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I think it tells a more complete story when you include the people that didn't vote.

Stats from Wikipedia which sourced from ElectionsBC.

We weren’t kidding about what not turning out to vote would result in

We need a socialist who can campaign in hope, not another technocrat who will campaign on contrived focus-grouped messaging.

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I wanted to wait a few days after the election before posting this.

The first thing is to acknowledge that there is most likely some very tough times ahead for vulnerable people, the environment, public workers, and so on. It is going to be very important that grassroots organizing/solidarity takes place as best as is possible to help on these many fronts.

One of the best things about being a progressive/leftist is not being in a reactionary/regressive cult. We can be highly critical to broaden, deepen, and sharpen understandings in an on-going and evolving process. We can also in good-faith, respectfully, and substantively celebrate positives that did happen.

David Eby and the BCNDP team did some good with housing, vulnerable working demographics, mental health, and so on. In particular with housing and workers rights we should have doubled and tripled down.

When it comes to the toxic drug supply that is causing so much pain and destruction in our communities we should have done a more analytical & holistic set of reforms. Decriminalization works when coupled with the needed supports: Treatment, Housing, Counselling, Job Placement, and so on. You can't just leave people to "figure it out"

*This is an important thing to be aware of in all policy areas. You either do it correct/substantively or not at all because if you do it wrong it can poison the waters for quite some time.\*

We dropped the ball big time on Old-Growth Forests and some other areas of climate/environmental action.

We alienated some of the Unions that are closely aligned with the party. (Unions, Federation of Labours, Labour Councils, and so on are our life blood.)

This is a time to really sit with our successes, failures, and be honest/transparent/accountable.

We need to come back with a profound & inspiring message. Policies that actually get accomplished and not just talked about.

We have a lot of outreach and genuine relationship building that needs to take place.

It's time for the real work to begin. Period.

https://studentvote.ca/bc/results/

“There is some good in this world Mr.Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for!”

Hello! I want to join the CYND but don't know the full requirements for it. The NDP website covering info about the CYND is down so I cannot look there. Thank you!

Source: https://fxtwitter.com/avilewis/status/2114419691804578170

It's looking like bye bye Bolsonaro with about 90% of districts counted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/oct/25/brazil-election-2026-live-second-round-results

I know the contexts are different, but Eby-ism failed, while Lula stormed to a comeback win tonight

Lessons for the NDP going forward.

In my humble view, Avi Lewis' vision for the party is far more Lula than Eby.

That's a good thing.

1. The BC NDP called the early election, so that's 100% on them
2. The Greens support Proportional Representation, so they actually want to fix this system
3. The ONLY vote splits in recent memory were right-wing Liberals splitting the vote in 2011 Federally, and in 2018-2024 Ontario.
4. The BC CON win was so big, even a collapsed Green vote wouldn't have mattered. If literally 100% of them voted BC NDP, it would be roughly a tie, but that's an unrealistic conversion rate, and the vote distribution would have still been a BC CON win

The left doesn't split votes: Liberals do, and moderates are the ones who elect right-wing governments.

Stop pushing Carney-ist narratives

This is getting embarrassing at this point. They seem completely incapable at learning from their mistakes, they are still using the exact same the same failed strategies and continue to drop lower and lower in the polls.

And why we need proportional representation

Now that the election is over, I'm gonna say it.

Fuck David Eby. He was a weak leader with terrible political instincts. He seemed like a somewhat competent Attorney General, but he blew it as leader. Calling this election early was such a mistake, and the fact he lost to the BC Conservatives, a party with an interim leader and a racist scandal every other day, is insane.

I hope the BCNDP can recover from this. Good luck to you all in BC. You're in for a nasty 4 years unfortunately.

In BC, we're all processing this massive electoral loss and fumble today. However, the only hope i'm holding onto is the possibility of an actual leftist, sharp, and courageous new BC NDP leader willing to make bold changes in the future. The BC NDP as it was under Eby was doing good technical and policy solutions, but were merely managing the decline of our society characterized by massive wealth inequality and the impacts and contributors to climate change going unchecked. Going centre-right is clearly a failed political strategy and I hope the BC NDP learns from this mistake.

Elections nowadays are all about motivating people to get out and vote, usually through either hope or anger. This election saw ~300k fewer NDP voters even bother to vote compared to 2024. Eby did not inspire hope, that was the biggest mistake he made in my opinion. Conservatives and reactionary movements have been excellent on a global scale lately in fueling and channeling justified anger and outrage (albeit misplacing that rage onto the wrong people), which motivates people to vote.

This moment calls for bold solutions that actually address our systemic crises, similar to what the Green party is calling for, and I'm hopeful the next BC NDP leader election provides that hope and that avenue for real change, which would actually motivate/inspire the NDP base to vote in mass numbers.

Excellent journalism from The Narwhal, as per usual. I realize that many of us are hurting today, but please consider bookmarking this article and coming back to it when you are ready.

Due to the Trump administration, we’ve been seeing how conservative anti-climate policy plays out. This will be an expensive assault on the environment, and we can’t let it stand.

The industrial carbon tax is preventing more emissions than any of our other climate policies, and we can’t afford to have it repealed. The amount of carbon lock-in will be enormous. Allowing more electricity to be generated by burning fracked gas will drive up our electricity costs and make them more volatile. Likewise, repealing the Zero Carbon Step Code for buildings, which is implemented at the municipal level, will lead to more households being stuck with heating systems that are needlessly costly to operate. Fossil fuel heating systems also lack a key climate adaptation benefit that heat pumps have: air conditioning. Forgive me for not mincing words, but if the adoption of heat pumps is delayed or stalled, people will die preventable deaths in the next heat dome.

I have a lot that I could say right now, but I will conclude with some thoughts about LNG. The Conservative proposal to take credit for “emissions avoided through clean B.C. exports” is one of the most ridiculous ideas that I’ve ever heard, in part because its premise is false: in actuality, LNG exports will increase global emissions. Eby knows this—he used to advocate eloquently against LNG. While I had my differences with Eby regarding his handling of LNG, I doubt that he wanted the LNG situation that he inherited. He is still a valuable member of our party, and if he were to come clean about the extent to which LNG has been greenwashed, then that would be immensely helpful in our fight to hold the Conservatives accountable for their coming attack on the climate.

Take care of yourselves, friends. We are now the official opposition, so let us staunchly oppose the spate of injustices coming our way, including climate injustices.