We conducted a post-mortem assessment of the role that climate change played in the October 2024 BC provincial election, using an original survey of BC voters (n=1099).
We find that issues related to the cost-of-living were top-of-mind for BC voters, and find no evidence that the issue of climate change, or the costs of climate policy, played a role in determining vote choice. Even if climate change was not top-of-mind, we find that, all else equal, the BC public prefers parties and politicians who take climate change seriously. This is true across supporters of all parties, as well as among non-voters.
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