Election officials filed into an industrial building in Surrey, B.C., to begin a judicial recount for the most narrowly won riding in British Columbia’s election, starting with 28 extra ballots found to have gone unreported days after the vote.
The recount will decide if the NDP’s one-seat majority stands, after it claimed victory in Surrey-Guildford with a margin of 27 votes over the B.C. Conservatives, giving Premier David Eby’s party 47 seats in the legislature.
Jill Lawrance, executive director of electoral operations at Elections BC, told reporters officials would be counting 19,090 ballots in the judicial recount, which includes more 1,600 votes that were cast outside of the riding….