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Vaughn Palmer: Kerry-Lynne Findlay split B.C. Conservatives as a campaign strategy. Can she unite them now?

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01.06.2026

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Vaughn Palmer: Kerry-Lynne Findlay split B.C. Conservatives as a campaign strategy. Can she unite them now?

Opinion: During her campaign, Findlay deliberately pitted Conservatives against Liberals, vowing to keep a purified party of the former out of the dirty hands of the latter

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VICTORIA — B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s victory over second-place finisher Caroline Elliott was even closer than it appeared initially, judging from the raw voting numbers the party released later in the weekend.

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The results, as announced Saturday night, had Findlay with 51 per cent, Elliott at 49, a gap of two percentage points.

Those percentages........

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