Kelly Greene

Kelly Greene is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2020 British Columbia general election. She represents the electoral district of Richmond-Steveston as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP). She also serves as Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness for British Columbia. From 2018 to 2020 she served as a city councillor in Richmond.

Biography Born in Richmond, Greene grew up in the community of Steveston and went to Hugh Boyd Secondary School. She attended the University of British Columbia, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 2002, then worked for accounting and banking firms. She was then elected to the Richmond City Council in the 2018 municipal election.

Greene contested the riding of Richmond-Steveston as an NDP candidate again in the 2020 provincial election, this time winning the seat by taking 52% of the vote, ahead of Liberal candidate Matt Pitcairn. On November 16, 2020, she resigned her city council role to become a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). She was named Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment by Premier John Horgan on November 26, 2020, supporting Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy George Heyman.

On December 7, 2022 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Aquaculture by Premier David Eby, supporting Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship Nathan Cullen.

Electoral history Provincial elections

Municipal elections Top 8 candidates elected — Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold +2018 British Columbia municipal elections: Richmond City Council Party Council candidate Vote % RITE Richmond Carol Day (X) 20,871 7.01 Richmond Citizens' Association Harold Steves (X) 19,136 6.43 Richmond Community Coalition Chak Au (X) 18,026 6.05 Richmond First Bill McNulty (X) 17,242 5.79 Richmond Citizens' Association Kelly Greene 16,464 5.53 Richmond First Linda McPhail (X) 15,521 5.21 RITE Richmond Michael Wolfe 13,627 4.58 Independent Alexa Loo (X) 13,212 4.44 Richmond First Derek Dang (X) 13,115 4.40 Richmond First Andy Hobbs 12,336 4.14 Richmond Citizens' Association Judie Schneider 11,672 3.92 Richmond Community Coalition Ken Johnston (X) 11,161 3.75 Richmond Community Coalition Jonathan Ho 11,140 3.74 Richmond Citizens' Association Jack Trovato 10,915 3.67 Richmond First Sunny Ho 8,933 3.00 RITE Richmond Niti Sharma 8,917 2.99 RITE Richmond Henry Yao 8,467 2.84 Richmond First Peter Liu 8,357 2.81 Richmond Community Coalition Parm Bains 7,973 2.68 Independent John Roston 7,961 2.67 Richmond Community Coalition Melissa Zhang 7,708 2.38 Independent Kerry Starchuk 6,959 2.34 Independent Jason Tarnow 5,720 1.92 Independent Adil Awan 4,278 1.44 Independent Manjit Singh 4,134 1.39 Independent Dennis Page 3,478 1.17 Independent Andy Chiang 3,337 1.12 Independent Theresa Head 3,251 1.09 Independent Patrick J. Saunders 2,241 0.75 Independent Zhe Zhang 2,241 0.75