BC has the same problem as the US Congress and Electoral College: Land holds more power than voters:
The BC Conservatives got 64 of 93 seats with 48.1% of the vote.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2026
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This is not a land share issue, it is what happens when you total the counts of many mini-elections as we do. 2000 votes for green, 8000 for ndp, and 9000 for cons. That's a con win and a seat with 10000 votes getting thrown out. Multiply that for each district and you get a low vote share win.
Until we can get rid of FPTP this will keep happening. And good luck doing that when any elected party suddenly seems happy to keep it.
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Look at the first-past-the-post electoral system both share.
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.
The virus is spreading globally
Not in Serbia or Brazil.
Those were two very pleasant surprises. I was convinced Bolsarno was going to regain power in Brazil. Looks like he will be back to eating fast food in Miami again.
What the fuck
Bloody hell, I thought the BC Conservatives were supposed to be in disarray!
You could just write a slur on a piece of paper and put it in a hat and these people would vote for it.
So did Eby. That dumbass!
Lol