The BC NDP today announced that it has nominated candidates in all 93 ridings contested in the 2024 BC general election.

The BC NDP slate, which is 60% women, is the most qualified, and most diverse, of all the party slates competing in the election. Drawing on the leading voices in healthcare, local government, the labour movement, the private sector, and law enforcement, David Eby’s BC NDP team is ready to take on the tough challenges facing British Columbia, and take action to build a province where everyone can get ahead.

“Our team is looking to represent British Columbia, so it’s only right that they reflect the people who make up our province,” said BC NDP campaign director Marie Della Mattia. “Our candidates have the experience to understand today’s challenges facing people in this province. They’re ready to take action for you on day one, to build a BC where you can afford a good home and get health care when and where you need it.”

Despite John Rustad bragging about having “more diversification than … any party has ever had from right across the whole spectrum”, slate’ roughly 75% of the BC Conservative candidates are men.

“John Rustad’s candidates don’t look like British Columbia, and they don’t think like British Columbia, either,” said Della Mattia. “Several of them - that we know of - hold extreme positions that are out of step with this province’s values.”

These include commentary about women’s bodies, about Black and Indigenous people’s alleged tendency to commit crimes, about the LGBTQ+ community, about abortion and reproductive choice, and about the far-right Freedom Convoy, which occupied the country’s capital, disrupting life for people and defacing a statue of Port Coquitlam hometown hero Terry Fox.

John Rustad has pledged to allow his candidates free votes on controversial issues, which means that, if elected, they would be free to use the power of their office to advance these extreme views, irrespective of the official position of the Conservative Party of BC. Under a John Rustad government, reproductive freedom and other hard-won rights would be at risk, whatever he has to say about abortion today.

The 2024 BC NDP slate:

Abbotsford-Mission: Pam Alexis

Abbotsford-South: Sarah Kooner

Abbotsford West: Graeme Hutchison

Boundary-Similkameen: Roly Russell

Bulkley Valley-Stikine: Nathan Cullen

Burnaby Centre: Anne Kang

Burnaby East: Reah Arora

Burnaby-New Westminster: Raj Chouhan

Burnaby North: Janet Routledge

Burnaby South-Metrotown: Paul Choi

Cariboo-Chilcotin: Michael Moses

Chilliwack-Cultus Lake: Kelli Paddon

Chilliwack North: Dan Coulter

Columbia River-Revelstoke: Andrea Dunlop

Coquitlam-Burke Mountain: Jodie Wickens

Coquitlam-Maillardville: Jennifer Blatherwick

Courtenay-Comox: Ronna-Rae Leonard

Cowichan Valley: Debra Toporowski

Delta North: Ravi Kahlon

Delta South: Jason McCormick

Esquimalt-Colwood: Darlene Rotchford

Fraser-Nicola: Francyne Joe

Juan de Fuca-Malahat: Dana Lajeunesse

Kamloops Centre: Kamal Grewal

Kamloops-North Thompson: Maddi Genn

Kelowna Centre: Loyal Wooldridge

Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream: Anna Warwick Sears

Kelowna-Mission: Harpreet Badohal

Kootenay Central: Brittny Anderson

Kootenay-Monashee: Steve Morissette

Kootenay Rockies: Sam Atwal

Ladysmith-Oceanside: Stephanie Higginson

Langford-Highlands: Ravi Parmar

Langley-Abbotsford: John Aldag

Langley-Walnut Grove: Megan Dykeman

Langley-Willowbrook: Andrew Mercier

Maple Ridge East: Bob D'Eith

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows: Lisa Beare

Mid Island-Pacific Rim: Josie Osborne

Nanaimo-Gabriola Island: Sheila Malcolmson

Nanaimo-Lantzville: George Anderson

Nechako Lakes: Murphy Abraham

New Westminster-Coquitlam: Jennifer Whiteside

North Coast-Haida Gwaii: Tamara Davidson

North Island: Michele Babchuk

North Vancouver-Lonsdale: Bowinn Ma

North Vancouver-Seymour: Susie Chant

Oak Bay-Gordon Head: Diana Gibson

Peace River North: Ian McMahon

Peace River South: Marshall Bigsby

Penticton-Summerland: Tina Lee

Port Coquitlam: Mike Farnworth

Port Moody-Burquitlam: Rick Glumac

Powell River-Sunshine Coast: Randene Neill

Prince George-Mackenzie: Shar McCrory

Prince George-North Cariboo: Denice Bardua

Prince George-Valemount: Clay Pountney

Richmond-Bridgeport: Linda Li

Richmond Centre: Henry Yao

Richmond-Queensborough: Aman Singh

Richmond-Steveston: Kelly Greene

Saanich North and the Islands: Sarah Riddell

Saanich South: Lana Popham

Salmon Arm-Shuswap: Sylvia Lindgren

Skeena: Sarah Zimmerman

Surrey City Centre: Amna Shah

Surrey-Cloverdale: Mike Starchuk

Surrey-Fleetwood: Jagrup Brar

Surrey-Guildford: Garry Begg

Surrey-Panorama: Jinny Sims

Surrey-Newton: Jessie Sunner

Surrey North: Rachna Singh

Surrey-Serpentine River: Baltej Dhillon

Surrey South: Haroon Ghaffar

Surrey-White Rock: Darryl Walker

Vancouver-Fraserview: George Chow

Vancouver-Hastings: Niki Sharma

Vancouver-Kensington: Mable Elmore

Vancouver-Langara: Sunita Dhir

Vancouver-Little Mountain: Christine Boyle

Vancouver-Point Grey: David Eby

Vancouver-Quilchena: Callista Ryan

Vancouver-Renfrew: Adrian Dix

Vancouver-South Granville: Brenda Bailey

Vancouver-Strathcona: Joan Phillip

Vancouver-West End: Spencer Chandra Herbert

Vancouver Yaletown: Terry Yung

Vernon-Lumby: Harwinder Sandhu

Victoria-Beacon Hill: Grace Lore

Victoria-Swan Lake: Nina Krieger

West Kelowna-Peachland: Krystal Smith

West Vancouver-Capilano: Sara Eftekhar

West Vancouver-Sea to Sky: Jen Ford