B.C. Election 2026: Could North and West Vancouver ridings turn blue tonight?

North Vancouver and West Vancouver ridings are currently held by three B.C. NDP, one Green and one Conservative incumbents but with the latter party polling ahead, there could be some change on the North Shore tonight. Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG

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It’s election day across B.C. and voters in North and West Vancouver are headed to the polls.

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On this page, you’ll see updates for the following North Shore ridings:

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• North Vancouver: North Vancouver-Lonsdale, North Vancouver-Seymour

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• West Vancouver: West Vancouver-Capilano, West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

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• Powell River-Sunshine Coast

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For everything you need to know about how and when to vote in the provincial election, click HERE.

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If you are still undecided on who to vote for, check out our voters’ guide and read up on the major issues and priorities within B.C.

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Then follow along our live-blog HERE throughout the day and night for the latest election day news across the Metro Vancouver region, and check back here where we’ll keep this post updated all night with election results and reaction from ridings in North and West Vancouver.

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After all the ballots were counted in 2024, voters in these five ridings nominated three NDP MLAs, one Green and one Conservative. With this year’s public opinion polls showing Conservatives slightly ahead of the NDP, some of these ridings could be flipped tonight after the final votes are counted.

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West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

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This was the closest of the five ridings in 2024, and may well be again tonight.

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Two years ago, the Greens’ Jeremy Valeriote beat the Conservative candidate by just 2.6 percentage points, with the NDP in third place.

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This time Valeriote, an environmental consultant, is trying to defend his seat against three new rivals: the Conservatives’ Ayla Dumais, an Indigenous political advisor from Squamish; the NDP’s Michelle Livaja, a union executive; and CentreBC’s Dan Wood, who works in real estate and housing.

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West Vancouver has traditionally been a centre-right stronghold, but this riding had recent boundary changes that removed portions of the high-income-bracket city to make way for the faster-growing populations in the outdoorsy communities of Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton.

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As a result, this diverse riding has slowly been changing its political stripes: Valeriorte lost by just 60 votes in a nail-biter in 2020, and pulled off the Green upset in 2024.

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West Vancouver-Capilano

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This riding, largely comprised of upper-middle-class neighbourhoods in West Vancouver and North Vancouver, was easily won by Conservative Lynne Block in 2024 with a nearly 20-percentage-point margin of victory.

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The district is expected to remain blue, although its ballot looks very different in 2026.

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Two years ago, the NDP’s Sara Eftekhar and popular independent Karin Kirkpatrick received 27 per cent and 20 per cent of the vote respectively, to Block’s 47 per cent.

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But for this election, the Conservatives shunted Block to another riding, to allow star candidate Caroline Elliott, who placed second in the party’s leadership contest, to run in this safe seat.