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Amelia Boultbee joins the British Columbia NDP (2026)

July 3, 2026

British ColumbiaProvincialLegislative Assembly

What the record says

Amelia Boultbee joined the British Columbia New Democratic Party on July 3, 2026, after sitting as an Independent. No post-crossing office or compensation is asserted.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Amelia Boultbee
CTF-EP-000282-01
IndependentToBritish Columbia New Democratic PartyFrom the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.
Marked as a label rather than a party: the database has no party row for this side of the transition. Overwhelmingly this means the member sat as an Independent, and there is deliberately no “Independent” party.
Riding
Penticton—Summerland(British Columbia)
Effective
July 3, 2026
Kind of transition
Joined a party
Voluntary
Voluntary
Direction
Toward the governing side
Appointment
Not appointed

How rare is this?

No recorded transition matches leaving Independent, joining British Columbia New Democratic Party and at the provincial level (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 4, 2026). That is a statement about this database's coverage, not about Canadian history.

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No senator appears in the published record: we hold Senate events, but none has passed the publication gate.

How the comparable set is defined

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

Amelia Boultbee changed affiliation from Independent to the British Columbia New Democratic Party on July 3, 2026.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- BC Government Directory — Amelia Boultbee
  Government of British Columbia · record Amelia Boultbee; MLA Penticton-Summerland; NDP MLA Constituency Offices; accessed 2026-08-01 · EN
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — February 13, 2008
  CTF-S-BC-DIRECTORY-BOULTBEE-NDP · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Former BC Conservative Amelia Boultbee crosses floor to join NDP
  CityNews Vancouver · Emma Crawford · July 3, 2026 · record Amelia Boultbee joins British Columbia New Democratic Party; 2026-07-03 · EN
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-CITYNEWS-BOULTBEE-NDP-2026 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Former B.C. Conservative turned Independent MLA Amelia Boultbee crosses the floor to the NDP | CBC News
  CBC News · July 3, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mla-amelia-boultbee-joins-ndp-9.7257634 · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-E8169DDBD608 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
- Penticton-Summerland MLA Boultbee joins Eby’s B.C. NDP - Surrey Now-Leader
  Surrey Now-Leader (Black Press) · July 3, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://surreynowleader.com/2026/07/03/penticton-summerland-mla-boultbee-joins-ebys-b-c-ndp/ · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-08CA5AEE5A45 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Editorial review passes

Which checks have been run against this record, and what each one concluded. A review that has not happened is shown as pending, never as passed.

fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026
frenchapproved · August 1, 2026
legalapproved · August 1, 2026
living personapproved · August 1, 2026
publicationapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

r1 created
Created the exact, source-bound Independent-to-NDP event for Amelia Boultbee without inventing a post-crossing benefit.
August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction: British Columbia
Level: Provincial
Legislature: Legislature of British Columbia
Chamber: Legislative Assembly

Place and party names on this page come from the institutional tables, never from free text on the record.

Record identifier

Record identifier: CTF-E-000282
Revision: 1
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: August 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 4 citations
Session: not recordedNo parliamentary session is recorded on this event. The session is never inferred from the date.

Cite this record

Crossing the Floor. “Amelia Boultbee joins the British Columbia NDP (2026)” (CTF-E-000282). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/amelia-boultbee-ndp-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/amelia-boultbee-ndp-2026
Release: 2026-08-01.1
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalLicence recorded on this release: OGL-Canada-2.0 (project-authored structured data only)

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