Who are the 371 candidates running in the B.C. election?

CBC breaks down the backgrounds of the people running for the Liberals, NDP and Greens By Justin McElroy, CBC News

B.C. Votes 2017: a look at the issues in your riding Where in B.C. have the party leaders been campaigning? A snapshot at the halfway point Poll Tracker: The latest polling numbers and seat projections Fact Check: We find the truth behind the politicians’ promises B.C. Votes 2017: All the latest news from the campaign trail Last week, the deadline for registering as a candidate in the 2017 B.C. election came and went, with 371 people putting their name forward. The B.C. Liberals and NDP nominated a full slate of 87 candidates, the Green Party nominated 83 — only missing out on Skeena, Stikine, Peace River North and Peace River South. Fifteen minor parties are running 79 candidates and 35 people are going it alone. To dream the impossible dream: the major ambitions of B.C.’s ‘minor’ parties Who’s running in the 2017 B.C. election? But what’s equally interesting is how candidates break down by different demographics and professions — and what the differences are between various parties. On gender, NDP make history For the first time in B.C. history, over half the candidates from a major party are women. The NDP has female candidates in 44 of the province’s 87 ridings, compared to 36 for the B.C. Liberals, and 33 of the Green Party’s 83 candidates. All three increased their number of female candidates by at least 20 per cent compared to 2013. On diversity, Greens lag behind NDP and Liberals As the share of British Columbia’s non-white population has risen, so too have the number of visible minority candidates. Except for the Green Party: of their 83 candidates, just five are not white, compared to 20 Liberal candidates and 26 NDP candidates ”They don’t have strong inroads with ethnic minority communities to date,” said political scientist Hamish Telford last week in describing the party’s challenges for an electoral breakthrough. “It’s certainly going to affect their ground game. They don’t have the same type of operation and they don’t have the inroads ... to mobilize voters there.” Twenty-two of the 114 candidates running as independents or for minor parties are not white making 73 visible minority candidates in total (19.7 per cent).