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British Columbia Conservative Party Victory (2026)

British Columbia elected its first Conservative majority in nearly a century, marking a major rightward political shift in Canada's third-most-populous province.

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British Columbia elected its first Conservative Party majority government in 98 years, swinging Canada's third most populous province to the political right, after the province's left-wing leader lost in a vote he himself had called (Bloomberg, October 25).