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title: "David Xie wins Burnaby South-Metrotown by 64 votes, giving BC Conservatives their 64th seat"
description: "The final count in Burnaby South-Metrotown confirmed Conservative David Xie ahead of NDP incumbent Paul Choi by 64 votes, raising the Conservative seat total to 64."
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The BC final count confirmed Conservative David Xie won the Burnaby South-Metrotown district by 64 votes, Daily Hive Vancouver reported on November 11. The result raises the Conservative Party of BC's total to 64 seats in the provincial legislature.

Xie received 6,570 votes against 6,506 for BC NDP incumbent [Paul Choi](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/paul-choi), according to Daily Hive Vancouver. Bryan Fockler of the BC Greens received 1,268 votes and Andrew Rose of OneBC received 419 votes.

## How the seat count stands

Elections BC's final count, as of November 9, 2026 at 2:37 p.m. Pacific, shows:

- Conservative Party of BC: 64 seats, 928,027 votes (47.71%)
- BC NDP: 27 seats, 730,952 votes (37.58%)
- BC Greens: 2 seats, 216,808 votes (11.15%)

Total ballots cast in the province were 1,950,193, for a turnout of 52.17 percent of the 3,738,182 registered voters.

The count is complete, with 100 percent of ballot boxes reporting, according to Elections BC.

## What changed from election night

Elections BC's final count includes vote-by-mail, assisted telephone and absentee ballots, which are processed after election night. Daily Hive Vancouver reported that the Burnaby South-Metrotown result changed during the final count, with [Xie](/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/david-xie) pulling ahead once all ballots were tallied.

Daily Hive Vancouver also reported that Xie ran in Burnaby's municipal election at the same time, receiving 5,598 votes there and placing 28th.

## Two districts still face judicial recounts

Daily Hive Vancouver reported that two districts remain subject to automatic judicial recounts due to close margins in the final count: Kelowna Centre, with a 43-vote margin, and Ladysmith-Oceanside, with a 50-vote margin. A judicial recount is a court-supervised count of all ballots in the district. The results of those two recounts will not change the Conservative majority.

Residents can follow the full final count results for each district at [/bc/provincial-2026/news](/bc/provincial-2026/news).

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