The BC Conservatives’ Meteoric Rise

Published on June 20, 2024

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad says he had a sense of his party’s growing popularity in early 2023, but the extent of it really hit home after a provincial byelection last summer. “It started to really look like a big deal,” Mr. Rustad told The Epoch Times. Even though the NDP candidate in the June 2023 Langford–Juan de Fuca byelection was the ultimate victor with 53 percent of the vote, the Tory candidate finished second with 20 percent. This was ahead of the Green candidate with 18 percent and the candidate of the Official Opposition, BC United, with 9 percent. The seat had previously been held by former NDP Premier John Horgan since 2005, and getting the second-highest number of votes was noteworthy for a party that had been on the fringes of B.C. politics until shortly before the byelection....

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