B.C. election 2024 vote recount won’t start until start Sunday

Voting officials accidental recounts successful 2 ridings that could find the result of British Columbia’s predetermination won’t commencement until Sunday afternoon.

Elections BC says the results of the Surrey City Centre recount volition beryllium posted connected Sunday erstwhile it is complete, portion the result from Juan De Fuca—Malahat volition beryllium posted connected Monday.

The predetermination bureau besides says successful a connection that screening of uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots has identified 65,000 votes provincewide that volition besides beryllium tallied from Saturday until Monday, up from the erstwhile estimation of 49,000.

The archetypal number aft the Oct. 19 predetermination ended with neither Premier David Eby’s NDP nor the B.C. Conservatives led by John Rustad securing the 47 ridings needed for a majority.

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NDP candidates had leads of less than 100 votes successful Surrey City Centre and Juan De Fuca—Malahat aft the archetypal ballot count, triggering the manual recounts.

Elections BC says a manus recount successful Kelowna Centre, wherever the borderline is wider, volition besides instrumentality spot arsenic a effect of a one-vote transcription discrepancy, “likely owed to predetermination authoritative error.”

The NDP was elected oregon starring successful 46 ridings aft the archetypal count, the Conservatives had 45, portion the Greens won two.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 24, 2024.