Caroline Elliott | |
|---|---|
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for West Vancouver-Capilano | |
| Assumed office October 24, 2026 | |
| Preceded by | Lynne Block |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |
| Party | BC Conservative (2024–present) |
Other political affiliations | BC United (before 2024) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Kevin Falcon (brother-in-law) |
| Education | Simon Fraser University (PhD) |
Caroline Elliott MLA (born 1984) is a Canadian politician and political commentator who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) representing the electoral district of West Vancouver-Capilano since 2026. A member of the Conservative Party, she finished second in the party's 2026 leadership election being defeated by Kerry-Lynne Findlay.
Elliott holds a PhD in political science from Simon Fraser University, where her research focused on Canadian liberal democracy and Indigenous self-governance. She has taught political science as an instructor at Simon Fraser University and spent some years in the natural resource sector.
Elliott served on the board of directors of the Public Land Use Society, a British Columbia-based organization that advocates for public access to Crown land for recreation, resource development, and economic activity, until stepping aside in January 2026 for her leadership campaign.
Caroline Elliot spent several years at BC Hydro working on the Site C dam project, including with the joint federal-provincial environmental assessment used by the province for its 2014 final investment decision. She has run a communications business, providing advice for clients in the resource sector.
She has been a senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, a think tank; a director with the Public Land Use Society; and she is co-founder of the online opinion publication Without Diminishment.
Elliott served both as a ministerial staffer and a party volunteer with BC United (formerly BC Liberals) for the past 20 years. She served as vice-president for the party from 2022 to 2024, participating in party governance and communications during a period of internal restructuring and rebranding following the transition from the BC Liberal Party to BC United.
In February 2024, Elliott resigned her role as vice-president of BC United, to announce her candidacy in the riding of West Vancouver-Capilano in the 2024 general election. However, as a result of the withdrawal of BC United from the 2024 election and decision not to field any paper candidates, she chose not to run. Elliott played a key role in brokering the deal between BC United and the BC Conservatives that led to the BC United’s withdrawal from the election.
On January 13, 2026, Elliott announced her candidacy for the BC Conservative leadership election. She was one of five candidates who made it on the final ballot. Her platform included reforms to the criminal justice system on issues like catch-and-release, and replacing British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) with a Canadian framework emphasizing the public interest and private property rights.
During her campaign she faced criticisms for bringing in strategists from outside B.C., including Kory Teneycke, who ran Ontario Premier Doug Ford's 2025 election campaign. Other individuals joined her campaign inculding, Jeff Ballingall; former advisor to Toronto mayors Rob Ford and John Tory; former spokesperson for federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and ex-BC Conservative leader John Rustad.
In May, Elliott narrowly lost the leadership election to former MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay by a vote of 51% to 49%, on the final of four ballots.
In September 2026, Elliott was confirmed as a candidate for the BC Conservatives in the 2026 general election running in the electoral district of West Vancouver-Capilano. The incumbent MLA Lynne Block was moved to run in North Vancouver-Seymour.
| 2026 British Columbia general election: West Vancouver-Capilano | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Caroline Elliott | 14,628 | 66.90 | +20.22 | ||||
| New Democratic | Honieh Barzegari | 4,493 | 20.55 | -6.59 | ||||
| Green | Arwa Shurab | 2,360 | 10.79 | +5.23 | ||||
| OneBC | Naomi Chocyk | 386 | 1.77 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 21,867 | 99.84 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 36 | 0.16 | +0.00 | |||||
| Turnout | 21,903 | |||||||
| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +13.41 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC | ||||||||
| Candidate | Ballot 1 | Ballot 2 | Ballot 3 | Ballot 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Votes | Points | Votes | Points | Votes | Points | Votes | Points | |
| Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 7,583
29.9% |
2806.42
30.5% |
7,844
30.9% |
2961.53
32.2% |
9,050
35.7% |
3559.78
38.6% |
10,907
43.0% |
4696.51
51.0% | |
| Caroline Elliott | 6,760
26.7% |
2374.14
25.8% |
7,393
29.2% |
2638.74
28.6% |
7,800
30.76% |
2883.71
31.3% |
10,847
42.8% |
4514.49
49.0% | |
| Iain Black | 4,902
19.3% |
1865.82
20.3% |
6,077
24.0% |
2328.21
25.3% |
6971
27.5% |
2767.51
30.0% |
Eliminated | ||
| Yuri Fulmer | 3,163
12.5% |
1193.27
13.0% |
3,344
13.2% |
1282.52
13.9% |
Eliminated | ||||
| Peter Milobar | 2,893
11.4% |
971.34
10.5% |
Eliminated | ||||||
| Total Valid | 25,301 | 9211.0 | 24,658 | 9211.0 | 23,821 | 9211.0 | 21,754 | 9211.0 | |
| Abstain / exhausted | 58
0.2% |
n/a | 701
2.8% |
n/a | 1538
6.1% |
n/a | 3,605
14.2% |
n/a | |
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