B.C. election: All but 3 NDP cabinet members projected to win re-election
Global News
The former ministers projected to lose their seats to BC Conservatives include former education and child care minister Rachna Singh and ex-agriculture minister Pam Alexis.
All but three cabinet ministers in the last BC NDP government are projected to win re-election in Saturday’s B.C. election.
The question now is whether they’ll get the chance to return to their portfolios, as the NDP remain in a nail-biting contest with the BC Conservatives.
The former ministers projected to lose their seats to Conservatives are ex-education and child care minister Rachna Singh in Surrey North, ex-agriculture minister Pam Alexis in Abbotsford-Mission, and Bulkley-Valley-Stikine incumbent Nathan Cullen, who served as minister of land, water and resource stewardship.
Cullen was a longtime federal MP in the area before he was drafted into provincial politics as a star candidate in 2020.
The rest of BC NDP Leader David Eby’s last cabinet was re-elected, many of them by wide margins in safe NDP seats.
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