Another BC United MLA Joins Provincial Conservatives, Second in 4 Days

Published on June 3, 2024

Elenore Sturko is jumping ship to the Conservative Party of B.C. in a bid to oust the governing NDP from office. She is the second BC United MLA to defect in the past four days. The move comes just days after BC United caucus chair Lorne Doerkson announced his decision to cross the floor to join the Conservatives’ ranks. Ms. Sturko, who was elected as a BC United MLA in 2022, said her defection is a bid to “rebuild the coalition that’s needed to defeat the NDP.” “Like the voters in my riding, I don’t believe the NDP deserve to win the next election, but when we split the vote we are handing them an election win, and four more years of a David Eby government that has not delivered on housing, public safety, affordability, health care, education, or mental health and addictions,” Ms. Sturko said in a June 3 statement released by the Conservative Party....

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