British Columbia’s redrawn political landscape won’t be settled for about a week, with manual recounts triggered in two key ridings after a nail-biting provincial election that has yet to produce a clear winner.
Elections BC said Sunday the recounts will take place from Oct. 26 to 28 in Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre, where NDP candidates lead BC Conservatives by fewer than 100 votes.
The Conservatives will likely have to win both to secure a one-seat majority, and if not, Premier David Eby’s incumbent NDP is poised to form a minority government provided it secures the co-operation of two Greens elected on Saturday.
The NDP is leading or elected in 46 ridings, and John Rustad’s Conservatives in 45, both shy of the 47 seats needed for a majority government in B.C.’s 93-seat legislature.
The initial count that wrapped up Sunday does not reflect about 49,000 absentee and mail-in ballots that will be included in the final count starting …