42nd British Columbia general election


The 42nd British Columbia general election will be held on or before October 16, 2021, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Elections BC administered a postal referendum from October to December 2018 on whether the current first-past-the-post voting system should be maintained or if the province should switch to a proportional representation system. The referendum ended with a majority voting to maintain the existing FPTP system.

Timing

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. The fixed election date was previously set for the second Tuesday in May, but the BC NDP passed legislation amending the section of the constitution pertaining to the set election day. 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.

2018 electoral reform referendum

A referendum on electoral reform took place by postal ballot between October 22 and December 7, 2018, in British Columbia. In the referendum, electors were asked:
  1. to choose whether to maintain the current first-past-the-post voting system or to switch to a proportional system;
  2. to rank three PR systems by preference, should the province switch to PR:
  3. *dual-member proportional representation
  4. * mixed-member proportional representation
  5. * rural–urban proportional representation
The referendum ended with a majority voting in favour of maintaining the existing first-past-the-post system.

Retiring incumbents

Liberals

New Democrats

Independents

Candidates by riding

Kootenays

Okanagan, Shuswap and Boundary

Thompson and Cariboo

Fraser Valley

Surrey

Richmond and Delta

Burnaby, New Westminster, and Coquitlam

Vancouver

North Shore and Sunshine Coast

Vancouver Island

Greater Victoria

Opinion polls

The following is a list of scientific opinion polls of published voter intentions.