A second candidate for the Skeena riding seat in the Oct. 19 provincial election has been named.
Terrace city councillor Sarah Zimmerman was nominated June 22 to run for the New Democratic Party.
She was the only approved candidate for the NDP nomination and her candidacy was made official at a meeting of party members held in Terrace at the Best Western Inn.
Zimmerman, who topped the list of Terrace city councillors elected in the fall 2022 local government elections, has her own communications consulting business and has also worked at Coast Mountain College and Rio Tinto Alcan.
The Skeena riding seat is wide open this time as B.C. United MLA Eillis Ross is leaving provincial politics as he is running as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate for the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding in the federal election scheduled for Oct. 2025.
The provincial Conservative party has already chosen its Skeena riding candidate in Claire Rattée, a former District of Kitimat councillor. Rattée has made two unsuccessful attempts to defeat New Democrat Taylor Bachrach as the Member of Parliament for the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding in the last two federal elections.
The B.C. United party has yet to choose a Skeena riding candidate for the provincial election.
There was more political activity in the region Saturday when Stikine NDP MLA Nathan Cullen was nominated to run again for his party in this fall's provincial election.
He's the current water, land and resourced stewardship cabinet minister and was elected in 2020 after a 15-year span as the NDP MP for the federal Bulkley Valley-Stikine riding.