British Columbia New Democratic Party

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British Columbia New Democratic Party
Active provincial party
Abbreviation	BC NDP
Leader	John Horgan
President	Craig Keating
Founded	1933; 88 years ago (1933) (as BC CCF)
Headquarters	34 West 7th Avenue Unit 320 Vancouver, British Columbia V5Y 1L6
Youth wing	British Columbia Young New Democrats
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left[1][2]
National affiliation	New Democratic Party
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance[3]
Colours	Orange, blue
Seats in Legislature	57 / 87
Website
www.bcndp.ca
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The New Democratic Party of British Columbia^[a] (BC NDP) is a social-democratic^[5] provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada.

As of 2017, it governs the province. It is the British Columbia provincial arm of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). The party previously governed from 1972 to 1975 and from 1991 to 2001. Following a hung parliament as a result of the 2017 election and the BC Liberal government's failure to win a confidence vote in the Legislature, the BC NDP secured a confidence and supply agreement with the BC Green Party to form a minority government. The party subsequently won a majority government after Premier John Horgan called a snap election in October 2020. The party gained 16 additional seats and the largest share of the popular vote in the party's history.^[6]

The party won the largest number of seats in three provincial elections, 1972, 1991 and 1996, but was reduced to two seats in the 2001 election before rebounding in 2005 and returning to government in 2017. Six leaders of the NDP have served as premier of British Columbia: Dave Barrett, Mike Harcourt, Glen Clark, Dan Miller, Ujjal Dosanjh, and John Horgan.

History[]

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (British Columbia section)[]

The party was formed in 1933, during the Great Depression, as the British Columbia section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations. In August 1933, the latter two organizations merged to become the Associated CCF Clubs. The new party won seven seats in the 1933 provincial election, enough to form the official opposition. A further merger with the British Columbia SPC took place in 1935.

In 1936, the party split as its moderate leader, Reverend Robert Connell, was expelled over doctrinal differences in what was called the "Connell Affair". Three other CCF members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in what had been a 7-member caucus quit and joined Connell in forming the Social Constructive Party, leaving only Harold Winch, Ernest Winch and Dorothy Steeves as CCF MLAs.^[7] The Constructivists nominated candidates in the 1937 election but failed to win a seat. The CCF regained their former contingent of seven MLAs but lost official opposition status to the reconstituted British Columbia Conservative Party.

Harold Winch succeeded Connell as CCF leader and guided the party until the 1950s.

The two-party system in Canada was challenged by the rise of the CCF and the Social Credit movement in western Canada during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in 1944 in Saskatchewan under Premier Tommy Douglas. It also began to gain wider political support in British Columbia.

In order to block the rise of the CCF in BC, the provincial Liberal and Conservative parties formed a coalition government after the 1941 provincial election. That year neither party had enough seats to form a majority government on its own. For the ten years that the coalition held together, the CCF was the Official Opposition in the legislature.

Solidification as opposition party[]

After the coalition fell apart in 1951, the government introduced the alternative vote electoral system, allowing voters to make two choices. They expected that Conservative voters would list the Liberals as their second choice and vice versa. The government hoped to prevent the CCF from winning in a three-party competition, but they did not realize that a new fourth party was on the rise: the BC Social Credit League.

In the 1952 election, the Liberals and Conservatives were decimated. The Social Credit League was the main beneficiary of the new voting system: many non-CCF voters chose Social Credit as either their first or second choices. Social Credit emerged as the largest party, with one seat more than Winch's CCF. The Social Credit party chose a new leader, W. A. C. Bennett.

When Social Credit lost a motion of no confidence in the legislature in March 1953, Winch argued that the CCF should be allowed to try to form a government rather than the house being dissolved for an early election. The Liberals, however, refused to support the CCF's bid to form a government, and new elections were called.

In the 1953 election, Bennett won a majority government, and both the Liberal and the Conservative parties were reduced to fringe parties. Throughout the 1950s, Bennett's new electoral movement was able to keep the CCF at bay. This period coincided with the height of the Cold War, and Bennett effectively used the scare tactic of the "Red Menace" against the CCF, referring to them as the "socialist hordes".

Creation of the BC New Democratic Party[]

In 1960, the CCF changed its name nationally to the New Party, then in 1961 to the "New Democratic Party" (NDP). This reflected the formation of the national party from an alliance of the CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress. Bennett managed to keep the CCF and the NDP out of power throughout the 1960s through four successive general elections. Each time, Bennett used the "Red Menace" tactic as a wedge issue against the NDP and its leaders: Robert Strachan and, in the 1969 general election, Thomas Berger.

Barrett government[]

The NDP first won election in 1972 under Dave Barrett, who served as premier for three years. The NDP passed a considerable amount of legislation in a short time, including establishing the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and the Agricultural Land Reserve. A Question Period was added to the legislative process.

The NDP drove the small BC Liberal caucus to abandon their leader David Anderson for the Social Credit Party, as did one of the two Tories elected in 1972. The NDP introduced capital taxes and slashed funding to universities. It suffered for bringing clarity to the accounting by Social Credit, and revealing that BC was significantly in debt.

In the 1975 election, the Social Credit party, under W. A. C. Bennett's son Bill Bennett, won a snap election called by Barrett. The Barrett government had initiated a number of reforms in the areas of labour relations, the public service, and social programs. Most of these endured until the restraint budget of 1983.

The NDP peaked in popular support in the 1979 election with 46 percent of the vote. And after a minor decline in the party's vote share in 1983, Barrett retired as leader.

Riding high in the polls, the NDP appeared poised to win the 1986 election against the unpopular Social Credit government, but its new leader Bob Skelly stumbled in a verbal gaffe during the campaign, and the Socreds' new leader William Vander Zalm attracted votes with his charisma and telegenic performance. The party failed to score its anticipated breakthrough.

Harcourt government[]

The New Democratic Party governed BC for nine and a half years, winning two back-to-back general elections in 1991 and 1996 before being defeated in 2001. Although the party's majority was reduced in 1996, it triumphed over the divided remnants of the Social Credit Party. In 1991, due in part to Social Credit's scandals under Premier William Vander Zalm and in part to the stellar performance of British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals) leader Gordon Wilson in debate, the old Social Credit vote split between the BC Liberals, which garnered 33 percent of the vote, and the Social Credit Party with 25 percent. The NDP, under the leadership of former Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt, won with 41 percent of the popular vote, which was one percentage point lower than the share the party had lost with in 1986.

Harcourt's first two years in government were characterized by a notably social democratic policy agenda, which included increases in welfare spending and rates. In 1993, his government took a dramatic turn to the right with his televised address in which he lashed out against "welfare cheats, deadbeats and varmints".^[8][9] Broadcast province-wide, his speech inaugurated a set of welfare reforms enacted between 1993 and 1995; these were similar to those adopted by new Progressive Conservative provincial governments elected in Alberta and Ontario in the same time period.

The cutbacks were, in part, a reaction to a dramatic reduction in federal transfer payments by the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Parliament had repealed the Canada Assistance Plan bill of rights, which had included a right to food and a right to shelter. Unlike the reforms of the Harris and Klein governments in the other two provinces noted, the BC Benefits package of cutbacks and restrictions in social assistance eligibility was bundled with a childcare bonus paid to low- and medium-income families.^[8] The changes were unpopular with the province's anti-poverty movement and the BC Green Party; they were condemned by a motion at the NDP's 1997 convention.^[8]

Three months before BC Benefits was introduced by the Harcourt government, his government came into a protracted conflict with elements of the province's environmental movement. Harcourt's "Peace in the Woods" pact, which brought together traditionally warring environmental groups and forest workers' unions, began to collapse when Harcourt's cabinet exempted an environmentally sensitive area of Vancouver Island, Clayoquot Sound, from its province-wide mediation process for land-use conflicts, the Commission on Resources and the Environment (CORE). First Nations peoples led protests, including logging road blockades, which resulted in the arrests of more than 800 people. Some key environmental leaders, such as David Suzuki and Colleen McCrory, became alienated from the NDP and shifted their support to the Green Party in the 1996 provincial election.

Although low in the polls for much of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly appointed Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line against an aboriginal group's occupation of a farmer's field in the Cariboo region of the province. In what became known as the Gustafsen Lake standoff, Dosanjh led the largest-scale police operation in British Columbia history as the government tried to regain control. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) used armoured vehicles provided by the Canadian military for protection. The military strongly rejected attempts by the RCMP to have them take over control of the situation, and ultimately it remained a police operation. The RCMP used anti-vehicle mines and shot thousands of rounds of ammunition at protesters.

With less than 72 hours before a planned election call, and with the NDP high in the polls for its hard line against welfare recipients and aboriginal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by RCMP officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money by former provincial cabinet minister and MP Dave Stupich. Media called the scandal "Bingogate". Although Harcourt was not implicated in either the raid or the probe, he resigned; he was later fully exonerated. The NDP was led into the 1996 provincial general election by Glen Clark.

Clark years[]

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Clark entered the 1996 election far back in the polls but proved an excellent campaigner. For the duration of the election, he re-unified the party's traditional coalition, using the slogan "On Your Side". He effectively portrayed the Liberals' new leader, former Vancouver mayor Gordon Campbell, as a pawn of big business and a dangerous right-wing extremist. Clark was aided by Jack Weisgerber, leader of the BC Reform Party (the name taken by the majority of the Social Credit caucus), and Wilson, by then leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA). Although the NDP won only 39 percent of the vote to Campbell's 42 percent, it secured 39 seats to Campbell's 33.

Following the campaign, Clark's government struggled to exert leadership; the premier's scrappy style began to further alienate parts of the NDP coalition outside the core group of labour activists who had masterminded Clark's campaign. Shortly after the election, it was discovered that the 1995–96 and 1996–97 fiscal years did not have the balanced budgets on which Clark had campaigned but small deficits of approximately $100 million.

During these years, the NDP began to lose support and activists to the BC Greens, who reached 5 percent in the polls in the fourth quarter of 1997 and 11 percent by the fall of 1998. But most voters who left the NDP shifted to the Liberals.^{[citation needed]}

New scandals surfaced. Clark allegedly used his influence to win a casino licence for a neighbour, Dimitrios Pilarinos, who had helped him with some home renovations. Construction of the PacifiCat BC Ferries suffered cost over-runs and poor technical decisions. The new ferries were intended to speed transportation between Vancouver and Nanaimo but became part of the fast ferry scandal.^{[citation needed]}

By mid-1999, an obvious rift had appeared in the administration as Attorney General Dosanjh and Finance Minister Joy MacPhail challenged Clark's legitimacy. The party and province endured a few chaotic months of government with frequent cabinet shuffles following a police raid on Clark's home before the premier stepped aside. In 2002, Clark was acquitted of breach of trust and corruption charges in the Pilarinos case; Pilarinos was convicted of six charges.

Dan Miller, the longest-serving member of the legislature, stepped in as premier and interim party leader during an acrimonious leadership race between Dosanjh, maverick West Kootenay MLA Corky Evans, and Wilson, who had been persuaded to fold his stalled PDA in 1998 and join Clark's cabinet.^{[citation needed]} Despite clear favouritism from Clark, Wilson finished last, with Dosanjh winning a majority of votes at the convention despite Evans winning the support of over two-thirds of the party's constituency associations.

Dosanjh's leadership and out of power[]

Having bottomed out at 15 percent in the polls,^[10] the Dosanjh government attempted to capitalize on the new premier's high personal approval rating with their remaining year in power. The government made a number of concessions to the party's anti-poverty and environmental wings in an attempt to reforge the coalition but the party would not budge in the polls. Halfway through his mandate, Dosanjh seemed to lose interest in governing and left for a lengthy tour of his native Punjab.^{[citation needed]}

Dosanjh waited as long as possible to call the next election, finally doing so in April 2001. By this time, the party had risen to 21 percent in opinion polling – a slight improvement from the nadir of a year earlier.^[10] Nonetheless, it became obvious that the NDP would not be re-elected. Midway through the campaign, Dosanjh conceded defeat in a pre-recorded message and asked the electorate to give the NDP a chance as a strong opposition party.^[11] De facto leadership passed to MacPhail, who managed to reinvigorate the campaign. The NDP's popular vote dropped to 22 percent, while its seat count dropped to only two – MacPhail and neighbouring Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan. They were also the only surviving members of the previous Cabinet; even Dosanjh lost his seat. All 77 other seats were captured by the Liberals who won 58 percent of the vote. It was the second-worst defeat of a sitting provincial government in Canada. Despite the severe defeat, MacPhail was credited for saving the party from being completely wiped off the electoral map.

Shortly after the election, Dosanjh resigned as leader and MacPhail was appointed interim leader.

Opposition and recovery[]

MacPhail and Kwan were initially not granted official party status by Campbell on the grounds that the legislature's rules stipulated a party must hold four seats, though that claimed rule is not in the law and was widely panned in the media. However, the Speaker of the Assembly, former Social Credit cabinet minister-turned BC Liberal Claude Richmond, recognized MacPhail as leader of the Opposition. Ultimately, Richmond's position gradually won out, and he was able to ensure that the remains of the NDP were provided the resources of an official party.

Given the high level of support within the party for her leadership, MacPhail surprised many by choosing not to seek the full-time leadership in 2003. The low-key leadership campaign was contested by establishment favourite and former Victoria School Board chair Carole James, Oak Bay City Councillor Nils Jensen, former MLAs Leonard Krog and Steve Orcherton, and a few minor candidates. First ballot results had James first followed by Jensen, Krog, and Orcherton. James won on the second ballot.

In late 2004, the party won an upset election victory in the constituency of Surrey-Panorama Ridge. Jagrup Brar became the third member of the party's caucus, winning a riding that had supported the NDP in 1991 before falling to the Liberals in 1996. Brar beat a locally popular BC Liberal candidate and Adriane Carr, the BC Green Party's leader, winning an absolute majority of the vote.

In the 2005 provincial election, James came closer to forming a government than even the NDP had predicted, winning 33 seats to Campbell's 45 and receiving a vote share 5 percent higher in suburban Vancouver than any pollster had predicted. The NDP also exceeded 40 percent of the vote for the first time since 1991.

In 2008, the NDP won two key by-elections in Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Burrard.

In the 2009 provincial election, the NDP came a close second to the Liberals, with 42 percent of the popular vote the Liberals 45 percent. 35 New Democrats were elected, while 49 Liberals were. Despite the popular vote, only 3,500 votes separated the party from forming government.^[12]

The NDP under Adrian Dix was widely expected to win the May 2013 provincial election as the NDP enjoyed a 20-point lead in the polls prior to the election campaign. However, the Liberals gained four seats, while the NDP lost two, in an election that returned the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark. In September 2013, Dix announced his intention to resign as party leader once a leadership election was held.^[13]

Horgan government[]

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Following Dix's resignation, John Horgan, MLA for Langford-Juan de Fuca, was acclaimed as party leader in the 2014 party leadership election and subsequently became the leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

In the May 2017 provincial election, the NDP under Horgan occasionally led the Liberals in polls. The May 9 election returned 43 Liberal MLAs, 41 NDP MLAs and a record 3 Green MLAs. This was one of the closest elections in BC's history, exemplified by the popular vote breakdown: 40.36% for the Liberals, 40.28% for the NDP, and 16.84% for the Greens. The Liberals won the popular vote by a razor-thin margin of just 1,566 votes province-wide. Following the election, the Greens entered into negotiations with both the Liberals and NDP to decide which party they should support in the minority parliament. On May 29, Horgan and Green leader Andrew Weaver announced that the Greens would support an NDP minority government in a confidence and supply agreement. This meant the Greens are obliged to vote with the NDP in matters of confidence – keeping the government from falling – but were allowed to vote freely on legislation brought forward by the NDP government. On June 29, the minority Liberal government of Premier Christy Clark was defeated 44–42 by the NDP-Green alliance in a confidence vote, leading Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon to ask Horgan to form a government, making him British Columbia's 36th premier and first NDP premier in 16 years; the NDP formed a minority government, the first time the NDP has had such a government in provincial history.

In 2020, the NDP won a majority government, securing a record 57 seats and receiving 47.7% of the overall popular vote.^[6]

Leaders[]

"" denotes acting or interim leader.

CCF[]

#	Party leader	Highest position	Tenure	Notes
1	Robert Connell	Leader of the Opposition	1933–1939	In 1936, Connell was expelled and three other MLAs resigned from the CCF. They formed the Social Constructive Party.[14]
2	Harold Edward Winch	Leader of the Opposition	1939–1953
3	Arnold Webster	Leader of the Opposition	1953–1956
4	Robert Strachan	Leader of the Opposition	1956–1961

NDP[]

#	Party leader	Highest position	Tenure	Notes
1	Robert Strachan	Leader of the Opposition	1961–1969
2	Thomas R. Berger	Leader of the Opposition	1969
3	Dave Barrett	Premier	1969–1984	First NDP premier of British Columbia, 1972–1975
4	Bob Skelly	Leader of the Opposition	1984–1987
5	Mike Harcourt	Premier	1987–1996
6	Glen Clark	Premier	1996–1999
	Dan Miller	Premier	1999–2000
7	Ujjal Dosanjh	Premier	2000–2001
	Joy MacPhail	Leader of the Opposition	2001–2003
8	Carole James	Leader of the Opposition	2003–2011
	Dawn Black	Leader of the Opposition	2011
9	Adrian Dix	Leader of the Opposition	2011–2014
10	John Horgan	Premier	2014–present	Became premier in 2017 after signing a confidence and supply agreement with the Green Party, before winning a majority government in 2020.

Election results[]

Results shown are for CCF from 1933–1960, NDP since 1963.

Election	Leader	Seats	+/-	Place	Votes	%	Change	Position
1933	Robert Connell	7 / 47	n/a	2nd	120,185	31.53%	n/a	Official Opposition
1937	vacant	7 / 48		3rd	119,400	28.57%	2.96%	Third party
1941	Harold Winch	14 / 48	7	2nd	151,440	33.36%	4.79%	Official Opposition
1945		10 / 48	4	2nd	175,960	37.62%	4.26%	Official Opposition
1949		7 / 48	3	2nd	245,284	35.10%	2.52%	Official Opposition
1952		18 / 48	11	2nd	236,562	30.78%	4.32%	Official Opposition
1953	Arnold Webster	14 / 48	4	2nd	224,513	30.85%	0.07%	Official Opposition
1956	Robert Strachan	10 / 52	4	2nd	231,511	28.32%	2.53%	Official Opposition
1960		16 / 52	6	2nd	326,094	32.73%	4.41%	Official Opposition
1963		14 / 52	2	2nd	269,004	27.80%	4.93%	Official Opposition
1966		16 / 55	2	2nd	252,753	33.62%	5.82%	Official Opposition
1969	Thomas Berger	12 / 55	4	2nd	331,813	33.92%	0.30%	Official Opposition
1972	Dave Barrett	38 / 55	26	1st	448,260	39.59%	5.67%	Majority government
1975		18 / 55	20	2nd	505,396	39.16%	0.43%	Official Opposition
1979		26 / 57	8	2nd	646,188	45.99%	6.83%	Official Opposition
1983		22 / 57	4	2nd	741,354	44.94%	1.05%	Official Opposition
1986	Robert Skelly	22 / 69		2nd	824,544	42.60%	2.34%	Official Opposition
1991	Michael Harcourt	51 / 75	19	1st	595,391	40.71%	1.89%	Majority government
1996	Glen Clark	39 / 75	12	1st	624,395	39.45%	1.26%	Majority government
2001	Ujjal Dosanjh	2 / 79	37	2nd	343,156	21.56%	17.89%	No Status
2005	Carole James	33 / 79	31	2nd	694,978	41.43%	19.87%	Official Opposition
2009		35 / 85	2	2nd	691,342	42.14%	0.71%	Official Opposition
2013	Adrian Dix	34 / 85	1	2nd	715,999	39.71%	2.43%	Official Opposition
2017	John Horgan	41 / 87	7	2nd	795,527	40.28%	0.57%	Official Opposition
								Minority government[b]
2020		57 / 87	16	1st	899,365	47.70%	7.42%	Majority government

Current MLAs[]

As of November 2020, the following individuals serve as NDP MLAs:

Member	District	First elected	Notes
Pam Alexis	Abbotsford-Mission	2020
Roly Russell	Boundary-Similkameen	2020
Anne Kang	Burnaby-Deer Lake	2017	Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training
Raj Chouhan	Burnaby-Edmonds	2005
Katrina Chen	Burnaby-Lougheed	2017	Minister of State (Childcare)
Janet Routledge	Burnaby North	2017
Dan Coulter	Chilliwack	2020
Kelli Paddon	Chilliwack-Kent	2020
Fin Donnelly	Coquitlam-Burke Mountain	2020
Selina Robinson	Coquitlam-Maillardville	2013	Minister of Finance
Ronna-Rae Leonard	Courtenay-Comox	2017
Ravi Kahlon	Delta North	2017	Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation
Mitzi Dean	Esquimalt-Metchosin	2017	Minister of Children and Family Development
Katrine Conroy	Kootenay West	2005	Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations, and Rural Development
John Horgan	Langford-Juan de Fuca	2005	Premier of British Columbia
Andrew Mercier	Langley	2020
Megan Dykeman	Langley East	2020
Bob D'Eith	Maple Ridge-Mission	2017
Lisa Beare	Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows	2017	Minister of Citizens' Services
Josie Osborne	Mid Island-Pacific Rim	2020	Minister of Municipal Affairs
Sheila Malcolmson	Nanaimo	2019	Minister of Mental Health and Addictions
Doug Routley	Nanaimo-North Cowichan	2005
Brittny Anderson	Nelson-Creston	2020
Jennifer Whiteside	New Westminster	2020	Minister of Education
Jennifer Rice	North Coast	2013
Michele Babchuk	North Island	2020
Bowinn Ma	North Vancouver-Lonsdale	2017	Minister of State (Infrastructure)
Susie Chant	North Vancouver-Seymour	2020
Murray Rankin	Oak Bay-Gordon Head	2020	Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
Adam Walker	Parksville-Qualicum	2020
Mike Farnworth	Port Coquitlam	1991[c]	Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General
Rick Glumac	Port Moody-Coquitlam	2017
Nicholas Simons	Powell River-Sunshine Coast	2005	Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
Aman Singh	Richmond-Queensborough	2020
Henry Yao	Richmond South Centre	2020
Kelly Greene	Richmond-Steveston	2020
Lana Popham	Saanich South	2009	Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries
Nathan Cullen	Stikine	2020	Minister of State for Lands, Natural Resource Operations
Mike Starchuk	Surrey-Cloverdale	2020
Jagrup Brar	Surrey-Fleetwood	2004[d]
Rachna Singh	Surrey-Green Timbers	2017
Garry Begg	Surrey-Guildford	2017
Harry Bains	Surrey-Newton	2005	Minister of Labour
Jinny Sims	Surrey-Panorama	2017
Bruce Ralston	Surrey-Whalley	2005	Minister of Energy, Mines, and Low Carbon Innovation (and the Consular Corps of BC)
George Heyman	Vancouver-Fairview	2013	Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (and Translink)
Brenda Bailey	Vancouver-False Creek	2020
George Chow	Vancouver-Fraserview	2017	Minister of State (Trade)
Niki Sharma	Vancouver-Hastings	2020
Mable Elmore	Vancouver-Kensington	2009
Adrian Dix	Vancouver-Kingsway	2005	Minister of Health (and Francophone Affairs)
Melanie Mark	Vancouver-Mount Pleasant	2016	Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport
David Eby	Vancouver-Point Grey	2013	Minister of Housing and Attorney General
Spencer Chandra Herbert	Vancouver-West End	2008[e]
Harwinder Sandhu	Vernon-Monashee	2020
Grace Lore	Victoria-Beacon Hill	2020
Rob Fleming	Victoria-Swan Lake	2005	Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure

See also[]

• List of articles about British Columbia CCF/NDP members
• British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership conventions
• List of premiers of British Columbia
• List of British Columbia general elections
• List of political parties in British Columbia

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• BC NDP site