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On March 5, 2017, Elections BC announced it was launching a probe into Liberal Party fundraising. [22] The Official Opposition, the NDP, has promised to ban corporate and union donation if elected, as well as limits on individual donations, but continues to accept corporate and union donations at the present time. [21]
The following tables present detailed results by riding as per Elections BC. [1] Names in bold are outgoing cabinet ministers, and names in italics are party leaders. The premier is in both. † denotes incumbent MLAs who did not seek re-election. ‡ denotes incumbent MLAs who sought re-election in a different riding.
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 ...
That election unexpectedly returned the BC Liberal Party to another absolute majority government, their fourth consecutive government since 2001, this time with Christy Clark who had been premier since 2011. The BC New Democratic Party formed the official opposition under Adrian Dix and John Horgan who replaced Dix in the 2014 leadership election.
He ran in the 2017 provincial election as a BC Liberal candidate, and was elected MLA for the riding of Skeena. [5] The riding had previously been a stronghold for the New Democratic Party, with that party winning in five of the previous six elections — the only exception being the 2001 BC Liberal landslide. [6]
He was approached by the British Columbia Liberal Party to contest the new riding of Richmond-Queensborough in the 2017 provincial election, [1] in which he defeated British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Aman Singh by 134 votes to become the riding's MLA.
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. [1]
BC United (BCU), known from 1903 until 2023 as the British Columbia Liberal Party or BC Liberals, is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party has been described as conservative , neoliberal , and occupying a centre-right position on the left–right political spectrum .