2017 British Columbia election

[Jeppe]

Advance vote usually favours NDP because older voters (not the NDP's base) shows up more to vote on election day. Grante,  the difference in early voting vs e-day voting isn't quite as pronounced here in Canada compared to America, but the NDP generally does better in advance polls.

Taking that into account, there's a chance that the NDP sweeps all 5 seats (Coquitlam, Richmond, Courtenay, False Creek, and Maple Ridge) through winning the advance votes there.

[Jeppe]

No idea why they already called Richmond-Queensborough, Libs ahead by 170 votes and there's still 11 polls left.

[Jeppe]

Richmond-Queensborough MIGHT flip to the NDP from Liberals. NDP reduced the margin of victory to ~170 from ~300 with about 1,000 absentee votes counted, and approximately another 1,000 absentee to go. Will find out more in about 40 minutes, when more absentee ballots are tabulated. If it doesn't entirely flip, it might still be subject to a recount though, if the margin of victory goes down to below 100 votes.

[Jeppe]

Richmond Queensborough margin of victory down to 116, with 541 absentee ballots to go. A recount might be likely. If they are allowed to do one after absentee ballots are counted.

[Jeppe]

Liberal margin in Coquitlam-Burke Mountain is down to 87, although I don't think there are any more absentee ballots to count. Any possibility of a recount this late in the stage? They did have the weird vote adjustment that gave the Liberal candidate an extra 70 votes the day after the election.