BC Conservatives hold 64 seats as Elections BC completes final count

As of November 8, 2026 at 4:21 p.m. Pacific, Elections BC's final count showed the Conservative Party of BC leading in 64 districts with 928,019 votes and 47.71 percent of the total. The BC NDP led in 27 districts with 730,939 votes and 37.58 percent. The BC Green Party led in 2 districts with 216,808 votes and 11.15 percent. These are unofficial results until the Chief Electoral Officer declares them official, no later than November 10, 2026.

Burnaby South-Metrotown shifted from the BC NDP to the Conservative Party of BC during the final count. Conservative David Xie holds 6,570 votes, or 44.31 percent, against BC NDP candidate Paul Choi with 6,506 votes, or 43.88 percent. Elections BC's final count marks that district complete. The final count adds mail-in and absentee ballots not tallied on election night, October 24, 2026.

After election night, Elections BC runs a final count that includes mail-in and absentee ballots not counted on election night. Elections BC completed the final count province-wide on November 8, 2026 at 4:21 p.m. Pacific. The results are still unofficial until the Chief Electoral Officer declares them official, which must happen no later than November 10, 2026.

In Kelowna Centre, Conservative incumbent Kristina Loewen leads BC NDP candidate Loyal Wooldridge by 43 votes after the final count: 11,689 votes, or 48.01 percent, to 11,646 votes, or 47.84 percent. Under BC election law, a judicial recount is automatically ordered when the top two candidates are within 100 votes of each other. This is the second consecutive recount in Kelowna Centre. In the 2024 provincial election, Loewen won by 40 votes and that recount changed nothing.

Elections BC noted that the final count is now undergoing quality assurance for accuracy and verification. Results may still change before the Chief Electoral Officer declares the official results, which must happen no later than November 10, 2026. After the declaration, any candidate within the automatic-recount threshold triggers a judicial recount. Kelowna Centre already meets that threshold.

Elections BC's final count puts the Conservative Party of BC at 928,019 votes and 47.71 percent. The Nanaimo News Bulletin reported on November 9, 2026 that the final count gave the Conservatives one more seat than they held after the initial count on election night. The seat change came from Burnaby South-Metrotown, where Conservative David Xie leads NDP candidate Paul Choi by 64 votes.

Elections BC publishes district-by-district results at results.elections.bc.ca, updated as of November 8, 2026 at 4:21 p.m. Pacific, and marked as the final count complete. Each district's page shows each candidate's votes and percentage. The voche.me district pages at /bc/provincial-2026/races/mla/ link to the Elections BC figures for each of the 93 districts.

A party needs 47 of the 93 seats in the BC Legislature to hold a majority. The Conservative Party of BC leads in 64 districts after the final count, well above the majority threshold. The BC NDP leads in 27 districts and the BC Green Party in 2. Combined, the NDP and Greens lead in 29 districts.