BC Liberals finish fourth place in By Election

True North is reporting that "BC United – formerly the BC Liberals – was left licking its wounds on Saturday after finishing fourth in the by-election for Langford–Juan de Fuca, the riding of former premier John Horgan. Predictably, the riding went to the NDP’s Ravi Parmar who received Horgan’s endorsement, resulting in a 53.3% sweep for the ruling party."

"Green Party candidate Camille Currie came out with 17.6% at the end of the evening while the BC United candidate Elena Lawson only received 8.6%. However, political observers were shocked to see the recently rebranded Conservative Party of British Columbia’s candidate, local realtor and carpenter Mike Harris, place second with 19.9% of the vote."

"Although it was the first time the Conservatives ran a candidate in the riding, they came out ahead of the Green Party – the former second place holders in 2020. Green Party candidate Camille Currie came out with 17.6% at the end of the evening while the BC United candidate Elena Lawson only received 8.6%. Green Party candidate Camille Currie came out with 17.6% at the end of the evening while the BC United candidate Elena Lawson only received 8.6%."

That's pretty significant. It was a safe NDP riding just like Maxime Bernier just ran in a safe Conservative riding. Yet foruth place for the BC Liberals is definitely a sign of the times. The tide is beginning to turn and in BC we know what that means because politics here is very tidal. The tide comes in and the tide goes out. It always does.