David Eby faces a judgment in the British Columbia provincial election on Saturday.
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Power & PoliticsOct 21, 2026
The sources show Eby, as NDP leader and premier, called a snap B.C. election whose voting day was Saturday, October 24, 2026, so he faced voters' judgment that day as the claim says.
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What was said
… Mm-hmm. SHERYL, I noticed that your home province of British Columbia and David Eby were catching some strays from the premier today, which is, they just had to look next door to an NDP government and see the damage that it can do. I know Premier Eby, or, you know, NDP Leader Eby, as we call him in election campaigns, I mean, he's got a judgment of his own coming on Saturday, but it was interesting that she's using Avi Lewis and David Eby in building her case today. Yes, you don't want to end up in the, you know, the terrible wasteland that is British Columbia, where it's clearly hell on earth over there. …
Power & Politics · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Elections BC lists October 24, 2026 as Final Voting Day for the provincial election, which fell on a Saturday.[2]
Supports. CBC reported on October 24 that David Eby's job was on the line as British Columbians went to the polls in the snap election he called.[3]
Supports. The Canadian Press reported that Eby called the snap election and was facing interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson in the race.[4]
Supports. The AP reported on September 22 that Eby called the snap election and framed it as a choice on his government's response to U.S. pressure.[1]
Context. After the vote, the NDP lost to the Conservatives and Eby resigned as leader, which postdates the October 21 claim and does not make it false as of that date.[5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 5 not rated
- 1British Columbia leader calls snap election as premier tells ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 22026 Provincial Electionelections.bc.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3David Eby's job on the line as British Columbians head to the ...cbc.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Counting begins as polls close in British Columbia's snap electionthecanadianpressnews.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Eby quits as NDP leader after Conservatives win B.C. electioncambridgetoday.ca · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Five takeaways from B.C.’s electiontheglobeandmail.com · not rated · cited for: context
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