BC Election

Nak'azdli Whut'en members in northern BC cast their votes for four open council seats over four months ago. The First Nation has a custom election code that states candidates are not eligible to run for election if they've ever been convicted of an indictable offence.

In British Columbia, voters are deciding on electoral reform through a mail-in referendum. Voters are asked whether they want to keep B.C.’s first-past-the-post electoral system or switch to one of three proportional representation systems.

Lisa Helps is seeking re-election after serving one term as mayor of Victoria. Helps is one of 10 people running for mayor, while another 29 are vying for eight council positions.

British Columbia will join almost two dozen conservationist groups and First Nations who are challenging the federal government's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Green Party leader, Andrew Weaver, and NDP leader, John Horgan, reached an agreement for the Green Party to support the NDP in the legislature after British Columbia's election night ended without a definitive result.

The recent election in British Columbia resulted in the election of four Indigenous candidates.