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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 BC Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) is an immigration program for British Columbia that gives "high-demand foreign workers and experienced entrepreneurs" the opportunity to become a permanent resident in BC. [11] The BC PNP offers 2 pathways to obtain a permanent residence in BC, each containing different streams one can apply under ...
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 province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [24] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
These ridings came into effect for the 2024 British Columbia general election. British Columbia provincial electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia every election.
March 6, 2024 Selina Robinson New Democratic: Left caucus [17] Independent: Cariboo-Chilcotin: May 31, 2024 Lorne Doerkson United: Crossed the floor [18] Conservative: Surrey South: June 3, 2024 Elenore Sturko United: Crossed the floor [19] Conservative: Richmond North Centre: July 29, 2024 Teresa Wat United: Crossed the floor [20]
Christy Clark resigns as leader of the BC Liberals and Rich Coleman is chosen as interim leader. Jul 18, 2017: John Horgan becomes premier of British Columbia. Jun 29, 2017: Christy Clark resigns as premier; John Horgan is invited to form government. Jun 29, 2017: BC Liberal government is defeated in a confidence vote. Ipsos [171] Jun 26–28 ...
The table below lists the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in British Columbia by population, using data from the Canada 2016 Census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA), as defined by Statistics Canada.