Tom Shypitka
Canadian politician and curler
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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 | |
| Party | BC United |
| 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
| 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] | ||||||||
- Swing against BC United incumbent Tom Shypitka, standing for re-election as an independent candidate.
| 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] | ||||||||
| 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] | ||||||||
