BC Votes 2020

Elections BC has released the poll-by-poll vote counts from the provincial election and they show much of the growth in the Green vote in Powell River-Sunshine Coast came from the Sechelt and Roberts Creek areas.

100 years young and still voting

Nicholas Simons will serve his fifth term as part of a majority government for the first time

More than 9,000 certification envelopes from riding received by Elections BC

Elections BC says 6,107 certification envelopes had been received by the Powell River-Sunshine Coast electoral office as of Oct. 30. There were 8,338 mail-in ballots requested by Powell River-Sunshine Coast voters.

Political junkies may have been let down as results came in for the BC provincial election on October 24, not due to the outcome, but rather with the swiftness of that outcome.

Andrew Wilkinson is stepping down as leader of the B.C. Liberals after the party lost a projected 12 seats in Saturday’s election — including some in traditional Liberal strongholds. “Leading the B.C.

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With the votes cast Oct. 24 and ballots collected at the advance polls now counted, Elections BC has started sorting and verifying hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots from across B.C.

Incumbent MLA Nicholas Simons holds the lead in Powell River-Sunshine Coast and is projected to win, but Kim Darwin of the Greens says she’s not prepared to concede the race until the mail-in ballots are counted. As of 1:58 a.m.