Updated: September 26, 2026
British Columbians will vote in the 2026 provincial general election on Saturday, October 24, with 93 Members of the Legislative Assembly to be elected.
The election campaign began September 22 after writs were issued across all 93 electoral districts. Elections BC says candidate nominations remain open until 1 p.m. Pacific time on October 3.
That deadline matters because the names appearing on party websites today are not necessarily the final names that will appear on the ballot.
How StudioX News is tracking candidates
There are three main categories:
Filed: Elections BC has accepted the candidate’s complete nomination.
Declared: A political party or candidate has publicly announced the candidacy, but StudioX News has not confirmed an accepted Elections BC nomination.
Open / TBA: No sufficiently confirmed candidate has been identified.
Elections BC itself says its current candidate list only shows nominations that have been accepted and does not include everyone who has publicly declared they are running.
Surrey
Surrey has ten provincial electoral districts.
| Riding | Publicly identified status |
|---|---|
| Surrey-Guildford | Garry Begg — BC NDP |
| Surrey-Fleetwood | Jagrup Brar — BC NDP; Paul Brar — CentreBC |
| Surrey-Panorama | Jinny Sims — BC NDP; Bryan Tepper — Conservative |
| Surrey-Newton | Jessie Sunner — BC NDP |
| Surrey North | Mandeep Dhaliwal — Conservative |
| Surrey City Centre | Amna Shah — BC NDP; Raman Sharma — CentreBC |
| Surrey-Cloverdale | Open/unfinished following Elenore Sturko’s reported move |
| Surrey South | Haroon Ghaffar — NDP; Megan Knight — Conservative; Elenore Sturko — CentreBC reported; Brent Chapman — OneBC |
| Surrey-White Rock | Trevor Halford — Conservative |
| Surrey-Serpentine River | Open/TBA |
The uploaded StudioX research specifically cautions against merging Surrey South and Surrey-White Rock and against treating older 2024 candidate lists as automatically applicable to 2026.
Delta and Richmond
Publicly identified names include Kuldeep Rangi in Delta North for CentreBC, Ian Paton and Jim McMurtry in Delta South, Steve Kooner in Richmond-Queensborough and Sacha Peter in Richmond Centre.
Richmond-Bridgeport requires particular caution because Teresa Wat has appeared under conflicting party descriptions during the September political changes. The StudioX research recommends waiting for the Elections BC nomination record before assigning the ballot affiliation.
Vancouver
Publicly identified candidates include:
- David Eby — Vancouver-Point Grey
- Michael Davis — CentreBC
- Niki Sharma — Vancouver-Hastings
- Adrian Dix — Vancouver-Renfrew
- Spencer Chandra Herbert — Vancouver-West End
- Mable Elmore — Vancouver-Kensington
- Margareta Dovgal — Vancouver-Yaletown
- Jaime Stein — Vancouver-Langara
- Dallas Brodie — Vancouver-Quilchena
- Christine Boyle — Vancouver-Little Mountain
- George Chow — Vancouver-Fraserview
Several Vancouver ridings remain incomplete.
North Shore and Sea-to-Sky
Publicly identified candidates include Bowinn Ma in North Vancouver-Lonsdale, Lynne Block in North Vancouver-Seymour, Caroline Elliott in West Vancouver-Capilano, and Ayla Dumais, Dan Wood and Jeremy Valeriote in West Vancouver–Sea to Sky.
Burnaby and Tri-Cities
Publicly identified names include Janet Routledge, Anne Kang, Rohini Arora, Raj Chouhan and Paul Choi in Burnaby-area ridings.
Port Coquitlam has a publicly identified Mike Farnworth–Keenan Adams contest, while New Westminster-Coquitlam has Jennifer Whiteside and Maureen Curran publicly identified.
Fraser Valley
Publicly identified names include Lisa Beare, Lawrence Mok, Harman Bhangu, Jody Toor, Misty Van Popta, Pam Alexis, Darryl Kropp, Lakhwinder Jhaj, Bruce Banman, Robin Roy and Korky Neufeld.
Abbotsford-Mission requires special attention because the previously scheduled by-election was overtaken by the general-election writ. Elections BC says candidates seeking the general election had to submit a new nomination application.
What happens next?
The candidate field will continue changing until nominations close.
October 3, 1 p.m. Pacific: candidate nominations close.
October 16–21: advance voting.
October 24: Final Voting Day.
Elections BC says the final candidate list and party affiliations will be available after nominations close.
Editorial note: This article tracks candidate status and election information. It does not endorse or rank candidates or political parties.
Harnaik Singh Rathor is the Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of StudioX News Canada, Canada's multilingual digital news network serving diaspora communities across 44 languages. With a background in media production, public relations, and multicultural communications, he founded StudioX Film and TV Corporation to bridge the gap between mainstream Canadian media and the country's diverse immigrant communities. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), RTDNA Canada, CPRS Vancouver, NEPMCC, and the Canadian Freelance Union (Unifor). Based in Surrey, British Columbia. | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harnaiksinghrathor/ | Muck Rack: https://muckrack.com/harnaiksinghrathor | Email: editor@studioxnews.ca
