The BC Liberal Party held onto five seats in the Okanagan.

It has been 13 days since the B.C. election day and Elections BC has now started counting absentee and mail-in ballots.

Emile Scheffel announced on Twitter on Monday he will resign as the party's executive director at the end of the year.

The BC NDP picked up a seat from the Liberals in Boundary-Similkameen, and the Vernon-Monashee race is too close to call.

Polls opened across B.C. in the 42nd general election at 8 a.m. PT Oct. 24.

Officials at Elections BC expected this to be the first vote in the province’s history where more people will vote before election day than on the day itself.

BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson will be holding events across Metro Vancouver, while Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau will be spending the day on the Sunshine Coast.

With the two-term Liberal MLA in Boundary-Similkameen retiring, the seat is up for grabs.

The BC Green Party announced on Thursday that Ted Shumaker will represent the party in the Penticton riding, while Keith MacIntyre announced he will run for the BC Libertarian Party.

Some Penticton constituents felt the move was an opportunistic power grab, as Horgan banks on his party’s popularity right now outweighing any backlash for calling a snap election.