The following candidates are running in Vancouver Island’s seven ridings.
You can find more information on the candidates and the ridings here:
- Victoria
- Saanich-Gulf Islands
- Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke
- Cowichan-Malahat-Langford
- Nanaimo-Ladysmith
- Courtenay-Alberni
- North Island-Powell River
Victoria
NDP — First-term MP Laurel Collins, a former Victoria city councillor, is the incumbent
Liberals — Oceans and climate researcher Nikki Macdonald, a former Jean Chrétien adviser who also ran in 2019
Greens — UVic law student Nick Loughton
Conservatives — Hannah Hodson
People’s Party of Canada — John Randal Phipps
Animal Protection Party — Jordan Reichert
Communist Party — Janis Zroback
Saanich-Gulf Islands
Greens — Elizabeth May has held the seat since 2011
NDP — Sabina Singh, an academic and activist, ran in 2019
Conservative — David Busch, a Saanich lawyer, also ran in 2019
Liberals — Sherri Moore-Arbour, a Metis communications professional from Galiano Island
PPC — David Hilderman
Communist — Dock Currie
Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke
NDP — Randall Garrison has been the MP since 2011
Liberals — Doug Kobayashi, a Colwood councillor and business consultant
Greens — Forest researcher Harley Gordon
PPC — Rob Anderson
Conservatives — Environmental researcher Laura Frost
Communist — Tyson Strandlund
Cowichan-Malahat-Langford
NDP — Incumbent Alistair MacGregor was first elected in 2015
Liberals — Blair Herbert, a realtor, also ran in 2019
Conservatives — Alana DeLong, a Thetis Island resident who served for 14 years as an MLA in Alberta and ran for the B.C. Liberals in 2017
PPC — Mark Hecht
Greens — Lia Versaevel, a Chemainus resident and poverty law advocate who has run twice for the B.C. Greens
Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Greens — Paul Manly, the incumbent since 2019
NDP — School trustee Lisa Marie Barron
Liberals — Michelle Corfield is back for her third straight attempt
Conservatives — Tamara Kronis, a former Toronto lawyer who turned to the jewelry trade
PPC — Stephen Welton
Courtenay-Alberni
NDP — Gord Johns has been MP since 2015
Liberals — Susan Farlinger, formerly a DFO biologist and manager and Canada’s lead negotiator at the Pacific Salmon Commission
Conservatives — Mary Lee, a communications professional and former major in the Canadian Armed Forces
PPC — Robert Eppich
Greens — Susanne Lawson
Marxist-Leninist — Barbara Biley
North Island-Powell River
NDP — Incumbent Rachel Blaney has been the MP since 2015
Conservatives — Port McNeill municipal councillor Shelley Downey, who also ran in 2019
Greens — Comox human rights lawyer Jessica Wegg
Liberals — Jennifer Grenz, founder of an invasive-species management, ecological restoration, and food security planning company
PPC — Paul Macknight
Maverick — Stacey Gastis
Marxist-Leninists — Carla Neal
