Poll shows two-thirds of BC NDP voters support merging with BC Greens

A post-election poll conducted by Research Co. has shown that two-thirds of BC NDP voters would like their party of choice to consider a formal merger with the BC Greens.

Support for the idea was slightly lower among BC Greens voters, at 60%.

According to the poll, 27% of BC NDP voters "strongly agree[d]" that the two parties should discuss becoming a single entity, while 39% "moderately agree[d]." Among BC Greens supporters, those numbers were 19% and 41%, respectively.

Of the 601 respondents of all political stripes, 43% agreed it was a good idea. Support was highest among the 18-34 cohort, 52%, and lowest among seniors, at 34%.

Election results show the BC NDP pulled in 670,811 votes, while the BC Greens received 196,896. Together, that tops the BC Conservatives' 862,688. The popular vote matters very little in the province's electoral system, however, and had the parties merged, they still would have won less than half the seats that the BC Conservatives secured.

The BC Greens were the only party to grow their vote; the BC NDP saw far fewer people show up for them at the ballot box than in 2024.

During the election campaign, now-former BC NDP leader David Eby repeatedly attempted to court Green supporters by warning that opting for the smaller of the two parties would split the vote and lead to a Conservative victory.

He often argued that "the values of people who are thinking about voting Green, and Green candidates, and the Green leader are very consistent with the values of New Democrats."

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The BC Greens leader accused Eby of "trying to scare British Columbians into voting for him."

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BC Greens leader Emily Lowan was not convinced.

"He says the differences between us are small," she said. "Tell that to the families waiting on the $10-a-day child care he froze, the seniors waiting on the seven long-term care homes he delayed, and the renters still waiting for housing they can actually afford. Tell it to the nurses I stood with on the picket line this summer, to the First Nations who watched him try to suspend parts of DRIPA, and to everyone still waiting for the climate action he ran away from."

Lowan noted that two longtime NDPers, Svend Robinson and Harold Steves, recently endorsed the BC Greens.

Lowan also argued that contrary to Eby's claims that supporting the Greens splits the vote, her party actually "grow[s] the vote."

"I hear from so many people who wouldn't be participating otherwise if they didn't have the option to vote Green," she said.

The poll results were based on an online study conducted on October 24 and October 25, 2026, among 601 British Columbia adults who voted in the 2026 provincial election. The margin of error—which measures sample variability—is +/- 4.0 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.