After Elections B.C. completed the final vote count, Conservative candidate David Xie beat NDP incumbent Paul Choi in Burnaby South-Metrotown by 64 votes.
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The B.C. Conservatives gained another seat after Elections B.C. completed the final vote count from the October provincial election. The Conservatives’ candidate David Xie flipped the Burnaby South-Metrotown riding from NDP incumbent Paul Choi, winning by 64 votes.
Because Choi’s initial lead was fewer than 100 votes, the riding was subject to a recount. Elections B.C. and party scrutineers spent the weekend completing the final count across 93 ridings, incorporating 150,000 mail-in, phone and absentee ballots.
With the latest results confirmed, the Conservatives have 64 seats, the B.C. NDP has 27 seats and the B.C. Greens have two.
Elections B.C. says two electoral districts meet the mandatory threshold for a judicial recount, which is when the difference is less than 1/500 of the total ballots considered. In Ladysmith-Oceanside, NDP incumbent Stephanie Higginson is leading Conservative candidate Kris McNichol by 50 votes, and in Kelowna Centre B.C. Conservative incumbent Kristina Loewen is leading NDP’s Loyal Wooldridge by 43 votes.
Elections B.C. says the judicial recount must occur between seven and 15 days after the declaration of the official election results.
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