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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Green Party of British Columbia
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| logo             = BCGreenslogo.svg
| leader           = [[Emily Lowan]] 
| president        = 
| chairman         = 
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| spokesperson     = 
| leader1_title    = Deputy leader
| leader1_name     = Lisa Gunderson<ref>{{cite web |title=Leadership team bios |url=https://www.bcgreens.ca/leadership_team_bios#gunderson |website=Green Party of British Columbia |access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref>
| leader2_title    = House leader
| leader2_name     = [[Rob Botterell]]
| foundation       = {{Start date and age|1983}}
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| headquarters     = Victoria, British Columbia
| ideology         = [[Green politics]]
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| membership       = {{increase}} 8,641<ref>{{cite web |last1=Page |first1=Mark |title=B.C. Greens membership numbers jump pre-leadership election |url=https://www.vicnews.com/news/bc-greens-membership-numbers-jump-pre-leadership-election-8175137 |website=[[Victoria News]] |publisher=[[Black Press Media]] |access-date=23 September 2025 |date=5 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Page |first1=Mark |title=Emily Lowan rides youthful wave to landslide B.C. Greens leadership win |url=https://www.vicnews.com/news/breaking-emily-lowan-named-new-leader-of-bc-greens-8271017 |website=[[Victoria News]] |publisher=[[Black Press Media]] |access-date=24 September 2025 |date=24 September 2025}}</ref>
| membership_year  = 2025
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| colorcode        = {{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}
| blank1_title     = Fiscal policy
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| seats1_title     = Seats in the House of Commons
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| seats2_title     = Seats in the Senate
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| seats3_title     = Seats in the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|Legislative Assembly]]
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| website          = {{URL|https://bcgreens2024.ca}}
| country          = Canada
| state            = British Columbia
| parties_dab1     = List of political parties in British Columbia
| elections_dab1   = List of British Columbia general elections
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{{Green politics sidebar}}
The '''Green Party of British Columbia''', or simply the '''BC Greens''', is a provincial political party in [[British Columbia]], Canada. It was founded in 1983 and is based in [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]]. The party won its first seat in the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]] in the [[2013 British Columbia general election|2013 provincial election]].

== Principles ==
The Green Party of BC promotes the principles of [[participatory democracy]], [[sustainability]], [[social justice]], respect for diversity, ecological wisdom, and [[nonviolence]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Our six core principles |url=https://www.bcgreens.ca/6_core_green_principles |website=BC Green Party |access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref>

==History==

=== Founding and early years (1983–1992)===
The first Green Party in North America was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 6, 1983. It registered as a provincial society and a political party shortly before the [[1983 British Columbia general election|1983 provincial election]]. It fielded four candidates and received 0.19% of the vote under the leadership of [[Adriane Carr]]. In a federal by-election in the riding of [[Mission—Port Moody]] the same year, Betty Nickerson was the [[Green Party of Canada]]'s first federal candidate, but the party's status was not yet recognized by [[Elections Canada]]. She appears in electoral records as an "independent" candidate.

Carr stepped back from active involvement in the party in 1985, and the party abolished the position of leader. Thereafter, it was represented in the media by three spokespersons. In the [[1986 British Columbia general election|1986 provincial election]], the party won 0.23% of the vote and fielded nine candidates. In 1988, in response to a proposal to field only female candidates in the following election, Carr and her husband [[Paul George (environmentalist)|Paul George]] returned briefly to active involvement to defeat the proposal. From 1988 to 1992, the party was deeply divided between supporters of Carr and Greenpeace founder [[Jim Bohlen]] and its Ecofeminist Caucus. During this period, its internal politics were dominated by a compromise faction led by electoral reform activist Steve Kisby.

However, this period of relative stability ended with the party's failure to make a breakthrough in the [[1991 British Columbia general election|1991 provincial election]], despite increasing its province-wide vote share to 0.86% and fielding a slate of 42 candidates.

=== Parker years (1993–1999) ===
In 1993, the party elected a new leader, 21-year-old [[Stuart Parker (politician)|Stuart Parker]], who revitalized the party with youthful new members. He managed to take the party to running close to a full slate in the [[1996 British Columbia general election|1996 election]], but was only able to garner only 2% support province-wide, despite receiving the endorsement of prominent environmentalist [[David Suzuki]]. Green hopes for a breakthrough in the Kootenay riding of [[Nelson-Creston]] with candidate Andy Shadrack yielded a result of only 11%. Parker's first term (1993–96) was characterized by near-continuous touring of rural BC which had, up to that point, negligible or highly intermittent organization outside of the Okanagan and Comox Valleys. This touring paid off in yielding on-going organization throughout the province, enabling the party to come just four candidates short of a full slate.

The direction of the party under Parker was set by many disgruntled ex–[[British Columbia New Democratic Party]] members, and the policies of the party under Parker were notably leftist. During Parker's second term as leader, the party rose to a peak of 11% in public opinion polls between 1996 and 1999, almost exclusively at the NDP's expense. Although he was arrested in logging road blockades in 1993 and 1997, Parker's Greens actually invested more resources in opposing the BC Benefits package of welfare reforms and working on other social issues than it did on any significant environmental issue.

While remaining sharply critical of [[Glen Clark]]'s NDP government, Parker spearheaded highly controversial negotiations to form municipal electoral alliances with NDP-affiliated parties in 1998 after vote-splitting all but wiped out leftist representation at the local level in Vancouver and Victoria in 1996. These negotiations, approved by Clark, yielded tripartite agreements between local labour councils, Greens and New Democrats in Vancouver and Victoria, leading to Red-Green coalitions contesting the 1999 municipal elections in both cities with the support of organized labour. Neither coalition formed government but both made substantial gains, resulting in the election in Victoria, BC, of Art Vanden Berg, the first person in Canadian history to run as a Green and be elected to City Council. In Vancouver, the coalition effort also elected Parks Commissioner Roslyn Cassells.

=== Carr years (2000–2006)===
[[File:Adriane Carr of the Green Party.jpg|thumb|right|[[Adriane Carr]], party founder and leader (1983–1985, 2000–2006)]]

The party's increased poll standing, new position on collaboration with its longtime rivals and impending electoral success attracted the attention of a number of prominent environmentalists, led by Carr, who began a campaign in 1999 to remove the party's then leadership. The group conducted a bitter year-long public campaign that included an unsuccessful lawsuit against the party and later-disproven allegations against the party's leader and board of directors including fraud, vote-rigging and even theft. Although the group was defeated at the party's 1999 convention, it triumphed in 2000. Shortly thereafter, the party elected Carr as its new leader; since 2001, the party leader has ceased to be subject to annual review votes, the process by which Parker was removed. Following the 2000 convention, all of the party's elected municipal representatives and some other members resigned.

With the high-profile changes at the top, the party was able to improve on its 9% poll standing at the beginning of 2000 and reached 12% of the popular vote in the May [[2001 British Columbia general election|2001 provincial election]]. In spite of that significant support, it won no seats in the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|provincial legislature]] – a fact which has been cited as an argument against the [[first-past-the-post voting]] system used in BC elections.

Although she had sponsored a series of resolutions at the party's 2000 convention condemning what many saw as the party's distraction with social and governance policy at the expense of work on environmental issues, electoral reform moved to the top of Carr's agenda as leader. Disagreeing with Fair Voting BC's decision to devote the movement's energies to backing the new BC Liberal government's plan to move forward with the Citizens' Assembly process it had developed in 1997, Carr founded a rival electoral reform organization called Free Your Vote to utilize the province's citizen initiative legislation (which technically allows citizens to force referendums on legislation if they gather a sufficient number of signatures).

Despite facing public condemnation from FVBC's Loenen, Free Your Vote recruited hundreds of volunteers for the province-wide effort, building a far larger citizen organization than either ECCO or FVBC. It also gained the support of many leftists, including the official endorsement of the BC Nurses' and other unions. The campaign also faced its share of difficulties, such as leaked internal memos from the party's organizing chair explaining that organizers knew the petition drive would fail, but were simply using it to build the party's organizational base. Although the campaign only submitted enough signatures in four of the province's 79 ridings, Free Your Vote was successful in mobilizing new support for reform. But it also appears to have hardened the party's support for a single model of proportional representation (mixed-member, closed-list) and public condemnation of others.

Following the failure of her preferred Free Your Vote, Carr focused her energy on a lively province-wide campaign opposing the [[2010 Winter Olympic Games]] bid. But once the games were awarded to BC, the party was unable to find province-wide issues that resonated strongly with voters. Between 2003 and 2005, the party's presence was notably low key as Carr returned to the constant touring mode that had characterized Parker's first term.

In the [[2005 British Columbia general election|2005 provincial election]], the GPBC's vote declined to 9% province-wide from 12% four years previously. Despite being rated highly for her debate performance by media commentators, Carr's performance was poorly rated by the public and her own vote share declined to 25% in her home constituency of [[Powell River-Sunshine Coast]], 17% behind the victorious NDP candidate. Only in the constituencies of [[Vancouver-Burrard (provincial electoral district)|Vancouver-Burrard]], [[West Vancouver-Garibaldi]] and [[Kelowna-Mission]] did the party's popularity increase.

These measures seemed insufficient to quiet increasing internal dissatisfaction with her leadership. Prior to the first annual convention following the reinstitution of the practice of requiring leaders to step down and run to succeed themselves each electoral cycle (this policy, along with annual confidence votes, had been previously repealed in 2001), Carr announced her resignation on September 24, 2006. As predicted by those familiar with Carr's long-standing relationship with the newly elected Green Party of Canada leader [[Elizabeth May]], Carr accepted the paid position of deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada. She then ran as a federal candidate in the riding of [[Vancouver Centre]] but did not win.

=== Sterk and Weaver (2007–2020)===
[[File:Dr Andrew Weaver.webm|thumb|[[Andrew Weaver]] in conversation with [[Silver Donald Cameron]]]]
The Green Party of British Columbia held a leadership election on October 21, 2007, after the resignation of Carr in September 2006. Christopher Bennett was appointed interim leader until the leadership election was held. Former [[Vancouver-Hastings]] candidate Ian Gregson was the first to announce his candidacy.<ref>{{cite web |author=Maximiliano Herrera |url=http://www.mherrera.org/elections.htm |title=Electoral Calendar- world elections, US elections, presidential election, world parties |publisher=Mherrera.org |access-date=May 22, 2012}}</ref>

Jane Sterk, a municipal councillor, university professor and small business owner, was elected leader of the BC Greens at their 2007 Convention at Royal Roads University in Victoria. She assumed the role from interim leader Christopher Ian Bennett.

The Greens maintain they receive support from all over the political spectrum. In the [[2004 Canadian federal election|federal election of 2004]], former [[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]] Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and media personality [[Rafe Mair]] confounded many by openly supporting the Green Party. The Greens have often been labelled as right-wing at the same time as being labelled left-wing by opponents.

The Greens' strength is concentrated on Southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, The Okanagan, Sea-to-Sky region and in high density areas of Vancouver. In 1991, the party's strongest showing was 4.4% in Rossland-Trail; in 1996, 11% in Nelson-Creston, in 2001 and 2005, in Carr's riding of [[Powell River-Sunshine Coast]] where she received 27% and 25% respectively, and in 2009 in West Vancouver-Sea-to-Sky with 22%.

The Greens won their first ever seat with [[Andrew Weaver]] winning in [[Oak Bay-Gordon Head]] in the [[2013 British Columbia general election|May 2013 general election]]. Despite a slight drop in overall popular vote, the party climbed to 11.15% in the 61 ridings where they ran candidates. Weaver won 40% of the vote in his riding, and the party also surpassed 20% of the vote in [[Esquimalt-Royal Roads]], [[Nelson-Creston]], [[Saanich North and the Islands]], [[Victoria-Beacon Hill]], and [[Victoria-Swan Lake]].

On August 13, 2013, Sterk announced she would retire from politics after the 2013 Annual General Meeting, held on August 24, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/today_long_serving_green_party_of_british_columbia_leader_jane_sterk_announced_she_is_stepping_aside |title=Today long-serving Green Party of British Columbia leader Jane Sterk announced she is stepping aside. – BC Green Party |work=BC Green Party}}</ref> Adam Olsen, former candidate in [[Saanich North and the Islands]] served as interim leader until December 9, 2015, when Weaver was acclaimed to the full-time position.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://globalnews.ca/radio/cknw/ |title=News Talk 980 CKNW &#124; Vancouver's News. Vancouver's Talk |website=CKNW}}</ref>

In the [[2017 British Columbia general election|May 2017 general election]], Weaver, [[Adam Olsen]] and [[Sonia Furstenau]] were elected to the provincial legislature, with the party winning 16.84% of the popular vote. The Green Party signed a [[2017 British Columbian government formation|confidence and supply agreement with the NDP]] in exchange for policy concessions on environmental and social issues. The NDP and Greens then defeated the incumbent Liberal government by one vote in a no confidence vote, with the NDP then being invited to form government.<ref name="2017win">{{cite web |url=http://www.bcgreens.ca/b_c_new_democrat_and_b_c_green_caucuses_ratify_historic_agreement |title=B.C. NEW DEMOCRAT AND B.C. GREEN CAUCUSES RATIFY HISTORIC AGREEMENT |date=May 30, 2017 |publisher=BC Green Party |access-date=June 2, 2017 |location=Victoria, BC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news1130.com/2017/05/30/bc-ndp-green-party-agreement-not-coalition/ |title=BC NDP, Green Party agreement is not a coalition |last1=Lloyd |first1=Mike |date=May 30, 2017 |publisher=News 1130 |access-date=June 2, 2017}}</ref>

On October 7, 2019, Andrew Weaver announced he would step down as party leader once a new leader had been chosen and would not run in the next British Columbia election anticipated to take place in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Larsen |first=Karin |date=October 7, 2019 |title=Andrew Weaver says he'll step down as B.C. Green Party leader |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-1.5311543 |work=[[CBC News]] |access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Warburton |first=Moira |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-bc-greens-idUSKBN1WM23Z |title=Head of British Columbia Green Party, which supports government, to step down as leader |date=October 7, 2019 |work=[[Reuters]] |access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref> On December 20, 2019, Olsen was named interim leader, effective January 6, 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=B.C. Green MLA Adam Olsen named new interim party leader |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/adam-olsen-named-interim-party-leader-1.5404776 |access-date=January 16, 2020 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |date=December 20, 2019}}</ref> On January 16, 2020, Weaver resigned from caucus to sit as an [[independent politician|independent]] member of the legislature.<ref name="weaver ind">{{cite news |title=Andrew Weaver leaves B.C. Green Party to sit as independent |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-green-party-bc-independent-1.5427746 |access-date=January 16, 2020 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |date=January 16, 2020}}</ref>

The party was scheduled to hold [[2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election|a leadership election from June 15 to 26, 2020]], but the election was postponed indefinitely due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rothbauer |first1=Kevin |title=B.C. Greens suspend leadership race due to COVID-19 |url=https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/b-c-greens-suspend-leadership-race-due-to-covid-19 |access-date=March 27, 2020 |work=Alberni Valley News |date=March 27, 2020}}</ref> It had been planned that the winner would be announced at the party's convention in [[Nanaimo]].<ref>{{cite news |title=BC Green Party leadership: Who will replace Andrew Weaver? |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6377487/bc-green-party-next-leader/ |access-date=January 16, 2020 |work=Global News |date=January 10, 2020}}</ref> The leadership contest was relaunched on June 15, 2020. [[Sonia Furstenau]] was elected as leader on September 14, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our leadership contest is now open (again)! |url=https://www.bcgreens.ca/leadership_2020 |website=Green Party of British Columbia |date=June 15, 2020 |access-date=June 15, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Barron |first=Robert |date=June 15, 2020 |title=Campaign to lead B.C. Green Party back on |url=https://www.peacearchnews.com/news/campaign-to-lead-b-c-green-party-back-on/ |work=[[Black Press]] |publisher=[[Peace Arch News]] |access-date=June 26, 2020}}</ref>

=== Furstenau (2020–2025) ===
[[File:SoniaFurstenauCampaignOffice2024.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sonia Furstenau]] outside her campaign office in 2024]]
{{See also|2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election}}

[[Sonia Furstenau]] was elected as leader on September 14, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sonia Furstenau selected as new BC Greens leader|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/7334007/sonia-furstenau-new-bc-greens-leader/|date=September 14, 2020|access-date=September 14, 2020|website=Global News}}</ref> A week after her selection as leader, the [[2020 British Columbia general election|2020 general election]] was called. Furstenau and Adam Olsen were returned to the Legislature. The electoral district of [[West Vancouver-Sea to Sky]] was originally called for Green candidate [[Jeremy Valeriote]]; the winning margin was small enough to trigger an automatic judicial recount. After the recount, it was determined that Liberal [[Jordan Sturdy]] had held the seat.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Correia  |first=Cory |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meet-first-bc-green-party-mla-projected-win-mainland-1.5776636 |title=Meet the first B.C. Green Party MLA projected to win a seat on the mainland |date=October 25, 2020 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |access-date=November 25, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |agency=[[The Canadian Press]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/recount-affirms-b-c-liberal-narrowly-beats-green-in-west-vancouver-sea-to-sky-1.5805984 |title=Recount affirms B.C. Liberal narrowly beats Green in West Vancouver-Sea to Sky |date=November 17, 2020 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |access-date=November 25, 2020}}</ref>

In January 2024, Furstenau announced that she would run in [[Victoria-Beacon Hill]] riding during the [[2024 British Columbia general election|provincial general election later that year]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=[[The Canadian Press]] |date=2024-01-31 |title=B.C. Greens leader plans to run in different riding for next election |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sonia-furstenau-bc-greens-riding-switch-1.7100878 |access-date=2024-01-31  |work=[[CBC News]] |language=en}}</ref> She was defeated but remained as leader following the election.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kulkarni |first=Akshay |date=22 October 2024 |title=B.C. Greens mull role of potential kingmaker after tight election |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-greens-bc-election-2024-1.7359148 |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=[[CBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=22 October 2024 |title=Sonia Furstenau staying on as B.C. Greens leader, party says |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sonia-furestenau-green-leader-1.7359914 |work=[[CBC News]] |access-date=28 January 2025}}</ref> She subsequently negotiated a cooperation agreement with the NDP in exchange for agreement that some policies from the Green platform would be implemented.<ref>{{cite news |last=Larsen |first=Karin |date=13 December 2024 |title=B.C. NDP and B.C. Greens announce co-operation agreement |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-poli-ndp-greens-cooperation-agreement-1.7409999 |work=[[CBC News]] |access-date=28 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=BC Government News |date=12 December 2024 |title=Agreement in Principle: Term Sheet for Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord |url=https://news.gov.bc.ca/files/Agreement%20in%20Principle.pdf |website=[[Government of British Columbia]] |access-date=29 January 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref> On January 28, 2025, Furstenau announced her intention to resign as leader.<ref name="GPBCFurstenauResigns">{{Cite web |last=Madtha |first=Rippon |date=2025-01-28 |title=Sonia Furstenau Steps Down as Leader of the BC Greens |url=https://bcgreens2024.ca/sonia-furstenau-steps-down-as-leader-of-the-bc-greens/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=BC Green Party |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=DeRosa |first1=Katie |last2=Kurjata |first2=Andrew |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-green-party-new-leader-sonia-furstenau-1.7443098 |title=Sonia Furstenau stepping down as B.C. Green Party leader |date=28 January 2025 |work=[[CBC News]] |access-date=28 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Nicholson |first=Marcy |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-green-party-leader-sonia-furstenau-stepping-down/ |title=B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau stepping down |date=28 January 2025 |work=[[Globe and Mail]] |access-date=28 January 2025}}</ref> Jeremy Valeriote became interim leader.<ref name="GPBCFurstenauResigns" />

=== Lowan (since 2025) ===
{{main|2025 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election}}
The party held a [[2025 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election|leadership election in September 2025]], which was won by organizer and activist [[Emily Lowan]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Page |first=Mark |date=2025-09-24 |title=Emily Lowan rides youthful wave to landslide B.C. Greens leadership win |url=https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/breaking-emily-lowan-named-new-leader-of-bc-greens-8271017 |access-date=2025-09-26 |website=[[Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News]] |publisher=[[Black Press Media]] |language=en}}</ref>

==Leaders==
{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
!#
! Leader
! Term start
! Term end
|-
!1
|[[Adriane Carr]]
|1983
|1985
|-
| colspan="4" | Position abolished between 1985–1992{{efn|name=leadership 85–92|Three speakers, instead of a single leader, were elected during these years.}}
|-
!2
|[[Stuart Parker (politician)|Stuart Parker]]
|1993
|2000
|-
|*
|Tom Hetherington {{small|(interim)}}
|2000
|2000
|-
!3
|[[Adriane Carr]]
|2000
|2006
|-
|*
|Christopher Bennett {{small|(interim)}}
|2007
|2007
|-
!4
|[[Jane Sterk]]
|2007
|2013
|-
|*
||[[Adam Olsen]] {{small|(interim)}}
|2013
|2015
|-
!5
|[[Andrew Weaver]]
|2015
|2020
|-
|*
||[[Adam Olsen]] {{small|(interim)}}
|2020
|2020
|-
!6
|[[Sonia Furstenau]]
|2020
|2025
|-
|*
||[[Jeremy Valeriote]] {{small|(interim)}}
| 2025
| 2025
|-
!7
||[[Emily Lowan]]
| 2025
| ''(incumbent)''

|}

==MLAs==
The following Green Party MLAs have represented electoral districts in British Columbia:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- 
! Name
! District
! Term
! Citation
|-
| {{sortname|Andrew|Weaver}}
| [[Oak Bay-Gordon Head]]
| 2013–2020
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theprovince.com/news/Green+Party+Andrew+Weaver+becomes+first+Green+after/8378904/story.html |title=Green Party: Andrew Weaver becomes first Green MLA after winning Oak Bay-Gordon Head |date=May 15, 2013 |publisher=The Province |access-date=May 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607024432/http://www.theprovince.com/news/Green+Party+Andrew+Weaver+becomes+first+Green+after/8378904/story.html|url-status=live |archive-date=June 7, 2013}}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Sonia|Furstenau}}
| [[Cowichan Valley (provincial electoral district)|Cowichan Valley]]
|2017–2024
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="historic">{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Lisa |title=Greens celebrate 'historic' B.C. wins amid minority uncertainty |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-greens-historic-wins-1.4107747 |publisher=CBC |access-date=November 30, 2017 |location=Victoria, BC |date=May 10, 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Adam|Olsen}}
| [[Saanich North and the Islands]]
| 2017–2024
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="historic"/>
|-
|{{sortname|Rob|Botterell}}
|[[Saanich North and the Islands]]
| 2024–present
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite news |last1=Corro |first1=Harry |title=B.C. ELECTION: Greens' Botterell wins Saanich North and the Islands race |url=https://www.saanichnews.com/home2/bc-election-greens-botterell-ahead-by-over-a-thousand-votes-in-saanich-north-and-the-islands-7590585 |access-date=October 20, 2024 |work=Saanich News |date=October 19, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Jeremy|Valeriote}}
|[[West Vancouver-Sea to Sky]]
| 2024–present
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=Brandon |title=Greens' Valeriote takes West Vancouver-Sea to Sky in historic B.C. election win |url=https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/greens-valeriote-west-vancouver-sea-to-sky-bc-election-9682757 |access-date=October 20, 2024 |work=North Shore News |date=October 20, 2024}}</ref>
|}

==Election results==
{{See also|List of British Columbia general elections#Results by party}}
{| class="wikitable"
!Election
!Leader
!Candidates run
!Seats won
!Votes
!Vote share
!Seat change
!Position
!Legislative role
!Notes
|-
! [[1983 British Columbia general election|1983]]
|[[Adriane Carr]]
| {{composition bar|4|57|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|57|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| 3,078
| 0.19%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{steady}} 7th
| {{n/a|No seats}}
| rowspan="2" | [[British Columbia Social Credit Party|Social Credit]] majority
|-
! [[1986 British Columbia general election|1986]]
| rowspan="2" |''vacant''{{efn|name=leadership 85–92}}
| {{composition bar|9|69|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|69|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{increase}} 4,660
| {{increase}} 0.24%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{increase}} 5th
| {{n/a|No seats}}
|-
! [[1991 British Columbia general election|1991]]
| {{composition bar|42|75|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|75|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{increase}} 12,650
| {{increase}} 0.86%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{increase}} 4th
| {{n/a|No seats}}
| rowspan="2" | [[British Columbia New Democratic Party|NDP]] majority
|-
! [[1996 British Columbia general election|1996]]
| [[Stuart Parker (politician)|Stuart Parker]]
| {{composition bar|71|75|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|75|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{increase}} 31,511
| {{increase}} 1.99%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{decrease}} 5th
| {{n/a|No seats}}
|-
![[2001 British Columbia general election|2001]]
| rowspan="2" |Adriane Carr
| {{composition bar|72|79|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|79|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{increase}} 197,231
| {{increase}} 12.39%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{increase}} 3rd
| {{n/a|No seats}}
| rowspan="4" | [[British Columbia Liberal Party|Liberal]] majority
|-
![[2005 British Columbia general election|2005]]
| {{composition bar|79|79|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|79|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{decrease}} 161,842
| {{decrease}} 9.17%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{steady}} 3rd
| {{n/a|No seats}}
|-
! [[2009 British Columbia general election|2009]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Jane Sterk]]
| {{composition bar|85|85|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|0|85|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{decrease}} 134,570
| {{decrease}} 8.21%
| {{steady}} 0
| {{steady}} 3rd
| {{n/a|No seats}}
|-
![[2013 British Columbia general election|2013]]
| {{composition bar|61|85|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|1|85|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{increase}} 146,607
| {{decrease}} 8.13%
| {{increase}} 1
| {{steady}} 3rd
| {{no|No status}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[2017 British Columbia general election|2017]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Andrew Weaver]]
| rowspan="2" | {{composition bar|83|87|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| rowspan="2" | '''{{composition bar|3|87|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}'''
| rowspan="2" | {{increase}} '''332,387'''
| rowspan="2" | {{increase}} '''16.84%'''
| rowspan="2" | {{increase}} 2
| rowspan="2" | {{steady}} 3rd
| {{no|No status}}
| Liberal minority
|-
| {{partial|[[Confidence and supply]]}}
| [[2017 British Columbian government formation|Support for NDP minority]]
|-
! [[2020 British Columbia general election|2020]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Sonia Furstenau]]
| {{composition bar|73|87|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{composition bar|2|87|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| {{decrease}} 284,326
| {{decrease}} 15.08%
| {{decrease}} 1
| {{steady}} 3rd
| {{no|Third party}}
| NDP majority
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[2024 British Columbia general election|2024]]
| rowspan="2" |{{composition bar|69|93|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| rowspan="2"|{{composition bar|2|93|hex={{Canadian party colour|BC|Green}}}}
| rowspan="2"|{{decrease}} 173,382
| rowspan="2"|{{decrease}} 8.24%
| rowspan="2"|{{steady}} 0
| rowspan="2"|{{steady}} 3rd
| {{partial|[[Confidence and supply]]}}
| Support for NDP majority
|}

== See also ==
{{portal|Political science|Politics}}
* [[List of British Columbia general elections]]
* [[List of Green party leaders in Canada]]
* [[List of Green politicians who have held office in Canada]]
* [[List of political parties in British Columbia]]
* [[Politics of British Columbia]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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