Photo: The Canadian Press Prime Minister John Horgan answers questions during a press conference at the Press Theater at the Legislature in Victoria on Friday, March 11, 2022. Horgan called for a Vancouver-Kilzena invitation on Saturday, April 30. Prime Minister John Horgan has given a lecture on Vancouver-Kilzena. The vote will take place on Saturday, April 30, and will replace Andrew Wilkinson, who resigned from the legislature on February 17. Wilkinson was the leader of the Opposition Liberals in the October 2020 provincial elections, but resigned after the party’s poor performance in the polls. Elections BC reports in a news release that this will be the first election in the province since changes to the election law went into effect last month, which it says will make voting easier and allow the service to report more quickly. election night results. The changes include the use of electronic tabulators to count paper ballots and e-voting books to search for voters and remove them from the electoral roll. Wilkinson won in 2020 with 56.04 percent of the vote, but his party lost 13 seats in the election that saw Horgan’s New Democrats re-elected by a majority, winning 58 seats against 28 for the Liberals and two Greens. The Liberals have nominated their new leader, Kevin Falcon, a former county councilor, to run in Vancouver-Kilzena. The NDP says that Jeanette Ashe, an academic, will be a candidate. The BC Green Party announced on Thursday that emergency management expert Wendy Haiko will be their candidate in the by-elections.