Burnaby East: candidates in the 2026 BC election
4 candidates are on the ballot in Burnaby East for the provincial election on Saturday, October 24, 2026. They are listed by last name.
Answer 16 short questions to see which party, and which of these candidates, is closest to your views. Available in 9 languages.
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Rohini Reah AroraIncumbent
BC NDP
Elected in 2024; Deputy Chair of the BC Government Caucus; former Director of Organizing and Campaigns at the BC Federation of Labour; grew up in Westridge, where her family ran a small business.
Sources: BC NDP: our eighteen newest MLAs (party), Burnaby Board of Trade
De Ding
OneBC
Sources: Elections BC: 2026 candidate list, OneBC: candidates
Javad Shushtarian
BC Greens
Recent BCIT nursing graduate awaiting BC licence; SFU biology degree; Forest Grove resident for 23 years; volunteers with food and poverty-reduction groups.
Peter Si
BC Conservatives
Conservative caucus staffer in Victoria for two years; Burnaby resident since age 12; president of the Richmond-Queensborough riding association; University of Alberta BA.
Sources: BC Conservatives candidate page, Burnaby Board of Trade
Candidate list from Elections BC, as of October 18, 2026.
About the riding
Burnaby East takes in Barnet, Burnaby Lake, Burnaby Mountain, Cameron, Cariboo-Armstrong, Government Road, Lake City, Lochdale, Lougheed, Lyndhurst, Sperling-Broadway, Sullivan Heights, Westridge (Burnaby).
In 2024, Rohini Reah Arora (BC NDP) won here by 2,292 votes, 11.3 points.
Questions for Metro Vancouver
Everyone answers 13 province-wide questions. Voters in Metro Vancouver also get these 3:
- TransLink says it needs at least $112 million a year in new money from 2028. What should the province do about transit in Metro Vancouver?
- A 2025 ruling recognized Cowichan title over Richmond land with private homes. How should the province handle homeowners and title claims?
- Sixteen Metro Vancouver mayors want the 2023 density laws undone. Keep the rules, add to them, or give councils back the say?
How and when to vote
- Voting day
- Saturday, October 24, 2026, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific time.
- Advance voting
- Friday October 16 to Wednesday October 21, 2026, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time. Not every location is open every day; check yours.
- Where
- Find advance and election-day locations with the voting-place lookup on elections.bc.ca. District electoral offices also take voters until 4 p.m. on October 24. The October 17 municipal election is a separate vote with its own locations.
- Who can vote
- Canadian citizen, 18 or older on October 24, 2026, and a BC resident since April 23, 2026.
- By mail
- Request a vote-by-mail package online or by phone (1-800-661-8683) by October 18. Elections BC must receive it by 8 p.m. Pacific time on October 24 for it to be counted. If you are not registered or your voter information is out of date, prove your identity and address by uploading ID to Elections BC's ID upload system or by including photocopies of your ID with the returned package.
From Elections BC: ways to vote, vote by mail, 2026 provincial election key dates, who can vote, voter ID, Elections BC home.
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