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Vote counting in British Columbia’s provincial election will finally be completed next week, with judicial recounts scheduled for two ridings.
Elections BC says the province’s Supreme Court has confirmed that the recounts in Kelowna Center and Surrey-Guildford will take place on November 7 and 8.
Both sides saw the margin of victory within the threshold to trigger judicial recounts after this week’s final count of mail-in and absentee ballots from the Oct. 19 election.
The NDP candidate leads his Conservative opponent by 27 votes in Surrey-Guildford, while the margin between the Conservative candidate in Kelowna Center and her NDP opponent is 38 votes.
Surrey-Guildford was the only election where the winner changed during the final vote count, giving Premier David Eby’s NDP the narrowest majority with 47 seats.
The BC Conservatives, a party that won less than two per cent of the vote in the last election, rose to 44 seats in the last election, while the Green Party picked up two seats.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2024.