Elections BC has declared David Eby elected in Vancouver-Point Grey with a more than 1,000 vote margin over his challenger — and Premier — Christy Clark.
Clark will now be forced to hold a by-election in a BC Liberal riding where an elected MLA will have to give up their seat.
Meanwhile, Elections BC has started its count of nearly 180,000 absentee ballots from the provincial election, and a riding appears to have changed from the Liberals to the NDP.
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In Coquitlam-Maillardville, the NDP says its candidate, Selina Robinson, has defeated Liberal candidate Steve Kim by 35 votes.
Kim was ahead by 105 votes on election night.
Elections BC has now confirmed they will be applying for a judicial recount.
There are five other ridings where fewer than 500 votes separate the two parties.
In Saanich North and the Islands, it’s a three-way race, where the Liberal, NDP, and Green candidates are separated by fewer than 400 votes. The final count will be finished tomorrow.
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