Friday October 25, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
After achieving success with voter engagement during BC Election 2024, many first-time candidates across all three parties are already eager to gear up for the next election.
That includes two BC Green candidates here on south Vancouver Island.
- Christina Winter ran in Victoria-Swan Lake. “People are happy and excited that I will be running again,” says Winter. “I’m having meetings with people this week and next week to sort out the core of the next campaign team,” she told Island Social Trends this week.
- David Evans ran in Juan de Fuca-Malahat. “I am ready to run again!,” said Evans this week. “It was a great experience and we were able to find community across the riding from Port Renfrew to Cobble Hill,” he told Island Social Trends this week.
Election results timeline:
The 43rd BC Provincial Election was held on Saturday October 19. 2024.
Many of the riding counts were too close to call, in particular Juan de Fuca-Malahat (where the BC NDP candidate led by 23 votes on election night, with the BC Conservative candidate in second place) and Surrey City Centre (where the BC NDP candidate led by 96 votes on election night, with the BC Conservative candidate in second place).
Final election results for all 93 ridings across BC will be made available by Elections BC on Monday October 28, 2024.
Short 43rd parliament:
BC Conservative Leader John Rustad seems intent on pushing the BC NDP out of power.
Given the sense that ‘this fight is not over’, the 43rd Legislative Assembly may not last a full four years. In fact, many pundits are predicting that if the BC NDP do manage to cobble together a functional government, that it won’t last past the first budget (February 2024) or second budget (spring 2025).
===== RELATED:
- BC provincial election final count coming up Oct 28 (October 24, 2024)
- Tight race in Juan de Fuca-Malahat exposes long-time political divide (October 20, 2024)
- Official recounts, voter turnout, statement from Premier David Eby (October 20, updated October 21, 2024)
- Don’t be that voter who lets rain spoil the result (October 19, 2024)
- Who’s gonna win BC Election 2024? (October 16, 2024)
- Marina Sapozhnikov admires Rustad for his courage (October 13, 2024)
- Dana Lajeunesse hopes to follow in John Horgan’s local footsteps (October 12, 2024)
- David Evans for Juan de Fuca-Malahat: he’s Green, he’s local (October 11, 2024)
- Christina Winter running for BC Greens in Victoria-Swan Lake (August 31, 2024)
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