Election night in B.C. ended with the Green Party fairly confident that they had kept three seats in the B.C. Legislative Assembly, but a recount has reduced the party's seats to two.
Election night results suggested Green candidate Jeremy Valeriote might well have won West Vancouver-Sea-to-Sky.
But the vote was so close that a judicial recount was needed, and on Tuesday BC Supreme Court Justice David Crerar declared Liberal incumbent Jordan Sturdy re-elected. Sturdy won by a meagre 0.24% over his Green rival.
With 9,249 votes to Valeriote's 9,186, Sturdy won by a mere 60 votes: 37.54% to Valeriote's 37.30%. The NDP candidate there, Keith Murdoch, received 6,197 votes (25.16%).
The win bumps up the Liberals' seat count to 28. The NDP have 57 seats, and the Greens are now down to just two. The Greens had three seats going into the election, but lost Oak Bay-Gordon Head to the NDP's Murray Rankin.
Premier John Horgan announced that the BC Legislative Aseembly will resume sitting on December 7.
