- Office
- MLA for Langley East, 2020 to 2024
- Party
- BC NDP
- Before
- Langley Board of Education trustee from 2011, vice-chair 2014 to 2018, chair 2018 to 2020
- Langley connection
- Runs a specialty poultry farm in Langley; lives in Fern Ridge (Wikipedia)
- How it ended
- Langley East was dissolved; she ran in Langley-Walnut Grove in 2024 and was not elected
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026
Turkeys, geese, ducks, quail, chickens and goats. That’s the roll call on Megan Dykeman’s farm as her Legislative Assembly biography gives it, and it’s a fair summary of where she came from: Langley agriculture, Langley schools and Langley committees, and four years as the MLA for Langley East.
On the farm and at the school board
Her 2018 trustee profile, published by the Township, describes her as managing director of Strategics Canada, a governance and planning consultancy, and founder of Freedom Fields Farm, a specialty poultry farm in Langley. It credits her with eight years on the Langley Agricultural and Economic Advisory Committee, five of them as community chair, and as the founding leader of a Langley 4-H poultry club. Her Legislature biography names it: Otter Flying Feathers, which it calls the first 4-H poultry club in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley in more than 25 years. (Our 4-H in Langley page covers the clubs today.)
The same biography says she chaired the Blueberry Cannon Taskforce, served as president of the Langley Farmers’ Institute, and holds a master’s in international relations from Macquarie University in Sydney, where her research was on food security.
She spent three years on the Langley District Parent Advisory Council before winning a seat on the Langley Board of Education in 2011. Wikipedia lists three terms, as vice-chair from 2014 to 2018 and chair from 2018 to 2020.
Langley East, 2020 to 2024
The 2020 election was the first in Langley East without Rich Coleman, who had held the seat and its predecessor since 1996. Global News reported that Dykeman, then school board chair, became the NDP candidate after the party’s first nominee withdrew, and that she won by 2,784 votes once mail-in ballots were counted. Global noted that Langley East had always elected a Social Credit or Liberal member before.
In December 2022 Premier David Eby named her Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development and Non-Profits, according to Wikipedia; her Legislature biography lists the role under the Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction. She was also president of the Parliamentarians Association of British Columbia, per the same biography.
How it ended
Langley East disappeared in the 2024 redistribution. Dykeman ran in the new Langley-Walnut Grove riding and lost to Conservative Misty Van Popta by 1,172 votes, according to Stephen Taylor’s results map (Elections BC’s statement of votes is the official count). She is not among the candidates in any Langley riding for the October 24, 2026 election, according to the Langley Advance Times.
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