Lumby Mayor Kevin Acton is looking to move into provincial politics.
The long time mayor of Lumby (since 2009) has announced he is running for the Vernon-Lumby constituency, under the newly named BC United party, for the 2024 B.C. provincial election.
Vernon-Lumby will be the new provincial riding, after electoral changes took place the past year due to population changes. Currently, Harwinder Sandhu is the MLA for the Vernon-Monashee riding.
Sandhu won the 2020 election by a slender 424 votes, after mail-in and absentee ballots were counted. She defeated three-term Liberal incumbent Eric Foster, of Lumby.
Acton, who is also a chairman of the Regional District of North Okanagan, will be running for BC United, recently renamed from the BC Liberal Party. He said in a social media post on Aug. 14 that “together, we can forge change through hard work to Revitalize, Reclaim and Rise!”
The Monashee area is now under the Kootenay-Monashee riding, whose present MLA is Katrine Conroy, under Kootenay-West.
The Vernon-Lumby provincial riding has a population of 57,423.
The 2024 B.C. Provincial Election is scheduled to be held on Oct. 19, 2024.
READ MORE: Kelowna claims Coldstream from Vernon in electoral boundary changes
READ MORE: UPDATED: B.C. VOTES 2020: Sandhu wins Vernon-Monashee riding
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