The BC Liberal Party will form a majority government with 49 members elected, the
BC NDP took 34 seats, the Green Party of BC elected one member and Independent
Vicki Huntington won in Delta South.
The final voting results in Coquitlam-Maillardville are subject to a judicial recount.
Former Oliver Mayor and Councillor Linda Larson won a seat as MLA of the Boundary
Similkameen riding with 8,499 votes (46.59 per cent). Coming second was NDP
candidate Sam Hancheroff with 7,113 (38.99 per cent), followed by Green candidate
John Kwasnica with 1,602 (8.78 per cent) and independent candidates Mischa Popoff
with 655 votes (3.59 per cent) and Doug Pederson 375 (2.06 per cent).
Peter Beckett, the district electoral officer with Elections BC, said that there were
over 1,000 absentee voting ballots from the Boundary-Similkameen riding.
“If it’s not (a resident’s) assigned voting place, then we say that is voting absentee.
This time we had 1,340 ballots that we had to count over the past two days and it didn’t
change the results of the election in Boundary-Similkameen,” he said.
A total of 18,244 ballots were cast in the riding.
In a first for the province the Green Party has elected an MLA to office in Victoria.
Andrew Weaver was elected in Oak Bay-Gordon Head, defeating incumbent Liberal
and government minister Ida Chong as well as NDP candidate Jessica van der Veen.
Elections BC recorded 1,803,051 total valid province-wide votes for the May 14 election.
With files from the Grand Forks Gazette