British Columbia, Canada General election 2026 (Legislative Assembly) — Live Results & Map

Figures from official electoral authorities · Updated 2026-10-17
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Parties and lead candidates

Elections BC closed nominations at 1 p.m. Pacific time on 3 October and put the field at 355 candidates. The deadline to withdraw passed at 8 a.m. on 14 October, two days before advance voting opened, so the register is now closed: two candidates were added by order of the Chief Electoral Officer and four withdrew, leaving 353 on the commission's list of 16 October — 340 for ten registered parties and 13 running as independent or unaffiliated. Ballot printing had already begun when the withdrawals came in, so all four of those names are still printed on their ballots; election officials will tell voters at the voting place, and Elections BC says voting places will post signs saying they have withdrawn. The Conservative Party is the only party with a candidate in all 93 electoral districts. Beyond the five parties above, the register carries candidates for the Libertarian Party, the Communist Party of BC, the Christian Heritage Party of BC, the CanWest Party and the Freedom Party of BC, none of which won a seat or more than 0.1% of the vote in 2024, along with independent and unaffiliated candidates. Candidates registered as independent appear on the ballot marked "Independent"; those neither endorsed by a party nor registered as independent appear with their name alone and are categorised by Elections BC as unaffiliated.

Government and coalitions

In office now

The BC NDP has governed British Columbia since 2017 and David Eby has been Premier since November 2022. At the 2024 election the party won 47 of the 93 seats, a majority of one, against 44 for the Conservative Party of British Columbia and 2 for the BC Green Party. By the time the 43rd Parliament was dissolved on 22 September 2026 the Legislative Assembly's own standings read BC NDP 47, Conservative Party 39, BC Green Party 2 and five Independents: the Conservative caucus had lost five members over the term while the government benches held. Forty-seven of 93 seats is a majority.

Confidence and alliances

British Columbia has no tradition of coalition cabinets, so the question between these parties is confidence support rather than shared government. After the 2024 election the BC NDP and the two-member BC Green caucus signed the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord, finalised in March 2025, under which the Greens backed the government on confidence motions in exchange for movement on agreed priorities — non-market housing, health care, transit, renters' protection and climate — with an added commitment to consult the Greens on United States tariff and trade measures.

The Greens ended it. On 9 February 2026 their leader Emily Lowan, with MLAs Jeremy Valeriote and Rob Botterell, announced the accord would not be renewed, saying the government had stalled or sidelined commitments it had agreed to complete in 2025 and that this broke the trust the agreement depended on. Lowan was explicit that the decision to go to the polls was not theirs: "The BC NDP has a majority. They can govern, pass budgets, and call an election whenever they choose. If the Premier decides to trigger an election, that is his decision — not ours." Deputy Premier Niki Sharma answered that the two parties had done good work together and that the priority was finding initiatives to collaborate on. From then until dissolution the government held its one-seat majority without a formal agreement, working vote by vote.

Neither of the two largest parties has said it would govern with the other, and no party has published terms for supporting a minority government after 24 October. Eby called the election saying he needed a majority mandate, citing United States tariffs and President Donald Trump.

What the polls suggest

Public polling has put the Conservative Party ahead of the BC NDP since the campaign opened, but the lead has narrowed and is not settled. Two pollsters' own releases could be read in full here. The Angus Reid Institute had the Conservatives opening a clear lead in the first week and the NDP closing part of it by early October, the gain coming at the expense of the BC Greens rather than the Conservatives. Research Co., polling in the campaign's second week, found the two parties close together with the Conservatives still in front, the BC Greens a distant third, and CentreBC and OneBC marginal; it also recorded far more undecided voters than it measured at the same point of the 2024 campaign, and the Greens holding on to a much smaller share of their 2024 voters than either larger party. A Mainstreet telephone poll from the turn of the month, reported by Black Press rather than published in full, put the Conservative lead wider. Both raw releases find the electorate hardening: most decided voters say they are certain of their choice, markedly more so among Conservative supporters than New Democrats. Regionally the two agree that the Conservatives lead in the Interior, the north and the Fraser Valley and that the NDP leads on Vancouver Island; they disagree about Metro Vancouver, where one has the NDP ahead and the other the Conservatives slightly in front, so this page carries neither claim. Research Co. also has Premier David Eby preferred over Lorne Doerkson as best premier and ahead of him on most issues, while Doerkson is the only major-party leader whose standing improved over the first half of the campaign. OneBC and CentreBC are each standing in only about a third of the districts, too few to win a majority, and neither registers as a factor in province-wide polling. The economy and jobs, housing and health care outrank the tariff dispute among voters' stated priorities.

A summary of published opinion polls, not a projection. ElectioMap publishes no poll figures and calls no result before the count.

About this election

A snap election two years into a one-seat majority

British Columbia elects its Legislative Assembly on Saturday 24 October 2026. The vote was not due: the Legislative Assembly adjourned on 28 May 2026 and the 43rd Parliament was dissolved on 22 September 2026, two years into a four-year term, after Premier David Eby called the election. Voters fill 93 seats, one for each electoral district.

The parliament that was dissolved had been finely balanced from the day it was elected. At the 2024 general election the BC NDP won 47 of the 93 seats to the Conservative Party of British Columbia's 44 and the BC Green Party's 2 — a majority of one. By dissolution the Legislative Assembly's own standings read BC NDP 47, Conservative Party 39, BC Green Party 2 and five Independents, the Conservative caucus having lost five members over the term.

How British Columbia elects its legislature

Each of the 93 electoral districts returns one member by first past the post: the candidate with the most votes wins the seat, with no threshold and no second round. Forty-seven seats are a majority. There is no proportional element, so a party's share of the seats can diverge sharply from its share of the vote, as it nearly did in 2024, when a 1.59-point gap in the popular vote produced a three-seat gap in the Assembly.

Voting hours are set by statute: the Election Act [RSBC 1996] c. 106, s. 75 (3) provides that "the voting hours for final voting are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific Time on final voting day". Advance voting is held from 16 to 21 October 2026. Under the province's "vote anywhere" model a voter may use any voting place in British Columbia, not only the one they are assigned to.

The 2024 result this election is measured against

Elections BC's Statement of Votes for the 2024 provincial general election of 19 October 2024 records 2,109,658 votes cast, of which 2,105,341 were valid and 4,317 rejected (0.20%), from 3,609,288 registered voters — a turnout of 58.45%. The BC NDP took 944,579 valid votes (44.87%) and 47 seats; the Conservative Party 911,153 (43.28%) and 44 seats; the BC Green Party 173,377 (8.24%) and 2 seats. Independents took 47,117 votes (2.24%) and unaffiliated candidates 25,464 (1.21%), neither winning a seat.

Two parties on the 2026 ballot were not on the 2024 one at all: OneBC, standing in 33 of the province's districts, and CentreBC, standing in 35. Elections BC's announcement of 4 October 2026 put the field at 355 candidates, 340 of them representing ten political parties and 15 running as independent or unaffiliated. The register has since closed: the deadline to withdraw was 8 a.m. on 14 October, 48 hours before advance voting opened, and after one addition and four withdrawals the commission's list of 15 October carries 352 candidates, 340 for the ten parties and 12 independent or unaffiliated. Two of the withdrawals came after the ballots had been printed, so those two names remain on their ballots and Elections BC says voting places will post signs saying they have withdrawn. The Conservative Party is the only party contesting all 93 districts.

How the count works, and when

Almost all ballots are counted on election night, in what Elections BC calls the initial count, beginning as soon as possible after voting closes at 8 p.m. Pacific time. Paper ballots are counted by electronic tabulators, which are tested before use and again afterwards, with a random sample hand-counted in the week following to confirm they performed as specified; a small number of remote voting places count by hand.

Ballots that need additional eligibility checks — vote-by-mail packages arriving after advance voting closes, out-of-district ballots cast at voting places without network connections, and others placed in certification envelopes — are counted about a week later at the final count, which Elections BC has scheduled for 6 to 10 November 2026. The final result is determined at final count, and only then is a candidate officially declared elected; Return Day is 18 November 2026.

What ElectioMap publishes

This page carries Elections BC's figures by party and by electoral district as they are released, with vote shares to two decimal places and turnout once it is reported on a complete count. There is no machine-readable results feed from Elections BC to read automatically, so the numbers here are entered from the commission's own published count and each is marked with how much of the count it rests on. ElectioMap publishes no projections or exit polls, and will not call a seat or the election before the arithmetic settles it.

Frequently asked questions

When is the 2026 British Columbia election?

Saturday 24 October 2026, with voting places open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific time (15:00 to 03:00 UTC). It is a snap election: the 43rd Parliament was dissolved on 22 September 2026, two years into a four-year term. Advance voting is held from 16 to 21 October 2026.

How is the Legislative Assembly elected?

Each of the 93 electoral districts returns one member by first past the post — the most votes wins the seat, with no threshold and no second round. Forty-seven seats are a majority. There is no proportional element, so seat shares can diverge sharply from vote shares.

Who was governing before the election?

The BC NDP, in office since 2017 under Premier David Eby since 2022. It won 47 of 93 seats in 2024, a majority of one. At dissolution the Legislative Assembly's standings were BC NDP 47, Conservative Party 39, BC Green Party 2 and five Independents, the Conservative caucus having lost five members over the term.

What happened to the Greens' agreement with the NDP?

The Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord, signed after the 2024 election and finalised in March 2025, had the two Green MLAs support the government on confidence motions in exchange for agreed priorities. The Greens announced on 9 February 2026 that they would not renew it, saying commitments from 2025 had been stalled or sidelined. The government then held its one-seat majority vote by vote.

How many candidates are standing?

Elections BC closed nominations at 1 p.m. Pacific time on 3 October with 355 candidates. Two were added by order of the Chief Electoral Officer after their nominations were re-examined, and four withdrew before the withdrawal deadline of 8 a.m. on 14 October, so the commission's list of 16 October carries 353 — 340 representing ten registered parties and 13 independent or unaffiliated. The Conservative Party is the only party contesting all 93 districts. All four withdrawals came after ballot printing had begun, so those names remain on the printed ballots and voting places will post signs saying they have withdrawn. In 2024 there were 322 candidates.

When will results be available?

Elections BC counts almost all ballots on election night, beginning as soon as possible after voting closes at 8 p.m. Pacific time, and reports preliminary results through the evening. Ballots that need further eligibility checks — late vote-by-mail packages and ballots in certification envelopes — are counted at the final count, scheduled for 6 to 10 November 2026. The result is determined at final count, and only then are candidates officially declared elected; Return Day is 18 November 2026.

Does this page update live?

Not automatically. Elections BC publishes no machine-readable results feed, so the figures here are entered from the commission's own published count rather than polled from a data file, and each is marked with how much of the count it rests on. ElectioMap publishes no projections or exit polls and will not call a seat before the arithmetic settles it.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.

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