VICTORIA - There won't be a sitting of the British Columbia legislature this fall as originally planned. The Office of the Premier issued a brief statement Friday saying that Raj Chouhan has been confirmed to serve again as the Speaker of the legislature, so there is no need to hold a sitting. Premier David Eby previou...

VANCOUVER - Judicial recounts in British Columbia's provincial election should wrap up today, confirming whether Premier David Eby's New Democrats hang onto their one-seat majority almost three weeks after the vote. Most attention will be on the closest race of Surrey-Guildford, where the NDP were ahead by a mere 27 vo...

CHILLIWACK - The NDP has overtaken the B.C. Conservatives in the ongoing count of absentee votes in a crucial Metro Vancouver riding, putting Premier David Eby on course to win government with a razor-thin majority.An update from Elections BC at 1 p.m. on Monday put the NDP ahead in Surrey-Guildford by nine votes.If it...

VICTORIA - Even with roughly 2,600 additional votes added to the tally for seven Fraser Valley-area ridings on Sunday afternoon, there were no changes in any lead during the ongoing count in the 2024 B.C. election.Chilliwack-Cultus saw the largest number of new ballots, 616 votes added on Sunday to the 24,163 initially...

Recounts begin this afternoon in two ridings where British Columbia's New Democrats held slim leads after the initial count in last week's still-undecided election. Elections BC says the recounts in Juan de Fuca-Malahat on Vancouver Island and Surrey City Centre will begin at 1 p.m. and be posted online when they are c...

VICTORIA - British Columbians are awaiting the final tally of last week's razor-thin provincial election, with several ridings that could determine the next government still hanging in the balance. Election BC says counting of the more than 66,000 mail-in ballots gets underway today and is expected to be completed by l...

VANCOUVER - The final results of British Columbia's weekend election won't be known until at least next week. Elections BC says official recounts are being held in two tight ridings where the difference between the New Democrat and B.C. Conservatives candidates is less than 100 votes. The NDP candidates hold slim leads...

The outcome of British Columbia's election was unclear after a close race between the NDP and the B.C. Conservatives, with the Greens poised to play a role in a potential minority government. Here's what the party leaders said on Saturday's election night. "We don't know what the final count is going to be in the ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is waking to a reshaped political landscape but no clear winner of a provincial election marked by the rise of the B.C. Conservatives from the political fringe to centre stage. Neither the Conservatives, led by John Rustad, nor the incumbent NDP of Premier David Eby reached the 47 seats nee...

HOPE - BC Conservative Tony Luck has won the new riding of Fraser-Nicola. Luck captured the riding which includes the communities of Hope north to Lillooet and east to Merritt. With most polls reporting, Luck had captured 55 per cent of the vote, approximately 15 per cent better than Francyne Joe of the BC NDP. Jonah T...

ABBOTSFORD - A blue wave of BC Conservatives swept through Abbotsford in B.C.'s 43rd provincial election Saturday night.The party, led by John Rustad, won all four Abbotsford ridings, defeating some high profile NDP candidates. Voters in Abbotsford-Mission failed to return BC NDP cabinet minister Pam Alexis to Victoria...

ABBOTSFORD - Bruce Banman of the BC Conservative party has been returned to Victoria as the victorious candidate in the Abbotsford South riding. Banman was one of the first members of the BC United Party to jump ship to the Conservatives. With ballots still to be counted, Banman has collected more than 60 per cent of t...

VICTORIA - Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has lost her seat in the legislature after changing ridings to Victoria-Beacon Hill. Furstenau lost to Grace Lore, the minister of children and family development in the previous NDP government. The Green leader was first elected 2017, when her party played a key roll in he...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier and NDP Leader David Eby has won re-election in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey. Eby was first elected to the riding in 2013, when he defeated then-premier and former B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark. He is a former executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association who ...

UPDATE MONDAY, 11:25 A.M.: Newly elected Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á'a:líya Warbus has issued a post-election statement thanking Chilliwack voters while fixing her eyes on what's looming ahead. "First of all I want to thank the voters of Chilliwack for the trust they have placed in me," said Wa...

VANDERHOOF, B.C. - British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad has been re-elected in his riding of Nechako Lakes. Rustad was kicked out of the Opposition BC United Party for his support on social media of an outspoken climate change critic in 2022, and last year was acclaimed as the B.C. Conservative leader. Buoy...

VANDERHOOF, B.C. - British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad has been re-elected in his riding of Nechako Lakes. Rustad was kicked out of the Opposition BC United Party for his support on social media of an outspoken climate change critic in 2022, and last year was acclaimed as the B.C. Conservative leader. Buoy...

CHILLIWACK - GlobalBC now projects that Chilliwack school board trustee Heather Maahs has defeated incumbent MLA Dan Coulter in the Chilliwack North riding. As of 8:58 p.m. Saturday night, results from Elections BC show Heather Maahs leading in a four-way race for the Chilliwack North riding in the 43rd general electio...

British Columbians have gone to the polls on an election day marked by torrential rain and high winds across much of the province. Here's the latest on the race to form the next provincial government between the New Democrats, led by David Eby, and John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives, with Green Leader Sonia Furstenau hop...

VICTORIA - Polls are now open for British Columbia's 43rd Provincial General Election, as the final voting day has arrived after four weeks of campaigning. Elections BC said polls in 12 electoral districts experienced operating issues when they opened at 8 a.m. Saturday, including a power outage in Langley-Walnut Grove...

British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he's watching as indicators of whether the NDP or the B.C. Conservatives will form government, and why: Nanaimo-Lantzville McDonald says one of the key...

VANCOUVER - The choice facing British Columbians in the provincial election today would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of the vote last election, stand on the brink of forming government or, at least, becoming the official Opposition, with Lea...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's election campaign enters its final day in what is viewed as a too-close-to-call contest where David Eby's New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives led by John Rustad debated big issues of housing, health care, affordability and the overdose crisis, but also tangled over plastic straws and...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's political party leaders have spent the 28-day provincial election campaign wooing voters with promises on critical issues including health care, housing, the cost of living and the environment. Here is a look at some of the top promises made by each major party ahead of election day on Sa...

FRASER-NICOLA - As he maintains a slim lead over an NDP opponent, Fraser-Nicola MLA candidate Tony Luck is racing to visit six communities this week in his expansive riding including Hope, Harrison Hot Springs and Agassiz, before this weekend's provincial election takes place. Tony Luck, the B.C. Conservative MLA candi...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's New Democratic Party says it is responsible for a parody social media post that has B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad promising to bring back McDonald's McRib sandwiches. The post appeared Sunday evening as an NDP news release under a Conservative Party of B.C. logo with the headline, ...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Conservatives have unveiled their education policy plans about six days before the Oct. 19 voting day. The plan includes reinstating provincial exams for Grade 10 and 12 students, restoring letter grades from Grade 4 to 9, and ending SOGI 123. The provincial government website says B.C.'s SOGI prog...

SURREY - A Thanksgiving long weekend visit to a Surrey mission facing a potential kitchen closure highlighted BC Conservative party leader John Rustad's call for sustained funding to keep around 100 food banks and community kitchens open. Outside the Surrey Urban Mission on Saturday, Rustad promised institutional studi...