Communist Party of BC candidate for MLA in Vancouver-Hastings, with 11 earlier runs on record.
Kimball Cariou is the Communist Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Hastings, according to Elections BC. BC Ballot, a voter guide, lists 11 earlier runs under his name, 6 provincial and 5 federal, and none was a win. In 2024 he ran in Vancouver-Strathcona and received 336 votes (1.68 percent). Vancouver-Hastings was won in 2024 by Niki Sharma of the BC NDP with 14,237 votes (64.15 percent). On 2026-10-03 voche.me found no campaign website and no statement by him for the 2026 campaign.
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Communist Party of BC2026
Kimball CariouBritish Columbia provincial election
Kimball CariouMLAv.
Candidate research / October 3, 2026
A researched record of what voche.me could find about Kimball Cariou's 2026 candidacy in Vancouver-Hastings. Elections BC names him as the Communist Party of BC candidate. His earlier runs come from Elections BC's 2024 statement of votes, two pages of the Communist Party of BC and BC Ballot, a voter guide.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Kimball Cariou
Elections BC lists Kimball Cariou as the Communist Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Hastings. The copy of the list read on 2026-10-03 is stamped October 3, 2026 08:00:07 PM, after the 1:00 p.m. (Pacific time) close of nominations. It shows three other candidates for the district: Christian Bosio (CentreBC), Kyra Philbert (BC Green Party) and Niki Sharma (BC NDP).
BC Ballot lists 11 earlier runs for office under the name Kimball Cariou, all for the Communist Party and none won: provincial runs in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant in 1996 and 2001, in Vancouver-Hastings in 2017 and 2020, in the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election of 2023 and in Vancouver-Strathcona in 2024, and federal runs in Vancouver Kingsway in 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2021 and in Vancouver East in 2025. voche.me checked three of these against other pages. Elections BC's 2024 statement of votes shows Kimball Cariou fourth in Vancouver-Strathcona with 336 votes (1.68 percent). The Communist Party of BC's release of October 21, 2020 lists Kimball Cariou (Vancouver Hastings) among its candidates. The party's platform page for the June 24, 2023 by-elections is headed with the words Vote Kimball Cariou (Vancouver-Mount Pleasant). The vote counts and the other runs come from BC Ballot, and voche.me has not checked them against Elections BC or Elections Canada results.
The party's Contact Us page lists Kimball Cariou under the title Provincial Executive. The page carries no date, and voche.me did not find a page that describes what that title involves. His name does not appear in the legislature's lists of sitting members that voche.me holds, so he holds no seat.
The party's Our Platform page sets out the party's commitments on taxes, climate, transit, work, public ownership, Indigenous rights, forestry, social assistance, policing, education, health care, housing, electoral reform, child care, food, drug policy and foreign relations. The page names no candidate, so the commitments listed below are the party's own text and each one says so. voche.me found no campaign website or personal statement by him for 2026 and has not contacted the campaign.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
12 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge
Party platform: vacancy control and a rent limit
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would set vacancy controls that tie rents to the unit, and limit rents to 20 percent of a family's income.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
Party platform: 100,000 social and low-income homes
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would build 100,000 units of new renovated social and low-income public housing.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
What still needs checking
Does the party give a cost or a date for this target?
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would raise the BC minimum wage to $30, adjusted each year to inflation.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would abolish income tax on earnings under $50,000 and fund services through progressive provincial taxation.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would make public transit free for all, build a province-wide bus system and place transit under public ownership.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would cancel taxpayer subsidies to the LNG industry and cancel the Ksi Lisims project.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
Party platform: end P3 projects and contracting out
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would stop the erosion of public health care through P3 private contracting, expand hospital beds and cut surgery wait times.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would increase public education spending by $1,000 per student to reach the Canadian average.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would set an Early Childhood Educator wage grid paying at least $35 to $45 an hour and expand school-age child care spaces in elementary schools.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would reduce police spending and remove the province's authority to order municipalities to increase policing budgets.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
Party platform: mixed member proportional representation
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would replace first past the post with mixed member proportional representation and set MLA salaries at the average wage of a BC worker.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
The Communist Party of BC's Our Platform page says the party would support the Land Back demand, ensure Indigenous inherent title to all traditional territories, and stop the attacks on Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. The page was written for the party and names no candidate. voche.me found no 2026 statement in which Kimball Cariou repeats it. The page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby.
He has held no seat in the legislature, so there is no voting record to review. His public record is his run for office in 2020, 2023 and 2024, shown under Experience, and the title Provincial Executive that the party's Contact Us page gives him.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
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News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
A dated reading list from independent publishers. The headings below are voche.me summaries; follow each link for the original article, context and any corrections.
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Research / 9 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No campaign website, party candidate page for 2026, news report or personal statement by Kimball Cariou for the 2026 campaign was found on 2026-10-03. The vote counts for the runs of 1996, 2001, 2017, 2020 and 2023 and for all five federal runs come from BC Ballot only, and voche.me did not open the Elections BC or Elections Canada results for them. The party's June 22, 2026 post titled Election of new BC Conservative leaders is a warning shot to the left carries the line By Kimball Cariou and says it was first published in People's Voice. No source voche.me opened says the writer of that opinion article is the candidate, so the article is not used. BC Ballot says a fifth candidate, announced by the Conservative Party, is not yet on the Elections BC list, and voche.me did not check that. Instagram, X and Facebook were not searched directly because they ask for a sign-in, and the Bing, Google and DuckDuckGo result pages returned nothing readable. His biography, work, own commitments, all-candidates meetings in the district, campaign finances for 2026 and endorsements were not found. Wikimedia Commons holds one photo of Kimball Cariou, credited to the Communist Party of Canada under the licence CC BY 3.0 and dated circa 2019. It is 357 by 397 pixels, smaller than the 640 by 800 pixels of the portrait size, and the file description does not state that the pictured man is this candidate, so the page has no portrait. The party's Our Platform page does not say which election it was written for, and its opening paragraph describes a snap election called by Premier David Eby, so voche.me lists its commitments as party text only. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list (district, name and affiliation only), Elections BC's election dates page and 2024 statement of votes, the Communist Party of BC's home page, Our Platform page, Contact Us page, release of October 21, 2020 and by-election platform page of 2023, the party's site search for his surname, for Hastings, for candidate and for 2026 election, BC Ballot's pages for him and for Vancouver-Hastings, the legislature's member lists, the People's Voice and Communist Party of Canada site searches for his surname, and Wikimedia Commons.
None of these sources holds a statement by Kimball Cariou about the 2026 campaign. The party's platform is listed as party text. The WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, so the name search was limited, and the Bing, Google and DuckDuckGo result pages returned no readable results. Instagram, X and Facebook were not searched directly because they ask for a sign-in. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
2020
Communist Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Hastings
The party's release of October 21, 2020 lists Kimball Cariou (Vancouver Hastings) among its candidates in the provincial election of October 24, 2020. BC Ballot reports 184 votes (0.8 percent), fifth place.
Communist Party of BC candidate in the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election
The party's platform page for the June 24, 2023 by-elections is headed Vote Kimball Cariou (Vancouver-Mount Pleasant). BC Ballot reports 167 votes (2.1 percent), fifth place.
Communist Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Strathcona
Elections BC's statement of votes shows Kimball Cariou with 336 votes (1.68 percent), fourth of four candidates. Joan Phillip of the BC NDP won with 13,673 votes (68.17 percent).
Listed as Provincial Executive on the party's Contact Us page
The party's own page lists Kimball Cariou with the title Provincial Executive. It is the party's description of a role, and voche.me found no page that explains what the title involves.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which parts of the Communist Party of BC platform matter most to you for Vancouver-Hastings?
No response has been submitted.
Where can voters read your own campaign statements?
No response has been submitted.
What would you do first as MLA for Vancouver-Hastings?
No response has been submitted.
Have your own question?
Ask Kimball Cariou directly. We send it to the campaign, and publish the reply here if we get one.
05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Kimball Cariou's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Kimball Cariou?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Kimball Cariou's own campaign.
What party is Kimball Cariou running with?
Kimball Cariou is running for MLA with Communist Party of BC.
Does Kimball Cariou currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Kimball Cariou.
How many sources does this Kimball Cariou profile cite?
This profile lists 8 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Kimball Cariou's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Kimball Cariou in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Kimball Cariou is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.
