BC PULSE – Half of BC Conservatives’ 2024 voters want Rustad to go but…
John Rustad.
Despite leadership questions, BC Conservatives tie BC NDP in vote intention
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE
October 26, 2025 – As the British Columbia Legislature gears up for this week’s sitting, Conservative Party of B.C. leader John Rustad may well be fervently hoping he can re-position the spotlight from his own troubled leadership back onto the governing BC NDP.
But with yet another defection from his caucus last week, plus a letter from the party’s management committee demanding his resignation, it remains to be seen whether this is a wish made in vain.
New public opinion data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute collected between Oct. 23 and 25 show half of the party’s 2024 voters want Rustad gone, with two-in-five current voters – a now smaller slice of the vote intent pie – sharing the sentiment.
Therein lies a conundrum for the provincial Conservatives: its fortunes have declined since last year, bleeding away voters now disaffected with the leader and the party. And while a smaller number are sticking with the party today, this group is slightly more resolute in its backing of Rustad, with more holding favourable views of him than the whole of the 2024 vote base.
The drama bedevilling the right-hand side of B.C.’s political spectrum unfolds as an electorate is not exactly enamoured of its current government.
Just over half (53%) say British Columbia is on the “wrong track” under the Eby government, while slightly more – 56 per cent – say they are “dissatisfied” with this government’s performance.
Despite the turmoil on the right and the discontented malaise aimed at the left, the vote picture remains largely unchanged from last year. Just over a single percentage point separated the BC NDP and BC Conservative vote then, the same situation exists now, albeit with the BC Conservatives holding a statistically insignificant one-point lead (41%) over the New Democrats (40%).
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