2019 byelection - Archive

The riding New Democrat Mitzi Dean is seeking a second term after garnering 46.25 per cent of the vote in 2017.

The riding The B.C. Liberals controlled this riding for 22 years, until the NDP’s Gary Holman won it in 2013 in an extremely close race. Four years later, Green candidate Adam Olsen won by a comfortable 4,000 votes.

The riding NDP MLA Lana Popham is looking for a fourth term in office. The races in 2005 and 2009 were close Liberal-NDP races separated by only a few hundred votes, though Popham had a larger lead in 2013 and 2017.

The riding Former Green Party leader Andrew Weaver, who left the party to sit as an Independent, isn’t running again. He got 52.20 per cent of the vote in 2017 but the riding was held by Liberal Ida Chong before Weaver defeated her in 2013.

The riding The NDP won this riding handily in 2017, taking 53 per cent of the vote. But there’s a big change on the horizon: 15-year incumbent Carole James is not running again. The new New Democrat in town is Grace Lore.

The riding NDP MLA Rob Fleming is seeking re-election. He has won decisively four times before — his vote share in 2017, at 53.61 per cent, was the lowest yet.

British Columbia’s two major political parties took a long-running dispute over how to build a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel in Metro Vancouver to the campaign trail on Monday.

Nanaimo residents will vote Jan. 30 in a provincial byelection being held to fill the seat left empty when Leonard Krog stepped down to become mayor of Nanaimo. Here's what you need to know.

A B.C. Liberal wants to put a stop to “free lunches” at the legislature for Greater Victoria MLAs.

Former Surrey MP Dianne Watts was the top spender in the B.C. Liberal Party’s leadership race, far outspending winner Andrew Wilkinson and in the process violating her own party’s spending rules. Elections B.C.