Communist Party of BC candidate for MLA in Vancouver-Strathcona.
Robert Crooks is the Communist Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Strathcona, according to Elections BC. On 2026-10-03 voche.me found no campaign website, no party candidate page and no statement by him as a candidate. In 2024 Joan Phillip of the BC NDP won the district with 13,673 votes (68.17 percent), and Kimball Cariou of the Communist Party of BC had 336 votes (1.68 percent).
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Communist Party of BC2026
Robert CrooksBritish Columbia provincial election
Robert CrooksMLAv.
Candidate research / October 3, 2026
A researched record of what voche.me could find about Robert Crooks's 2026 candidacy in Vancouver-Strathcona. On 2026-10-03 the only source that names him as a candidate is the Elections BC candidate list.
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 Robert Crooks
Elections BC lists Robert Crooks as the Communist Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Strathcona. The copy of the list read on 2026-10-03 is stamped 6:00:07 PM that day, after nominations closed at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific time). It shows two candidates for the district: Amanda Burrows of the BC NDP and Robert Crooks. VoteMate's page for the district, read the same day, lists Amanda Burrows (BC NDP), Jordan McIntosh (BC Conservative) and Tanya Webking (BC Green) and does not list him.
His name does not appear in the Vancouver-Strathcona results of Elections BC's 2024 statement of votes. In 2024 Joan Phillip, the sitting member, won the district for the BC NDP with 13,673 votes (68.17 percent). Scott Muller of the Conservative Party had 3,430 votes (17.10 percent), Simon de Weerdt of the BC Green Party had 2,618 votes (13.05 percent), and Kimball Cariou of the Communist Party of BC had 336 votes (1.68 percent). Voter turnout in the district was 51.36 percent.
The Communist Party of BC's website has a page called Our Platform, with the party's commitments on taxes, climate, transit, work, public ownership, Indigenous rights, policing, education, health care, housing and electoral reform. The page names no candidate. voche.me found no page, release or post on the party's site that names Robert Crooks as a candidate, no website of his own, and no news report or statement tied to this candidacy. This page therefore holds no biography and no commitments of his own.
voche.me has not contacted the campaign. The commitments listed below are the party's own text from its platform page, and each one says so.
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.
11 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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.
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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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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. voche.me found no statement in which Robert Crooks 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.
No public office is on record for him in the sources read, so there is no voting or council record to review. The legislature member files held by voche.me do not list his name.
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
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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 / 6 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, party release or news report naming Robert Crooks as the Vancouver-Strathcona candidate was found on 2026-10-03. The address cpcbc.ca/candidates/ returned HTTP 404, and so did cpcbc.ca/vote-communist-2026/. The party's home page, which lists its posts from May 26 to September 25, 2026, names no provincial candidate. Its Our Platform page names no candidate either. VoteMate's page for the district lists three other candidates and does not list him. The name Robert Crooks appears elsewhere on the party's website, in People's Voice and in the 2024 statement of votes for a different district, in a party role, in bylines and as an earlier candidacy. No page opened in this task states that the Vancouver-Strathcona candidate is that person, so none of it is used, and the sections below hold none of it. A voter guide (BC Ballot) lists him for the district, repeats the Elections BC list and gives no biography, so nothing from it is used. A domain under his name that voche.me reached is a page offering the domain for sale and is unrelated. Instagram needs a sign-in, and a read of the party's public Instagram address returned no text, so no social media was used. His biography, work, past roles, own commitments, all-candidates meetings in the district, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. No published photo tied to the campaign was found, 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, Elections BC's election dates page, the 2024 statement of votes, the Communist Party of BC's home page, Our Platform page, contact page and the search box on its site, VoteMate's page for Vancouver-Strathcona, the search boxes of People's Voice and of the Communist Party of Canada's site, a public Instagram address of the party, and web searches for his name (the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, so the name search used Bing pages read directly).
None of these sources holds a statement by Robert Crooks as the Vancouver-Strathcona candidate. The party's platform is listed as party text. The name Robert Crooks also appears on pages of the party and of People's Voice in other roles, and in the 2024 statement of votes for another district. No page read states that the Vancouver-Strathcona candidate is that person, so voche.me uses nothing from those pages. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Background not supplied
Work, public service and community involvement will appear here when supplied. No experience has been added to this profile.
04 / Questions & answers
Questions for the candidate
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-Strathcona?
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-Strathcona?
No response has been submitted.
Have your own question?
Ask Robert Crooks 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 Robert Crooks's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Robert Crooks?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Robert Crooks's own campaign.
What party is Robert Crooks running with?
Robert Crooks is running for MLA with Communist Party of BC.
Does Robert Crooks currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Robert Crooks.
How many sources does this Robert Crooks profile cite?
This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Robert Crooks's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Robert Crooks 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 Robert Crooks 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.
