Road to the Legislature doesn't run along Highway 16 so far for the Greens

As of today the political map of NW BC has no green to take note of

Just past the ten day mark of the snap election call for 2020, the Provincial Green Party has yet to indicate if they plan to contest any of the four ridings of the Northwest, a wide swath of the province and area where one might think that their core messages would resonate well. 

A look at BC Green website today shows that all four ridings, North Coast, Skeena, Stikine and Nechako Lakes all are still Open nominations for the Greens and if some recent comments from Green Party Leader Sonia Fursteneau are any indication, there's a chance that may remain the case long after the final day for nominations arrives.

Yesterday, the Green leader noted that the party hoped to field candidate in all 87 ridings, but as of Wednesday had only nominated 44 candidates to date.

The prospect of limited competition across the northwest would seem to be of main benefit to the NDP candidates, for if there is any place where the Greens might find some success, it would be from some of the voters who may be disappointed in the environmental and industrial themes in the north that the Horgan government has taken recently.

Should the Greens not field candidates in the Northwest, there would be less chance of vote splitting giving candidates from other parties some room to capture the majority for the constituency vote.

BC's Political parties and Independents have until 1PM on Friday to file nomination papers for the October 24th vote.

You can keep up with some of the latest notes on the campaigns of the Northwest from our archive page here.