BC politics has been traditionally dominated by three parties - Social Credit, the NDP and the Liberals. Social Credit represented the right wing side of the electorate, governing for all but three of the years between 1952 and 1991. It was anchored by an alliance between fiscal conservatives federal liberals and some christian conservatives.
However it collapsed following the Bill Vander Zalm Fantasy Gardens Scandal in the early 1990s. After the rearrangement of the political landscape the bulk of conservative voters opted to support the provincial Liberal Party who in all actuality, occupy the center right position that a Conservative Party in any other Canadian province (other than Quebec) would normally position themselves.
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