Tom Shypitka

Thomas Glenn Shypitka is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election.^[1] He represented the electoral district of Kootenay East as a member of the BC United caucus.^[1] In Opposition, he has served as the Official Opposition Critic for Energy and Mines; Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation; and Mines and Low Carbon Innovation. He was also appointed B.C. United caucus chair (2024) and deputy chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services (2023-2024).

Tom Shypitka
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Kootenay East
In office May 9, 2017 – September 21, 2024
Preceded by	Bill Bennett
Succeeded by	Pete Davis
Personal details
Political party	BC United

Tom Shypitka

Medal record
Curling
Labatt Brier
	1991 Hamilton

Shypitka is also an accomplished curler,^[2] having represented British Columbia at the 1991 Labatt Brier and 2010 Tim Hortons Brier. He has appeared at the Brier as both a right and left handed thrower (right handed in 1991, left handed in 2010), due to a knee injury.^[3]

In the 2024 British Columbia general election, he ran as an independent but was unseated by Pete Davis from the Conservative Party of British Columbia.^[4]

Electoral record

v t e 2024 British Columbia general election: Kootenay-Rockies
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Pete Davis	8,217	42.71	–	$66,181.76
	Independent	Tom Shypitka	5,844	30.37	-27.0	$33,456.11
	New Democratic	Sam Atwal	4,184	21.75	-11.2	$23,254.71
	Green	Kerri Wall	996	5.18	-4.6	$11,054.43
Total valid votes/expense limit			19,241	99.89	–	$71,700.08
Total rejected ballots			21	0.11	–
Turnout			19,262	60.79	–
Registered voters			31,684
	Conservative notional gain from BC United		Swing		+34.9[n 1]
Source: Elections BC[5][6]

1. Swing against BC United incumbent Tom Shypitka, standing for re-election as an independent candidate.

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election: Kootenay East
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tom Shypitka	9,897	57.90	+1.33	$38,182.15
	New Democratic	Wayne Stetski	5,499	32.17	+2.5	$19,605.32
	Green	Kerri Wall	1,697	9.93	−1.34	$3,805.90
Total valid votes			17,093	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC[7][8]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election: Kootenay East
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tom Shypitka	9,666	56.57	−6.42	$53,655
	New Democratic	Randal Macnair	5,070	29.67	−7.34	$34,336
	Green	Yvonne Marie Prest	1,926	11.27	–	$2,412
	Libertarian	Keith D. Komar	425	2.49	–	$2,027
Total valid votes			17,087	100.00
Total rejected ballots			101	0.59
Turnout			17,188	55.71
Source: Elections BC[9]