Victoria-Beacon Hill

Grace Lore is the BC NDP candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity, Minister of State for Child Care, and Minister of Children and Family Development; since 2025 she has continued in cabinet as a minister without portfolio while recovering from cancer treatment. Before politics she was a university instructor and researcher in political science and gender and politics.

Joachim Agou is the Conservative Party candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill 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.

Rajinder S. Sahota is the BC Green candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. Born in Victoria and raised in Esquimalt, he took commerce and law at the University of Victoria, practised corporate law in Toronto and New York, and earned an LL.M. in international law at the London School of Economics. For nearly 20 years he has represented injured and vulnerable people, and for more than a decade he has led a personal-injury, human-rights, and class-action firm. He has served more than a decade on the Pacifica Housing board and coaches youth soccer and basketball. The Greens describe him as Panjabi Sikh. Stated priorities include public health care, education, transit, and ending fossil-fuel subsidies.