The
6th Vancouver Island general election took place on May 28, 2019, to elect the 29 members of the 6th Parliament of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of Vancouver Island. In the 5th Parliament, the
New Democratic Party (NDP) formed the government under the leadership of Rob Fleming, while the
Liberal Party formed the Official Opposition under the leadership of Michelle Stillwell; the smaller
Green Party and
Conservative Party were also represented.
The election saw significant changes to the province's political landscape. The NDP, who had formed government since 2005, were returned to power but saw their seat count and vote share decline to the lowest levels since 2001. The Green Party rose to 9 seats and nearly a third of the vote, forming the Official Opposition for the first time in their history, and becoming the second such Green Party to form the opposition in Canada. The Conservative Party doubled their seats and votes to become the third-largest party, while the Liberals saw a massive decline in their vote share and were reduced to a single seat.
(Yes, this is set in the current year, but I don't think it counts as "current politics". I say this because Vancouver Island is not a province IOTL and so its politics, though inspired by OTL, are ultimately my own imagination; and the leaders, while real people, are not national figures and I can't imagine them spurring the sort of discussion that the "no current politics" rule is meant to prevent. There are commonalities but this is decidedly not
our world.)
(Credit where credit's due: the opening paragraphs are based in part on similar openings on Wikipedia articles, particularly the 2005 and 2009 BC elections.)