B.C. election: Conservatives win majority as Eby concedes
B.C. election Oct 24: Conservatives take 64 of 93 seats, NDP 27, Greens 2. Eby concedes and resigns as NDP leader - nine years of NDP rule ends.
British Columbia’s election on Saturday, October 24 produced a landslide: preliminary results give the B.C. Conservatives 64 of the legislature’s 93 seats – well past the 47 needed for a majority – with the NDP at 27 and the Greens at 2, according to Elections BC figures reported by TD Economics and The Tyee.
The result ends nine years of NDP government. Premier David Eby kept his own Vancouver-Point Grey seat but conceded on election night and announced he is resigning as NDP leader. His snap-election gamble, called in search of a stronger mandate, instead produced the opposite.
Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson – who was serving as the party’s interim leader entering the campaign – is now premier-designate and will form government. The Conservatives took roughly 48% of the popular vote, against about 37% for the NDP and 11% for the Greens, according to TD Economics’ analysis of the results.
One caveat: the counts are preliminary. Elections BC and newsrooms flagged four ridings still extremely close, including Burnaby South-Metrotown, with final counts still to come.
Sources: TD Economics, The Tyee, with seat counts from Elections BC preliminary results.
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