The ultimate final result of B.C.’s “spandex tight” provincial election stays unclear, however one reality seems clear: the BC NDP misplaced main floor within the Decrease Mainland in Saturday’s provincial election.
The NDP’s dominance within the area was a key storyline of the 2020 election when the celebration gained a commanding majority with 57 seats.
That win noticed the celebration break via in components of the Decrease Mainland it had traditionally been shut out of. Greater than half of these seats, 31, had been in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
This time, it was the BC Conservatives that noticed a surge within the area, flipping or main in a number of NDP ridings, together with most of the New Democrats’ historic 2020 features.
Whereas the NDP bent in Metro Vancouver, it didn’t break — holding onto key seats in central and northern Metro Vancouver.
Aside from conventional right-leaning strongholds Vancouver-Quilchena and West Vancouver-Capilano, the Conservatives had been shut out of Vancouver and the North Shore.
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The NDP additionally picked up Vancouver-Langara, which was held by BC United earlier than it collapsed, together with the brand new seat of Vancouver-South Granville.
However within the southern and japanese components of the area, John Rustad’s celebration made large features.
Based mostly on elected and main outcomes at 11:30 p.m. Saturday evening, the NDP’s features in Richmond within the 2020 election had been virtually utterly erased, with the New Democrats left holding solely Richmond-Queensborough.
The BC Conservatives additionally made main features in Surrey and Langley.
NDP Schooling Minister Rachna Singh was unseated in her driving of Surrey North by the Conservatives’ Mandeep Dhaliwal.
Excessive-profile BC Conservative candidate Elenore Sturko was on monitor to knock off NDP incumbent Mike Starchuck in Surrey-Cloverdale, Honveer Randhawa was on monitor to defeat NDP incumbent Gary Begg in Surrey-Guildford, and Bryan Tepper defeated incumbent and veteran New Democrat Jinny Sims in Surrey Panorama.
Former Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner additionally snapped up the brand new driving of Surrey-Serpentine River.
Rustad’s Conservatives swept Langley’s three seats, choosing up the brand new driving of Langley-Abbotsford, and flipping each Langley-Walnut Grove and Langley-Willowbrook from the NDP.
John Rustad’s celebration additionally swept the whole lot of the Fraser Valley, a area that has historically been fertile floor for right-leaning events, however the place the NDP made key features in 2020.
Conservative Lawrence Mok appeared on monitor to unseat New Democrat Bob D’Eith in Maple Ridge East, although the NDP held on to carry Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows.
Reann Gasper unseated NDP agriculture minister Pam Alexis in Abbotsford-Mission, A’aliya Warbus unseated the NDP’s Kelli Paddon in Chilliwack-Cultus Lake, and Heather Maahs defeated New Democrat Dan Coulter.
The Conservatives additionally snapped up the brand new driving of Langley-Abbotsford.
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