Jeremy Valeriote

Jeremy Valeriote is a member of the Green Party of British Columbia representing the riding of West Vancouver-Sea to Sky. He was first elected in the 2024 British Columbia general election.^[1][2] He was the first BC Green elected on the B.C. mainland. Following the resignation of Sonia Furstenau, Valeriote was appointed as interim leader until a leadership election is held.^[3][4]

Jeremy Valeriote MLA
Valeriote in 2024
Interim leader of the Green Party of British Columbia
Incumbent
Assumed office January 28, 2025
Preceded by	Sonia Furstenau
Member of the Legislative Assembly for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
Incumbent
Assumed office October 19, 2024
Preceded by	Jordan Sturdy
Gibsons town councillor
In office 2014–2018
Personal details
Political party	Green
Profession	Engineer, environmental consultant

Valeriote is a geological engineer by training who worked for more than two decades as an environmental consultant in the mining, environmental management and impact assessment sectors. He has also consulted for local government and sat on the town council in Gibsons from 2014 to 2018. He worked in the mayor's office in Squamish from 2021 to 2023.^[5]

He previously ran in the same district in the 2020 British Columbia general election, and was briefly reported as the winner of the seat that year,^[6] but after the advance ballots were counted he was found to have narrowly lost to Jordan Sturdy of the British Columbia Liberal Party.^[7]

Electoral results

v t e 2024 British Columbia general election: West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Green	Jeremy Valeriote	10,438	38.08	+0.78	$209,825
	Conservative	Yuri Fulmer	9,762	35.61	New	$86,706
	New Democratic	Jen Ford	7,212	26.31	+1.15	$31,452
Total valid votes			27,412	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
	Green notional hold		Swing		+0.4
Source: Elections BC[8][9][10]

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election: West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jordan Sturdy	9,249	37.54	−5.53	$51,349.99
	Green	Jeremy Valeriote	9,189	37.30	+8.66	$37,603.39
	New Democratic	Keith Murdoch	6,197	25.16	−1.77	$9,806.90
Total valid votes			24,635	99.45	–
Total rejected ballots			137	0.55	+0.14
Turnout			24,772	56.89	−4.20
Registered voters			43,546
	Liberal hold		Swing		–7.10
Source: Elections BC[11][12]