The Green Party of British Columbia,or simply the BC Greens,is a provincial political party in British Columbia,Canada. It was founded in 1983 and is based in Victoria. The party won its first seat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election.
The 2001 British Columbia general election was the 37th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia,Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 18,2001 and held on May 16,2001. Voter turnout was 55.4 per cent of all eligible voters.
Munmohan Singh "Moe" Sihota is a former Canadian broadcaster and politician. He was the first Canadian of South Asian and Indian descent to be elected to provincial parliament.
Stuart Parker is a Canadian politician who was the acting leader of the BC Ecosocialists party in 2020 and was the leader of the Green Party in British Columbia,Canada,from 1993 to 2000. In 2009,during the Ontario by-election to replace MPP Michael Bryant,he unsuccessfully sought the Ontario New Democratic Party nomination for the St. Paul's provincial riding.
Adriane Carr is a Canadian academic,activist and green politician. She has served on Vancouver City Council since its 2011 municipal election. She was a founding member of the Green Party of British Columbia and was the party's first leader,then known as "spokesperson",from 1983 to 1985. In 2000,she became the party's leader again. In the 2005 provincial election,she received over 25 percent of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast. In September 2006,she was appointed by federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May,to be one of her two deputy leaders.
The 1871 British Columbia general election was held from October to December 1871. Formerly a British colony,British Columbia became a province of Canada on July 20,1871. An interim Cabinet was appointed by the lieutenant governor of British Columbia and election writs for the first general election as a province of Canada were issued to choose 25 members of the first provincial legislature from 12 ridings. These ridings were:
This page shows results of Canadian federal elections on Vancouver Island.
The 1875 British Columbia general election was held in 1875. Many of the politicians in the House had served with the Legislative Council or Assembly or the Executive Council,or had otherwise been stalwarts of the colonial era - some supporters of Confederation,others not. Some were ranchers or mining bosses from the Interior,others were colonial gentry from the Island and New Westminster,and others direct arrivals from Britain,Ireland or "Canada",which was still considered a different place not only in the minds of the politicians but in the language used in Hansard during this period.
The 1878 British Columbia general election was held in 1878.
The 1894 British Columbia general election was held in 1894. The number of members remained at 33 with the number of ridings increased to 26 as a result of the partition of the Yale and Westminster ridings.
Claire Felicity Trevena is a Canadian politician,who represented the North Island electoral district Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2005 to 2020. During the 41st Parliament (2017-2020) she was appointed to the Executive Council to be the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. She is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party and was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election and re-elected in the 2009,2013 and 2017 elections. In the 38th Parliament of British Columbia,she sat on the Special Committee on Sustainable Aquaculture and the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts,as well as serving as the opposition critic on the Employment and Income Assistance ministry,followed by the critic on child care,early childhood development,and women's issues. In the 39th Parliament she acted as a deputy speaker before returning to her role as critic on the children and family development portfolio. In the 40th Parliament,she was the critic on transportation and BC Ferries and,in that role,produced a report comparing the BC Ferries system with the Washington State Ferries system and introduced the Provincial Shipbuilding Act in both 2014 and 2015 seeking to have future ferries constructed in Canada.
John Joseph Horgan is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who has been the Canadian ambassador to Germany since 2023. Horgan served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022,and also as the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022. Horgan was the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the constituency of Langford-Juan de Fuca and its predecessors from 2005 to 2023.
Randall C. Garrison is a Canadian politician. Elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election,he represents the electoral district of Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke and is a member of the New Democratic Party. He serves as the party's critic for lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender issues,succeeding former MP Bill Siksay,and for National Defence. Since becoming an MP,he has introduced legislation to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code,return federal environmental protection to the Goldstream River,and lobbied the government to implement an action plan concerning the endangered Southern resident killer whales. A former criminology and political science instructor at Camosun College,Garrison is openly gay and lives in Esquimalt,British Columbia,with his partner,Teddy Pardede.
An electoral redistribution was undertaken in 2008 in British Columbia in a process that began in late 2005 and was completed with the passage of the Electoral Districts Act,2008 on April 10,2008. The redistribution modified most electoral boundaries in the province and increased the number of MLAs from 79 to 85. The electoral boundaries created by the redistribution were first used in the 2009 provincial election.
Lana Popham is a Canadian politician representing the riding of Saanich South in the Legislature of British Columbia. As a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party,she has served in the Executive Council since 2017,currently as the Minister of Tourism,Arts,Culture and Sport. She was first elected in the 2009 provincial general election to the 39th Parliament and then re-elected in 2013,2017 and 2020 to the 40th,41st and 42nd Parliaments.
Bill Routley is a Canadian politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 39th and 40th Parliament of British Columbia,from 2009 to 2017. As a member of the BC New Democratic Party,he was elected to represent the riding of Cowichan Valley in the 2009 provincial election and re-elected in the 2013 election. In both parliaments his NDP formed the official opposition and Routley acted as their deputy critic on issues relating to forests and natural resource operations.
Andrew John Weaver is a Canadian scientist and former politician who represented the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head from 2013 to 2020 in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Weaver was the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia from 2015 to 2020. After leaving the Green caucus in January 2020,he continued to sit as an independent member but did not run for reelection in the 2020 BC election.
The 2017 British Columbia general election was held on May 9,2017,to elect 87 members (MLAs) to the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 41st Parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 40th Parliament prior to this general election,the British Columbia Liberal Party formed the government under the leadership of Christy Clark,while the British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP),under the leadership of Adrian Dix and then John Horgan,formed the Official Opposition;the Green Party of British Columbia were also represented in the legislature with sole MLA and later leader Andrew Weaver.
Sonia Furstenau is a Canadian politician who is currently the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia.
Adam Olsen is a Canadian politician,who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Saanich North and the Islands as a member of the Green Party of British Columbia caucus.
