Final count flips Burnaby South-Metrotown, giving B.C. Conservatives 64 seats
Elections BC's final count flipped Burnaby South-Metrotown from the NDP to the Conservatives, raising the incoming Conservative majority to 64 of 93 seats; the NDP has 27 and the Greens two. NDP incumbent Paul Choi had led by 66 votes on election night, but after a recount and the addition of mail-in, absentee and telephone-assisted ballots, Conservative David Xie won by 64 votes. The margin was just large enough to avoid an automatic judicial review. Leads in Ladysmith-Oceanside, held by the NDP, and Kelowna Centre, held by the Conservatives, face judicial reviews because their margins were under 0.2 per cent.
