Ian Bushfield

NEW: BC Conservatives brought in a priest to exorcise bad spirits before election night at Rocky Mountaineer Station. Same venue where Kerry-Lynne Findlay was crowned leader months ago, right before her disastrous run. Divine intervention clearly worked. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Good thread with one addition: I think Eby defaulted to backroom politicking over making the public case. It wasn't just the disqualification but how he took on many files. While that can work as a Minister, it ultimately undermines a Premier who needs to be seen as open and accountable.

On that latter point, I'll be particularly interested to see if any of the candidates OneBC didn't run against make the cabinet cut: Heather Maahs, Kristina Loewen, Anna Kindy, Sharon Hartwell, Macklin McCall, Sheldon Clare, David Williams, and Lawrence Mok.

Done. Green vote made no difference. Last night, every party lost, though NDP most of all, and it's British Columbians who will suffer. Here are the numbers 1drv.ms/x/c/8ba72622... I need to pitch an article about the data cos man, that was work #BCPoli #BCVote2026

The analysis I want to see (or will do if I have the time) is what would the results have been if all those NDP voters who stayed home had voted Green (riding by riding). I suspect still a Con majority but with a much larger Green caucus

1. This wasn't a change of hearts election 2. The NDP could make a comeback with the right leader. 3. The Cons didn't win over BC, they shouldn't get complacent. 4. The Greens reversed their 2024 decline but also didn't break through or even return to 2017/2020 levels. Every party has work to do.

This looks to be the story in every riding the NDP lost. The Green vote was stagnant, more NDP voters stayed home than Cons.

It's a bitter irony that first past the post did in Eby's government when he was responsible for the referendum that could've delivered a more proportional voting system.

Very much this.

It was actually pretty thoughtful of David Eby to schedule his self-immolation for the night I was already booked to see We Are Scientists. It meant I got to have an altogether pretty good night instead of stressing over the bloodshed live.

This is also true by percentage of seats won.

The Greens didn't "steal" votes from the NDP (which don't belong to them anyway). People saw Eby's cynicism and weak offering and voted by not voting. Per @jmcelroy.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

Seeing a lot of fear-mongering on my timeline tonight from trans folks and allies outside of B.C. Yes, this result is what it is. But this is not a “stockpile your HRT now” situation. And I think suggesting people do that is uneccessary and actively harmful to people who actually live here.

The BCNDP vote share may tick up with additional ballots counted but right now at 37%, it's the worst result for the party since 2001 and the second worst post-1970.

Looking like record-low voter turnout in B.C. tonight. With 97.3% of ballot boxes reporting, Elections B.C. reports a turnout of 46.63%.

BC Conservatives got 48.04% of the vote. Is that somehow the Greens' fault, too? Some people are genuinely allergic to holding the powerful responsible for their actions. Eby & the BC NDP did this. They pushed the province right, depressed turnout, didn't get rid of FPTP, and this was the result.

B.C. NDP Leader David Eby resigns after election defeat. Eby apologizes to B.C. NDP MLAs that have lost their jobs in party collapse #bcelxn #bcelection2026 #bcelxn2026 #bcelxn2 vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Already voted in advance (pretty much begrudgingly) so I can spend tomorrow at Camp with my family then a concert in the evening. Seems healthier than watching the nearly inevitable results at this point. I look forward to there being at least one BC political party leadership race to kick off 2027

The City of Vancouver released detailed election results today — and they show a story of Pete Fry becoming mayor by winning the north of the city. Fry's highest results were 80% at Britannia Community Centre and 73% at Mt. Pleasant Community Centre.

Liberals and Conservatives are rushing to pass Bill C-39 with little time to hear from Canadians and pass amendments. The bill gives cabinet ministers the power to declare entire regions of the country in which major projects can ignore virtually every environmental protection.

Once upon a time a BCNDP premier ran on Axe the Tax and lost. Then another premier did axe the tax and how is that going

unclear who the ndp’s “Lorne Doerkson doesn’t automatically hate proportional representation, wow what a loser” message is for

The APP is not actually a legal entity, so I'm not sure these people claiming to be board members have any legal authority to fire the imaginary CEO and imaginary legal counsel from their imaginary group

The year is 2028. The NDP lead governments across the prairies, BC is run by the Conservatives and Doug Ford remains Premier for Life in Ontario.

Unbelievable. We need to demand so much more from our government. This is basic data that was previously available. You don't just scrub the record clean because there's an investigation going on.

The audacity of taking an oath of allegiance to the people in a democracy.

The true referenda were the White Christian Nationalists we met along the way.

Humanist chaplain @gregmepstein.bsky.social reminds us that AI is a quasi-religious story with heaven and hell, all-powerful beings and vulnerable humans, and the people selling it are trying to con us into giving up our power. But our community can fight back, together. Interfaith alliance crucial.

The Kennedy Stewart - Ken Sim era of Vancouver marks the first time Vancouver has dumped a mayor and their party from office twice in a row. In 1946-50, the city did go through 3 (or 4 if we count an interim) mayors in 4 years, but two of them died in office and all were NPA.

Alberta got played. With 82% counted, over 1.8m ballots have been counted on the separation question. Fewer on the other questions but numbers are ticking up. Turnout likely >75%. Smith is going to use this result to justify implementing the racist policies and dismantling healthcare.

Sorry, Max. Not likely to happen anytime soon: "The prime minister made clear that he views Alberta’s concerns as “issues,” not grievances." (Per The Toronto Star)

This is the stupidest day in Alberta history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in Alberta history.

"The prime minister made clear that he views Alberta’s concerns as “issues,” not grievances." Nah they are a bunch of racist, crybaby cranks who want to rip and strip the province before Jesus comes back.

Oh, you want to open the constitution to appease Alberta kooks? I have some ideas for changes too. And I am not a kook. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Remember when Conservatives mocked Justin Trudeau for saying the budget will balance itself through economic growth? Apparently the BC Cons have come around to the idea

Bullshit

Well it happened again, conservatives are running on a bigger deficit than the NDP. 2026/27 NDP: 13,752 CPBC: 13,689 2027/28 NDP: 12,654 CPBC: 13,536 2028/29 NDP: 11,970 CPBC: 12,303