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Doug Routley
Doug Routley
Parliamentary Secretary for Forests of British Columbia
	In office; December 7, 2022 – November 18, 2024
Premier	David Eby
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly; for Nanaimo-North Cowichan; Cowichan-Ladysmith (2005-2009)
	In office; May 17, 2005 – September 21, 2024
Preceded by	Graham Bruce
Succeeded by	Riding dissolved
Personal details
Born	May 9, 1961 (age 63); New Westminster, British Columbia
Political party	New Democrat
Spouse	Leanne Finlayson
Children	Sasha, Madeline

Doug Routley (born May 9, 1961) is a former MLA for Nanaimo-North Cowichan in the Canadian province of British Columbia.^[1] He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the riding of Cowichan-Ladysmith in the 2005 general election and then to the riding of Nanaimo-North Cowichan after new electoral districts were established for the 2009 general election.^[1]^[2]

In 2018, during legislative debate on new policies around sexual orientation and gender identity in the provincial education system, Routley came out as bisexual.^[3]

On December 7, 2022, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Forests.

On September 26, 2023, he announced he would not be seeking a sixth term in the Legislature in the 2024 provincial election.

Electoral results

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election: Nanaimo-North Cowichan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Doug Routley	12,787	49.48	+2.59	$20,730.17
	Green	Chris Istace	7,700	29.80	+5.92	$16,549.41
	Liberal	Duck Paterson	5,354	20.72	−3.16	$25,059.60
Total valid votes			25,841	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC^[4]^[5]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election: Nanaimo-North Cowichan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Doug Routley	12,276	46.89	+0.68	$34,949
	Liberal	Alana DeLong	7,379	28.18	−2.59	$36,526
	Green	Lia Marie Constance Versaevel	6,252	23.88	+10.15	$7,981
	Independent	P. Anna Paddon	274	1.05	+0.77	$1,010
Total valid votes			26,181	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			198	0.75	+0.36
Turnout			26,379	63.73	+2.62
Registered voters			41,393
Source: Elections BC^[6]^[7]

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election: Nanaimo-North Cowichan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Doug Routley	11,542	46.21	−8.13	$55,479
	Liberal	Amanda Lee Jacobson	7,685	30.77	−4.75	$32,579
	Green	Mayo McDonough	3,430	13.73	+4.73	$5,363
	Conservative	John James Donald Sherry	1,603	6.42	–	$12,676
	Independent	Murray McNab	647	2.59	–	$1,575
	Independent	P. Anna Paddon	71	0.28	–	$1,916
Total valid votes			24,978	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			98	0.39	−0.21
Turnout			25,076	61.11	−0.34
Registered voters			41,036
Source: Elections BC^[8]

v t e 2009 British Columbia general election: Nanaimo-North Cowichan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Doug Routley	12,888	54.34	$74,487
	Liberal	Rob Hutchins	8,426	35.52	$146,407
	Green	Ian Gartshore	2,135	9.00	$3,497
	Refederation	Ron James Fuson	271	1.14	$770
Total valid votes			23,720	100.00
Total rejected ballots			142	0.60
Turnout			23,862	61.45
Registered voters			38,832
Source: Elections BC^[9]

v t e 2005 British Columbia general election: Cowichan-Ladysmith
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Doug Routley	13,402	50.20%
	Liberal	Graham Bruce	10,879	40.75%
	Green	Cindy-Lee Robinson	1,823	6.83%
	Independent	Jim Bell	290	1.09%
	Democratic Reform	Brian Fraser Johnson	223	0.84%
	Freedom	Jeremy Harold Sandwith Smyth	79	0.30%
Total			26,696	100.00%