Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows

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.

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.

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.

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.