Randi-Marie Adams

By Randi-Marie Adams

B.C. election recap

Sep 20, 2021 | 10:31 PM

British Columbia – We will start off with the Skeena-Bulkley Valley area, where it was no surprise that Incumbent Taylor Bachrach took a huge lead right off the bat. He was holding strong with just over 50% of the votes in that area and newcomer Claire Rattee held strong with just over 21% of the votes.

In the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding, the Conservatives took the lead with incumbent Frank Caputo taking the in that riding. The NDP was a fairly close second and the Liberals back in third.

Over in the Kootenay-Columbia area, Rob Morrison takes it for the Conservatives with the NDP not too far behind running up at 36.3% with the Liberals falling way behind with only about 9% of the votes.

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In the Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, Incumbent Brad Vis took his seat back with over 46% of those votes. The Liberals Geet Grewal trailed behind with around 25% of the votes in that area.

In the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge, it was a bit of a close race with Incumbent Marc Dalton taking the win for the Conservatives with 36.1% of the votes. The NDP wasn’t too far behind at just over 29% .

Over in the only area that held any red on the map was West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Burnaby North-Seymour, Surrey Centre, keeping their incumbent candidates in their seats.

One surprise, however, was the Steveston-Richmond East area, they were originally a conservative riding but Parm Bains of the liberals took that seat from incumbent Kenny Chiu as well as Richmond center where it was neck and neck with Wilson Maio and Incumbent Alice wong.

Burnaby south kept Incumbent Jagmeet Singh, however, the Liberals weren’t too far behind him in the polls, Vancouver Kingsway Kept its NDP incumbent as well as Vancouver East.

Heading over to the Island, the NDP fared well with Rachel Blaney, Gord Johns, Alistar McGregor, Randell Garrison keeping their seats. And Finally, The Green Party’s Elizabeth May cruised to re-election. The only other Green Party seat that belonged to Paul Manly was taken by the NDP’s Lisa Marie Barron.