Prior to 1903, there was no strong party discipline in the province, and governments rarely lasted more than two years as independent-minded members changed allegiances. MLAs were elected under a myriad of party labels many as Independents, and no one party held strong majorities. The first party government, in 1903, was Conservative. And disciplined party caucuses have been the backbone of BC provincial politics ever since. A list of political parties currently registered with Elections BC can be found at the Elections BC website.

Parties represented in the current Legislative Assembly

Other parties that have formed governments

Historical parties that have been represented in the legislature

Current parties

Political parties currently registered to Elections BC as of November 19, 2022.https://elections.bc.ca/docs/fin/Registered-Political-Parties-Information.pdf

Historical parties

* Action Party (2001 iteration) * Advocational International Democratic Party of British Columbia (2006–2014 *

All Nations Party of British Columbia The All Nations Party was a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada. Its primary base of support was the First Nations aboriginal peoples of Canada. In the 2001 provincial election, the All Nations Party nominated six First Nations can ...

(2001 election–2005) * Allegiance Party *

Alternative Party of British Columbia Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (Kamen Rider), Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * The Alternative (film), ''The Alternative'' (film), a 19 ...

(?–2005) * Annexation Party of British Columbia (2003–2009) * BC Ecosocialists * BC First Party (2010–2018) *

British Columbia Party The British Columbia Party is a right-wing political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia, founded in 1998 as a populist party by John Motiuk, a North Vancouver lawyer. The party did not nominate candidates in the 2001 provincial ...

Canadian Alliance Party of British Columbia Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

(?–2005) *

Central Party (British Columbia) Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

(2001 election) * Centre Democratic Party (2000–2005) *

Christian Democratic Party __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social tea ...

( 1952 and

1953 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1953. Africa * 1953 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland election * 1953 South African general election * 1953 Southern Rhodesian federation referendum * 1953 South-West African legislative election ...

) * Citizens Action Party (BC Grey Party) (2002–2009) * Citizens First Party (2017) * Citizens Alliance Now (?–2007) ( 2001 election) *

Citizens Commonwealth Federation Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection". Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...

(2001 election) *

Common Sense, Community, Family Party Common may refer to: Places * Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland * Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts * Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts * Clapham Common, originally com ...

(1996 election) *

Council of British Columbians A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/ shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or nati ...

(2001 election) *

Confederation Party of British Columbia A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...

(2003–2009) * Constructive Party ( 1937 election) * British Columbia Cultural Action Party * Democratic Alliance (2004–2005) * Democratic Futures Party (2003–2009) * Democratic Idealists Party (2002) * Emancipation Party ( 1941 election) * Emerged Democracy Party of British Columbia (2004–2009) ( 2005 election) *

Enterprise Party of British Columbia Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to: Business and economics Brands and enterprises * Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company * Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company * Enterprise ...

* Excalibur Party *

Family Coalition Party of British Columbia The Family Coalition Party of British Columbia was a social conservative, anti-abortion provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. In the 1991 election, it nominated 8 candidates in the province's 75 ridings. They won a total of 1, ...

(1991 and 1996 elections) * Feminist Initiative of BC (2005–2008) * For British Columbia (4BC) * Free Canadian Party (2003–2008) *

Freedom Party of British Columbia The Freedom Party of British Columbia was a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada. Several of its policies were based on fundamentalist Christian Christian fundamentalism, also known as fundamental Christianity or fundamentalis ...

(2001–2009) (2001 and 2005 elections) *

Gay Alliance Toward Equality The Gay Alliance Toward Equality, or GATE, was one of the first Canadian gay liberation groups.Ed Jackson and Stan Persky, ''Flaunting It! 1964-1982: A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic''. Pink Triangle Press, 1982. Formed in sp ...

( 1979 election) * Green Go (Green Wing/Rhino) ( 1991 election) * Helping Hand Party (2011–2013) * Human Race Party ( 1991 election) * Idealists Party (2003–2008) *

Independent New Hope Party Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independen ...

( 1979 election) *

Individual Rights Party of British Columbia An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) of being a person unique from other people and possessing one's own need ...

(2011–2013) * Financial Justice Party ( 1937 election) * Labour Party (2004–2009) * Labour Representation Committee ( 1952 election) * Land Air Water Party (2015–2018) ( 2017 election) *

League for Socialist Action The League for Socialist Action was a Trotskyist organization in Canada. It was known by several names throughout its history, including the International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada, the Workers Party of Canada, the Socialist Policy Gr ...

( 1975 election) *

Link BC Link BC was a minor political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, describing itself as "centre-right". In September 2004, it joined with the British Columbia Democratic Alliance, the Citizens Action Party and the British Columbia ...

(2002–2009) *

Marijuana Party Cannabis political parties are generally single-issue parties that exist to oppose the laws against cannabis. Australia In the 1970s, J.J. McRoach ran for parliament as candidate for the Australian Marijuana Party. He had an advertising camp ...

(2000–2019) (

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, and 2013 elections) * Millionaires Party (2002–2008) * Moderate Democratic Movement (2003–2008) ( 2005 election) * Nation Alliance Party (2007–2012) ( 2009 election) *

Natural Law Party of British Columbia The Natural Law Party of Canada (NLPC) was the Canada, Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practised Transcendental Meditation. Description and histor ...

(199?–2005) *

New Republican Party The New Republican Party is a political party in Malawi. It was founded by Trevor Hickmon in 2009. In 2013 its candidate for president was Chakuamba, who also co-founded the original Republican Party (Malawi) The Republican Party is a politi ...

(2017–2019) ( 2017 election) * New Wave Party (2011–2015) *

North American Labour Party The North American Labour Party was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. However, because it was not a registered political party under the rules of Elections Canada, its candidates were consider ...

(

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

and 1979 elections) * Party of Citizens Who Have Decided to Think for Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians (2001 election) * Patriot Party (2001–2013) * People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( 1945 election) * People's Front (Marxist–Leninist) ( 1986 election - 2017) * People's Party (

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

and 1956 elections) * Planting Seeds Party (2006–2008) * Platinum Party of Employers Who Think and Act to Increase Awareness * ProBC *

Progressive Nationalist Party The Progressive Nationalist Party (PNP) was a short-lived Australian far-right political party. It was formed in 1981 as a merger between the Australian National Alliance, Immigration Control Association and the Progressive Conservative Party. ...

(Bloc BC Party) (2004–2013) * Refederation Party (formerly Western Refederation Party; Western Independence Party) * Religious Political Brotherhood ( 1941 election) *

Renewal Party of British Columbia Renew or renewal may refer to: Media and entertainment * ''Renew'' (album), a 2002 album by The Badlees * ''Renewal'' (film), a 2008 documentary on the religious environmental movement * ''Renewal'' (magazine), a UK journal of Labour politics * ' ...

(2004–2008) * Revolutionary Marxist Group ( 1975 election) * Revolutionary Workers Party 1945–1953 *

The Sex Party The Sex Party was a political party based in British Columbia, Canada. The party was guided by the philosophy of the sex-positive movement. Among other points, the party advocated for reform of sex education in schools so that sexual issues are ...

(2005–2012) (

and

2009 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2009. * Electoral calendar 2009 * 2009 United Nations Security Council election Caribbean * 2009 Antiguan general election * 2009 Aruban general election * 2009 Caymanian constitutional referendu ...

) *

Social Conservative Party The Social Conservative Party (Spanish: ''Partido Social Conservador'' - PSC) is a right-wing conservative Nicaraguan political party founded by its leader Fernando Agüero in 1988. The PSC received legal status in 1989 and participated in the 19 ...

( 1969 election) * Socialist Labour Party *

United Front A united front is an alliance of groups against their common enemies, figuratively evoking unification of previously separate geographic fronts and/or unification of previously separate armies into a front. The name often refers to a political a ...

( 1933 election) * United Peoples Action Party (2003–2006) * Unparty: The Consensus-Building Party (formerly the People's Senate Party) * Vancouver Island Party * Victory Without Debt Party ( 1941 election) *

Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia The Western Canada Concept Party of BC is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was the British Columbia branch of the Western Canada Concept, a political party that operated at the federal level, advocating the separation ...

(1980–2013) *

Western Independence Party The Western Independence Party (WIP) was a Canadian political party that advocated the separation of Western Canada from Canada to form a new country from the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and the Yukon and N ...

( 1979 election) *

Western National Party Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US * Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that i ...

( 1983 election) * Western Reform (2001 election) *

Work Less Party of British Columbia The Work Less Party was a political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The party was founded in 2003 by Conrad Schmidt and de-registered in May 2017. The primary aim of this party was to move to a 32-hour work week and its part ...

(2003–2017) * Unity Party (2001–2008) (

& 2005 election) * Youth Coalition (2000–2009)

References

{{Lists of political parties in Canada

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