Lorne Doerkson is set to become B.C. premier after Eby's early election
Conservative Lorne Doerkson, a man who had not campaigned to be leader of his own party, will be British Columbia's next premier after his party won an election that did not need to be held. Eby had sent voters back to the polls two years after the last provincial election, in the middle of the province's regularly scheduled municipal election campaign.
The article argues Eby struggled to justify the call. Its sharpest measurement of the result is that the NDP's negative campaigning ended up depressing turnout for the NDP itself.
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The article's sharpest character detail is that Doerkson was nearly a perfect foil for Eby: a moderate Conservative who was as comfortable as Eby talking about his dislike of Trump.
A foil only matters if voters reward it. The harder number is turnout: the NDP is on track to lose 150,000 votes from 2024 while the Conservative total also slipped, and turnout may not reach 50 per cent.