2024 BC Election

[Retired AF Guy]

With vote counting of mail-in ballots continuing, the NDP have increased their narrow leads in a couple tight races, and have closed the gap to just 12 voted in Surrey-Guildford. That seat may swap from Conservative to NDP once counting is done, which would give NDP an absolute majority in the legislature.

Not sure when they’ll be 100% done.

I may be wrong but I believe whoever wins has to provide the Speaker, so that would decrease their lead by one.

 

[Remius]

I may be wrong but I believe whoever wins has to provide the Speaker, so that would decrease their lead by one.

No one has to actually provide a speaker. Anyone can be speaker.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

No one has to actually provide a speaker. Anyone can be speaker.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Remius]

Thanks for the clarification.

And that’s what can make this a bit of a dance when this is so close.

 

[daftandbarmy]

No one has to actually provide a speaker. Anyone can be speaker.

And, given the narrow margins, any party who has a speaker elected can be put in a difficult position re: voting...

 

[Retired AF Guy]

And as an aside my home province of Saskatchewan goes to the polls tomorrow. Interesting to what happens there as the ruling party has been in power for 17 years!!

Saskatchewan election race tightens as parties spend final day…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

 

[dapaterson]

Scott Moe is more similar to Rene Levesque than he may want to let on...

 

[Remius]

And as an aside my home province of Saskatchewan goes to the polls tomorrow. Interesting to what happens there as the ruling party has been in power for 17 years!!

Saskatchewan election race tightens as parties spend final day…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

Polls are really tight there

 

[Cloud Cover]

Looks like NDP majority is forming in BC. For now, anyway…

- Event Night Reporting

 

[daftandbarmy]

It's a damned near run thing!

B.C. election: NDP takes lead in key riding, putting Eby on track for majority​

Monday's count of more than 22,000 absentee and special ballots provincewide could finally produce a winner in the election, nine days after the Oct. 19 vote.

The NDP has overtaken the B.C. Conservatives in the ongoing count of absentee votes in a crucial Metro Vancouver riding, putting Premier David Eby on course to win government with a razor-thin majority.

The NDP now leads Surrey-Guildford by 14 votes and if it hangs on there and in other races, it would have a one-seat majority in the 93-riding legislature.

Elections BC officials are counting more than 22,000 absentee and special ballots provincewide today, nine days after the province’s election.

The Conservatives had been ahead in the closest race of Surrey-Guildford by 12 votes going into the tally, but there were an estimated 226 votes still to count and each hourly update saw that lead whittled away.

B.C. election: NDP takes lead in key riding, putting Eby on track for majority

Monday's count of more than 22,000 absentee and special ballots provincewide could finally produce a winner in the election, nine days after the Oct. 19 vote.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[RangerRay]

Still some judicial recounts to happen, but this might be done.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Still some judicial recounts to happen, but this might be done.

The NDP hit the magic 47 number...

B.C. lieutenant-governor asks NDP Leader David Eby to form government

Whether the NDP forms a majority or minority government will depend on whether it hangs onto a razor-thin lead in Surrey-Guildford.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[Maxman1]

Seems like mail-in ballots aren't such a great idea, given we already have advance voting.

 

[Cloud Cover]

The telephone ballots were interesting. Anyway, the BC Conservative campaign director said it was a fair election, he had access to observe ballot counting and he’s satisfied that everything was above board. So it’s over, done, move on to governing away from left and towards centre. The issues that were present before the election still remain and they have to be addressed.
Oh, and I want Eby to send me the cheque for $1000.

 

[Maxman1]

I just mean it's cumbersome and unnecessary.

 

[OldSolduer]

The telephone ballots were interesting. Anyway, the BC Conservative campaign director said it was a fair election, he had access to observe ballot counting and he’s satisfied that everything was above board. So it’s over, done, move on to governing away from left and towards centre. The issues that were present before the election still remain and they have to be addressed.
Oh, and I want Eby to send me the cheque for $1000.

I was in BC last week can I have a $1000 too?

 

[Remius]

I was in BC last week can I have a $1000 too?

Ford only gave us 200$, he needs to up his game.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The telephone ballots were interesting. Anyway, the BC Conservative campaign director said it was a fair election, he had access to observe ballot counting and he’s satisfied that everything was above board. So it’s over, done, move on to governing away from left and towards centre. The issues that were present before the election still remain and they have to be addressed.
Oh, and I want Eby to send me the cheque for $1000.

Rustad also came out and said that he accepts the results. Now he has to focus on becoming an effective opposition.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Seems like mail-in ballots aren't such a great idea, given we already have advance voting.

I understood advance voting and absentee voting to be in-person at designated locations, and mail-in to be any vote by mail.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Ford only gave us 200$, he needs to up his game.

Same as mail in ballots, you only open the envelope when it’s needed to stay alive.