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After a week of recounts, the reigning leftist New Democratic Party of British Columbia flipped one Conservative seat to its favor to form a majority government.
(LifeSiteNews) –– After a week of recounts which included the discovery of extra ballots, the reigning leftist New Democratic Party (NDP) of British Columbia flipped one Conservative seat to its favor by a mere handful of votes to claim a majority government.
Elections B.C.’s final results from the first round of recounts shows the NDP taking the needed 47 seats to form a majority, to the Conservatives who won 44 seats. The Green Party won 2 seats.
In one riding, Surrey-Guildford, the NDP won by a mere 18 votes, having flipped the seat from the Conservatives from the initial vote count.
Yesterday, the province’s Lt Governor Janet Austin asked B.C. premier David Eby of the NDP to form a government.
The newly rejuvenated Conservative Party’s provincial leader John Rustad said he “accepted” the results of the recounts, and that he is “ready to begin the important work of leading BC’s Official Opposition.”
Eby’s NDP and Rustad’s Conservatives came out of last week’s election in a virtual tie. As reported by LifeSiteNews last week, election officials in the province announced there were some 65,000 ballots yet to be counted, up from 45,000 following the election held on October 19.