Furstenau's loss puts the Greens in a tough position: potentially holding the balance of power in the legislature but having to choose a new leader between a pair of newcomers.
Furstenau was competing in her new riding of Victoria-Beacon Hill against incumbent NDP candidate Grace Lore, who served as minister of children and family development in the last provincial cabinet.“The challenge was a little bit more than we could do,” Furstenau told her supporters at the Greens’ campaign headquarters in Victoria after the result was declared.
Rob Botterell was narrowly leading over the NDP in the only other riding previously held by the Greens, Saanich North and the Islands, which was previously represented by interim party leader Adam Olsen. Olsen chose to not run for re-election this year.And Jeremy Valeriote appeared to finally break through in West Vancouver-Sea to Sky after finishing a close second in the 2020 election. Valeriote was leading by less than three points ahead of BC Conservative candidate Yuri Fulmer.
But the Greens still faced an uphill climb after Olsen chose not to seek re-election, and Furstenau’s riding change added another degree of difficulty. Fursteanu and Olsen, along with then- leader Andrew Weaver, sent a shockwave through B.C. politics in 2017 when they were all elected to office and gave the Greens official party status for the first time in its history.The Greens effectively ended the 16-year reign of what used to be the BC Liberals, when Weaver and his party entered into a supply-and-confidence agreement that lifted the NDP to power under Premier John Horgan. Furstenau was on the Greens’ negotiating team for that deal.
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