November 13th, 2024

CP NewsAlert: B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau loses seat after changing ridings

By The Canadian Press on October 19, 2024.

B.C. Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau, listens to questions from Union of BC Municipalities members during a convention in Vancouver on Friday, September 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

VICTORIA – Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has lost her seat in the legislature after changing ridings to Victoria-Beacon Hill.

Furstenau lost to Grace Lore, the minister of children and family development in the previous NDP government.

The Green leader was first elected 2017, when her party played a key roll in helping the New Democrats form government with a confidence and supply agreement between the two parties.

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