Penticton-Summerland

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.

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.

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.