B.C. Conservatives to hold news conference claiming election irregularities [Video]

The B.C. Conservative Party is holding a news conference on Thursday morning over what it says are “findings on 2024 election irregularities” after a recount gave the B.C. NDP a slim win in a crucial riding for a bare majority.

Conservative Leader John Rustad and Honveer Singh Randhawa, the party’s candidate for the Surrey-Guildford riding, are set to talk at 10 a.m. PT about “concerns emerging from the 2024 provincial election.”

It’s the riding the B.C. NDP’s Garry Begg won by a slim margin of 22 votes, giving it a one-seat majority of 47 seats in the 93-seat legislature.

Begg received 8,947 votes compared to the Conservative candidate’s 8,925, a result confirmed by a judicial recount overseen by Justice Kevin Loo of the B.C. Supreme Court.

The nature of the Conservatives’ concerns has not been …