Final count: B.C. NDP wins 2024 election, with judicial recounts pending in 2 ridings

The final count has been completed in B.C.’s nail-biting 2024 election, with incumbent Premier David Eby managing to clinch another victory for the NDP.

The final count has been completed in B.C.’s nail-biting 2024 election, with incumbent Premier David Eby managing to clinch another victory for the NDP.

After tallying all remaining absentee ballots Monday night, Elections B.C. declared NDP candidates elected in 47 of the province’s 93 ridings, enough for a bare majority.

Conservative candidates were elected in 44 ridings, and Green candidates in two.

But two of the ridings – one held by the NDP, the other by the Conservatives – were close enough to trigger automatic judicial recounts, the results of which could ultimately determine whether Eby leads a majority or minority government.

In a statement issued late Monday afternoon, as Elections B.C.’s final count was still ongoing, but close to finished, the premier said he had already met with Lt. Gov. Janet Austin, and that she asked him to form government.

He accepted, while acknowledging the pending recounts, and the razor-thin margin by which his party emerged victorious.

“We are listening to the message voters sent with this close election, and will be getting to work on today’s tough challenges right away,” the premier said in a written statement.