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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.
Scott Anderson, Interim leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, 2017–2019, and former Vernon city councillor [6] Bryan Breguet, professor at Langara College, host of tooclosetocall.ca, a website about Canadian elections.
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.
BC United formally endorsed the Conservatives, with several BC United candidates either defecting to the Conservatives or standing as independent or unaligned candidates; this marked the party's first absence from a provincial election since 1900. The preliminary vote count was completed on October 20 with a record 2,037,897 votes cast in total.
On March 23, 2023, Rustad announced that he was running to be the leader of the BC Conservatives. [14] He was acclaimed as the leader of the Conservatives on March 31, 2023, succeeding Trevor Bolin. [15] On September 13, 2023, BC United MLA Bruce Banman crossed the floor to join the Conservatives. [16]
In the first partisan election, the Conservative Party, led by Richard McBride, are elected over the Liberal Party, led by James Alexander MacDonald. Two Socialists and one labour candidate are elected. 22 17 2 – 1 42 1907: The Conservatives, led by Premier McBride, are re-elected, defeating the Liberals, led by MacDonald. 26 13 3 – – 42 1909
BC Conservative Jody Toor is a Canadian politician who has been serving as the member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2024. A member of the Conservative Party of British Columbia , she represents the riding of Langley-Willowbrook .
He was named the BC Conservative candidate for Richmond-Queensborough in April 2024, [7] and defeated the incumbent New Democratic Party candidate Aman Singh in that October's provincial election to become the riding's member of the legislative assembly. [8]