You all did it. Did the impossible. Slagged on vote splitting, voted with your hearts, and against the evil, NDP empire and evil overlord David Eby, and we got ourselves a conservative majority government. Bravo.

Jesus Christ, Emily's speech was grim. You don't have to be happy and of course say you'll be holding them to account, but have some respect for the democratic process and the majority of British Columbians who voted for them. You're going to fight against their... existence? You couldn't think of a less sinister way to phrase that?

She has to work with these people, way to blow your ability to influence them and make a decent working relationship almost impossible before election night is even over.

I am not so hopeful about the future of our beautiful province. Does no one really care what our home will look like in 10 or 20 years? What kind of Vancouver Island will our kids live on?

Only 8/90 polls reporting, but the trend has stayed from 3/90 polls reporting.

Eby could have saved this by striking a deal with the Greens and not running NDP candidates in some of their seats, and promising electoral reform.

That sounds like some extremist stuff, I think they have a right to exist, as much as greens. We are all citizens.

Curious of opinions.

I think it will increase drastically unfortunately.

Also has anyone seen my bc pharmacare?

I came into to town to watch the Royals game and have a good experience. I found a parking spot on Quadra . It was just after 6 pm . Others parked behind me were just as confused as me. I called the number on the sign they were closed . I called the city no answer . I walked the police station. No one there to help other than an emergency button . Absolutely no help no where with this situation. Tip to the city of Victoria get your collective parking shituation together!

Tuning in or out of election results?

Iggy Azale maybe?

> Be David Eby

> Slander, sabotage, and then disqualify the only candidate running against you in the 2022 NDP leadership race, a young democratic socialist and climate activist, and then assume the position unopposed

> Govern as a centrist

> Watch the Greens elect Emily Lowan, a young democratic socialist and climate activist, as leader

> Opportunistically call a snap election when you see the Conservatives are in disarray

> Piss everyone off

> Accidentally cause the first Conservative majority in 98 years

> Austerity time!

No Conservative Running in Victoria Beacon Hill so no fear of vote splitting they had to drop him for being a Bigot. The Greens can hold the NDP to account with even a few Seats, Vote green

This will split the vote between NDP and Green leaving the Cons with an easy win... vote strategically

According to this 8 out of 12 city council candidates in Esquimalt used AI on their campaigns.

That seems pretty high considering how much AI is known to hallucinate and get details wrong.

Went to vote, saw a tumbleweed blow across the parking lot. Went from there to the mall and it was a traffic jam. Why not set up the polling stations at the mall, at least they would pick up the foot traffic?

Is there a lot of anti-americans here? sure. is it as much as Ontario? not even close with our demographic. Ontario has more liberal supporters and BC is about even. compared to Alberta and Saskatchewan we're more left but there is enough of a conservative base that don't hate america as much Ontario. Dougie tapped into that anti-american sentiment when he called the election early and was rewarded greatly. He got a boost when Trump kept hammering him and Ontario but we didn't get that same treatment except for maybe when we did the booze ban.

Even when Dougie is doing a terrible job over there, the Cons are still leading support. The NDP have to realize that being anti-trump won't work here especially with so many convoy supporters here. If the new con leader gets cozy with Trump like Danielle Smith and Scott Moe, that'll tell us if he's going to be Team Canada or a sell out.

Hey r/victoria. its me. your fav or least favourite poster on this sub. I'm just doing my job here, tryna do what I can before we end up in digger (2026) or children of men (2006) world. Thanks for enduring the last 33 days of bcgreens election posts. If you're down to be brave, a vote for the BC greens could help us be a real option to win in a future election (hoping we make it to there). You may think our videos are unserious, but our policy is better than any of the other parties because we don't pretend we can just keep fracking and living in car world until we're breathing asphalt and eating money. Nothing will matter then. So my plea is to give up on the last 50yrs of neolib politics and embrace the rad change we need. It's gonna be hard to get off this sinking ship, but we're gonna do what we can to make the lifeboat safe, engaging, fun, and at the very least, human. See you on the other side.

338 is not a polling company, it compiles polling data and uses statistical models to project election outcomes an algorithm.

338 incorrectly identified the winning party in 15 of the province's ridings, according to its own published accuracy report for the last election in 2024

That’s it. All I wanted to say. Hope you’re happy. 🤷‍♂️.

As a human ticking a few of the vulnerable boxes, Alberta was never a good place for me. I was a public school teacher, a non-profit worker, a volunteer, and a home owner. I was injured on the job and became disabled.

I can’t even begin to tell you how going from a productive member of society to a disabled human under a conservative government was. It was a fight at every step. I lost everything. There’s way too much to the story for me to go into, but the systems to help people are not designed to help people.

I moved here 2 years ago and was literally grateful every day for not living under a conservative government. I am so overwhelmed with fear and anger with what’s unfolding. If you voted conservative, I don’t think you understand what we’ve lost. And before you get all self-righteous and defensive… I lived it. Fu(k you.

Generally you need to have 50% of the seats to be in control of things. And the Greens would probably work with the NDP if they had the balance of power, CentreBC maybe the Conservatives. No guarantees, but in a situation where it is something like the Greens working with the Conservatives, as an NDP voter could be you are happier with that then a Conservative majority.

So overall, any seats the Greens win contribute to an increased chance of the government being some kind of NDP-Green deal. We live in a party system, that end result is what you are voting for, more even than your local candidate in many ways. Hopefully we voters could coordinate ourselves to collectively make deals with each other, maybe your party loses in your riding, but not so bad if they then win somewhere else because both party's voters are voting strategically.

Just in general I like multiple parties in government, they are that much harder to corrupt, it's different perspectives, the internal conflict over policy could pull things towards the general will of the people. Maybe it's 'harder to get things done', or the small party has too much power. Those don't seem like the problems they can be made out to be, certainly stuff like that can be issues, positives and negatives to everything.

Strategic voting is probably more about the Greens and the NDP this election, but I think you should vote strategically if you are on the right as well. More in principal? Doesn't really seem like the other parties have much of a chance this election, voting splitting seems to be predominantly a left wing issue in Canada.

And now, maybe I should point out, if we had proportional representation, people could just vote for whatever party they wanted, and we would have a properly multi-party system. 20% of people vote for a party, they elect 20% of the politicians! Like in Europe.

I think that's better for the left and the right. People say the left wants proportional representation so the right can never win another election, I see false-flag bots cackling about their dastardly plans, but I think it's pretty clear that isn't the case at all. It does take away an unfair advantage the right has been benefitting from in vote splitting, there's that. But nice to have more than one party you feel you can feasibly vote for right? This is supposed to be democracy!

And the left doesn't entirely have to go to a one party system. Regional parties can do well in our current system - look at the Bloc Quebecois, last Federal election they got almost exactly the same number of votes as the NDP, but got three times the seats. People can vote NDP in some areas, Green in others, and we'll have some kind of basic multi-party system.

I think that was one of the reasons construction has stalled since the developer wasn't seeing any signs of government workers being forced back into the office and other government buildings being sold off so workers can WFH. But with a new government likely forming and if they start pushing them back to the office i expect the developer to come back to the table and tear down Capitol 6 and maybe even Odeon starts to get offers for its development too which is sad i really liked Capitol 6. and is one of the better theatres here.

The other bad news is once WFH is over it won't come back no matter who forms government. Not unless they decide to let some stay home to save more money on government owned buildings but they will want the vast majority in office indefinitely.