Kelowna-Mission: candidates in the 2026 BC election
4 candidates are on the ballot in Kelowna-Mission 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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Gavin DewIncumbent
BC Conservatives
MLA since 2024; Kelowna childcare operator with an Oxford MBA and former director of external relations at Great Canadian Gaming.
Sources: Wikipedia: Gavin Dew, Elections BC 2026 candidate list (CSV)
Saoirse MacKinnon
BC Greens
Environmental geoscientist and lab program manager at UBC Okanagan; former middle and high school science and math teacher; Kelowna resident for most of two decades.
Sources: BC Greens candidate page, Elections BC 2026 candidate list (CSV)
Abraham Nordine
OneBC
Miriam Rycroft
BC NDP
Candidate list from Elections BC, as of October 18, 2026.
About the riding
Kelowna-Mission takes in Mission, Lower Mission, Upper Mission and southeast Kelowna.
In 2024, Gavin Dew (BC Conservatives) won here by 5,158 votes, 18.9 points.
Questions for Southern Interior
Everyone answers 13 province-wide questions. Voters in Southern Interior also get these 3:
- After the Bald Range fire near Summerland, where should the province put its main wildfire money and effort before next summer?
- Kelowna's council wants a regional involuntary care facility and its downtown consumption site closed. What should be done?
- Budget 2026 paused seven care home builds including Kelowna's, and a private 250-bed Vernon project was pulled. What now?
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 If you are not registered or your voter information is out of date, prove your identity and address by uploading ID to Elections BC's ID upload system or by including photocopies of your ID with the returned package.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.