2017 British Columbia election

[MAINEiac4434]

NDP just took the lead. 43-42-1.

[jaichind]

The one seat with no results went Green back in 2013

[MAINEiac4434]

44-41-1 with no results from the sole Green-held seat.

[Vosem]

What are they smoking in Oak Bay-Gordon Head?

[trebor204]

What are they smoking in Oak Bay-Gordon Head?

Elections BC says that phone line is down (Not sure why they can't use cell phones)

[MAINEiac4434]

NDP: 43
Libs: 42
Greens: 1
And Oak Bay.

This election will come down to handful of ridings where the Greens are polling strong third place, like Courtenay-Comox and Vancouver False Creek.

Green candidate formally elected in Saanich.

[MAINEiac4434]

NDP just took a three vote lead in Maple Ridge-Mission, pushing them up to 44 seats.

[MAINEiac4434]

Finally getting Oak Bay in, huge lead for the Greens.

44-41-2.

[Hatman 🍁]

NDP picks up their first swing seat! Surrey-Fleetwood

[MAINEiac4434]

Libs take the lead in Nechako Lakes, pushing them up to 42 seats.

The Greens will very likely hold the balance of power in the next assembly.

[jaichind]

So far LIB is ahead in 11 seats with leads with less than 1000 votes.  NDP is ahead in 19 seats with leads less than 1000 votes.  So all things equal the LIB seat count is more likely to go up than down.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I can't begin to fathom why 15% of the voters would cast a useless vote for the Greens when NDP is an available alternative. Canada is just weird sometimes.

[Vosem]

I can't begin to fathom why 15% of the voters would cast a useless vote for the Greens when NDP is an available alternative. Canada is just weird sometimes.

Desire for a centrist (or center-left) alternative? The Greens are seen as being to the right of the NDP in a Canadian context, and the NDP might be seen as far from the median BC voter; lots of people may want to vote for a leftier government, or against the Liberals, but not feel comfortable voting for the NDP. Their last term in government in BC, from 1991-2001, was also widely seen as a disaster that left them with just 2 seats in the Assembly, and they've never really quite recovered.

[Hatman 🍁]

I can't begin to fathom why 15% of the voters would cast a useless vote for the Greens when NDP is an available alternative. Canada is just weird sometimes.

I agree. You might want to ask the couple of posters here who did just that.

Looks like the Greens will in fact cost the NDP a victory. Good job, guys.

[Njall]

The Greens have almost caught the NDP in Cowichan Valley

[jaichind]

1 LIB lead at risk: Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
4 NDP lead at risk: Maple Ridge-Mission, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, Courtenay-Comox, Saanich South

All things equal if there are going to be shifts now it will be in the advantage of LIB

[MAINEiac4434]

Liberals take the lead in Coquitlam, but it's only by 14 votes.

[Vosem]

Libs up 43-42-2 in seat leads. Just 14 seats left to call; Libs up 42.1%-39.2% in the popular vote. Considering the late votes seem to be more NDP-favorable, looks like we could very well have a wrong-winner situation on our hands

[Boston Bread]

NDP are catching up in Vancouver False Creek - only 38 votes behind with 55/93 reporting.

[jaichind]

Balance of risk shifting against LIB

Now at risk for LIB:  Vancouver-False Creek, Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
and at  risk for NDP: Maple Ridge-Mission, Cowichan Valley (to Greens)

[jaichind]

Cowichan Valley now has Greens ahead

[andrew_c]

84% chance of hung parliament according to CTV.

[jaichind]

Vancouver-False Creek now NDP ahead

[Antonio the Sixth]

F**king Greens.

[jaichind]

84% chance of hung parliament according to CTV.

Yeah, if Greens gets 3 seats then it is hard for either LIB or NDP to win 44 at this stage.