British Columbia’s election could finally be decided today with the counting of absentee ballots, after recounts and a tally of mail-in votes failed to settle the contest on the weekend.
Neither Premier David Eby’s New Democrats nor John Rustad’s B.C. Conservatives emerged from the weekend with the magic number of 47 seats required to form a majority in the province’s 93-seat legislature.
But the counting increased the prospects for an NDP government, when the Conservative lead in Surrey-Guildford was cut to just 12 votes.
All eyes will be on that Metro Vancouver seat when counting resumes at 9 a.m. today, with 226 absentee votes to count there….