BC Green Party candidate in Victoria-Beacon Hill, running against BC NDP MLA Grace Lore.
Rajinder S. Sahota is the BC Green Party candidate in Victoria-Beacon Hill. His BC Green candidate page says he is a Victoria lawyer who has led a personal injury and human rights law firm for more than a decade and has sat on the board of Pacifica Housing Advisory Association for more than a decade. Elections BC's list of October 3, 2026 shows one other accepted nomination in the district, from BC NDP MLA Grace Lore. The party page gives his priorities as publicly funded health care, education and transit, and an end to public financial support for the fossil fuel industry.
A researched record of Rajinder S. Sahota's candidacy in Victoria-Beacon Hill for the BC Green Party. voche.me found one quotation from him and a list of priorities on his party's candidate page, and no other statement in his own words on 2026-10-03. The commitments below are the party's wording from his candidate page and its Our Plan page, and each is marked as the party's.
The BC Green Party's events calendar listed 9 canvassing and street outreach events for his campaign in Victoria-Beacon Hill from September 26 to October 2, 2026, all dated before this review, and none for Victoria-Beacon Hill dated after October 3. Each listing invites volunteers, and none states that he attended. The voting dates come from Elections BC.
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01 / Introduction
About Rajinder S. Sahota
Elections BC's candidate list, stamped October 3, 2026 09:00:06 PM, prints Rajinder S. Sahota as the BC Green Party candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill. The same copy shows one other accepted nomination in the district, Grace Lore of the BC NDP, who is the sitting member. The list shows nominations that Elections BC has accepted. In 2024, Grace Lore won the district with 13,634 votes (47.35 percent), Sonia Furstenau of the BC Green Party received 9,644 (33.50 percent) and Tim Thielmann of the Conservative Party received 5,514 (19.15 percent). No candidate named Sahota ran in the district in 2024.
The BC Green Party's candidate page, which uses the name Rajinder S. Sahota in its heading and Raj in its text, says he was born in Victoria, raised in Esquimalt and attended Esquimalt High School and Belmont Senior Secondary. It says he earned degrees in commerce and law at the University of Victoria, began his legal career in corporate law at firms in Toronto and New York City, and then took a Master of Laws in International Law at the London School of Economics. It says he has worked for nearly two decades as a litigator and negotiator for injured, harmed and vulnerable people, and for more than a decade as managing partner and/or team principal of a law firm that handles personal injury, human rights and class action cases. These are the campaign's statements. voche.me has not checked them with the universities or the Law Society of BC, and the page does not name the firm.
The candidate page also says he has served for more than a decade on the board of Pacifica Housing Advisory Association, a non-profit housing and service provider. Pacifica Housing's own leadership page lists a director named Raj Sahota and says he chairs the organization's Development Committee. Its biography of him says he began as a corporate lawyer with a multinational firm in New York City and now represents people injured through the fault of others, including people seeking compensation from ICBC. The campaign page names the board seat and Pacifica's page lists a Raj Sahota with a matching career, so this record treats them as one person. Pacifica's page shows no date.
The BC Green Party announced his candidacy in a release dated September 24, 2026, alongside David Evans for Juan de Fuca-Malahat. Global News reported the announcement the same day and described Sahota as a lawyer and a longstanding member of the Pacifica Housing Advisory Association board. The party's candidate page carries one quotation from him: "Government's primary job is to care for us, not cater to lobbyists."
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8 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · Public servicesCampaign pledge
Candidate page: publicly funded and universally accessible health care
The BC Green Party's candidate page says he is running on priorities that include publicly funded and universally accessible health care.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party wrote this in the third person on his candidate page. voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it, and the page names no measure.
What still needs checking
What would he change in provincial health care, and by when?
Candidate page: publicly funded and universally accessible education
The BC Green Party's candidate page says he is running on priorities that include publicly funded and universally accessible education.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party wrote this in the third person on his candidate page. voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it, and the page names no measure.
What still needs checking
Which levels of education does he mean, and what would he change?
Candidate page: publicly funded and universally accessible transit
The BC Green Party's candidate page says he is running on priorities that include publicly funded and universally accessible transit.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party wrote this in the third person on his candidate page. voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it, and the page names no measure.
What still needs checking
Does he support the party's plan for free transit, and what would it cost?
Candidate page: end public financial support for fossil fuels, multinational corporations and wealthy individuals
The BC Green Party's candidate page says he supports ending public financial support for the fossil fuel industry, multinational corporations and wealthy individuals.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party wrote this in the third person on his candidate page. voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it, and the page names no measure.
The BC Greens platform page says the party would eliminate the subsidies fossil fuel companies receive, regain control over royalty rates and stop new fossil fuel development.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform page. It does not name Rajinder S. Sahota, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
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.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform page. It does not name Rajinder S. Sahota, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
voche.me found no elected office or public body role on record for this candidate in the sources it read on 2026-10-03, so it found no voting record to review. His seat on the board of Pacifica Housing Advisory Association, a charity, is listed under experience.
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Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
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News coverage / Original publishers
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Reporting
Global News
B.C. election campaign day 3: NDP takes aim at Trump trade war
Global News's report on the third day of the campaign says the BC Green Party announced two more candidates, Raj Sahota in Victoria-Beacon Hill and David Evans in Juan de Fuca-Malahat. It describes Sahota as a lawyer and a longstanding member of the Pacifica Housing Advisory Association board.
Provincial election candidates in south Vancouver Island ridings
Island Social Trends, in an article it published on the evening of October 3, 2026 (PT), lists Grace Lore of the BC NDP and Rajinder Sahota of the BC Greens as the only two names on the Victoria-Beacon Hill ballot. It says the Green candidate has big-city legal career experience and has studied global economics, and that he has less name recognition than Lore. That is the outlet's own assessment.
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 personal website or social media account of his own was found, and the party's candidate page links none, so the only statements from him are one quotation on that page and the priorities it lists in the third person. The page does not name his law firm. His degrees and his standing with the Law Society of BC were not checked. Pacifica Housing's board page is undated and gives no start date for his seat, and no Pacifica minutes were found. The name search was limited because the general web search tool was at its usage limit. It used Google News, the BC Green Party site search and the search pages of CHEK News, Island Social Trends and Victoria News. The Times Colonist refused the request (HTTP 403). Search results for the name also listed older articles and a magazine profile that matched the name, a CHEK News list of Vancouver Island candidates, a Times Colonist list of Vancouver Island candidates and an item from Sher-E-Punjab Radio. voche.me did not open them. No page voche.me opened ties any other person or public record that shares his name to this candidate, so none is used. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn were not opened, so nothing from them is used. The party names him Rajinder Sahota in its page address and Raj Sahota in its release, and Elections BC prints Rajinder S. Sahota, which is the name on this page. The party says its full platform is coming soon, so the Our Plan page may change. All-candidates meetings, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. Elections BC says it is still reviewing the nominations it received, so the list may change. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list (copy stamped October 3, 2026 09:00:06 PM), the Elections BC key dates page, the 2024 statement of votes, his BC Green Party candidate page, the party's release of September 24, 2026, the party's Our Plan page, the party's events calendar, Pacifica Housing's leadership page, a Global News report of September 24, 2026 and an Island Social Trends article of October 3, 2026.
The name search was limited: the general web search tool had reached its usage limit, so the name was searched through Google News, the BC Green Party site search, the search pages of CHEK News, Island Social Trends and Victoria News, and two public web search pages that returned no usable results. The Times Colonist refused the request (HTTP 403). His personal website, if one exists, was not found, and no personal social media account is linked from the party's candidate page. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn were not opened.
Everything about his career comes from his party's candidate page, with the board seat also listed on Pacifica Housing's own page. The commitments below are the party's wording on his candidate page and on its Our Plan page, and none is marked as his own words. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
Pacifica Housing's leadership page lists a director named Raj Sahota and says he chairs the Development Committee. His candidate page says he has served on the board for more than a decade. Pacifica's page gives no start date.
Managing partner and/or team principal of a law firm (the campaign's description)
The candidate page says the firm handles personal injury, human rights and class action cases and that he has worked as a litigator and negotiator for nearly two decades. The page does not name the firm, and voche.me has not checked this with the Law Society of BC.
Before his return to Victoria, per his campaign page
Corporate lawyer, then Master of Laws student
The candidate page says he worked in corporate law at firms in Toronto and New York City and then completed a Master of Laws in International Law at the London School of Economics. Pacifica Housing's page also says he began his career as a corporate lawyer with a multinational firm in New York City. The degrees were not checked with the schools.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Why are you running in Victoria-Beacon Hill, and what would you do first as MLA?
No response has been submitted.
How would the Province pay for universally accessible health care, education and transit, and what would you ask it to change first?
No response has been submitted.
What would you ask the Province to do to build more non-market homes and keep rents affordable in Victoria?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Rajinder S. Sahota?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Rajinder S. Sahota's own campaign.
What party is Rajinder S. Sahota running with?
Rajinder S. Sahota is running for MLA with BC Green Party.
Does Rajinder S. Sahota currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Rajinder S. Sahota.
How many sources does this Rajinder S. Sahota profile cite?
This profile lists 9 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Rajinder S. Sahota's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Rajinder S. Sahota 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 Rajinder S. Sahota 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.
