Apparently a lot of voters have been thinking this was a federal election and voted according to that or were confused.
I am so thrilled that the livelihood of my family and myself gets to be decided by people that have a worse understanding of basic politics than a fourth grader.
There really ought to be a mandate or something that provincial parties cannot share names with federal ones, to prevent this sort of confusion, imo
I'm far too exhausted from doing Election Official duties for 15 hours straight to give a fuck about the outcome of the election.
I also did the advanced voting, and either my normal hours on the days in between. It's been a 89 hr week.
Thanks for doing that work. It's important!
But that's brutal. 89 hours is insane.
They're saying final results for mail in ballots won't be counted until October 26th. We might not have a clear winner for a week!
Less than 100 votes decides this. Insanity.
Thankfully, mail-in ballots skew slightly left, so there's little chance of a Con victory upset. No idea how many mail-in ballots are cast in BC, but the NDP eking out 1 more seat isn't outside the realm of possibility.
Edit: Am I right that the last "polling station" to report in most ridings is the mail-in ballots?
That's true, NDP will likely eke out the win here, but a Con win is entirely possible with how close these ridings are.
They do skew left, but that could manifest as something like 35% NDP, 20% Green, 45% Conservative.
This is absurd. I simultaneously cannot watch or look away.
I'm hoping BC isn't dumb, gosh I hope we aren't dumb as rocks.
I've got some bad news for you
I have all my fingernails on the left.
But I keep chewing the right ones off..
Metaphorically, no :( this election is intense
I do, because I knew this race was going to be close and I went to sleep as I didn't want worrying over this election to interfere with that sleep. Now upon waking I find out my sleep gets to be interfered with until those mail in ballots are settled. My lord, this is way too close for comfort.
Another election in the spring?
I doubt it. The Green party will have limited leverage with the NDP since they have very little overlap with the Cons, so they can't demand too much for their support. An NDP-Green coalition will want to make it work at least long enough to have things settle after this election cycle, or they'll both be lambasted for wasting money and time on another election so soon.
Nah, the ndp and greens can work together. I dont understand why so many people want an election when there is a minority government, the ndp only scored 44.72% of the vote at the time of writing, they do not deserve all the power that's tyranny. They must work with the other parties.
Just drinking at the NDP afterparty lmao...
NDP failed to get the majority of the vote so far so they must work with others.
Will it be a BC Conservative in this election or will the next election be a BC majority? 100% of every party loses power eventually, except for when the one in power starts ordering executions of the citizens.
That's not how it works. See the Conservatives/PCs in Alberta, and Social Credit before them. Combined, those two parties controlled Alberta for like ¾ of a century.
It's quite possible being in the spotlight as the official opposition for the next 4 years will give lots of opportunity for scandals to tear the party apart.
Global economic factors will likely play a large role. If inflation stays under control and housing prices come down to keep young people in BC, the NDP could win in a landslide. If Trump is elected and it tanks the North American economy then either the NDP will be blamed for BC's economy and get crushed, or viewers will turn against the authoritarianism they're seeing South of the border and the NDP could cruise to an easy majority.
