Draft:2017 British Columbian government formation

The events leading up to the formation of the Government of British Columbia took place between May 9 and July 18, 2017, following the 41st British Columbia general election. Neither the incumbent Liberal Party or the New Democratic Party, the two main parties in the legislature, were able to win a majority threshold of forty-four seats, resulting in a hung parliament, and uncertainty as to who would form government. The Liberals led by Premier Christy Clark, which were one seat short of a parliamentary majority continued to govern, while both the Liberals and the New Democrats attempted to persuade the Green Party to use their balance of power to either support or defeat the Clark government. The Green Party eventually entered into a confidence and supply agreement with the New Democrats to support a New Democratic government led by John Horgan, in exchange for some Green Party campaign interests such as electoral reform.