Kevin Acton, the longtime Lumby mayor and Conservative Party of BC nominee, leads trader pricing in the Vernon-Lumby riding ahead of the October 24 provincial election. His late-September nomination consolidated Conservative support after a narrow 2024 loss in which the party finished within 500 votes of the NDP despite a vote split involving Acton running as an independent. Sandhu, the two-term NDP incumbent and parliamentary secretary, is seeking a third term amid local forums and advance voting that opened October 16. Acton’s concurrent municipal re-election bid on October 17 has drawn attention, though he has pledged to fund any resulting mayoral by-election. Minor-party candidates from OneBC and the Greens remain on the ballot but show limited market traction.