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Single sourcePending reviewChanged party affiliationIndividual

Lorne Doerkson (2026)

September 22, 2026

British ColumbiaProvincialLegislative Assembly

What the record says

No summary text is recorded for this event in either language.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Lorne Doerkson
CTF-EP-NWS-20260922-6AE7E06F-01
BC UnitedToConservative Party of British ColumbiaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 22, 2026
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Voluntary
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable

How rare is this?

14 recorded transitions match leaving BC United, joining Conservative Party of British Columbia and at the provincial level, across 9 events and 8 named people (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 4, 2026). The most recent is Ian Paton, 2024 — the 14th on record. The earliest on record is John van Dongen, 2012.

0 of the 14 are recorded to the day; the other 14 are recorded to the year only, so no exact interval can be quoted.
0 of the 14 meet the database's publication standard; the other 14 are unreviewed leads.
None of the 14 carries any recorded outcome after the transition: no re-election or appointment rate can be quoted from this set.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.
No senator appears in this count: 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.

Lorne Doerkson changed affiliation from "BC Liberal" to "BC Conservative" effective 2026-09-22.
Pending review
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
Medium
Signed by:
Not signed by a named contributor
Concerns a living person
- B.C. Conservatives scraps appearance by leader, citing potential election call
  Global News · September 22, 2026 · section Lorne Doerkson | 2026-09-22 | BC Liberal -> BC Conservative · EN
  No archived copy has been captured for this source. If the address stops resolving, the citation cannot be checked from here.
  CTF-S-NWS-717086CDDBA3 · Reliability tier: unassessed · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 22, 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.

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-NWS-20260922-6AE7E06F
Revision: 1
Published: Not published as a verified record
Last verified: Never verified
Record last changed: September 22, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 1 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. “Lorne Doerkson (2026)” (CTF-E-NWS-20260922-6AE7E06F). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/lorne-doerkson-bc-conservative-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/lorne-doerkson-bc-conservative-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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Single sourcePending reviewChanged party affiliationIndividual

Lorne Doerkson (2026)

September 22, 2026

British ColumbiaProvincialLegislative Assembly

What the record says

No summary text is recorded for this event in either language.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Lorne Doerkson
CTF-EP-NWS-20260922-6AE7E06F-01
BC UnitedToConservative Party of British ColumbiaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 22, 2026
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Voluntary
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable

How rare is this?

0 of the 14 are recorded to the day; the other 14 are recorded to the year only, so no exact interval can be quoted.
0 of the 14 meet the database's publication standard; the other 14 are unreviewed leads.
None of the 14 carries any recorded outcome after the transition: no re-election or appointment rate can be quoted from this set.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.
No senator appears in this count: 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.

Lorne Doerkson changed affiliation from "BC Liberal" to "BC Conservative" effective 2026-09-22.
Pending review
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
Medium
Signed by:
Not signed by a named contributor
Concerns a living person
- B.C. Conservatives scraps appearance by leader, citing potential election call
  Global News · September 22, 2026 · section Lorne Doerkson | 2026-09-22 | BC Liberal -> BC Conservative · EN
  No archived copy has been captured for this source. If the address stops resolving, the citation cannot be checked from here.
  CTF-S-NWS-717086CDDBA3 · Reliability tier: unassessed · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 22, 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.

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-NWS-20260922-6AE7E06F
Revision: 1
Published: Not published as a verified record
Last verified: Never verified
Record last changed: September 22, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 1 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. “Lorne Doerkson (2026)” (CTF-E-NWS-20260922-6AE7E06F). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/lorne-doerkson-bc-conservative-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/lorne-doerkson-bc-conservative-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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