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Premier John Horgan has called a provincial byelection in the Nanaimo electoral district for Jan. 30.

The byelection was triggered when Leonard Krog resigned from his seat as NDP MLA on Nov. 30 after being elected Nanaimo’s mayor in October.

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Sheila Malcolmson, the federal MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith, has been acclaimed as the NDP candidate for an upcoming provincial byelection.

Opposing Malcolmson, who is stepping down from federal politics to run provincially, are Liberal candidate Tony Harris, a Nanaimo businessman, and the Green Party’s Michele Ney, a retired teacher and daughter of the late Nanaimo mayor Frank Ney.

The provincial riding of Nanaimo has been an NDP stronghold since 1963, but the byelection will be watched carefully because a Liberal win could lead to the fall of the NDP government, which has a one-seat majority with the help of the Greens.

Candidate nominations for the byelection close at 1 p.m. on Jan. 9.

Advance voting will take place over six days from Jan. 22 to 27.

sbrown@postmedia.com