List of British Columbia general elections

For three terms during and immediately after World War II, the legislature was managed by a coalition government between the Conservatives and the Liberals.

From 2017 to 2020, the NDP formed a minority government with a confidence and supply agreement with the Green Party.

Contemporary elections in British Columbia use a relatively unique system of handling absentee ballots.

[10] While all jurisdictions in Canada allow for absentee voting through advance communication with the appropriate federal or provincial election agency, British Columbia is unique in allowing same-day absentee voting at any polling station in the province; ballots so cast are not counted locally on election night, however, but are sent to the voter's home riding and counted two weeks after election day.

[10] One important effect of this is that a particularly close race, such as the nine-vote margin that initially separated the main candidates in Courtenay-Comox in the 2017 election, may not have a winner officially declared until the absentee ballots have been counted at the later date;[10] as well, because the absentee vote tends to favour the New Democratic Party rather than the Liberal Party,[11] a district narrowly won by the Liberals has a higher chance of being flipped by absentee voters than a narrow NDP win does.

[11] The system exists both to serve commuters in the Greater Vancouver Area, where requiring people to vote at home frequently forced suburban districts to cope with sudden crowds of late voters at the end of the day, pushing past poll closing time and delaying the counting of the results in those areas, and because the province has a much higher than normal proportion of people who work away from home for long periods in remote natural resources sites.