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title: "BC Conservatives hold 64 seats as Elections BC completes final count"
description: "Elections BC finished the final count on November 8, putting the Conservative Party of BC at 64 seats, the BC NDP at 27 and the BC Greens at 2, with one district headed to a judicial recount."
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last_updated: "2026-11-09T19:23:53.299Z"
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Elections BC completed its final count on November 8, 2026, putting the Conservative Party of BC at 64 seats in the provincial legislature, the Nanaimo News Bulletin reported on November 9. The BC NDP holds 27 seats and the BC Green Party holds 2.

The final count adds mail-in and absentee ballots not tallied on election night, October 24, 2026. Elections BC published the results on November 8, 2026 at 4:21 p.m. Pacific, marking the count complete. The results remain unofficial until the Chief Electoral Officer declares them official, which must happen no later than November 10, 2026.

## The seat that changed

Burnaby South-Metrotown shifted to the Conservative Party of BC during the final count. Conservative candidate [David Xie](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/david-xie) holds 6,570 votes, or 44.31 percent, against BC NDP candidate [Paul Choi](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/paul-choi) with 6,506 votes, or 43.88 percent. Elections BC lists that district as complete.

## Kelowna Centre heads to a judicial recount

In [Kelowna Centre](/bc/provincial-2026/races/mla/kelowna-centre), Conservative incumbent [Kristina Loewen](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/kristina-loewen) leads BC NDP candidate [Loyal Wooldridge](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/loyal-wooldridge) by 43 votes: 11,689 to 11,646. Under BC election law, a judicial recount is ordered automatically when the top two candidates finish within 100 votes of each other.

Loewen told the Nanaimo News Bulletin on November 9 that this is the second straight recount in the riding. "I won by 43 votes this time. (Up from 40 last time around) so a judicial recount will be ordered but, last time, it changed nothing at all," she said. In the 2024 provincial election, Loewen won Kelowna Centre by 40 votes and that recount left the result unchanged.

## Province-wide totals from Elections BC

As of November 8, 2026 at 4:21 p.m. Pacific, Elections BC's final count shows:

- Conservative Party of BC: 64 districts, 928,019 votes, 47.71 percent
- BC NDP: 27 districts, 730,939 votes, 37.58 percent
- BC Green Party: 2 districts, 216,808 votes, 11.15 percent

Elections BC noted that the final count is now undergoing quality assurance before the official declaration. Voters can follow the full district-by-district results at [results.elections.bc.ca](https://results.elections.bc.ca) and the Kelowna Centre judicial recount process through the [/bc/provincial-2026/races/mla/kelowna-centre](/bc/provincial-2026/races/mla/kelowna-centre) district page.

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