ELECTIONS BC just past midnight on Sunday said in a statement that 99.72% of preliminary results have been reported and counting will continue for the next hour.
“Any electoral districts that are unable to complete initial count tonight will continue counting tomorrow morning. Due to election official availability and weather-related disruptions we will not have complete preliminary results tonight for Cariboo-Chilcotin, Surrey-Newton and North Coast-Haida Gwaii,” it added.
Sixteen districts are continuing to count out-of-district ballots. These ballots take longer to count for several reasons. With B.C.’s vote anywhere model, some districts are reporting out-of-district results from dozens of other contests. Write-in ballots also take longer to count than ordinary ballots.
Automatic recounts will take place in electoral districts where the margin between the top two candidates is 100 votes or fewer at the conclusion of initial count. These recounts will take place during final count, scheduled for October 26 to 28.
“Some types of ballots must be counted at final count and were not counted tonight. These include vote-by-mail ballots that were received by mail after the close of advance voting or dropped off in person at a voting place or district electoral office. We will report the number of ballots that will be considered at final count and will provide this information as soon as possible,” said Elections BC.