the BC NDP candidate for North Vancouver-Lonsdale and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2020 and 2024. She became British Columbia’s first Minister of Infrastructure in November 2024 after roles as Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, Minister of State for Infrastructure, and Parliamentary Secretary for TransLink. A licensed professional engineer with a master’s degree from UBC Sauder, she previously managed airport terminal expansion and redevelopment projects.

Lynne Block is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour and a sitting MLA first elected in 2024 in West Vancouver-Capilano; the party moved her to contest the NDP-held North Vancouver-Seymour seat for the October 24, 2026 election. An educator and former West Vancouver school trustee, she holds bachelor’s and Master of Education degrees from UBC, taught at elementary through post-secondary levels, founded Youth Engaged in Social Responsibility Forums, and received a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence. She has also served on North Shore youth justice and family court committees and as BC’s UN representative for Women Educators International.

Susie Chant is the BC NDP candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She serves as Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors’ Services and Long-Term Care and is responsible for B.C.’s Consular Corps; she previously held the Accessibility portfolio. A registered nurse who served more than 40 years in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserves, she has lived in Lynn Valley since 1988.

Lori Climenhaga is the CentreBC candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Frederick Thiele is the OneBC candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Ben Holt is the BC Green Party candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A North Vancouver resident, he has a background as a computer programmer and Drupal architect and has been active in climate and old-growth forest advocacy, including with Save Old Growth. Local reporting has also described prior volunteer work with the Green Party in federal election campaigns.

Andrew Weaver is the CentreBC candidate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head. He previously represented the riding as a BC Green MLA (2013–2020), led the BC Green Party from 2015 to 2020—including the 2017 minority arrangement with the NDP—and sat briefly as an Independent before leaving provincial politics after two terms. He announced his 2026 CentreBC candidacy on September 23, 2026. A climate scientist and University of Victoria professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, he held a Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis until his first election and has been a Lead Author on multiple IPCC assessments. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and related scientific societies, an Order of British Columbia appointee (2008), and the author of books on climate change including Keeping Our Cool.

Stan Sipos is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head in the 2026 provincial election. Born in what was then communist Yugoslavia, he came to Canada as a refugee after time in an Italian refugee camp and later spent early years on a family mink ranch in northern Alberta. He built a career of more than 50 years in business and real estate development in British Columbia, including the Customs House heritage revitalization in Victoria’s Inner Harbour, and co-founded Cielo Carbon Solutions. A lifelong drag racer, he was inducted into the Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame and lives in Oak Bay.

Andrew Appleton is the BC Green Party candidate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A two-term municipal councillor for the District of Oak Bay (about eight years), he has chaired the District’s Community Climate Action Working Group, which launched the Coolkit community climate initiative, and has championed housing affordability, active transportation, and climate action at the local level. He has also served as an Oak Bay trustee on the Greater Victoria Library Board (board chair in 2023–24), volunteering and coaching with Bays United soccer and Beacon Hill Little League, and working for more than 25 years in environmental protection and conservation across government and non-profit roles. The BC Greens announced his candidacy on September 29, 2026.

Diana Gibson is the BC NDP candidate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She became Minister of Citizens’ Services in July 2025 after serving as Minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation. Before provincial politics she led Greater Victoria’s Community Social Planning Council, co-founded the Firelight Group, and directed a university social-policy research institute.

Jordan Kealy is the Independent candidate for Peace River North and the sitting MLA. Elected in 2024 as a BC Conservative, he has sat as an Independent since March 2025 and is seeking re-election without a party affiliation. In 2026 he was publicly reported to face a sexual assault charge in Fort St. John while campaigning; the matter was before the courts at the time of research.

Curtis Whitford is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Peace River North. Party and local reporting describe about 36 years of energy-sector experience and long ties to Fort St. John and Northeast B.C. He is the Conservative nominee after incumbent MLA Jordan Kealy left the party caucus.

Larry Neufeld is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Peace River South and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He serves as Official Opposition critic for Energy (formerly Natural Gas and LNG). A professional engineer and entrepreneur, he earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in engineering, became vice president of a major environmental-remediation contractor at age 29, and founded his own companies in 2006. He also served as a Reserve Infantry Platoon Commander.

Marsha Rose Dufresne is the BC NDP candidate for Peace River South on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election, alongside Conservative Larry Neufeld and unaffiliated candidate Helen Scott. BC Ballot lists her as a first-time candidate with no previous run on record. A separate biography of her occupation was not found in the party and news sources checked for this update.

Helen Scott is the Unaffiliated candidate for Peace River South on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Warren Hamm is the OneBC candidate for Penticton-Summerland on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. An aircraft maintenance engineer, he previously sought the leadership of the Conservative Party of BC before withdrawing; OneBC announced him for the riding in September 2026. After incumbent Amelia Boultbee (who had crossed to the NDP) stepped aside from the snap-election race, reporting noted Hamm among the early official nominees in the Okanagan riding for October 24, 2026.

Tracy St. Claire is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Penticton-Summerland. A Penticton-born healthcare and community leader, she has served as executive director of the South Okanagan Similkameen Division of Family Practice and with United Way, and as an Okanagan Skaha school-board trustee. She ran for the riding in 2024 first as a BC United candidate and then unaffiliated after that party dissolved, and was named the Conservative nominee for 2026.

Bradley Sean Bartsch is the BC Green Party candidate for Penticton-Summerland, returning after he ran for the party in the same riding in 2024. Local coverage then described him as president of Bradley Bartsch Consulting Inc., with work in campaign strategy, constituent relations, and coaching for nonprofits including World Vision Canada, Ronald McDonald House, and Simon Fraser University. He grew up on Canada’s west coast, graduated from Simon Fraser University, and moved to Penticton with his wife in August 2021. He has said a significant stroke in 2017 deepened his commitment to community service. He also ran in a 2025 Penticton city-council by-election. Published tallies put his 2024 provincial vote at 1,472 (about 5.2 percent).

Tina Lee is the BC NDP candidate for Penticton-Summerland, seeking the seat again after finishing about 300 votes behind Amelia Boultbee in 2024. A 2024 party release said she has worked as a human rights advocate on six continents, as an executive with the City of Penticton, and in an outreach role for then-MP Richard Cannings. It also said she has served on the Okanagan College Board of Governors and volunteered with Penticton Safety Village, the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan, Dragonfly Pond, and youth groups. She is a mother of two. Boultbee, who is not seeking re-election, publicly praised Lee’s work ethic and local roots in October 2026.

Mike Farnworth is the BC NDP candidate for Port Coquitlam and the sitting MLA. First elected in 1991, he sat until 2001 and has represented the area again since 2005. He was appointed Minister of Transportation and Transit in November 2024 and also serves as Government House Leader; earlier cabinets included Public Safety. Raised in Port Coquitlam, he holds a geography degree from Simon Fraser University and previously served on city council.

Lee-Ann Bates is the Unaffiliated candidate for Port Coquitlam on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Keenan Adams is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Port Coquitlam. He has worked in the railway industry since 2010, rising from conductor to locomotive engineer and helping train railway workers, and is president of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Local 320. A Port Coquitlam resident who has pursued public-relations education, he volunteers with the PoCo Lions Club and local Adopt-A-Spot and river-cleanup efforts. He also ran for the Conservatives in the riding in 2024.

Stephanie Hendy is the BC Green Party candidate for Port Coquitlam on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Lewis C. Dahlby is the Libertarian candidate for Port Coquitlam on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The BC Libertarian Party’s 2026 candidate page describes Lewis Dahlby as 70, born in Chilliwack, running a trucking and excavating business, married, living in Port Coquitlam, and the father of two daughters. The page says he became a Libertarian in 1979 and first ran federally for the Libertarian Party in 1988.

Freddy Rawji is the CentreBC candidate for Port Moody-Burquitlam, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. CentreBC says he grew up in Port Moody, was 2010 valedictorian at Port Moody Secondary, and earned a B.Sc. in economics at the University of Victoria before recruiting in engineering and construction. In 2018 he joined RAM Consulting, which the party says he helped grow from 15 to 100 people on a Metro Vancouver aviation-fuel project for YVR; he also launched an EV-charging design service there. In December 2020 he founded Torus Talent, a technical recruitment firm that CentreBC says reached about 20 people and $5 million in annual revenue. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Wei Chou is the BC Green Party candidate for Port Moody-Burquitlam on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

John McEwen is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Port Moody-Burquitlam in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. He is mayor of the Village of Anmore: first elected to Anmore council in 2008, elected mayor in 2014, and re-elected in 2018 and again in 2022 (about 67.8%) for a third mayoral term. In November 2022 he was elected vice-chair of the Metro Vancouver board; he has also chaired the regional district’s Regional Parks Committee. In September 2026 he withdrew a nomination to seek another term as Anmore mayor, then entered the provincial race. The riding’s last MLA was BC NDP member Rick Glumac.

Rick Glumac is the sitting BC NDP MLA for Port Moody-Burquitlam (previously Port Moody-Coquitlam), first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2020 and 2024. An SFU electronics engineering graduate, he worked in computer graphics and visual effects (including ReBoot and films such as Shrek 2) before serving on Port Moody city council from 2011. Provincially he has been Parliamentary Secretary for Technology, Minister of State for Trade, and since 2025 Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies. He is seeking re-election in 2026.

Griffin Leonard Lea is the BC Green Party candidate for Powell River-Sunshine Coast, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Public biographical coverage of his campaign and prior elected office is limited as of filing. No earlier provincial, federal, or local candidacy turned up in election trackers checked for this profile.

John Henderson is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Powell River-Sunshine Coast and is finishing his second term as mayor of the District of Sechelt. The party’s candidate page says that in his first term he led the team that designed, funded, and built the award-winning Sechelt Water Resource Centre, and that he was re-elected in 2022. He has chaired the Sunshine Coast Community Forest, served on the BC Ferries board from 2004 to 2008, and chaired the Sechelt Sewage Facilities Commission in partnership with the Sechelt Indian Government District. He received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. He earned a UBC Bachelor of Commerce in 1977 and a chartered accountant designation in 1979, later becoming a Fellow, with nearly 50 years in business including about 20 years based in Hong Kong. He told the Powell River Peak he had decided not to seek another municipal term, then agreed to run provincially after the snap election was called.

Randene Neill is the BC NDP candidate for Powell River-Sunshine Coast and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship in November 2024. A former Global BC journalist and news anchor, she later worked with the BC Parks Foundation and on St. Paul’s Hospital projects, and volunteers with local organizations. She lives in kalpilin/Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast.

Teri Young is the BC Green Party candidate for Prince George-Mackenzie on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. She previously ran for the BC Greens in Skeena in the 2024 provincial election.

Ian McMahon is the BC NDP candidate for Prince George-Mackenzie on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The BC NDP announced him on October 3, 2026, describing a public servant with about three decades in provincial, federal, and international politics, including senior roles in the B.C. government, on Parliament Hill, and at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The party said he has worked on B.C.’s forestry sector, taught political science, managed campaigns and government-relations work, and is a cancer survivor and mental-health advocate.

Kiel Giddens is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Prince George-Mackenzie and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He serves as Official Opposition Critic for Labour. His career includes more than a decade developing B.C.’s LNG industry, including work with TC Energy, and senior government roles as chief of staff to the ministers of Environment and Transportation and Infrastructure. He is a past president of the Prince George Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation board.

Sheldon Clare is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Prince George-North Cariboo and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. Born and raised in Prince George, he holds a B.A. in international relations from UBC and an M.A. in military history from Norwich University. He has worked at the College of New Caledonia since 1993, including as a contract negotiator and board governor, served as a reserve army officer, and was national president of the National Firearms Association.

Denice Bardua is the BC NDP candidate for Prince George-North Cariboo on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The BC NDP announced her on October 3, 2026. The party said she has worked in Aboriginal education with School District 28, spent more than a decade as president of CUPE 4990, served on the Bouchie Lake Fire Commission and Recreation Commission, coordinated Bouchie Lake slow pitch and coached local teams, and served two terms as president of CUPE’s Northern Area District Council.

Randy Thompson is the BC Green Party candidate for Prince George-North Cariboo on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Carol Bourque is the BC NDP candidate for Prince George-Valemount. A Prince George native and longtime public-sector worker, she has more than 30 years of service including about 14 years in Health Information Management with Northern Health. This is her first run for public office; she is challenging incumbent Conservative MLA Rosalyn Bird in the Oct. 24, 2026 election.

Mitchell Lukoni is the OneBC candidate for Prince George-Valemount on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. OneBC’s candidate page says he was born and raised in Prince George and has worked in northern British Columbia. It says he holds a Bachelor of General Studies from Athabasca University, with concentrations in psychology and political philosophy, has volunteered as a UNBC Faculty of Science and Engineering student senator and in child and family grief support with the Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society, has done campaign and organizing work with federal and grassroots Conservative efforts, and works as a business, communications, and policy strategist.

Jodie Capling is the BC Green Party candidate for Prince George-Valemount on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. She grew up near Alexis Creek in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, later made Williams Lake her home, and holds a master’s degree in resource management from Simon Fraser University. She ran unsuccessfully for Williams Lake city council in 2018 and was the Green Party of Canada candidate for Cariboo–Prince George in the 2025 federal election; she has also worked as a yoga instructor and has spoken publicly about climate action and balancing resource economies with sustainability.

Rosalyn Bird is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Prince George-Valemount and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. She has served in shadow cabinet, including as critic for Citizens’ Services. A Canadian Armed Forces veteran with a roughly 22-year career as a boatswain, resource-management clerk, and naval logistics officer, she deployed in support of NATO and Afghanistan operations.

Calvin Dang is the BC Green Party candidate for Richmond Centre on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Lawrence Chen is listed by Elections BC as the Communist Party of Canada (British Columbia) / CWP candidate for Richmond Centre in the 2026 provincial election. Local coverage also identifies him as a 2026 Richmond school-trustee candidate and hunter-safety examiner/instructor. He previously ran provincially in Richmond Centre for other parties (including a 2013 Conservative bid). Detailed independent biography beyond those roles remains limited.

Henry Yao is the BC NDP candidate for Richmond Centre. Born in Taiwan, he immigrated to Canada at age 11 and settled in Richmond. After graduating from Matthew McNair Secondary School he earned a B.A. in psychology from UBC. Following a lymphoma diagnosis in 2004 and remission, he worked in youth services. He ran for Richmond City Council in 2014 (Independent) and 2018 (RITE Richmond) without winning a seat. He was elected MLA for Richmond South Centre in 2020, defeating Liberal Alexa Loo by a narrow margin, and lost when he sought Richmond Centre in 2024 against Conservative Hon Chan. He is running again for the NDP in Richmond Centre in the 2026 provincial election.

Sacha Peter is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Richmond Centre. A Chartered Professional Accountant specializing in corporate taxation and a UBC physics graduate, he has written about Canadian finance, economics, politics, and investing since 2009 and hosts the Late Night Finance show. A Richmond resident, he previously served six years on the Cultus Lake Park Board, including three as chair, where he helped eliminate its budget deficit.

Linda Li is the BC NDP candidate for Richmond-Bridgeport in the 2026 provincial election. Active in Richmond since 1996, she has been involved with the Richmond Chinese Community Society and the Richmond Hospital Foundation and works as managing broker at Metrohome Realty Ltd. She was the NDP’s nominee in the same riding for the 2024 provincial election and was again nominated for 2026.

Teresa Wat is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Richmond-Bridgeport and the sitting MLA since 2013 (including earlier representation of Richmond Centre/related Ridings). She is critic for Multiculturalism and Community Partnerships and previously served as Minister of International Trade and Multiculturalism (2013–2017) under a BC Liberal government; she later moved from BC United to the Conservatives. Before politics she worked in communications and journalism in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Canada, including as news director at Channel M and CEO of Mainstream Broadcasting.

Dhar Grewal is the BC NDP candidate for Richmond-Queensborough on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Public LinkedIn and business profiles identify him as a senior banking leader with Vancity. Beyond the accepted nomination and that professional role, detailed campaign biography in open news sources was limited at the time of this scan.

Steve Kooner is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Richmond-Queensborough and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He serves as Critic for Attorney General. A Vancouver-born lawyer with a J.D. from the University of Calgary and a B.A. in political science from Simon Fraser University, he owns Steve Kooner Law Corporation.

Luc Burns is the BC Green Party candidate for Richmond-Queensborough on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Robert Evans is the Independent candidate for Richmond-Steveston on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Gordon Zhang is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Richmond-Steveston in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Public campaign materials from the party describe him as a teacher and builder and a longtime Richmond resident. Beyond that party introduction, detailed independent biographical coverage was limited at the time of research.

Bruce Kong is the BC NDP candidate for Richmond-Steveston on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election, in a riding where incumbent NDP MLA Kelly Greene is not seeking re-election. Little additional public biographical detail was available from open web sources at the time of this scan beyond his accepted nomination for October 24, 2026.

Barry Wosk is the CentreBC candidate for Richmond-Steveston on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The Richmond Chamber of Commerce lists him on its 2026 board, currently on leave of absence, and identifies him as president of Sound Developments. A detailed campaign biography or record of prior elected office was not found in news coverage at the time of research.

Keenan Yang is the CWP candidate for Richmond-Steveston on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kala Bryson is the BC NDP candidate for Saanich North and the Islands, announced by the party on October 2, 2026 and listed on Elections BC’s accepted nominations. A lawyer and community advocate, the NDP describes her as focused on strengthening public institutions and improving access to justice. Raised in co-op housing, she graduated from the University of Victoria and has dedicated career and volunteer work to making public systems work better for people who rely on them. Party materials also note prior experience connected to Elections BC and the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

Ryan Windsor is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Saanich North and the Islands. He is the former mayor of Central Saanich, where he served about 12 years on council including as mayor, and announced he would not seek another municipal term as he moved to provincial politics.

Emily Lowan is the leader of the BC Green Party and the party’s candidate for Saanich North and the Islands in the 2026 provincial election, running after incumbent Rob Botterell announced he would not seek re-election. Born in 2000 and a University of Victoria graduate in political science and environmental studies, she was elected Green leader in September 2025 and has been described as Canada’s first Gen-Z leader of a major political party. A former climate organizer (including Fossil Fuel Supply Campaigns Lead at Climate Action Network Canada), she has campaigned on taxing extreme wealth, labour rights, climate action, Indigenous rights, and electoral reform.

Dr. Richard Smith is the CentreBC candidate for Saanich North and the Islands. A research scientist and project manager specializing in immunology and microbiology, he earned a Ph.D. from UBC and held an NIH post-doctoral fellowship at Scripps Medical Research Laboratories in California. Early in his career he worked in biotechnology developing patented in-vitro diagnostic tests for human pathogens, with more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and a family of international patents. He later managed multi-national life-science projects for Defence Research and Development Canada and the Canadian Forces Health Services Group on vaccines and antiviral countermeasures, led a NATO study group, and headed a bio-chem risk assessment team ahead of the 2010 Olympics. He has worked with the BC Ministry of Health and other provinces on biologic-drug cost strategies, served as a contact tracer and case manager with Island Health during COVID-19, and volunteered with Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue in Sidney and on international medical and housing missions.

Cathie Ounsted is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Saanich South. A longtime Peninsula resident and business owner/controller at Ounsted and Company, her background includes Victoria Police, director of operations at Thrifty Foods, Central Saanich council (2011–2014), the Peninsula Co-op board, and chair of the Victoria Airport Authority (2022–2024). She has also volunteered in youth sports.

Lisa Lapointe is the BC Green Party candidate for Saanich South in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Leader Emily Lowan announced the candidacy on October 1, 2026, as the party released its toxic-drugs policy, and Lapointe is listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. She was British Columbia’s chief coroner from 2011 until 2024, overseeing investigations of unnatural and unexpected deaths and arguing that evidence and public-health data should guide the response to drug-related deaths. A UBC law graduate, she joined the public service in 1995 and later worked with the Coroners Service and the Civil Forfeiture Office. She chaired the Canadian Forum of Chief Coroners and Chief Medical Examiners and BCIT’s Forensic Science and Technology Program Advisory Committee. In 2017, with the First Nations Health Authority, she committed the Coroners Service to cultural safety and humility, described as the first provincial agency to make that public commitment.

Richard Zussman is the BC NDP candidate for Saanich South. A former CBC and Global BC legislative reporter and six-time Jack Webster Award recipient, he co-authored A Matter of Confidence and holds a master’s in broadcast journalism from Syracuse and a bachelor’s from Queen’s University. He serves on boards for the Lakehill Baseball and Fastball Association and the Victoria Curling Club.

David L. Williams is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. A longtime Shuswap–North Okanagan resident, his career spans HVAC and small business, residential and commercial real estate, property assessment, and insurance loss control/appraisal. He has also coached youth sports and served on local boards and assessment panels.

Barbara Presch is the OneBC candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Public biographical detail beyond the accepted nomination is limited in open sources; she is OneBC’s accepted nominee in the Shuswap riding for October 24, 2026.

Jed Wiebe is the BC Green Party candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap, returning after he ran for the party there in 2024, when he received 2,250 votes (about 7.1 percent). A 2024 party biography described him as a lifelong Shuswap resident and co-owner of an organic elderberry farm, with a background in sociology and social anthropology from Dalhousie University and experience in the silviculture industry. The party said he has campaigned for biodiversity and ecosystem health through Neighbours United. He is again on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 election.

Denise Reimer is the CentreBC candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Gloria Morgan is the BC NDP candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap. She lives in Enderby and is a former Kukpi7 (chief) of the Splatsin First Nation, serving two terms beginning in 2001 after her father, William Edwards. The Salmon Arm Observer reported that she and her siblings were taken in the Sixties Scoop after her mother was sent to residential school. She served about 11 years as an RCMP officer, then practised law for about seven years before becoming chief. She has been a federal adjudicator for Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, an Elder Knowledge Keeper for School District 83, and one of the first members of the Elders and Knowledge Keepers Council of the B.C. First Nations Justice Council. She received a B.C. Reconciliation Award in 2024. In the 2025 federal election she was the Liberal candidate in Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay.

Nick Gottlieb is the BC Green Party candidate for Skeena. A writer, researcher, and community organizer based in Terrace for about five years, he is an SFU PhD candidate researching the political economy of Canada’s LNG industry and helped establish the Skeena Local Action Network. Campaign materials emphasize health care, housing, affordability, and reducing corporate influence in public policy.

Larry Eugene Taylor is the OneBC candidate for Skeena on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Sarah Zimmerman is the BC NDP candidate for Skeena and a Terrace city councillor. A communications consultant and former journalist, she was executive director of communications at Coast Mountain College (2014–2021) and has worked across public, corporate, nonprofit, and small-business sectors. She finished second in Skeena in the 2024 provincial election.

Claire Rattée is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Skeena and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. She serves as critic for mental health, addictions, and social housing. Born in Delta and based in Kitimat since 2011, she co-owned Arcane Arts tattoo studio, served on Kitimat City Council (2014–2018), and ran federally as a Conservative in 2019 and 2021.

Raman Sharma is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey City Centre in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. CentreBC named him in late September 2026, and he is listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. He is president of the Tradesmen Association of BC, which he founded in 2016. No prior provincial, federal, or local candidacy was found in public election records reviewed for this profile.

Oliver Wildfong is the OneBC candidate for Surrey City Centre on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Amna Shah is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey City Centre and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She serves as Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health and Addictions and for Anti-Racism Initiatives, and as Deputy Government Whip. She has lived in Surrey for nearly 20 years, previously worked as Outreach Director for the BC Government Caucus, and served on the Surrey Food Bank board.

Zeeshan Wahla is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Surrey City Centre. A Surrey-based professional engineer and entrepreneur, he runs an engineering consulting business and is registered as a P.Eng. in four provinces. He arrived in Canada in 2007 and previously ran for the Conservatives in the riding in 2024. Stated campaign priorities include health care, education, public safety, and affordability.

Sahib Thind (Sahib Singh Thind) is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey North in the 2026 provincial election. A Surrey-based community activist born in Punjab in 1961 and a Canadian resident since 1983, he is known for campaigning for the federal Komagata Maru apology and for organizing Surrey’s long-running Ghadri Babiyan Da Mela commemorating South Asian elders who fought racism and colonial rule. He has also advocated for recognition of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and has declined colonial honours, including a King Charles III Coronation Medal.

Yudhbir Gill is the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey North on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Little additional public biographical information about his work, community roles, or prior campaigns was found in news or party profiles at the time of research.

Jag Bhandari is the Unaffiliated candidate for Surrey North on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Tanya Gupta is the OneBC candidate for Surrey North, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. OneBC’s page, posted before this filing, describes her as a notary public and business owner. Since 2019 she has owned Tanya Gupta Notary Corporation and has also managed SSTG Gas Station. She holds a Master of Applied Legal Studies from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Computer Applications. The party says that client and small-business work is what she would bring to public office. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Surrey North and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He moved from Punjab to Surrey in his 20s and built Fixman Auto Glass Repair and Fixman Auto Glass Supplier. A former national-level kabaddi athlete and BC Sikh Motorcycle Club member, he has helped raise more than $200,000 for charities including BC Cancer and Khalsa Aid.

Parm Bhandol is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey North on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Bill McConnell (full name William McConnell on Elections BC filings) is listed as the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey South in the 2026 provincial election. Detailed independent biographical coverage beyond the accepted nomination remains limited.

Parik Tahlan is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey South in the 2026 provincial election. A Vancouver-area security professional, he has served as Country Security Manager (Canada) with Pinkerton and holds ASIS Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Physical Security Professional (PSP) designations, along with an LLM in corporate law and an MBA. He has been active as an NDP volunteer in Lower Mainland canvassing and community events.

Elenore Sturko is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey South and the party’s leader. First elected in a 2022 Surrey South by-election, she later represented Surrey-Cloverdale after redistribution and was elected as a Conservative in 2024 before being removed from that caucus; she sat as an Independent and joined CentreBC in September 2026. She announced she would return to campaign in Surrey South—where she lives and was first elected—for the October 24 snap election. A former RCMP officer, she has emphasized constituency casework across Surrey South and Cloverdale and positions CentreBC as a centrist alternative between the NDP and Conservatives.

Megan Knight is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Surrey South. A White Rock resident for more than 46 years, she worked as a notary public for about 25 years, served on White Rock City Council (2014–2018), and was elected mayor in 2022. She has also sat on Metro Vancouver and TransLink boards and community and notary-sector boards.

Denis R Hurtubise is an Independent candidate for Surrey South in the October 24, 2026 BC provincial election. Elections BC’s accepted-candidate list previously showed him under OneBC; as of the October 3, 2026 8:00pm update the affiliation field is blank (treated as Independent, consistent with other no-party listings). He remains on the accepted nomination list with a financial agent on file.

Stephen Dooley is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale in the 2026 provincial election. Originally from Ontario, he taught sociology and criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University from the 1990s, directed KPU’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, and later served as KPU’s director of community engagement. He became executive director of SFU Surrey in 2013 and has deep Surrey community ties, including chairing the Surrey Board of Trade and contributing to municipal social-policy and poverty-reduction work. He has lived in the White Rock/South Surrey area.

Travis Marchenski is the OneBC candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. He is listed on Elections BC’s candidate report stamped October 2, 2026. No prior provincial, federal, or local candidacy, and no substantial public biography, was found in sources reviewed for this profile.

Sargy Chima is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Pat McCutcheon is the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale. A retired professional engineer who ran a consulting business for about 25 years, he has lived in Cloverdale for more than two decades. He became involved with the Greens around 2019, citing concerns about climate change, the cost of living, health care, and education capacity in fast-growing Surrey. He was the Green candidate in Surrey-Cloverdale in the 2024 provincial election and is running again for the party in 2026. Public campaign materials from 2024 highlighted his focus on proactive school planning, community health-care units, and affordability measures.

Nicholas Cartmell is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale. The Cloverdale Reporter reported that the party named him on September 29, 2026 as part of a full 10-candidate Surrey slate. His public professional biography says he has spent about 20 years building partnerships and teams across corporate, public, and nonprofit organizations, including award-winning marketing and digital programs at TELUS and service as CEO of the BC Sports Hall of Fame. He describes launching a digital stadium fan experience at BC Place and fundraising to build an Indigenous Sport Gallery. Detailed independent news profiles of the candidacy were limited at the time of research.

Jagrup Brar is the sitting BC NDP MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood and Minister of Mining and Critical Minerals. Born in Punjab, India, and a former member of India’s national basketball team, he moved to Canada to study (MPA, University of Manitoba) and worked in career and entrepreneurship development in Surrey, including as executive director of SEEDS. First elected in a 2004 Surrey-Panorama Ridge by-election, he has represented Surrey-Fleetwood in multiple terms (with a 2013–2017 interruption) and previously served as Minister of State for Trade. He is seeking re-election in 2026.

Paul Brar is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-Fleetwood. Indo-Canadian Voice reported that leader Elenore Sturko announced him on September 24, 2026. He has lived in Surrey for more than 30 years and has been a licensed realtor since 1988. He came to Canada in 1983, started work as a shingle sawyer in Mission, and earned a diploma in urban land economics from UBC in 1999. Before immigrating he attended DAV College in Jalandhar and Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana. He grew up on a farm, has volunteered on municipal, provincial, and federal campaigns, and has raised four children in Surrey.

Carolyn Hofbauer is the OneBC candidate for Surrey-Fleetwood on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. She grew up in Surrey’s Newton neighbourhood, attended Frank Hurt Secondary, and later studied music, English, and history at what is now Kwantlen Polytechnic University while working as a substitute teacher. Much of her early career was in restaurants, including as a chef at Fresgo Inn and nearly a decade as head chef at The Vault Restaurant in Cloverdale. She now manages BC Firearms Academy with her husband and is raising their son in Surrey; OneBC presents her as a lifelong Surrey resident, mother, and small-business owner. She has volunteered on political campaigns since college.

Tim Binnema is the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey-Fleetwood, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is a repeat Green standard-bearer in the same riding: third in 2024 (1,321 votes, 6.5 percent), third in 2017 (2,004 votes, 9.7 percent), and third in 2013 (1,147 votes, 5.8 percent). His 2024 campaign finance report showed roughly $225 raised and $476 spent. Additional public biographical detail beyond his Green candidacies remains limited.

Garry Purewal is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Fleetwood in the 2026 provincial election. Public business profiles identify him as a produce-industry executive, including as COO of sales and marketing at Everything Produce Inc., with earlier work in sales, marketing, operations, and purchasing connected to the Purewal family’s blueberry and produce businesses. Party announcements in late September 2026 named him as part of the Conservatives’ full Surrey slate.

Jodi Murphy is the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey-Guildford. She has run for the Greens in the riding before (including 2017 and 2020). Raised in Winnipeg and long based in B.C., she studied at Capilano College and UBC and has worked in lab services since 2002, including as operations manager for an SFU research lab at Surrey Memorial Hospital around the 2020 campaign.

Garry Thind (also listed as Gurpreet “Gary” Thind) is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Guildford. A Surrey resident for more than 27 years, he has served as a Surrey School Board trustee for about 12 years and as board vice-chair, sitting on committees including learning liaison, budget, and principal/vice-principal selection. He is a realtor with Century 21 Coastal Realty and previously worked in sales and marketing management. He has been president of the Rotary Club of Surrey and heads the B.C. region of the Pingalwara Society of Ontario, a charity for which he has helped raise millions since 2002. He and his wife Nav have three children. The Conservatives announced him among their Surrey candidates for the October 24, 2026 election.

James Yaroshuk is the Unaffiliated candidate for Surrey-Guildford on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Garry Begg is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-Guildford and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2020 and 2024. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Surrey Infrastructure in July 2025 and previously served as Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and as Government Whip. Before politics he spent more than 38 years with the RCMP, including his final eight years in Surrey in roles such as district commander, watch commander, and operations support officer.

Harman Preet Singh is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-Newton on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Harj Dhaliwal is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Newton on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Surrey-based construction-industry executive with Kanin Construction Management, he previously spent about eleven years teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and nearly five years as Associate Dean of Marketing Management at BCIT. He holds a BA in Political Science (Western University), an MBA (University of Victoria), and a PhD in organizational behaviour/leadership (Capella University). He has long volunteered in Surrey soccer as a coach, club executive, and former chair of the South Fraser District Association, and has served as an appointed director on the BC SPCA board.

Jessie Sunner is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-Newton and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills in July 2025 after serving as Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives. Before politics she was a human-rights lawyer and trade unionist with the Hospital Employees’ Union. She holds a B.A. in criminology from Simon Fraser University and a law degree from the University of Calgary.

Nolen Scott is listed by Elections BC as the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey-Panorama in the 2026 provincial election. Detailed independent biographical coverage beyond the accepted nomination remains limited.

Manav Manro is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-Panorama on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election (candidate report stamped October 3, 2026, 5:00 p.m.). His filing appears on the Elections BC update after the prior 4:00 p.m. stamp; tracker listings such as BC Ballot and BCPoliTracker show him as CentreBC’s filed nominee alongside Conservative incumbent Bryan Tepper, NDP candidate Jinny Sims, and Green candidate Nolen Scott. CentreBC’s public materials and local news coverage reviewed at the time of research did not yet carry an independent profile of his occupation or prior candidacy.

Jinny Sims is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-Panorama. A teacher and former president of the BC Teachers’ Federation, she previously served as NDP MP for Newton–North Delta and as MLA for Surrey-Panorama, including as Minister of Citizens’ Services. Party materials for 2026 highlight priorities such as completing Surrey’s new hospital, school capacity, and support for first-time homebuyers.

Bryan Tepper is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Surrey-Panorama and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. A retired RCMP officer who served about a decade in Surrey, he was treasurer of the Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada. He lives in Ocean Park and campaigns on public safety, health-care reform, and natural-resource development.

Sikander Kang is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-Serpentine River in the 2026 provincial election. A registered physiotherapist with more than a decade of experience, he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physiotherapy and manages five Lower Mainland physiotherapy clinics. He has served as a member-at-large on the board of Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) Society and was financial agent for Jagrup Brar’s 2024 Surrey-Fleetwood NDP campaign.

Judy Higginbotham is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-Serpentine River on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. BC Ballot lists five earlier candidacies for a Judy Higginbotham and none elected: BC Liberal in Surrey-Whalley in 1996, and Liberal in the federal South Surrey–White Rock area in 1988, 2004, 2008, and 2015. A current occupation was not found in the sources checked for this update.

Errol Povah is the Freedom Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Serpentine River on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Queensborough/Nanaimo-area resident, he is a Royal Canadian Navy veteran and retired BC Ferries second (navigating) officer after about 30 years with the ferry corporation. He ran as an Independent in Richmond-Queensborough in the 2024 provincial election, campaigning on education, health care and opposition to carbon taxes and certain education and public-health policies. Media coverage in 2026 has also linked him to activism around municipal Pride crosswalk disputes involving Freedom Party figures.

Jessy Sahota is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Serpentine River in the 2026 provincial election. A Delta Police Department officer and recruiting officer who has lived and coached in Delta, he was named among the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s top 40 under 40 and has volunteered extensively with youth sports and the Yo-Bro Yo-Girl Youth Initiative. A multi-sport athlete in wrestling, jiu-jitsu, and kabaddi, he previously ran federally for the Conservative Party of Canada in Delta in 2025.

Todd Holowchak is the OneBC candidate for Surrey-Serpentine River on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. In September 2025, The Hub identified him as president of the Conservative Party of BC’s Surrey-Serpentine River riding association and quoted a July letter in which he criticized that year’s leadership-review process, including riding-specific ballot boxes and membership lists, as creating an impression of undue influence. A detailed OneBC campaign biography or independent profile of his occupation was not found.

Waqas Rana is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-White Rock on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Amanda James is the OneBC candidate for Surrey-White Rock in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. She is listed on Elections BC’s candidate report stamped October 2, 2026. No prior provincial, federal, or local candidacy, and no substantial public biography, was found in sources reviewed for this profile.

Christine Kinnie is the BC Green Party candidate for Surrey-White Rock in the 2026 provincial election. A secondary school secretary living in South Surrey with family roots in Ocean Park and White Rock, she previously ran federally for the Green Party of Canada in South Surrey—White Rock in 2025. She chairs the board of South Fraser Unitarians and has emphasized housing affordability, fair taxation, health care, and disability justice.

Kevin Diakiw is an Independent candidate for Surrey-White Rock. Peace Arch News reported on October 2, 2026 that the former Surrey journalist is running without a party. The paper described him as an award-winning journalist who left news in 2017 for addiction and recovery work and is now a local business owner. The Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society named him a “Hero of the Homeless” in 2017 for reporting that helped residents understand homelessness. He has said addiction and recovery reform, emergency-room waits, family-doctor access, public safety, and housing will be central to his campaign, and that he is running as an Independent so he answers to the riding rather than a party.

Trevor Halford is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Surrey-White Rock and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. Born and raised in South Surrey, he attended Elgin Park Secondary and Trinity Western University. He previously worked in the Legislative Assembly, including as chief of staff to cabinet ministers, and as director of public affairs for TransCanada Pipelines. He has also served as interim leader of the BC Conservatives.

Darryl Walker is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-White Rock. He was mayor of White Rock from 2018 to 2022 and is a past president of the B.C. General Employees’ Union. Coverage of his 2024 nomination said that as mayor he led the city through the pandemic and worked on housing, mental health, and addiction services. He was the NDP candidate in 2024 and lost to Conservative Trevor Halford, taking about 45.3 percent to Halford’s 52.3 percent, a margin of 1,969 votes. In an October 2026 party statement he said he is running again to work on affordable homes, public health care, and the services families count on.

Aman Singh is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview and president of the BC NDP (since November 2025). Born in Punjab, India, he grew up partly in Hong Kong before studying physics and anthropology at UC Berkeley and earning a law degree from the University of Victoria. He practised human and civil rights law and lived for many years in Richmond before moving to Delta’s Sunshine Hills. He first ran for Richmond-Queensborough in 2017, won the seat in 2020—becoming the first turban-wearing Sikh elected as a B.C. MLA—and served as Parliamentary Secretary for Environment (2022–2024). He lost Richmond-Queensborough in 2024 and was confirmed as the NDP’s Vancouver-Fraserview candidate in September 2026 after longtime MLA George Chow stepped aside from the nomination.

Deep Singh Sandhu is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election, set to face NDP nominee Aman Singh. Party and local reporting describe him as a businessman and volunteer with Guru Nanak Free Kitchen. Public biographical detail beyond that community-volunteer and business profile is limited; he is the Conservatives’ accepted nominee in the NDP-held riding for October 24, 2026.

Françoise Raunet is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview. A Vancouver public-school teacher, including French Immersion and curriculum/assessment support roles with the Vancouver School Board, she holds an M.A. in International Studies from SFU and has lived and worked in France, Oregon, and Taipei. She has also worked in retail and community services in Vancouver.

Niki Sharma is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Hastings and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She is Deputy Premier and Attorney General of British Columbia. A lawyer who previously represented Indigenous clients including residential-school survivors, she has also advocated on climate, reconciliation, and anti-racism issues.

Christian Bosio is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Hastings in the 2026 provincial election. Public industry profiles identify him as a longtime leader at Burnaby-based Greenlight Innovation, a manufacturer of hydrogen fuel-cell and electrolyzer test equipment, where he served as managing director (and has been described as a co-founder/COO) over an roughly 18-year chapter that closed in 2026. In that role he spoke publicly about enabling clean-energy customers to commercialize fuel-cell and electrolysis technologies safely and at scale.

Phil Webb is the Libertarian candidate for Vancouver-Hastings on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. On the BC Libertarian Party’s 2026 candidate page he says he has no legal training and has never held public office, was born and raised in B.C., and that his children are sixth-generation Vancouverites. His posted priorities are housing costs, taxation, government spending, and repeal of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

Kyra Philbert is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Hastings on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Vancouver-based registered nurse (since 2015), performance artist, and scholar, she completed a bilingual BScN at the University of Alberta and later earned an MSN and a BA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC, with thesis work on race and nursing. She is board president of ZeeZee Theatre Company, a queer not-for-profit storytelling organization, and has been active in community arts and social-justice advocacy alongside her clinical work.

Phyllis Tang is the Conservative Party candidate for Vancouver-Hastings on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Kimball Cariou is the Communist Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Hastings, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He edited People’s Voice from its 1993 launch until July 2019. The party’s 2024 materials called him Communist Party of BC leader; delegates elected Robert Crooks leader at the July 2025 convention. Those materials say he was born in Saskatoon on Treaty 6 territory, with Métis and European settler ancestry, and moved to east Vancouver in 1993. Provincial runs include Vancouver-Hastings in 2017 (206 votes) and 2020 (184) and Vancouver-Strathcona in 2024 (336); he also ran federally in Vancouver East in 2025 (329 votes).

Mable Elmore is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Kensington and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2009—the first person of Filipino heritage elected to the B.C. Legislature—and re-elected in 2013, 2017, 2020, and 2024. In 2025 she became Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. She has served as Parliamentary Secretary for Poverty Reduction, Seniors Services and Long Term Care, and Anti-Racism Initiatives. Before politics she worked about 10 years as a transit operator and was active in Canadian Auto Workers Local 111; she attended the University of British Columbia and has long lived in Vancouver.

Adam Hawk is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Kensington, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He previously ran for the Greens in Vancouver-South Granville in the 2024 provincial election, finishing third with 2,872 votes (10.7 percent) and raising about $1,024. Public biographical detail beyond his prior Green candidacy remains limited.

Aron Lageri (also known as Aronjit Lageri) is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Kensington on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. He has more than 22 years in health care, beginning as a medical imaging technologist at BC Children’s Hospital and later holding senior leadership roles including manager of the False Creek Surgical Centre. He has recruited young people into health-science programs and served on the board of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Radiology and a postgraduate certificate in Long-Term Care Administration. He previously ran for the Conservatives in Vancouver-South Granville in the 2024 provincial election (about 6,678 votes / 25.0%, second place).

Alan Beesley is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Langara on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

John Atoyebi is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Langara on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. The party’s candidate page describes him as a lawyer, former judge, public-sector investigator and community leader, with an LL.B. and LL.M. in Common Law and a Master of Intellectual Property and Development Policy; he is also pursuing an LL.M. at UBC’s Allard School of Law focused on recidivism among previously incarcerated Canadians. In 2026 he received a BC Achievement Foundation Community Award for community service. Coverage of that award identifies him as John Kehinde Atoyebi and notes his advocacy with the British Columbia Black Advocacy Society and the African-Canadian Agricultural Producers Cooperative, plus service on the City of Vancouver’s Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee and Vancouver Heritage Commission.

Jaime Stein is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for Vancouver-Langara. A business and nonprofit executive and former broadcast journalist, he has held senior roles at companies including Hootsuite, BroadbandTV, ICUC, and Taplytics, and leads Western Canada operations for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. He holds an MBA from Rotman, a journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, and studied political science at McGill.

Sunita Dhir is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Langara and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for International Credentials in November 2024. A longtime South Vancouver/Marpole resident, she worked as a language instructor at SUCCESS helping newcomers learn English. She holds an M.Sc. and B.Ed. from Panjab University and a TESOL certificate from Vancouver Community College.

Christine Boyle is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Little Mountain and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She became Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs in July 2025 after serving as Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. Before provincial politics she was a Vancouver city councillor (2018–2024), focused on rental, co-op, and non-market housing.

Sarah MacLeod is the BC Green candidate for Vancouver-Little Mountain, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. She is her own financial agent; the address on the list is the party’s Victoria post-office box. The BC Green candidate page had not posted a biography for her at the time of this profile. The name is common, and no biography could be tied to this candidacy with confidence. No earlier candidacy in this riding turned up in records checked. Detailed public biographical coverage beyond the nomination filing remains limited.

Alex (Alexander) Muir is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Little Mountain on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Born in Vancouver, he grew up partly in Victoria and elsewhere in Canada before returning to finish high school in Vancouver. A rugby athlete who has represented Team BC and earned a Canada U20 cap, he studied at University College Dublin before completing a political science degree at UBC. He worked as a communications staffer in the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition in Ottawa, helping with speeches, press releases and Question Period materials on housing, forestry and resources.

Michael Davis is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Point Grey and serves as the party’s secretary. A retired strategic-communications, government-relations, and stakeholder-engagement professional, he managed campaigns at municipal, provincial, and federal levels and was director of communications for Canada’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General. He holds a master’s in professional communications from Royal Roads University and has extensive nonprofit board experience.

Alex McMillan is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Point Grey, challenging Premier David Eby. A Vancouver business executive and policy consultant, he served as interim CEO of the BC Chamber of Commerce from mid-2025 into early 2026 during a leadership transition, after supporting the Chamber’s policy work for several years. He has also worked as a senior public-affairs adviser with the Mining Association of BC, held government-relations roles in the forestry sector, and founded consultancy McMillan Solutions. Party materials describe him as a Vancouver dad focused on getting B.C. building again.

Beatrice Sharpe is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Point Grey on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

David Eby is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Point Grey, the sitting MLA (first elected in 2013), and Premier of British Columbia since November 18, 2022. Before politics he was a human-rights lawyer, executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, UBC adjunct law professor, and president of the HIV/AIDS Legal Network. Earlier cabinet roles included Attorney General.

Callista Ryan is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena. A communications professional and youth advocate, she sits on the BC Council for Families board and has co-chaired BC Young New Democrats. Raised in Squamish and educated at Western University as a Loran Scholar, she also ran for the NDP in the riding in 2024.

Dallas Brodie is the OneBC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena and the party’s interim leader. She is the sitting MLA for the riding, first elected on October 19, 2024, as a Conservative, with 11,464 votes (51.6 percent), succeeding Kevin Falcon. She placed fourth in the April 30, 2022 Vancouver-Quilchena by-election as the Conservative candidate, with 698 votes (6.6 percent). Born in Vancouver on February 7, 1962, she holds a B.A. in political science from Princeton University, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and a broadcasting-journalism certificate from BCIT, and studied for a time at the University of Paris. She has worked as a criminal defence lawyer on Legal Aid youth cases, as a Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator for about a decade until 2017, and in broadcasting as a CBC producer in Toronto and Ottawa, at CKNW in Vancouver, and as a weekly host on UBC’s CITR-FM. She was the Conservative attorney general critic from November 20, 2024, until March 7, 2025, when leader John Rustad expelled her from caucus. Rustad said she had used her platform as an MLA to mock testimony from victims alleging abuse, including child sexual abuse, after posts and remarks about residential schools that Indigenous organizations condemned as denialism. On June 9, 2025, she and fellow independent MLA Tara Armstrong launched OneBC, with Brodie as interim leader. The party board removed her as leader on December 13, 2025; she was reinstated on December 21 after that board, including Armstrong, resigned. OneBC’s site still lists her as interim leader and as its Vancouver-Quilchena candidate. A recall petition against her, approved in May 2026, failed in July 2026 with 3,663 signatures, short of the 15,232 required. She lives in the riding and has two children.

Carson Binda is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena. The Western Standard reported that the party named him on September 29, 2026 to run against OneBC leader and incumbent Dallas Brodie, who won the seat for the Conservatives in 2024 before being removed from that caucus in 2025. The same report described Binda as the former British Columbia director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, where he argued for lower taxes, accountable government, and responsible public spending, and said he has worked on municipal, provincial, and federal campaigns and served as a logistics officer in the army reserve.

Petra Kuret is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena, where she has lived for more than 40 years. She began her career as a Parliamentary Page in the House of Commons and worked for MPs in Canada and the UK. She spent about 25 years at Accenture, becoming Managing Partner for British Columbia in 2012, later served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Transformation at Vancity, and in 2021 joined a Silicon Valley AI B Corp (SkyHive) focused on workforce upskilling. Recognized among Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women (2016 and 2017), she received the King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2025 for community service. She has chaired MOSAIC’s board and served on boards including BC Women’s Hospital, and has worked to secure provincial funding for a new long-term care home. She holds an Honours B.A. in Political Science from Carleton and ICD.D/GCB.D governance designations. In 2025 she sought the federal Liberal nomination in Vancouver Quadra.

Douglas Courtemanche is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is a plastic surgeon and clinical professor in UBC’s Division of Plastic Surgery, and an investigator and director of the Vascular Anomalies Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital, with research in cleft and craniofacial care, surgical safety, and planetary health. He has also written and spoken on climate and health through outlets such as Healthy Debate and Doctors for Planetary Health–West Coast. No earlier provincial candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Rebecca Haber is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Renfrew in the October 24, 2026 provincial election. She is listed on Elections BC’s candidate report stamped October 2, 2026. No prior provincial, federal, or local candidacy was found in public election records reviewed for this profile, and a party biography tying this nomination to a specific career was not located.

Tom Ikonomou is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Renfrew, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party’s candidate page says he was born in Montreal to Greek parents, moved to B.C. at age eight, and has lived in Vancouver since 2016. He ran restaurants for 18 years, has worked as a licensed REALTOR® since 2008, holds film-industry security experience and a BC security licence since 2018, and is an Army veteran and former volunteer firefighter; he serves as treasurer of AHEPA Chapter CJ31 in Burnaby. He previously ran for the Conservatives in Vancouver-Renfrew in 2024 (about 5,327 votes, 30.7 percent).

Lisa Prescott is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Renfrew. Her background includes senior public-sector and operations leadership: vice-president of operations at Technical Safety BC and City of Vancouver roles including director of strategic operations planning and program management. She holds an M.Sc. in engineering/industrial management from the University of Alberta and a B.Sc. in industrial engineering from the University of Manitoba.

Adrian Dix is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Renfrew and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2005 (previously Vancouver-Kingsway) and repeatedly re-elected. He served as Minister of Health from 2017 to November 2024, including through the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions and Minister responsible for Francophone Affairs. He was Leader of the Official Opposition from 2011 to 2014.

Lara Honrado is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-South Granville on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Vancouver public-policy and communications professional, she previously co-founded and led the Ouano Foundation (including as CEO, focused on digital human rights) and has worked on City of Vancouver equity and cultural-services initiatives, including COVID-19 multilingual anti-racism awareness work. Detailed coverage of her provincial nomination beyond the Elections BC filing remains limited.

Salvatore Vetro is the OneBC candidate for Vancouver-South Granville in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. His OneBC profile describes him as a HandyDART driver for 25 years, a co-founder of the Kitsilano Showers Program (a weekly service for unhoused neighbours it says has run for more than 20 years), a participant in the 2011 Fight HST campaign, and the operator for about 20 years of a small business that supported local artists and shops. News coverage has called him a retired HandyDART driver and local actor, financial agent for Bill Vander Zalm’s anti-HST campaign ahead of the 2011 referendum, and founder in 2010 of the BC First Party, which did not elect candidates. In 2020 he ran as an Independent in Vancouver-Kensington and finished fourth with 202 votes (about 1%). In January 2023 Elections BC approved his recall petition against Premier David Eby in Vancouver-Point Grey; like other modern B.C. recall petitions, it did not remove the MLA.

Lisa Phillips is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-South Granville in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. She is also a Richmond Conservative candidate for Richmond city council in the October 17, 2026 municipal election. Richmond News reported that her municipal nomination papers list her home address as Vancouver. No prior completed provincial, federal, or local candidacy was found in records reviewed for this profile.

Colin Smith is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-South Granville, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. CentreBC says he owns a construction-management firm in Kitsilano, studied law, international relations, and sociology, and has lived in the riding for more than 30 years. He has served on community boards, including the Kitsilano Area Childcare Society, and is raising a young family in the area. Stated priorities include affordability, homeownership, health care, and education. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Maria J. Cruz is the BC Green candidate for Vancouver-South Granville, filed with Elections BC as Maria J Cruz for the October 24, 2026 election. The party describes her as an artist, educator, public servant, and community advocate, and as a longtime renter in the riding. She grew up in Mount Pleasant and has lived in South Granville for 15 years. She works as an outreach worker in the Vancouver School Board’s adult-education program, helping newcomers and lifelong learners. She holds a bachelor’s degree in theatre and art history from the University of British Columbia and a master of museum studies from the University of Toronto, has written arts policy as a culture and heritage planner, and has worked as a collections-care consultant. A member of UBCP/ACTRA for nearly 30 years, she has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and director, and has performed a one-woman show at the Azores International Fringe Festival. She is a breast cancer survivor. Stated priorities include renter protections, social housing, health care, and a climate-resilient community. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Tanya Webking is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Amanda Burrows is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona. She is executive director of First United in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, with roughly 15–20 years in nonprofit and community leadership. She holds degrees in art history (University of Victoria) and museum studies (University of Toronto) and has previously been associated with Pivot Legal Society. The riding’s 2026 contest follows the vacancy after Joan Phillip’s death.

Jordan Zheng McIntosh is the Conservative Party candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Robert Crooks is the Communist Party of Canada (British Columbia) candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona and the party’s provincial leader. People’s Voice reported that delegates elected him leader at the party’s 45th B.C. convention in Vancouver on July 5–6, 2025. Originally from Manitoba, he has organized on the west coast since late 2023. He was the party’s candidate in Victoria-Swan Lake in the October 2024 provincial election and a Communist candidate in the Victoria area in the 2025 federal election. In a 2024 Times Colonist questionnaire he said he had worked at a youth-serving nonprofit in Winnipeg’s North End and as an English teacher for newcomers and refugees, and described himself as a long-time tenant organizer and peace activist.

Dion Weisner is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-West End, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. The party says he is a senior staffer in the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition, working in policy and research. After a serious injury he has described how hard it was to get through urgent and primary care, and health care is a stated priority. Before that role he worked in sales and marketing at Harbour Air and on game operations for University of Victoria basketball and the Victoria HarbourCats. He has been with his husband, Robert, for 14 years. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Spencer Chandra Herbert is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-West End and the sitting MLA, first elected in a 2008 by-election and repeatedly re-elected. He became Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation in July 2025 after serving as Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport. Before politics he was an artist and performing-arts producer and a Vancouver Park Board commissioner, known for advocacy on renter rights, homelessness, and the arts.

Scott MacDonald (Donald Scott MacDonald) is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-West End. A recently retired physician and longtime downtown Vancouver resident, he practised medicine for more than three decades, including about 20 years in downtown Vancouver with a focus on primary care and addictions medicine through 2026. His career included work in northern Manitoba and Nunavut, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C care, methadone maintenance, service as medical director of Casey House Hospice in Toronto, work at St. Paul’s and Wellesley hospitals, and earlier service as a physician with the Canadian military in Halifax. He holds an Honours B.Sc. in biochemistry from Mount Allison University and an M.D. from Dalhousie University, with a rotating internship at the University of Ottawa. In 2025 he was the Green Party of Canada candidate in Vancouver Centre. Party materials emphasize accessible health care, safe neighbourhoods, and sustainability.

Margareta Dovgal is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A downtown Vancouver-based economic commentator and policy analyst, she has written national columns, given broadcast commentary and testified before parliamentary committees on economic issues. She co-founded and ran the Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase, and has been involved with the BC Schizophrenia Society and the Rotary Club of Vancouver Waterfront. She holds a BA in Asian Area Studies from UBC and a Master of Public Administration from University College London.

Sam Chandola (also known as Samarth Chandola) is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown. A Vancouver-based entrepreneur and investor, he founded companies including V2 Games, Openspot Technologies, and Pepper Esports, and founded First Fund, a pre-seed investment fund. He has coached entrepreneurs at UBC and SFU and previously ran provincially as a Conservative in North Vancouver-Seymour.

Priyan Samarakoone is the BC Green candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is a Vancouver lawyer at EQ Law focused on housing and civil litigation. The firm says he spent seven years with Access Pro Bono, completed a biology B.Sc. at UBC in 2006 and an honours LL.B. at Nottingham Law School in 2008, and was called to the B.C. bar in 2013. It also cites United Nations project work in Sri Lanka in 2004 and on access to justice in 2009, and a pro bono family-mediation program he helped start in Vancouver in 2018. A January 2023 Province op-ed identified him as chair of the Vancouver Green Party board. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Timothy Webster is the Unaffiliated candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Terry Yung is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. He was appointed Minister of State for Community Safety and Integrated Services in November 2024. A senior Vancouver Police Department officer before politics, he also served on boards including Covenant House Vancouver, Big Brothers, JIBC, and SUCCESS. He holds a B.A. from USC and an M.A. from Royal Roads University.

Kevin Acton is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vernon-Lumby on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election, challenging NDP incumbent Harwinder Sandhu. He has been mayor of Lumby since 2009 and is also seeking another municipal term in October 2026; if elected MLA he has said a municipal by-election would follow and that he would cover related costs. In 2024 he began as a BC United candidate, continued as an Independent after that party suspended its campaign, and finished third. The Conservatives appointed him for the 2026 rematch, citing decades of local government experience in the North Okanagan.

Blair Visscher is the BC Green Party candidate for Vernon-Lumby on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. BC Ballot records a 2025 federal Green candidacy in Vernon–Lake Country–Monashee, where he placed fourth with 1,105 votes (about 1.6 percent). A public professional profile for a Blair Visscher in Vernon describes a high-school teacher who has taught BC First Peoples content, with degrees in political science and education and graduate work at UBC Okanagan on wildfire communication.

Chantel Gibbs is the OneBC candidate for Vernon-Lumby, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Born and raised in Vernon, she attended Trinity Western University (BA Business Administration and BSc Chemistry) and obtained her CPA, CGA designation in 2016. After years working in Vancouver in financial planning—including as sole proprietor of Tax Informed Financial Planning—she returned to Vernon in 2024. OneBC and local coverage say she volunteers with her church and Toastmasters and serves as a volunteer director with the Canadian National Christian Foundation; her family has supported Vernon Jubilee Hospital and Vernon Search and Rescue.

Harwinder Sandhu is the BC NDP candidate for Vernon-Lumby and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture in November 2024 after serving as Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors’ Services and Long-Term Care. Before politics she worked more than 20 years in health care as a registered nurse and patient-care coordinator, including at Vernon Jubilee Hospital and with Northern Health in Terrace.

Grace Lore is the BC NDP candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity, Minister of State for Child Care, and Minister of Children and Family Development; since 2025 she has continued in cabinet as a minister without portfolio while recovering from cancer treatment. Before politics she was a university instructor and researcher in political science and gender and politics.

Rajinder S. Sahota is the BC Green candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Born in Victoria and raised in Esquimalt, he took commerce and law at the University of Victoria, practised corporate law in Toronto and New York, and earned an LL.M. in international law at the London School of Economics. For nearly 20 years he has represented injured and vulnerable people, and for more than a decade he has led a personal-injury, human-rights, and class-action firm. He has served more than a decade on the Pacifica Housing board and coaches youth soccer and basketball. The Greens describe him as Panjabi Sikh. Stated priorities include public health care, education, transit, and ending fossil-fuel subsidies.

Joachim Agou is the Conservative Party candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Nina Krieger is the BC NDP candidate for Victoria-Swan Lake and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She became Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General in July 2025 after serving as Parliamentary Secretary for Arts and Film. Before politics she was executive director of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and advised on anti-racism education. She holds an honours history degree from UBC and pursued graduate studies at the London Consortium.

Carolyn Howe is the BC Green Party candidate for Victoria-Swan Lake. A longtime educator who has taught at South Park Family School since 2005, she has been president of the Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association since June 2024. She holds degrees in music and education from the University of Victoria and has worked as a choral conductor and performer. Campaign priorities include housing, health care, public schools, climate action, and childcare.

Tim Taylor is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Victoria-Swan Lake, returning after he ran for the party in the riding in 2024. The Times Colonist identified him then as a real estate agent. Final-count reporting put his 2024 vote at 5,146, about 20.2 percent, in a race won by BC NDP candidate Nina Krieger. He is again on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the October 24, 2026 election. A fresh, detailed campaign biography was not found in the coverage reviewed.

George Morgan is listed by Elections BC as the BC NDP candidate for West Kelowna-Peachland in the 2026 provincial election. Detailed independent biographical coverage beyond the accepted nomination remains limited.

Adam Frank is the BC Green Party candidate for West Kelowna-Peachland on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Macklin McCall is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for West Kelowna-Peachland and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024. He serves as Official Opposition Whip. Born and raised on a family farm in Okanagan Falls, he studied criminology, psychology, and sociology before a 19-year RCMP career in Lake Country, West Kelowna, and Kelowna.

Honieh Barzegari is the BC NDP candidate for West Vancouver-Capilano in the 2026 provincial election. She previously ran for Vancouver City Council with Vision Vancouver in 2022, later worked in B.C. government as a ministerial adviser, and has been Principal, Public Affairs at Earnscliffe Strategies. Public detail specific to her 2026 provincial campaign platform is limited beyond the nomination.

Arwa Shurab is the BC Green Party candidate for West Vancouver-Capilano on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A North Vancouver–based leadership coach and community organizer, she is founder/director of HERVOICE, a nonprofit focused on women’s leadership and equity, and co-founder of BC Muslim and Arab Professionals (BCMAP). She holds a Master’s in Global Leadership (Royal Roads) and is a certified / master-certified life coach. She has worked with the North Shore Restorative Justice Society and brings a background in community engagement, equity, and restorative approaches.

Naomi Chocyk is the OneBC candidate for West Vancouver-Capilano on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Caroline Elliott is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for West Vancouver-Capilano. A political commentator and policy analyst with a Ph.D. in political science from Simon Fraser University (Canadian liberal democracy and Indigenous self-governance), she previously worked at BC Hydro on Site C and in the B.C. Legislature, and was a BC United vice-president and candidate. She also sought the Conservative party leadership before being nominated in this riding.

Michelle Livaja is the BC NDP candidate for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. Born and raised in the Lower Mainland, she has lived on Bowen Island for about 26 years and previously ran in the riding in 2017, finishing third. According to NDP campaign materials reported locally, she works in the minister’s office at the Ministry of Infrastructure after four years as a constituency assistant in North Vancouver-Lonsdale (including during the COVID-19 pandemic). She has served on her union’s executive council, as a labour council delegate, and as a board member for Metro Vancouver Alliance.

Ayla Dumais is the Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky. Raised in Squamish and a member of Prophet River First Nation, she works as a policy and stakeholder-relations advisor in the federal Opposition Leader’s Office. Earlier roles include community relations at Woodfibre LNG and a Conservative Party of Canada internship; she studied political science at UBC.

Dan Wood is the CentreBC candidate for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky in the 2026 provincial election. His background includes commercial real estate research, facilities management, occupational health and safety, emergency planning, and public-sector housing and business continuity work. He holds an M.A. from UBC and has been presented by CentreBC as bringing a practical, policy-focused approach to affordability and local issues.

Jeremy Valeriote is the BC Green Party candidate for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky and the sitting MLA, elected in 2024 — the first Green MLA elected on B.C.’s mainland. A geological engineer with more than 20 years in environmental consulting and local government, he served as a Gibsons councillor (2014–2018) and holds a master’s in leadership studies from Royal Roads University.