Elections BC is confirming it’s completed its tabulation of votes from Saturday’s final day of voting and six days of advance polling, however, even after some two million-plus ballots were cast, we still don’t, at this point, know who will form government and just what the opposition might look like.
There’s also no clear majority government, which could lend itself to several different possibilities – one of which might be an alliance with the two declared Green Party candidates and either the NDP or Conservatives.
The NDP currently have 46 seats in the legislature, the Conservatives, 45, and the Greens with two.
To form a working majority government, either of the leading parties would need 47.
Also in the equation, although, it may not solve anything – mail-in ballots, which Elections BC says won’t be counted until at least Saturday and two ridings where less than 100 votes separate the NDP and Conservative candidates.
In each case, the New Democrats lead and would be part of their 46 seats.
What we can tell you, though, there were two clear winners following the counting of ballots in both Kootenay-Rockies and Columbia River-Revelstoke.
Conservative Pete Davis beating incumbent and independent candidate Tom Shypitka by a margin of over 2,300 votes; Davis earning 8,114 votes, a 43-percent share.
Regardless, whether he’s part of the government or the opposition, the MLA-elect saying his focus won’t change…
The riding of Columbia River-Revelstoke also went ‘blue’ in this election, with voters electing Conservative Scott McInnis as their choice, and like his colleague in Kootenay-Rockies, McInnis said late Saturday night, his focus won’t be altered, no matter how things play out in the coming days…
18,949 votes have, so far, been cast in Kootenay-Rockies, minus any mail-in ballots to come; the figure for Columbia River-Revelstoke is 17,909.
Province-wide, almost 58 percent of those able vote, did.
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