Nine days after election day, British Columbians will know the final result of the 2024 provincial election.
Elections BC says vote counting will wrap up on Monday with absentee votes last to be counted starting Monday morning.
As of 1p.m. on Monday, Surrey-Guildford has now seen the NDP candidate, Garry Begg, take the lead by nine votes after mail-in votes were tallied on the weekend.
The Conservative lead has narrowed a little in Kelowna-Centre, with their candidate leading with 64 votes.
The NDP candidate in Juan de Fuca Malahat is leading by 116 votes.
Surrey-Guildford could provide David Eby’s New Democrats with the narrowest of majorities if the lead there flips on Monday.
The current seat count remains at 46 seats for the NDP, 45 for the BC Conservatives and two for the BC Greens.
Elections BC said the tally of more than 22,000 absentee and special votes began at 9 a.m. Monday, with the results then updated on its website hourly “as counting progresses.”
-with files from The Canadian Press