The BC NDP won the riding of Surrey-Guildford by a handful of votes, paving the way for a majority government.

Surrey-Guildford incumbent Garry Begg defeated Conservative candidate Honveer Singh Randhawa by just 27 votes, according to final results released by Elections BC Monday evening.

However, the precinct will be subject to an automatic judicial recount, since the margin was less than 1/500th of the total ballots cast in the precinct.

If the results are confirmed, the NDP will obtain the 47 seats required to form a majority government. CBC News has not predicted a winner for the riding, pending the recount.

Elections BC was releasing new results every hour as it counted about 22,000 mail-in ballots Monday morning. The final results are available on CBC News Votes in British Columbia 2024.

On Monday evening, he released the final vote tally.

Conservative Brennan Day won the riding of Courtenay-Comox over the NDP’s Ronna-Rae Leonard by 92 votes.

After two too-close-to-call races over the weekend, NDP candidate Dana Lajeunesse won in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, and Conservative candidate Kristina Loewen won in Kelowna Centre.

Conservative Lawrence Mok won the riding of Maple Ridge East, taking it away from the NDP.

Meanwhile, the NDP won in downtown Surrey after candidate Amna Shah received 236 more votes than Conservative Zeeshan Wahla.

WATCH | Elections BC explains Monday’s count:

Judicial recounts likely in close election races: Elections BC

British Columbia’s Chief Electoral Officer, Anton Boegman, explains how vote counting works in British Columbia, from mail-in voting to judicial recounts.

Judicial recounts will take place in two ridings where the margin of victory was less than 1/500th of all votes cast: Kelowna Centre, where the Conservatives won by 38 votes, and Surrey-Guildford, where the margin of victory was just 27 votes.

Judicial recounts are overseen by a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and, according to British Columbia Elections Actmust take place within 15 days following the announcement of the official election results.

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