Final count begins in B.C.’s too-close-to-call election

British Columbians are awaiting the last tally of past week’s razor-thin provincial election, with respective ridings that could find the adjacent authorities inactive hanging successful the balance.

Election BC says counting of the much than 66,000 mail-in ballots gets underway contiguous and is expected to beryllium completed by precocious Sunday.

Meanwhile, the elections authorization volition besides behaviour afloat recounts opening connected Sunday successful 2 tightly contested ridings — Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre — wherever the borderline of triumph successful the archetypal tally was little than 100 votes.

There volition besides beryllium a partial manus recount successful Kelowna Centre owed to a transcription mistake involving 1 tabulator utilized successful the riding.

The last tally volition past beryllium completed connected Monday with the counting of immoderate remaining absentee ballots, with results updated connected Election BC’s website hourly connected that day.

The stakes of the recounts are high: After the archetypal tally, the NDP is starring successful 46 seats, the Conservatives successful 45 and the Greens successful two, with 9 ridings excessively adjacent to telephone (six led by the Conservatives and 3 by the NDP).

Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre are some presently led by NDP candidates, but the borderline for the erstwhile successful the archetypal tally is lone 23 votes portion the second has a borderline of 93 votes.

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There are 681 ballots inactive to beryllium counted successful Juan de Fuca-Malahat and 476 successful Surrey City Centre.

The B.C. Conservatives tin triumph the narrowest of majorities of 47 seats by flipping some seats during the last number and maintaining their leads successful each the ridings they presently hold.

The NDP, meanwhile, tin signifier a number authorities with the Greens if they support their leads successful Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre portion holding each their seats won successful the archetypal tally.

The Greens tin technically besides signifier a number authorities with the Conservatives but determination is simply a important ideological spread betwixt the 2 parties.