43rd British Columbia general election

The 43rd British Columbia general election will be held on or before October 19, 2024, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

43rd British Columbia general election
On or before October 19, 2024 (2024-10-19)
TBD number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
TBD seats needed for a majority
 
Leader John Horgan Shirley Bond (interim) Sonia Furstenau
Party New Democratic Liberal Green
Leader since May 4, 2014 November 23, 2020[lower-alpha 1] September 14, 2020
Leader's seat Langford-Juan de Fuca Prince George-Valemount Cowichan Valley
Last election 57 seats, 47.70% 28 seats, 33.77% 2 seats, 15.08%
Current seats 57 28 2
Incumbent Premier

John Horgan
New Democratic

Background

Section 23 of British Columbia's Constitution Act provides that general elections occur on the third Saturday in October of the fourth calendar year after the last election.[2][3] The same section, though, makes the fixed election date subject to the lieutenant governor's prerogative to dissolve the Legislative Assembly as he or she sees fit (in practice, on the advice of the province's premier or following a vote of non-confidence).[2][4]

The Electoral Boundaries Commission is required to complete redistricting following the 2020 general election. The final number of provincial electoral districts, and thus seats in the next legislature, will not be known until redistricting has occurred.[5]

Opinion polls
Pollster Client Dates conducted Sample size Polling method Margin of error NDP Liberal Green Others Lead
Angus Reid[p 1] N/A 24 Nov–30, 2020 551 Online 1.4% 48% 26% 14% 12% 22%
2020 general election Oct 24, 2020 — — — 47.7% 33.8% 15.1% 3.4% 13.9%

Notes
  1. Bond became interim BC Liberal leader after Andrew Wilkinson resigned following the 2020 election. The party will elect a new permanent leader in 2021.[1]

References
  1. "Veteran MLA Shirley Bond chosen interim leader of the B.C. Liberal Party". CBC News. November 24, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  2. Constitution Act, s. 23.
  3. Shaw, Rob (October 4, 2017). "NDP changes B.C.'s fixed election date from May to October". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  4. Zussman, Richard (May 26, 2017). "Christy Clark gets 1st chance to govern, but how long can it last?". CBC News.
  5. "Electoral Boundaries Commission". elections.bc.ca. Elections BC. 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.

Opinion poll sources
  1. "Provincial Spotlight: As pandemic wears on, governments losing support on economic, COVID-19 management". Angus Reid Institute. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2021-01-12.


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