Vancouver-South Granville

Colin Smith is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-South Granville, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. CentreBC says he owns a construction-management firm in Kitsilano, studied law, international relations, and sociology, and has lived in the riding for more than 30 years. He has served on community boards, including the Kitsilano Area Childcare Society, and is raising a young family in the area. Stated priorities include affordability, homeownership, health care, and education. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Lara Honrado is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-South Granville on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Vancouver public-policy and communications professional, she previously co-founded and led the Ouano Foundation (including as CEO, focused on digital human rights) and has worked on City of Vancouver equity and cultural-services initiatives, including COVID-19 multilingual anti-racism awareness work. Detailed coverage of her provincial nomination beyond the Elections BC filing remains limited.

Lisa Phillips is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-South Granville in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. She is also a Richmond Conservative candidate for Richmond city council in the October 17, 2026 municipal election. Richmond News reported that her municipal nomination papers list her home address as Vancouver. No prior completed provincial, federal, or local candidacy was found in records reviewed for this profile.

Maria J. Cruz is the BC Green candidate for Vancouver-South Granville, filed with Elections BC as Maria J Cruz for the October 24, 2026 election. The party describes her as an artist, educator, public servant, and community advocate, and as a longtime renter in the riding. She grew up in Mount Pleasant and has lived in South Granville for 15 years. She works as an outreach worker in the Vancouver School Board’s adult-education program, helping newcomers and lifelong learners. She holds a bachelor’s degree in theatre and art history from the University of British Columbia and a master of museum studies from the University of Toronto, has written arts policy as a culture and heritage planner, and has worked as a collections-care consultant. A member of UBCP/ACTRA for nearly 30 years, she has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and director, and has performed a one-woman show at the Azores International Fringe Festival. She is a breast cancer survivor. Stated priorities include renter protections, social housing, health care, and a climate-resilient community. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Salvatore Vetro is the OneBC candidate for Vancouver-South Granville in the October 24, 2026 provincial election, listed on Elections BC’s October 2, 2026 candidate report. His OneBC profile describes him as a HandyDART driver for 25 years, a co-founder of the Kitsilano Showers Program (a weekly service for unhoused neighbours it says has run for more than 20 years), a participant in the 2011 Fight HST campaign, and the operator for about 20 years of a small business that supported local artists and shops. News coverage has called him a retired HandyDART driver and local actor, financial agent for Bill Vander Zalm’s anti-HST campaign ahead of the 2011 referendum, and founder in 2010 of the BC First Party, which did not elect candidates. In 2020 he ran as an Independent in Vancouver-Kensington and finished fourth with 202 votes (about 1%). In January 2023 Elections BC approved his recall petition against Premier David Eby in Vancouver-Point Grey; like other modern B.C. recall petitions, it did not remove the MLA.