Adrian Dix John Horgan In 2014, the British Columbia New Democratic Party scheduled a leadership election to select a new leader.

The contest was called following Adrian Dix's resignation announcement on September 18, 2013, several months after the party's unexpected defeat in the 2013 election after pre-campaign polls had shown the NDP ahead by as much as 20 points.

[4] The party set the entrance fee for candidates at $25,000 and a spending maximum of $350,000.

Unlike the previous leadership election, which was also conducted on a "one member, one vote" basis, members would not have had the option of voting at the convention itself or on a live ballot-by-ballot basis but could only cast a preferential ballot and do so by internet or phone.

MLAs Rob Fleming,[19] David Eby,[20] Judy Darcy[21] and George Heyman, federal MPs Kennedy Stewart, Nathan Cullen, Fin Donnelly and Peter Julian, mayors Derek Corrigan and Gregor Robertson[5] and Vancouver School Board chairperson Patti Bacchus[22] all announced that they will not be candidates for the party leadership.