B.C. election results: Final count begins Saturday [Video]

The final count of ballots in the 2024 B.C. election begins Saturday, with more than 66,000 mail-in and absentee votes potentially yet to be counted across the province’s 93 electoral districts.

Elections BC says even more ballots may still be added to the total outstanding, as some districts have certification envelopes they are still screening to determine whether the ballots inside are valid.

The addition of these 66,000-plus votes has the potential to change the results of the nail-bitingly close election, which saw the initial count conclude last weekend with the B.C. NDP leading in 46 ridings, the B.C. Conservative Party leading in 45 and the B.C. Greens leading in two.

Five ridings finished the initial count with the top two candidates within one percentage point of each other.

The closest race was in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, where NDP candidate Dana Lajeunesse led Conservative candidate Marina Sapozhnikov by just 23 …