# Christine Boyle

Christine Boyle is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 British Columbia general election. She represents the electoral district of Vancouver-Little Mountain as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP). Upon taking office, she was named Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. Boyle had also served as a city councillor in Vancouver from 2018, until her resignation on December 12, 2024.

## Personal life

Boyle lives with her partner, writer and activist Seth Klein, and their children in Grandview–Woodlands.

## Activism

Boyle is a climate justice activist, United Church minister, and community organizer. She is a founder and director of the Self Care Project, focusing on fostering resilience for activists, and Spirited Social Change. She has been involved in Fossil Free Faith, an organization that encourages faith institutions to divest from fossil fuels. Due to their work, the United Church of Canada divested from fossil fuels in 2015.
In 2015, Boyle traveled to the Vatican to participate in events surrounding Laudato Si. She was also a delegate to the COP21 climate talks on behalf of the United Church of Canada. In 2018, Boyle participated in a day of faith-based protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, BC.

## Political career

Boyle was motivated to run for office because of her commitment to "tackling the deepening wealth gap [in Vancouver], about ensuring that homes are for housing people rather than profits, and about deepening community engagement to build a better city together". She ran alongside Brandon Yan after winning the OneCity Vancouver candidate nomination in June 2018. Boyle won a seat on Vancouver City Council in the 2018 municipal election with 45,529 votes, making her the first elected city councillor from OneCity Vancouver and one of eight women on the ten-member council. She was re-elected to a second term on Vancouver City Council in the 2022 municipal election on October 15, 2022.
On April 4, 2024, Boyle was nominated to run for the seat of Vancouver-Little Mountain for the New Democratic Party of British Columbia in the 2024 provincial election. She won the seat, beating Conservative candidate John Coupar.

## Electoral record
### Provincial elections

vte2024 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Little Mountain :
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | New Democratic | Christine Boyle | 15,008 | 61.92 | +11.0 |
| | Conservative | John Coupar | 7,449 | 30.73 | +30.5 |
| | Green | Wendy Hayko | 1,781 | 7.35 | −7.4 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | |
| | New Democratic hold | New Democratic hold | Swing | Swing | −9.8 |
| Source: Elections BC |||||||

### Municipal elections

vte2022 Vancouver municipal election: City Council :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected |
| | ABC Vancouver | Sarah Kirby-Yung (X) | 72,545 | 42.30 | Y |
| | ABC Vancouver | Lisa Dominato (X) | 70,415 | 41.05 | Y |
| | ABC Vancouver | Brian Montague | 68,618 | 40.01 | Y |
| | ABC Vancouver | Mike Klassen | 65,586 | 38.24 | Y |
| | ABC Vancouver | Peter Meiszner | 63,275 | 36.90 | Y |
| | ABC Vancouver | Rebecca Bligh (X) | 62,765 | 36.60 | Y |
| | ABC Vancouver | Lenny Zhou | 62,393 | 36.39 | Y |
| | Green | Adriane Carr (X) | 41,831 | 24.39 | Y |
| | OneCity | Christine Boyle (X) | 38,465 | 22.43 | Y |
| | Green | Pete Fry (X) | 37,270 | 21.73 | Y |
| | Forward Together | Dulcy Anderson | 33,985 | 19.82 | |
| | OneCity | Iona Bonamis | 33,745 | 19.68 | |
| | Forward Together | Tesicca Truong | 32,900 | 19.18 | |
| | COPE | Jean Swanson (X) | 32,833 | 19.15 | |
| | Green | Michael Wiebe (X) | 30,377 | 17.71 | |
| | OneCity | Ian Cromwell | 29,833 | 17.40 | |
| | OneCity | Matthew Norris | 29,663 | 17.30 | |
| | Forward Together | Alvin Singh | 29,049 | 16.94 | |
| | NPA | Melissa De Genova (X) | 26,578 | 15.50 | |
| | COPE | Breen Ouellette | 24,881 | 14.51 | |
| | Forward Together | Jeanette Ashe | 22,432 | 13.08 | |
| | Forward Together | Russil Wvong | 22,107 | 12.89 | |
| | Green | Devyani Singh | 21,255 | 12.39 | |
| | TEAM for a Livable Vancouver | Cleta Brown | 20,854 | 12.16 | |
| | Green | Stephanie Smith | 20,408 | 11.90 | |
| | Forward Together | Hilary Brown | 19,902 | 11.61 | |
| | COPE | Nancy Trigueros | 19,152 | 11.17 | |
| | TEAM for a Livable Vancouver | Sean Nardi | 18,353 | 10.70 | |
| | TEAM for a Livable Vancouver | Grace Quan | 17,955 | 10.47 | |
| | COPE | Tanya Webking | 17,675 | 10.31 | |
| | TEAM for a Livable Vancouver | Bill Tieleman | 17,240 | 10.05 | |
| | TEAM for a Livable Vancouver | Stephen Roberts | 16,261 | 9.48 | |
| | Vision | Stuart Mackinnon | 15,865 | 9.25 | |
| | NPA | Morning Lee | 14,083 | 8.21 | |
| | TEAM for a Livable Vancouver | Param Nijjar | 13,950 | 8.13 | |
| | VOTE Socialist | Sean Orr | 13,744 | 8.01 | |
| | Progress Vancouver | Asha Hayer | 13,107 | 7.64 | |
| | NPA | Ken Charko | 12,083 | 7.47 | |
| | Vision | Lesli Boldt | 11,070 | 6.46 | |
| | NPA | Elaine Allan | 10,917 | 6.37 | |
| | Affordable Housing Coalition | Eric Redmond | 10,617 | 6.19 | |
| | NPA | Arezo Zarrabian | 10,361 | 6.04 | |
| | Progress Vancouver | Marie Noelle Rosa | 10,111 | 5.90 | |
| | Progress Vancouver | Morgane Oger | 10,015 | 5.84 | |
| | Progress Vancouver | David Chin | 9,354 | 5.45 | |
| | Progress Vancouver | May He | 8,593 | 5.01 | |
| | NPA | Cinnamon Bhayani | 8,586 | 5.01 | |
| | Independent | Lina Vargas | 7,714 | 4.50 | |
| | Vision | Honieh Barzegari | 6,831 | 3.98 | |
| | Progress Vancouver | Mauro Francis | 6,556 | 3.82 | |
| | Independent | Mark Bowen | 5,706 | 3.33 | |
| | Independent | Dominic Denofrio | 4,927 | 2.87 | |
| | Independent | Amy "Evil Genius" Fox | 3,711 | 2.16 | |
| | Independent | Jeremy MacKenzie | 3,446 | 2.01 | |
| | Independent | Kyra Philbert | 3,382 | 1.97 | |
| | Independent | Tim Lý | 3,339 | 1.95 | |
| | Independent | Marlo Franson | 2,866 | 1.67 | |
| | Independent | Amie Peacock | 2,745 | 1.60 | |
| | Independent | K. R. Alm | 2,301 | 1.34 |
| '(X)' indicates incumbent city councillor. Percentage of votes shown is percentage of voters who voted, not votes cast. |||||||
vte2018 Vancouver municipal election: City Council :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected |
| | Green | (I) Adriane Carr | 69,739 | 39.52 | Y |
| | Green | Pete Fry | 61,806 | 35.03 | Y |
| | NPA | (I) Melissa De Genova | 53,251 | 30.18 | Y |
| | COPE | Jean Swanson | 48,865 | 27.69 | Y |
| | NPA | Colleen Hardwick | 47,747 | 27.06 | Y |
| | Green | (O) Michael Wiebe | 45,593 | 25.84 | Y |
| | OneCity | Christine Boyle | 45,455 | 25.76 | Y |
| | NPA | (O) Lisa Dominato | 44,689 | 25.33 | Y |
| | NPA | Rebecca Bligh | 44,053 | 24.97 | Y |
| | NPA | (O) Sarah Kirby-Yung | 43,581 | 24.70 | Y |
| | NPA | David Grewal | 41,913 | 23.75 | |
| | Green | David H. Wong | 40,887 | 23.17 | |
| | Vision | (I) Heather Deal | 39,529 | 22.40 | |
| | COPE | Derrick O'Keefe | 38,305 | 21.71 | |
| | NPA | Justin P. Goodrich | 37,917 | 21.49 | |
| | COPE | Anne Roberts | 36,531 | 20.70 | |
| | OneCity | Brandon O. Yan | 36,167 | 20.50 | |
| | NPA | Jojo Quimpo | 34,601 | 19.61 | |
| | Independent | Sarah Blyth | 29,456 | 16.69 | |
| | Vision | Tanya Paz | 28,836 | 16.34 | |
| | Vision | Diego Cardona | 27,325 | 15.49 | |
| | Vision | (O) Catherine Evans | 25,124 | 14.24 | |
| | Independent | (O) Erin Shum | 23,331 | 13.22 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | Ken Low | 21,908 | 12.42 | |
| | Independent | Adrian Crook | 17,392 | 9.86 | |
| | Vision | Wei Q. Zhang | 16,734 | 9.48 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | Ken Charko | 16,366 | 9.28 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | James Lin | 16,191 | 9.18 | |
| | Independent | Wade Grant | 15,422 | 8.74 | |
| | Independent | Taqdir K. Bhandal | 15,326 | 8.69 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | Elizabeth Taylor | 15,184 | 8.61 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | Penny Mussio | 14,886 | 8.44 | |
| | Yes Vancouver | Brinder Bains | 13,948 | 7.90 | |
| | Yes Vancouver | Stephanie Ostler | 13,530 | 7.67 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | Jason Xie | 13,424 | 7.61 | |
| | Yes Vancouver | Glynnis C. Chan | 13,218 | 7.49 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | Glen Chernen | 13,148 | 7.45 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | Morning Li | 12,614 | 7.15 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | Nycki K. Basra | 12,133 | 6.88 | |
| | Yes Vancouver | Jaspreet Virdi | 12,124 | 6.87 | |
| | Coalition Vancouver | Franco Peta | 11,193 | 6.34 | |
| | Yes Vancouver | Phyllis Tang | 11,902 | 6.75 | |
| | Independent | Rob McDowell | 11,828 | 6.70 | |
| | Independent | Penny Noble | 11,435 | 6.48 | |
| | Independent | Graham Cook | 11,084 | 6.28 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | Michelle C. Mollineaux | 8,819 | 5.00 | |
| | ProVancouver | Raza Mirza | 8,783 | 4.98 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | Jesse Johl | 8,609 | 4.88 | |
| | Independent | Barbara Buchanan | 8,180 | 4.64 | |
| | ProVancouver | Breton Crellin | 7,856 | 4.45 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | Elishia Perosa | 7,489 | 4.24 | |
| | Independent | Anastasia Koutalianos | 7,469 | 4.23 | |
| | Independent | Abubakar Khan | 7,239 | 4.10 | |
| | Vancouver 1st | John Malusa | 6,597 | 3.74 | |
| | Independent | Lisa Kristiansen | 6,506 | 3.69 | |
| | ProVancouver | Rohana D. Rezel | 6,336 | 3.59 | |
| | Independent | Françoise Raunet | 5,891 | 3.34 | |
| | Independent | Hamdy El-Rayes | 5,381 | 3.05 | |
| | Independent | Hsin-Chen Fu | 5,007 | 2.84 | |
| | Independent | Justin Caudwell | 4,488 | 2.54 | |
| | Independent | Harry Miedzygorski | 4,308 | 2.44 | |
| | Independent | Gordon T. Kennedy | 4,297 | 2.44 | |
| | Independent | Ashley Hughes | 3,965 | 2.25 | |
| | Independent | Kelly Alm | 3,440 | 1.95 | |
| | Independent | Marlo Franson | 3,316 | 1.88 | |
| | Independent | John Spark | 3,287 | 1.86 | |
| | Independent | Katherine Ramdeen | 3,082 | 1.75 | |
| | Independent | Spike Peachey | 2,863 | 1.62 | |
| | Independent | Larry J. Falls | 2,768 | 1.57 | |
| | Independent | Elke Porter | 2,515 | 1.43 | |
| | Independent | Ted Copeland | 1,946 | 1.10 | |
| '(I)' denotes incumbent city councillors. '(O)' denotes incumbents of other municipal positions. |||||||