After running successful campaigns, work just beginning for Prince George opposition members heading to the Legislature
It took nine days to determine it but the BC election results have been finalized and the NDP will retain its grip on power for a third straight term.
“If anything, this election has shown that there’s a great deal of concern with their program and British Columbians are not on side with their program and there’s a great deal of opposition to it.” Because the vote was so close in several electoral districts, it took more than week to make sure the final tallies were correct. There are still two ridings – Surrey-Guildford and Kelowna Centre – won by the NDP by margins of less than 1/500th of the total number of votes cast that will go through a judicial review.
“It’s a fact that political campaigns need to work very hard on voter identity and getting out their vote and it's critically important for people to understand that every vote matters,” said Clare. “There were some other ridings where it was much more close, very tight, and every vote matters,” Giddens said.
“There are very strong MLA’s elected and I think we’ll have some good voices to work together to try to get results for British Columbians,” said Giddens. “For the majority of us it was the first time meeting in person and we had a chance to talk about practical things like getting a caucus organized and getting constituency offices organized. Our aim is to be up and running for constituents as soon as possible.
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