the remainder of the BC branch of the Progressive Conservatives was folded into the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election; those PC's who have run in the years since were no competition for the rightist/business Socreds; 

the real conservative party is called the BC Liberals, a name that was hijacked after a non-right winger restored the party label.  Even more than under Campbell, Clark has hired senior staff straight out of Harper's office.....