Although the Canadian government lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18 in 1970, it wasn’t until 22 years later that British Columbia followed suit with the Elections Amendment Act, 1992, receiving Royal Assent on July 3rd, which lowered the provincial voting age from 19 to 18. This Act added about 40,000 B.C. residents to the list of eligible people that could vote in provincial elections.
At the time, the discrepancy this Act created between the voting age of 18 and the legal drinking age of 19 was acknowledged as a contradiction, but not one that required a remedy.
