Burnaby North

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.

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.

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.