Upstart Green party making major inroads in Nanaimo area
PARKSVILLE — A huge splash by the B.C. Green party on Vancouver Island didn’t pay off with any mid-island seats, but the numbers show the party’s popularity is surging locally.
The B.C. Green Party tripled their number of MLA’s to three (all on southern Vancouver Island) and more than doubled their amount of overall votes to 301,000 and counting.
Parksville-Qualicum Green candidate Glenn Sollitt told NanaimoNewsNOW while he was disappointed not to take his riding, he was proud of what they accomplished province-wide and locally.
“Andrew (Weaver) led a really good, very positive campaign provincially that was reflected in all of the individual ridings and certainly was in Parksville-Qualicum.”