British Columbia

For anyone seeing this not from BC, it probably bears being aware that the "in nearly a century" line could do with some context, because it's not true that it's the first small-c conservative government in that long, just the first one by a party called Conservatives.

A very short version of the history is that for a long time the BC Liberals were our right wing party (despite the name). I don't mean that in a "both sides" or "they aren't left enough for me" sense, I mean they were basically fully aligned with the federal Conservative party in Canada, and they just had the Liberal name for whatever historical reason. Everyone here kinda knew that the Liberals were our right wing. They tried a while back to rebrand to BC United and then not long after kind of imploded and threw their support behind the BC Conservatives a couple elections ago, and a bunch of the former Liberal MPs joined that party (while others went independent, third parties, or just lost jobs).

The Liberals ran things from 2001-2017ish. So we've had small-c conservatives a lot in BC in recent history, the only difference is that we have capital-C conservatives now. I guess we're all about to find out whether that's more of the same from them or something worse.