Burnaby East

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.

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.

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.