While the province is nearly tied between the BC NDP and Conservatives, both in seats and the popular vote, voters in the city of Vancouver had a clear preference during this election.
As of Sunday, Oct. 20, it's still unclear who will form the new provincial government, BC NDP candidates nearly swept the city of Vancouver.
However, of the 12 ridings in the city the Conservatives only won one seat, while the BC NDP, including incumbent premier David Eby, appear to have won 11. All of the ballot boxes have been counted, including advance votes. Out-of-district ballots haven't been counted.
Several races in B.C., as of Sunday, are still close, but in Vancouver most races were separated by thousands of votes.
In most of Vancouver's electoral districts, the BC NDP were running incumbent candidates; each incumbent in the city has won.
In the new riding of Vancouver-Yaletown the BC NDP's Terry Yung won, beating out former Vancouver city councillor and Conservative candidate Melissa De Genova. It was one of the closer races in the city with just under 1,000 votes separating the two as of Sunday.
There is one Vancouver district where it is close, though. The BC NDP's Sunita Dhir is leading by fewer than 300 votes in Vancouver-Langara, just edging out Conservative challenger Bryan Breguet. Previously, it was held by BC United's Michael Lee, who didn't run this election.
In a neighbouring electoral district, Conservative Dallas Brodie won the Vancouver-Quilchena district handily, with more than 50 per cent of the vote in a riding where there were four candidates. It makes her the only non-NDP MLA representing Vancouver. Brodie faced criticism earlier in October for comments regarding First Nations and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Adding up all the ballots counted so far, the BC NDP hold a strong lead in the popular vote across Vancouver with more than 128,000 votes, compared to the Conservatives 76,848 and the Greens 19,050.
In 2020 Vancouver was slightly closer. Of the 11 electoral districts in the city at the time (one was added in 2023) two went to the BC Liberals (which rebranded to the BC United and then stepped out of the campaign earlier this year) while nine went to the NDP.
In the 2020 election, the BC Greens did slightly better, coming in second in two races. This year they were third in every Vancouver district.
