Fraser Valley/Victoria (With Files from Elections BC) – It’s Deja Vu all over again re: 2017. When the BC Liberals lost to the NDP, due to the fall of a minority government.
We could have another minority government.
Soon to be, former Chilliwack School Trustee Heather Maahs is now MLA Elect for Chilliwack North . Now the School board will have to call a by-election to fill her position. The same scenario happened four years ago, for Dan Coulter, who went from School Board Chair to Chilliwack MLA.
Leaders David Eby (NDP) and John Rustand (Conservatives) have been re-elected. The Green’s Sonia Furstenau lost her seat.
Elections BC Website information is here
As of 10PM Saturday October 19, there is no clear winner with a majority of 47 seats.
The Final count will begin on October 26.
Voter turnout is 56 per cent with a record 1 Million + voting in advance and mail in polls.
From Elections BC: 99.72% of preliminary results have been reported and counting will continue for the next hour. Any electoral districts that are unable to complete initial count tonight will continue counting tomorrow morning. Due to election official availability and weather-related disruptions, we will not have complete preliminary results tonight for Cariboo-Chilcotin, Surrey-Newton and North Coast-Haida Gwaii.
Sixteen districts are continuing to count out-of-district ballots. These ballots take longer to count for several reasons. With B.C.’s vote anywhere model, some districts are reporting out-of-district results from dozens of other contests. Write-in ballots also take longer to count than ordinary ballots.
Automatic recounts will take place in electoral districts where the margin between the top two candidates is 100 votes or fewer at the conclusion of initial count. These recounts will take place during final count, scheduled for October 26 to 28.
Some types of ballots must be counted at final count and were not counted tonight. These include vote-by-mail ballots that were received by mail after the close of advance voting or dropped off in person at a voting place or district electoral office. We will report the number of ballots that will be considered at final count and will provide this information as soon as possible.
