{"id":162829,"date":"2025-09-23T03:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162829\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:08:06","slug":"surrey-mla-elenore-sturko-ejected-from-bc-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162829\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey MLA Elenore Sturko ejected from BC Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative Party of BC has ejected Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Elenore Sturko from its caucus, a source tells 1130 NewsRadio.<\/p>\n<p>The source says that Sturko was ousted over claims she was trying to organize against BC Conservative leader John Rustad, who was awaiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/22\/bc-conservatives-vote-keep-john-rustad-leader\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">results of a leadership review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rustad was ultimately successful, with the party saying he received 70.66 per cent of the vote this morning.<\/p>\n<p>But sources claim that even after the results of the leadership review were clear, Sturko was making calls to fellow party members to try to rouse up support for a campaign to oust Rustad.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Sturko told 1130 NewsRadio she was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about allegations of voting irregularities in the Conservatives\u2019 leadership review.<\/p>\n<p>A leaked database showed hundreds of dubious membership sign-ups over the span of a couple of days \u2014 all with similar email formats and bogus phone numbers of \u2018111 111 1111\u2019 or \u2018222 222 2222\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sturko was first elected to the provincial legislature in a by-election in 2022 as a member of the BC Liberals (now BC United). She then won her current seat in the 2024 provincial election.<\/p>\n<p>Months before last year\u2019s provincial election, she defected from BC United and joined the BC Conservatives, with polling numbers showing United sliding towards an impressive defeat.<\/p>\n<p>She has served as the BC Conservatives\u2019 Critic for Public Safety and Solicitor General.<\/p>\n<p>1130 NewsRadio has reached out to Sturko for comment.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>With files from Srushti Gangdev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Conservative Party of BC has ejected Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Elenore Sturko from its caucus, a source tells 1130&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-162829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}