Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows: candidates in the 2026 BC election
4 candidates are on the ballot in Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows for the provincial election on Saturday, October 24, 2026. They are listed by last name.
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Lisa BeareIncumbent
BC NDP
Minister of Education and Child Care; MLA since 2017; Maple Ridge school trustee from 2014; former flight attendant and union vice-president.
Sources: BC NDP candidate profiles (bcndp.ca team page), Maple Ridge News, Oct 5, 2026
Susan Einarsson
OneBC
Former news anchor and reporter and BCIT instructor for over a decade; owns My Town Maple Ridge News Society; served on a local federal Conservative association board.
Sources: OneBC candidate page: Susan Einarsson, Elections BC candidate list, 2026 general election
Doug Morneau
BC Conservatives
Technology consultant with about 40 years in business; former BC Assessment board member; Maple Ridge resident for eight years; sits on the local federal Conservative association board.
Sources: BC Conservatives candidate page: Morneau, Elections BC candidate list, 2026 general election
Jordan Simmons
CentreBC
Co-founder and CEO of Nominee, a political leadership platform; former senior advisor to BC cabinet ministers; has lived in west Maple Ridge for seven years.
Sources: CentreBC candidate page: Jordan Simmons, Elections BC candidate list, 2026 general election
Candidate list from Elections BC, as of October 18, 2026.
About the riding
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows takes in City of Pitt Meadows and the City of Maple Ridge west of 224th Street (including the Haney and Hammond areas), plus northern lake and forest areas such as Alouette Lake.
In 2024, Lisa Beare (BC NDP) won here by 2,579 votes, 9.8 points.
Questions for Fraser Valley
Everyone answers 13 province-wide questions. Voters in Fraser Valley also get these 3:
- The province proposed letting food plants use some lower-quality land in the Agricultural Land Reserve. What should happen?
- Highway 1 widening is funded to Highway 11 in Abbotsford by 2031 and only planned to Chilliwack. Where should the next money go?
- Mission Memorial's emergency room cut overnight hours for 51 nights in a row earlier this year for lack of doctors. What should come first?
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.