Cariboo-North/Cariboo-Chilcotin candidates *confirmed* for Oct 24th, 2020 BC 42nd General Election

This past Saturday - Elections BC confirmed the official candidate list for the 42nd BC General Election to be held on Saturday, October 24th, 2020 (and thus a election by voting is required) as follows:

Cariboo-North:

1) Coralee Oakes (incumbent - BC Liberals)

2) Scott Elliot (BC NDP, currently a 3rd term Quesnel City Councillor and ran for BC NDP in Cariboo-North during the May 2017 BC 41st General Election)

3) Douglas Gook (BC Greens - ran for Federal Green Party in 2015 Federal Election)

4) Kyle Townsend (BC Conservatives, ran for Quesnel City Council in the October 2018 Local Gov't General Election)

Cariboo-Chilcotin:

1)  Lorne Doerksen (BC Liberals, publicly endorsed by outgoing Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett)

2) Scott Andrews (BC NDP)

3) James Buckley (BC Libertian Party)

4) David Laing (BC Greens)

5) Katya Potekhina (Independent, resident of Fox Mountain in Cariboo RD Area D, also serves on the Cariboo RD Area 'D' Advisory Planning Commission)

In terms of 2017 BC Provincial Election breakdown: 

In 2017: Cariboo-North had the same 4 BC Provincial Political Parties that are running in the 2020 Provincial General Election and the final result in that provincial election was:

Coralee Oakes (BC Liberals - elected) - 6,359 votes or 51.05% of all valid votes cast

Scott Elliot (BC NDP) - 4,430 votes or 35.57% of all valid votes cast

BC Greens - 919 votes or 7.38% of all valid votes cast

BC Conservatives - 747 votes or 6% of all valid votes cast

Meanwhile - down in Cariboo-Chilcotin, only 3 BC Provincial Political Parties ran candidates in 2017 so it is impossible to know how voting will play out this time with 5 candidates in the running.  In the 2017 Provincial Election, the vote breakdown was:

Donna Barnett (BC Liberals - elected) -- 8,517 votes or 58.77% of all votes cast

Sally Watson (BC NDP) - 3,801 votes or 26.23% of all votes cast

Rita Giesbrecht (BC Greens) - 2,175 or 21% of all votes cast

With no incumbency advantage in Cariboo-Chilcotin and 5 in the race -- it will be truly interesting to watch how this election race unfolds... some interesting statistics from Elections BC:

Both the BC Liberals/BC NDP are running candidates in all 87 BC Electoral Districts' while 24 candidates are running as Independents.  Full breakdown here

Finally -- please get to know your candidates and then exercise your electoral franchise (vote).  Details on voting procedures (in-person, advanced or by mail in ballot) can be accessed here

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