Final-Week Receipts: OneBC Has 33 Official Ballot Candidates and Remains Visible in Polling
October 21, 2026 · iVoteOneBC research desk
The final-week picture is useful for supporters because it gives two hard receipts at once: OneBC is on the official ballot in 33 ridings, and pollsters are still measuring OneBC as a visible campaign factor in the closing stretch.
What is verified
Elections BC’s final candidate list says nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3 and lists the final candidates for the 2026 Provincial General Election. A direct CSV check on October 21 counted 33 OneBC-affiliated ballot candidates.
The verified OneBC ballot list is: Virender Dass — Abbotsford-Mission; Robin Roy — Abbotsford South; Keith Pomeroy — Boundary-Similkameen; De Ding — Burnaby East; Jenny Yamagata — Burnaby North; Andrew Rose — Burnaby South-Metrotown; Jim McMurtry — Delta South; Shane Friesen — Juan de Fuca-Malahat; Rocky McAfee — Kamloops Centre; Deborah Friesen — Kamloops-North Thompson; Bill Desrosiers — Kelowna Centre; Alexandra Wright — Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream; Abraham Nordine — Kelowna-Mission; Hunter Corrigal — Kootenay Central; Stephen Hill — Kootenay-Monashee; AJ Wolfe — Kootenay-Rockies; Shelly Jan — Langley-Abbotsford; Shubham Joshi — Langley-Willowbrook; Susan Einarsson — Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows; Warren Hamm — Penticton-Summerland; Mitchell Lukoni — Prince George-Valemount; Barbara Presch — Salmon Arm-Shuswap; Larry Eugene Taylor — Skeena; Oliver Wildfong — Surrey City Centre; Travis Marchenski — Surrey-Cloverdale; Carolyn Hofbauer — Surrey-Fleetwood; Tanya Gupta — Surrey North; Todd Holowchak — Surrey-Serpentine River; Amanda James — Surrey-White Rock; Dallas Brodie — Vancouver-Quilchena; Salvatore Vetro — Vancouver-South Granville; Chantel Gibbs — Vernon-Lumby; and Naomi Chocyk — West Vancouver-Capilano.
Final-week polling context
BC Election Guide’s poll archive now logs 25 professional releases through October 20. Its final-week notes are careful: Innovative Research’s October 20 release groups OneBC, CentreBC, and other parties under a combined Other figure provincially, so BC Election Guide does not derive a separate province-wide OneBC number from that release.
The same archive records Angus Reid’s October 19 final-days release at OneBC 1% and CentreBC 1% among decided-and-leaning voters; Leger’s October 14 release at OneBC 4% and CentreBC 3% among decided voters; Research Co.’s October 13 release at OneBC 2% and CentreBC 2%; and Pallas Data’s October 13 release at OneBC 5% and CentreBC 2%. That is a visibility file, not a prediction file.
Why this helps supporters
The positive frame is disciplined growth: a new party with one MLA has a verified 33-candidate ballot footprint and enough public recognition that multiple pollsters or poll archives are tracking it separately during the campaign’s final stretch.
The premier-material frame for Dallas Brodie is also disciplined: talk about the official candidate infrastructure, talk about the published polling baselines, and then ask voters to judge the record directly — without pretending small-party polling is a seat forecast.
The careful frame
- Do say: Elections BC’s final list shows 33 OneBC-affiliated ballot candidates.
- Do say: final-week polling continues to measure OneBC visibility, with recent published figures ranging from 1% to 5% depending on pollster and methodology.
- Do not say: verified membership count, fundraising total, seat projection, riding win, formal alliance, or debate invitation unless an official source publishes it.
- Do not overread: Innovative’s October 20 provincial chart groups OneBC with CentreBC and others, so this site does not invent a separate OneBC province-wide number from that specific release.