Salmon Arm-Shuswap

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.

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.

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.

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.