Vancouver-Strathcona

Amanda Burrows is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona. She is executive director of First United in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, with roughly 15–20 years in nonprofit and community leadership. She holds degrees in art history (University of Victoria) and museum studies (University of Toronto) and has previously been associated with Pivot Legal Society. The riding’s 2026 contest follows the vacancy after Joan Phillip’s death.

Jordan Zheng McIntosh is the Conservative Party candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona 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.

Robert Crooks is the Communist Party of Canada (British Columbia) candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona and the party’s provincial leader. People’s Voice reported that delegates elected him leader at the party’s 45th B.C. convention in Vancouver on July 5–6, 2025. Originally from Manitoba, he has organized on the west coast since late 2023. He was the party’s candidate in Victoria-Swan Lake in the October 2024 provincial election and a Communist candidate in the Victoria area in the 2025 federal election. In a 2024 Times Colonist questionnaire he said he had worked at a youth-serving nonprofit in Winnipeg’s North End and as an English teacher for newcomers and refugees, and described himself as a long-time tenant organizer and peace activist.

Tanya Webking is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona 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.