Centre BC candidate for MLA in Vancouver-Yaletown, and a technology company founder and investor, according to the party.
Sam Chandola is the CentreBC candidate in Vancouver-Yaletown. Terry Yung of the BC NDP won the district in 2024 with 9,018 votes (49.76 percent). The party says he came to Canada in 2012 as a scholarship student, founded several technology companies in Vancouver and founded the investment fund First Fund in 2020. His party page says he is running to build a provincial economy that depends less on the public sector and on the United States, and that creates private sector jobs. voche.me found no measure from him with a number, a cost or a date on 2026-10-01.
A researched record of Sam Chandola’s candidacy in Vancouver-Yaletown. Elections BC lists him with the affiliation CentreBC. His three positions here come from one paragraph on the party’s page about him, and none names a measure, a number, a cost or a date.
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01 / Introduction
About Sam Chandola
Elections BC lists Sam Chandola as the CentreBC candidate in Vancouver-Yaletown. The list stamped October 1, 2026 03:00:06 PM shows two accepted nominations in the district: Sam Chandola of CentreBC and Terry Yung of the BC NDP. Nominations close at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026, so more candidates may be added. BC Ballot, a site that lists candidates by district, also shows Margareta Dovgal of the Conservative Party as announced by her party.
Terry Yung won the district in 2024 with 9,018 votes (49.76 percent), according to Elections BC’s statement of votes. Melissa De Genova of the Conservative Party received 7,857 votes (43.35 percent) and Dana-Lyn Mackenzie of the BC Green Party received 1,248 (6.89 percent).
The party published its page about him on 2026-09-29. The page says he arrived in Canada in 2012 as a scholarship student, and that over 15 years in Vancouver he founded several technology companies, sold three of them and created hundreds of technology jobs in British Columbia. It says his mobile apps have been downloaded more than 30 million times. It says he founded First Fund in 2020, and that the fund has invested over $35 million in new British Columbia companies and backed more than 80 people starting their first company. These are the party’s statements. voche.me has not checked them with the companies or the fund.
The party page says he won three awards: BC Business’s Top 30 Under 30, the TMX Canada’s Next 150 Award, and a place on a Vancouver Economic Commission list of people of Asian descent to watch. BC Business published a profile of a Sam Chandola on 2014-03-26, under its 30 Under 30 heading, naming him as founder and chief executive of Victory Square Games. voche.me has not checked the other two awards with the bodies that gave them.
The party page says he holds a bachelor’s degree in philology from Germany on an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, and speaks English, Hindi and German. It says he has coached people in prison on starting a business as a volunteer with Defy Ventures, and has helped raise over $3 million for charities. voche.me has not checked these statements.
The party page says he is running to help build a provincial economy that depends less on the public sector and on the United States, and that creates private sector jobs. It calls him socially liberal and fiscally responsible, and says he believes governments should be judged by results. It says health care, housing and public safety have become worse under the BC NDP government. The page gives no number, cost or date for any of these. voche.me has not contacted the campaign.
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2026 · EconomyCampaign pledge
An economy with more private sector jobs
The party’s page about him says he is running to help build a provincial economy that depends less on the public sector and on the United States, and that creates private sector jobs.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The page names a goal and no measure. It gives no number of jobs, no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
Does he name a measure for jobs or trade, such as a tax rate, a permit rule or a program?
voche.me found no public office held by him in the sources read on 2026-10-01, so voche.me found no voting record to review.
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
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Research / 10 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 1, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No campaign website of his own, no social media account tied to this candidacy, and no news report, interview or statement from him as a 2026 candidate were found on 2026-10-01. His positions come from one paragraph on the party’s page, so his own measures on housing, health care, the cost of living, public safety, education, climate, Indigenous reconciliation and transportation are unknown. The party has published no 2026 election platform: its policy page says its Policy Committee is still writing its first policy areas. The party’s statements about his career are unchecked: the companies he founded and sold, the export revenue and jobs it credits to him, the app download count, the amounts First Fund has invested, the TMX Canada’s Next 150 Award, the Vancouver Economic Commission list, his degree, his work with Defy Ventures and the money raised for charities. The site of First Fund did not answer on 2026-10-01. Elections BC’s 2024 statement of votes lists a Sam Chandola as the Conservative Party candidate in North Vancouver-Seymour, with 10,995 votes (35.79 percent). No page voche.me read says that the 2024 candidate and this candidate are the same person, so that candidacy is left out of this record. An X account, a Facebook page and an Instagram account under the same name or a longer form of it showed a sign-in page or are tied to this candidacy by no page voche.me read, so nothing from them is used. All-candidates meetings in the district, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. Nominations close October 3, 2026, so other candidates may still be added. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-01: the Elections BC candidate list and key dates page, the 2024 statement of votes, the CentreBC candidates, team, policy and news pages, the party’s page about him, a search of the party site for his name, the party’s 100 newest public Bluesky posts, the BC Ballot candidate list, a 2014 BC Business profile, and web searches for his name with the district, the party, 2026 and MLA.
His positions on this page come from one paragraph on the party’s page about him. voche.me found no campaign website of his own, no social media account tied to this candidacy and no news report or interview about his 2026 candidacy on 2026-10-01. Most of the party’s statements about his career have not been checked with the bodies that would know. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Since 2020
Founder, First Fund
The party says he founded First Fund, which invests in new companies at their earliest stage, and that it has invested over $35 million in new British Columbia companies. voche.me has not checked this with the fund.
A BC Business profile of 2014-03-26 names a Sam Chandola, then 25, as founder and chief executive of this mobile game studio, under its 30 Under 30 heading. The party says he won BC Business’s Top 30 Under 30.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which provincial measure would you adopt first to create private sector jobs, and by when?
No response has been submitted.
What does being fiscally responsible mean to you: a balanced budget by a set year, a spending limit, or something else?
No response has been submitted.
The party page says health care, housing and public safety have become worse. Which measure would you support first on each, and what would it cost?
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 Sam Chandola?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Sam Chandola's own campaign.
What party is Sam Chandola running with?
Sam Chandola is running for MLA with Centre BC.
Does Sam Chandola currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Sam Chandola.
How many sources does this Sam Chandola 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 Sam Chandola's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Sam Chandola 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 Sam Chandola 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.
