Vicki Huntington

Victoria "Vicki" Huntington is a Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2009 until 2017 as an independent for Delta South.

Education and early career Huntington is a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, and has a degree in political science from the University of British Columbia. Much of her early career was spent in the RCMP, where she worked with the RCMP Security Service for most of the 1970s. Prior to joining the force, she was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps (Res).

Following her years with the Security Service, Huntington served as band manager for the Gitanmaax Indian Reserve in Hazelton. She later worked as a policy assistant to the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, as a member of the Nisga’a Task Group, and as vice chair of the Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Committee (LMTAC) and its representative on the Provincial Treaty Negotiating Team. This result was subject to an automatic judicial recount because the margin of victory was fewer than one-500th of all votes cast. On May 26, 2009, the recount revealed that Huntington had defeated Oppal by 32 votes, to become the first independent MLA elected to the B.C. provincial legislature since the general election of 1949.

Huntington was elected to a second term in the 2013 election with an increased plurality. She was the first woman to be re-elected as an independent MLA in the province's history.

Post-political career Huntington endorsed Green Party candidate Peter van der Velden for Delta South in the 2020 election.

Electoral record Independent Vicki Huntington

Independent John Shavluk

Independent Vicki Huntington

NDP Dileep Joseph Anthony Athaide

Independent George Mann

Family

Huntington's father Ron Huntington was elected to the House of Commons of Canada three times as a Progressive Conservative, in 1974, 1979, and 1980, representing the electoral district of Capilano on metro Vancouver's north shore. In 1979, he served as minister of state for small business in the government of Joe Clark.