BC Election 2024: Final Vote Count Ends Today

It is the final day for the Final Vote Count in the BC Provincial Election.

The final count began on Saturday and things are still too close to call.

After election day on October 19th, Elections BC estimated about 49,000 ballots would be counted as part of the final count.

It later said about 65,000 ballots were to be counted.

Saturday’s count involved mail-in ballots received between the close of advanced polls and when polls closed on official voting day.

In Courtenay-Comox, the initial count had Brennan Day of the Conservatives beating incumbent Ronna Rae Leonard by 234 votes.

After the mail-in ballots were counted Saturday, that gap narrowed to 116, in favour of the Conservatives.

Automatic recounts were called in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, Kelowna Centre, and Surrey City Centre, as the difference between the top two candidates was less than 100 in those ridings.

The number of ballots counted in each district during this part of the process will be small (approximately 1% of total votes cast).

There are a number of different types of ballots counted at this stage, including mail-in voting packages dropped off at district voting places, special ballots (such as ballots cast by voters in hospital) and absentee ballots casted at voting places that did not use technology to administer voting.

Counting today begins at 9 a.m. Voting results at Elections BC will be updated every hour.

Because of B.C.’s vote anywhere model, electoral districts are counting results for multiple electoral districts.

This means that voting results will not be finalized until every district has finished counting.