OneBC candidate for MLA in Vernon-Lumby. Her campaign says she is a chartered professional accountant from Vernon.
Chantel Gibbs is on Elections BC's list of accepted nominations for Vernon-Lumby with the affiliation OneBC. OneBC's page on her says she was born and raised in Vernon, holds two degrees from Trinity Western University and has been a chartered professional accountant since 2016. voche.me found no policy statement from her, no website of her own and no news report about her beyond the candidate list. Kevin Acton (Conservative Party) and Harwinder Sandhu (BC NDP) are the other candidates on the list.
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A researched record of Chantel Gibbs's OneBC candidacy in Vernon-Lumby. voche.me found one page about her, written by OneBC, and no statement of policy from her. The commitments listed are the party's.
No public appearance by the candidate was confirmed on 2026-10-03. The two voting dates come from Elections BC.
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Elections BC lists Chantel Gibbs as a candidate in Vernon-Lumby with the affiliation OneBC. The list shows nominations that Elections BC has accepted, and nominations stayed open until 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. The Vernon Morning Star published the three Vernon-Lumby names on October 3, 2026: Kevin Acton (Conservative Party), Chantel Gibbs (OneBC) and Harwinder Sandhu (BC NDP).
OneBC's page on her, read on 2026-10-03, says she was born and raised in Vernon, finished school there and went to Trinity Western University, where she earned a B.A. in Business Administration and a B.Sc. in Chemistry. It says she obtained her CPA, CGA designation in 2016 and lived and worked in Vancouver for a number of years before returning to Vernon in 2024. These are the campaign's statements. voche.me has not checked them against the university or the accountants' member directory.
The same page says she has volunteered through her local church and Toastmasters and serves as a volunteer director with the Canadian National Christian Foundation. It says her family has a long connection to Vernon through their business and has supported local organizations, including Vernon Jubilee Hospital and Vernon Search and Rescue, through large donations. Those are also the party's words, and voche.me found no second source for them.
The page says she describes her motivation as giving voters an alternative to the established parties and stating truly conservative views openly and consistently through the campaign, whatever the result. It names no policy of hers. The commitments listed on this page are OneBC's platform.
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OneBC's priorities page lists: 25% tax cuts for every single tax bracket, including corporate.
OneBC's priorities page lists: 2% off the Provincial Sales Tax (PST).
OneBC's priorities page lists: balanced budgets within 4 years, with an aim towards running surplus budgets, and a portion of surpluses put towards debt repayment.
OneBC's priorities page lists: private healthcare alongside fully-funded public healthcare, and a shift of administration and human resources spending to frontline employees and resources.
OneBC's priorities page lists: eliminate the Step Code that is raising housing costs with unnecessary green building requirements.
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Lists the three finalized Vernon-Lumby candidates: Kevin Acton (Conservative Party), Chantel Gibbs (OneBC) and Harwinder Sandhu (BC NDP). The article gives no other detail about her.
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No website of her own, public social media account, news report beyond the list of local candidates, or all-candidates meeting naming Chantel Gibbs was found on 2026-10-03. Her degrees, her accountant's designation, her volunteer director role and her family's donations come only from OneBC's page on her and were not confirmed by the university, the accountants' member directory (it needs a user agreement and a form, and was not searched), the foundation's website (it shows no board list) or the organizations named. The name search was limited because the search tool had reached its usage limit; it was run through public search pages (Bing returned results about other subjects, DuckDuckGo showed a challenge page, Google returned no results page) and the Vernon Morning Star's news pages. Castanet's search returned HTTP 403. Her positions on issues, endorsements and campaign finances were not found. Any public record under the same name was left out because no source opened in this review ties it to the candidate.
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list (it shows Chantel Gibbs in Vernon-Lumby as OneBC), OneBC's candidates, priorities and home pages and its page on her, the Vernon Morning Star's list of local candidates, and Elections BC's key dates page.
No website or public social media account of her own was found, and the name search was limited: the search tool used for earlier candidates had reached its usage limit, so the name was searched through public search pages and the sites above. Those searches returned no page about her beyond the ones cited. The accountants' member directory needs a user agreement and a form, and was not searched. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date. The candidate may still have pages that these searches did not reach.
Listed by Elections BC as an accepted nomination with the affiliation OneBC, and named on OneBC's candidates page.
Elections BC candidate listOneBC's page on her says she obtained the designation in 2016. voche.me has not checked it against the accountants' member directory.
OneBC candidate pageAccording to OneBC's page on her. voche.me has not checked the degrees with the university.
OneBC candidate pageAccording to OneBC's page on her. The foundation's public website opened on 2026-10-03 shows no board list, so the role is unconfirmed. The page also says she has volunteered through her local church and Toastmasters.
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Chantel Gibbs is running for MLA with OneBC.
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