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Tara Armstrong | |
|---|---|
| House Leader of OneBC in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | |
| Assumed office June 9, 2025 | |
| Leader | Dallas Brodie (interim) |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream | |
| Assumed office October 19,2024 | |
| Preceded by | Riding established |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | OneBC (2025–present) |
| Other political affiliations | BC Conservative (until 2025) Independent (2025) |
Tara Armstrong MLA is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) since 2024. Initially elected as a member of the Conservative Party, [1] she represents the electoral district of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream as a member of OneBC and has served as the House leader of the party since 2025. [2]
She has worked with her family's seniors transportation business,Driving Miss Daisy,before joining the Conservative Party as the party's Election Readiness Chair in 2023. [3] [4] In March 2025,she left the Conservative Party to sit as an Independent, [5] after the MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena,Dallas Brodie,was ejected from the Conservative Party for making offensive comments towards survivors of residential schools. [6] [7]
On June 9,2025,Armstrong and Brodie started a new party called OneBC. [8] [2]
In November 2023,Armstrong criticized Canadian broadcaster Jody Vance for retweeting a Peter Hotez tweet urging people to get the influenza vaccine and COVID-19 boosters. Armstrong claimed that Hotez was a "total fraud" for not wanting to debate with vaccine skeptics and that he was "bought and paid for by big pharma". [9]
| 2024 British Columbia general election : Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tara Armstrong | 14,303 | 53.92 | +50.0 | $29,208.25 | |||
| New Democratic | Anna Warwick Sears | 9,350 | 35.25 | +4.6 | $25,889.99 | |||
| Independent | Kevin Kraft | 1,724 | 6.50 | – | $4,138.50 | |||
| Green | Andrew Rose | 1,151 | 4.34 | -10.5 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 26,528 | 99.88 | – | $71,700.08 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 32 | 0.12 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 26,560 | 58.25 | – | |||||
| Registered voters | 45,598 | |||||||
| Conservative notional gain from BC United | Swing | N/A [n 1] | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC [10] [11] | ||||||||
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