BC Green Party candidate for MLA in Penticton-Summerland. He ran for the party in the same district in 2024 and finished fourth with 1,472 votes.
Bradley Sean Bartsch is the BC Green Party's candidate in Penticton-Summerland, one of four names on Elections BC's list at 2:00 PM PT on October 3, 2026, after nominations closed at 1 p.m. He ran for the party in the same district in 2024 and received 1,472 votes (5.24 percent), fourth of six candidates. He sits on the party's Provincial Council as regional councillor for Okanagan-Kootenays and is listed as a director of the Penticton Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts. He has held no elected office. Most of what is known about his background comes from the party's candidate page and a 2024 newspaper interview. The commitments listed on this page are the BC Green Party's platform.
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A researched record of Bradley Sean Bartsch's candidacy in Penticton-Summerland. Elections BC lists him with the affiliation BC Green Party. He ran in the same district in 2024. The commitments below are the BC Green Party's platform, and the priorities on his profile come from his party's page and a 2024 newspaper interview.
No public appearance by the candidate was found on 2026-10-03. The two voting dates come from Elections BC.
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Elections BC lists Bradley Sean Bartsch as the BC Green Party candidate in Penticton-Summerland. On the copy of the list stamped October 3, 2026 2:00:06 PM, which is after nominations closed at 1 p.m. that day, four candidates are shown for the district: Bradley Sean Bartsch (BC Green Party), Warren Hamm (OneBC), Tina Lee (BC NDP) and Tracy St Claire (Conservative Party). Elections BC prints his name over two lines, and the ballot name is Bradley Sean Bartsch.
He has run in the district before. Elections BC's 2024 statement of votes lists Bradley Bartsch as the BC Green Party candidate in Penticton-Summerland with 1,472 votes (5.24 percent), fourth of six candidates. Amelia Boultbee (Conservative Party) won with 11,615 votes. On October 3, 2026 the Penticton Western News reported that he, Tina Lee and Tracy St. Claire all ran unsuccessfully in the riding in 2024.
The BC Green Party's candidate page says he is a community advocate with experience in the nonprofit, education, social services, international development, financial services, arts and athletics sectors, and that he moved to Penticton in 2021. The page says he is the party's regional representative for South Okanagan and Kootenay on its Provincial Council. The party's own Provincial Council page, current as of November 21, 2025, lists him as Regional Councillor, Okanagan-Kootenays. The page also says he is a board member of the Penticton Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. The academy's About page lists a Bradley Bartsch as a Director, without a start date.
In a profile by Dan Walton in the Penticton Herald on October 15, 2024, Bartsch said he earned a political science degree at Simon Fraser University in 1996 and has worked for World Vision, Simon Fraser University, RBC Financial Group, the Abbotsford Heat hockey club and Ronald McDonald House BC/Yukon. The Herald also said he runs his own consulting firm. The party's 2026 candidate page names Co:Here Housing Society among his employers as well. These work histories come from the campaign and from his own account in the interview. voche.me has not checked them with the employers.
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The BC Greens platform page says the party would build and protect 26,000 permanently affordable, non-market homes a year.
The BC Greens platform page says the party would pass vacancy control, so landlords cannot raise the rent each time a tenant moves out.
The BC Greens platform page says the party would make transit fast, frequent and free.
The BC Greens platform page says the party would build community health centres in every region, with team-based care and long-term support.
The BC Greens platform page says the party's Fair Share Act would make the few hundred richest people in British Columbia pay their fair share, and that it would bring in a windfall tax on mega-corporations.
The BC Greens platform page says the party would stop new fossil fuel development.
The BC Greens platform page says the party would deliver proportional representation legislation within the first 100 days.
voche.me found no elected or appointed public office for this candidate in the sources read on 2026-10-03, and so found no voting record to review. The Penticton Herald called him a political newcomer in 2024. He holds party and nonprofit board roles, which are listed under his experience.
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He told the Penticton Herald that a carbon tax is the first step towards recognizing the full cost of fossil fuel, that there is no motivation for the market to get involved in poverty alleviation, and that he wants to find out how BC Tree Fruits Cooperative was allowed to go bankrupt. This is a 2024 interview.
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Reports that the BC Greens announced him as their Penticton-Summerland candidate in a Wednesday press release. The paper asked him for an interview and did not hear back by its deadline.
A profile built on an interview with him. It covers his degree and work history, his view that a carbon tax is the first step towards recognizing the cost of fossil fuel, and his wish to learn how BC Tree Fruits Cooperative was allowed to go bankrupt.
Names the four candidates on the ballot, including him, and says he, Tina Lee and Tracy St. Claire all ran unsuccessfully in the riding in 2024.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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No campaign website of his own and no social media account of his own was found on 2026-10-03. The party's candidates page links its own social accounts, and no page ties a personal account to him, so none is recorded. The name search was limited: the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, Bing returned unrelated pages, DuckDuckGo showed a verification test, Google News returned eight items about the district, one of them the 2026 Penticton Western News report that names him and seven from 2024 and 2025 that were not opened, and the Penticton Western News site search found no article naming him. VoteMate's page for the district listed two of the four candidates and not him on the day it was read. Pages about other people named Bartsch appeared in the Penticton Herald search, and nothing ties them to the candidate, so none is used. The 2026 candidate page carries one quoted line, about serving as the voice of the residents of Penticton-Summerland in Victoria, and no policy statement. His 2024 interview is his latest statement of his views that voche.me found, so his priorities for 2026 are not known. His work history, board seat and Provincial Council seat were not checked with World Vision, Simon Fraser University, RBC Financial Group, the Abbotsford Heat, Ronald McDonald House BC and Yukon, or Co:Here Housing Society. The academy's page lists a Bradley Bartsch as a Director and does not say it is the same person as the candidate. The campaign finance report he filed with Elections BC for 2024 was not opened. The 2024 KelownaNow article headed "MLA candidate joins fight against Summerland gravel pit" returned HTTP 403 and could not be read, so voche.me does not know whether it names him. The BC Green Party's own plan page says its full platform is coming soon. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list, key dates page and 2024 statement of votes; the BC Green Party's candidate page for him, its candidates page, Provincial Council page and plan page; the Penticton Herald's 2024 profile and candidate announcement; the Penticton Western News report of October 3, 2026; the Penticton Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts About page; VoteMate's list for the district; and name searches. The name search was limited: the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, so voche.me used Google News, Bing and the Penticton Western News and Penticton Herald site searches directly. Bing returned unrelated pages, and the Penticton Western News site search found no article naming him.
No campaign website of his own and no social media account of his own were found. The commitments listed below are the BC Green Party's platform, which does not name him. His priorities come from the party's candidate page and from a 2024 interview, and each is attributed. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date. The candidate may have published material that these searches did not reach.
Elections BC lists him for the district with the affiliation BC Green Party on the copy of the list stamped October 3, 2026 2:00:06 PM.
Elections BC candidate listElections BC's statement of votes lists Bradley Bartsch with 1,472 votes (5.24 percent), fourth of six candidates. The party and district match his 2026 listing, and the Penticton Western News reported on October 3, 2026 that he ran in the riding in 2024.
Elections BC 2024 statement of votesThe party's Provincial Council page lists him in this seat, as of November 21, 2025. His candidate page calls the role South Okanagan/Kootenay Regional Representative. The council is the party's governing body, and its members other than the leader are volunteers.
BC Greens Provincial CouncilThe academy's About page lists a Bradley Bartsch as a Director of its volunteer board. His party candidate page says he is a board member. The academy's page gives no start date.
Penticton Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts, AboutThe Penticton Herald reported in 2024 that he has worked for World Vision, Simon Fraser University, RBC Financial Group, the Abbotsford Heat and Ronald McDonald House BC/Yukon, and that he runs his own consulting firm. His party page adds Co:Here Housing Society. These are his and the party's accounts. voche.me has not checked them with the employers.
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