In the 2001 election, it nominated 4 candidates, who together received a total of 381 votes (0.49% of the total votes in the ridings in which they ran). The Communist candidates placed last in 3 of the 4 ridings, and in no case received more than 1% of the vote.
BritishColumbia has Canada's least restrictive elections laws with regard to political party registration, and consequently there are currently nearly 50 parties registered with Elections BC, by far the most of any jurisdiction in the country.
One member elected as a Liberal left the party to sit as a member of Democratic Reform BritishColumbia; one member elected as a Liberal left to sit as an independent; the party lost one by-election to the opposition New Democratic Party; and two former Liberal seats were vacant when the election was called.
Democratic Reform BritishColumbia is a new party created in early 2005 by the merger of the BritishColumbia Democratic Coalition—a coalition of minor centrist parties— with the All Nations Party of BritishColumbia and key elements of the Reform BC.
In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
The below political parties are believed to possess an extant national organization of some extent and have indicated they plan to gather signatures for the purposes of registration.
From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
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