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The Conservative Party of British Columbia, commonly known as the BC Conservatives and colloquially known as the Tories, is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. [1] It is the main rival to the governing British Columbia New Democratic Party and forms the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia .
The 2024 British Columbia general election was held on October 19, 2024, to elect 93 members (MLAs) of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The election was the first to be held since a significant redistribution of electoral boundaries was finalised in 2023. The Legislative ...
The 43rd Parliament of British Columbia was chosen in the 2024 British Columbia general election. [ 1 ] It is the first Legislature in British Columbia to have a majority of female legislators, with 49 of 93 (52%) female MLAs, and the first in any Canadian province or territory to achieve this through a general election.
The first party government, in 1903, was Conservative. And disciplined party caucuses have been the backbone of BC provincial politics ever since. A list of political parties currently registered with Elections BC can be found at the Elections BC website.
Contemporary elections in British Columbia use a relatively unique system of handling absentee ballots. [10] While all jurisdictions in Canada allow for absentee voting through advance communication with the appropriate federal or provincial election agency, British Columbia is unique in allowing same-day absentee voting at any polling station in the province; ballots so cast are not counted ...
The same day, BC Conservative leader John Rustad declined to answer whether or not Chapman would be allowed to be a cabinet minister or sit with the party caucus if elected, instead stating BC voters had a choice between Chapman or a continued New Democratic government. [6] Chapman defeated NDP candidate Haroon Ghaffar in the general election. [4]
Since party politics were introduced to British Columbia, there have been a number of political parties which have controlled the government for more than ten years, including the Conservative government of the early 20th century, the interwar Liberal government, the post-war Social Credit ("Socred") government of W.A.C. Bennett and, following ...
New acts adopted with all-party support included the Accessible British Columbia Act, to allow accessibility-related regulations to be implemented affecting the built environment, delivery of government services, and in the health and education sectors; [35] and the Early Childhood Educators Act, to create oversight of early childhood educators ...