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The New Democratic Party of British Columbia [a] (BC NDP) is a social democratic [4] political party in British Columbia, Canada.The party sits on the centre-left [5] [6] of the political spectrum and is one of the two major parties in British Columbia; since the 1990s, its rival was the centre-right BC United (formerly known as the BC Liberals) until the Conservative Party of British Columbia ...
On July 16, 2022, the NDP formally announced the leadership contest after the party's governing bodies ratified the rules. To run for leader, a candidate must submit their application to the party alongside a $15,000 entrance fee by October 4, 2022. To vote in the contest, one had to join the party before September 4, 2022.
In 2014, the British Columbia New Democratic Party scheduled a leadership election to select a new leader. The contest was called following Adrian Dix's resignation announcement on September 18, 2013, several months after the party's unexpected defeat in the 2013 election after pre-campaign polls had shown the NDP ahead by as much as 20 points.
George Anderson is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 general election.He represents the electoral district of Nanaimo-Lantzville as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. [1]
On October 4, the NDP filed a petition with the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking to compel Elections BC to change the name of the Conservative Party on ballot papers from "Conservative Party" to "B.C. Conservative Party", on the grounds that Rustad was "pretending to be part of the federal Conservative Party". A court ruling in favour ...
Born in Port Alice, British Columbia, [2] Miller worked as a millwright and a councillor for the city of Prince Rupert. [1] [3] He was first elected to the BC legislature in the 1986 election, representing the riding of Prince Rupert, and served as the BC NDP's forestry critic while that party was in opposition.
Dana Larsen was leader of the BC Marijuana Party from 2001 to 2003 when he resigned to join the NDP. In 2008 he was a federal NDP candidate for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country but resigned after a video surfaced of him driving after using marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs. [41]
The British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) under the leadership of Carole James was the Official Opposition. The election was the first contested on a new electoral map completed in 2008 , with the total number of constituencies increased from 79 in the previous legislature to 85.