B.C. election results: Recounts set to begin Sunday

Recounts will begin Sunday afternoon in two ridings where candidates were separated by fewer than 100 votes following the initial count in the B.C. election.

Recounts will begin Sunday afternoon in two ridings where candidates were separated by fewer than 100 votes following the initial count in the B.C. election.

The recounts for Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre will get underway at 1 p.m., while the final count of mail-in and absentee ballots continues in an election where no party secured a majority on voting day.

After the initial count, the NDP’s lead in Juan de Fuca Malahat was just 23 votes. However, Saturday’s count of mail-in ballots for the riding show that Dana Lajeunesse extended his lead over Conservative candidate Marina Sapozhnikov to 106 votes.

In Surrey City Centre, it was a similar story for NDP candidate Amna Shah, who extended her lead over the Conservatives' Zeeshan Wahla from 95 votes to 178 votes.

The final count will continue Sunday, and be completed Monday. So far the tallying of mail-in and absentee ballots has not changed the leader in any electoral district.

The closest race in the province, as of Elections BC's 4 p.m. update on Saturday was in Surrey-Guildford, where Conservative candidate Honveer Singh Randhawa led NDP incumbent Garry Begg by just 12 votes.

In the initial count after election night, Randhawa's lead was 103 votes.