Rob Botterell
Rob Botterell | |
|---|---|
 Botterell in 2024 | |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly for Saanich North and the Islands | |
| In office October 19, 2024 – October 24, 2026 | |
| Preceded by | Adam Olsen |
| Succeeded by | Emily Lowan |
| House Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia | |
| In office November 12, 2024 – September 22, 2026 | |
| Leader | Sonia Furstenau (2024–2025) Jeremy Valeriote (interim; 2025) Emily Lowan (2025–present) |
| Preceded by | Adam Olsen |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Green Party |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Rob Botterell is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Saanich North and the Islands in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a member of the Green Party of British Columbia. He was first elected in 2024 succeeding retiring Green MLA Adam Olsen. Botterell's victory marked the first time in Canadian history, on either the provincial or federal levels, that a Green politician held a seat left open by a Green predecessor at a general election.
Botterell is a retired lawyer who has represented First Nations governments, and previously worked for the provincial Ministry of Finance.
On September 23, 2026, Botterall announced he would not run for re-election in the snap 2026 British Columbia general election.
Electoral history
| 2024 British Columbia general election: Saanich North and the Islands | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Green | Rob Botterell | 12,308 | 36.15 | −16.8 | $183,083.43 | |||
| New Democratic | Sarah Riddell | 10,958 | 32.19 | +3.6 | $97,019.73 | |||
| Conservative | David Busch | 10,145 | 29.79 | – | $128,604.88 | |||
| Independent | Amy Haysom | 635 | 1.87 | – | $4,257.36 | |||
| Total valid votes | 34,046 | 99.88 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 41 | 0.12 | −0.34 | |||||
| Turnout | 34,087 | 68.95 | +1.29 | |||||
| Registered voters | 49,437 | |||||||
| Green notional hold | Swing | −10.2 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC | ||||||||
| 2001 British Columbia general election: Victoria-Beacon Hill | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Jeff Bray | 9,297 | 37.04 | $52,485 | ||||
| New Democratic | Carole James | 9,262 | 36.90 | $44,963 | ||||
| Green | Walter Meyer zu Erpen | 5,453 | 21.72 | $8,210 | ||||
| Marijuana | Troy Tompkins | 532 | 2.12 | $70 | ||||
| Unity | Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell | 290 | 1.15 | $3,817 | ||||
| Independent | Rob Botterell | 205 | 0.82 | $911 | ||||
| Communist | Kirsten Goodacre | 64 | 0.25 | $427 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 25,103 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 153 | 0.53 | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,238 | 68.63 | ||||||
References
- ↑ "B.C. ELECTION: Greens' Botterell wins Saanich North and the Islands race". Goldstream News Gazette. October 20, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
- ↑ "Green candidate for Saanich North and Islands wants to give back to community". Peninsula News Review. September 2, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
- ↑ Page, Mark (September 23, 2026). "B.C. Greens Leader Lowan to run in Saanich North and the Islands". Mission City Record. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
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