Vancouver-Yaletown

Margareta Dovgal is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A downtown Vancouver-based economic commentator and policy analyst, she has written national columns, given broadcast commentary and testified before parliamentary committees on economic issues. She co-founded and ran the Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase, and has been involved with the BC Schizophrenia Society and the Rotary Club of Vancouver Waterfront. She holds a BA in Asian Area Studies from UBC and a Master of Public Administration from University College London.

Priyan Samarakoone is the BC Green candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is a Vancouver lawyer at EQ Law focused on housing and civil litigation. The firm says he spent seven years with Access Pro Bono, completed a biology B.Sc. at UBC in 2006 and an honours LL.B. at Nottingham Law School in 2008, and was called to the B.C. bar in 2013. It also cites United Nations project work in Sri Lanka in 2004 and on access to justice in 2009, and a pro bono family-mediation program he helped start in Vancouver in 2018. A January 2023 Province op-ed identified him as chair of the Vancouver Green Party board. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Sam Chandola (also known as Samarth Chandola) is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown. A Vancouver-based entrepreneur and investor, he founded companies including V2 Games, Openspot Technologies, and Pepper Esports, and founded First Fund, a pre-seed investment fund. He has coached entrepreneurs at UBC and SFU and previously ran provincially as a Conservative in North Vancouver-Seymour.

Terry Yung is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. He was appointed Minister of State for Community Safety and Integrated Services in November 2024. A senior Vancouver Police Department officer before politics, he also served on boards including Covenant House Vancouver, Big Brothers, JIBC, and SUCCESS. He holds a B.A. from USC and an M.A. from Royal Roads University.

Timothy Webster is the Unaffiliated candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown 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.