Vernon-Lumby

MLA before the election: Harwinder Sandhu, BC NDP
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2026 results

Elections BC, initial count, not verified · 83 of 83 ballot boxes · Nov 5 15:20 PT

Kevin Acton leading by 3,255 votes (13.0 points) · all ballot boxes counted

Kevin Acton
Conservative
12,703
50.8%
Harwinder Sandhu
BC NDP
9,448
37.8%
Blair Visscher
BC Green
1,729
6.9%
Chantel Gibbs
OneBC
1,120
4.5%

2024: BC NDP. Preliminary until the final count, November 6 to 10, 2026. All 93 ridings

Past results

First contested in 2024
2024General election, October 19BC NDP holdSwing 11.0 points to Conservative
CandidateVotesShare±Spent
Harwinder SandhuBC NDP · elected11,83742.7%+6.0–
Dennis GiesbrechtConservative11,36141.0%+28.0–
Kevin ActonUnaffiliated4,26615.4%–
Robert JohnsonLibertarian2651.0%new–
Margin476votes, 1.7 points
Turnout60.7% 
Ballots27,78556 rejected
Registered45,810voters

± and swing against 338Canada’s estimate of the 2020 vote on the 2024 boundaries. Spending: not on Wikipedia for this contest.

2020, on the 2024 boundariesan estimate
PartyShare
BC NDP36.7%
BC Liberal34.2%
BC Green16.1%
Conservative13.0%

Vernon-Lumby was first contested in 2024. This is 338Canada’s estimate of how the area voted in 2020, when it was part of Boundary-Similkameen, Okanagan North and Okanagan South. 338Canada

Held by
1991now
5 members since 1991
  1. 1991–1994Lyall HansonSocial Credit
  2. 1994–1996Lyall HansonReform
  3. 1996–2001April SandersBC Liberal
  4. 2001–2009Tom ChristensenBC Liberal
  5. 2009–2020Eric FosterBC Liberal
  6. 2020–Harwinder SandhuBC NDP

Created from Boundary-Similkameen, Okanagan North and Okanagan South.

Votes, ballots and registered voters: Elections BC. Spending and members before 2024: Wikipedia’s Vernon-Lumby article. Members since 2024: the tracker’s record. 2020 on the 2024 boundaries: 338Canada.

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Who won Vernon-Lumby in the 2026 BC election?

On Elections BC's initial count (83 of 83 ballot boxes, as of November 5 at 3:20 p.m. Pacific time), Kevin Acton (Conservative) leads Vernon-Lumby with 12,703 votes (50.8%), 3,255 ahead of Harwinder Sandhu (BC NDP). Preliminary until the final count, November 6 to 10, 2026.

Who won Vernon-Lumby in 2024?

The BC NDP candidate won Vernon-Lumby in the 2024 BC election with 42.7% of the vote, a margin of 476 votes (1.7%).

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