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title: "CentreBC and OneBC each run fewer than 40 candidates in today's provincial vote"
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Two smaller parties founded by former BC Conservative MLAs are on the ballot in today's BC provincial election, each contesting far fewer than half the available seats.

CentreBC, led by [Elenore Sturko](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/elenore-sturko), has 35 candidates running across the province's 93 ridings. OneBC, led by [Dallas Brodie](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/dallas-brodie), has 34 candidates, the Globe and Mail reported on October 22.

Sturko told the Globe she hoped CentreBC would win at least two seats, and acknowledged that would be a challenge. Brodie said she would be happy if OneBC took four or five seats.

## First time since 1996

This is the first BC provincial election since 1996 in which voters can choose from more than three parties that already hold seats in the legislature, the Globe and Mail reported. Both Sturko and Brodie are sitting MLAs who left or were removed from the BC Conservative caucus before forming their own parties.

Sturko was first elected as a BC Conservative in 2022 in Surrey-South, and was removed from the Conservative caucus in 2025 before eventually joining CentreBC, which the party says was created in 2025 to represent voters in the centre of the political spectrum. Brodie has held the Vancouver-Quilchena seat and left the Conservatives before forming OneBC.

## What the parties say they stand for

Sturko told the Globe that she has been telling voters that CentreBC is not trying to form government. "We wanted to use that time to tell British Columbians what the point of us is," she said, referring to 30 seconds each party was given at last week's leaders' debate.

Brodie told the Globe she felt the parties had managed to get their messages out well, despite the speed of the campaign.

In the legislature, OneBC has proposed a bill against gender-affirming care for transgender people and a ban on land acknowledgements by public institutions and employees.

## Analysts on vote-splitting

Pollster Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, told the Globe that CentreBC had a chance to attract voters looking for a new option but that moment had passed.

University of the Fraser Valley professor Hamish Telford told the Globe he would be surprised if either party won any seats. He said both parties could take votes from the larger parties in close ridings: OneBC from the BC Conservatives, and CentreBC from some Conservatives and some NDP supporters.

Voting places across BC are open until 8 pm Pacific time today. Anyone in line at closing time can still vote. You can check whether CentreBC or OneBC has a candidate in your riding at [/bc/provincial-2026/races/mla](/bc/provincial-2026/races/mla).

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