Point Grey By-Election (Almost) Live

Eby v. Clark

ThrillaOnBlancaVille

8:01pm...Polls closed...Pretty heavy late turnout at two polls I passed in rain on ride home outta CremeVille on way home to near Eastern Townships this evening.

8:06pm...Looking for....Did Greeniacs lay off their candidate who, essentially, said they should go Eby?....Did any of the lunatic/boulevard sign/big teeth right-sided fringe desert Clark?...Turnout, of course, matters.

8:12pm...Cassidy Olivier notes that Eby mingles with supporters while Clark even shuns own during wait for first returns

8:25pm...First ballot box of 134 now in....goes Eby.

8:30pm...Andrea Woo has photo up from Eby headquarters up....early lead holding.

8:35pm...Stephen Hui has 2nd round of results....slight Clark lead.

8:40pm...Green and BCFirst getting ~3% each so far.

8:41pm...Dan Burrett of WX says Clark camp looking at 35% turnout.

8:42pm.....~3000 votes in....Eby has a bit of lead....this could be more than pocket region-specific.

8:43pm....WX banging NW's gong with running reports...

8:45pm....Looks to be swinging back and forth in a bit of a riding-specific fashion....Which way will a whole lotta West of Blanca High-End Condo votes go?

8:50pm...Almost 4000 votes = a third of the ballots in...Eby in front by a hunnerd this is officially a squeaker....Is Clark mortally wounded, regardless now?

8:52pm....5000 votes in/70 of 132 polls in....Eby up by.......One!

8:56pm....Creme starting to curdle? Clark now up by ~40 votes.

8:58pm....A little scary....Green vote now rising a little...'James' all over a stinkin' gain?

8:59pm....Why is E-BC site so far behind what the campaigns have?

9:02pm....Clark up by 50 votes with 100/130 polls reporting....We need some deep Kits votes.

9:03pm....Fast results are coming from NDP scrutineers VanCourier reports.

9:06pm....NW has one unknown stringer working both rooms...Way behind with their numbers...Is this really the end for (notso)Giant98 who ran with the execrable Addler for the last two hours?

9:10pm....110/130 polls Eby back up by almost 100....I think, maybe, really, seriously.....

9:15pm....Even if she wins I've gotta think that her Caucus may no longer be hers...This is freakin' CremeVille!

9:17pm....Based on performance so far, Andrea Woo of the VSun will have the final numbers first.

9:18pm....AWoo has Clark up by 20 votes with 120/130 polls in....Recount, regardless?

9:19pm....Wish somebody would TwitPic a KinsellaGiles twofer right about now.

9:19pm....Can't believe CityCaucus on the TwittPhone actually has something useful to say...Wonders if the advance votes have been counted yet.

9:21pm....If only she'd run a couple of MORE eTown-Halls.....Ha!

9:22pm....Looks like Clark has won on last 5 ballots....Were those the advances?....

9:25pm....In end it looks like Clark wins by 300....essentially the number that went Green?...

9:30pm...Best comment of night, and it's not a Tweet!....From Mr. Beer 'N Hockey who says,

"The analysis from Steepleton? How can someone posibly be less popular than Gordon Campbell?"....

9:32pm....Still some chatter about absentee ballots to come now?....Hmmmm....What is the story there?

9:34pm....Which member of the puffed-up punditry carry water for hole-in-bucket Premier tonight at 11?....My money's on Baldrey.

9:35pm...AWoo at Dipper HQ says it was tied after 128/132 polls....If that is really true that was one helluva ('n interesting?) swing of 300 vots on the last two polls....Does anybody else smell somethin', perhaps, a wee bit poissony?

9:39pm....In all seriousness....How much might Ms. Clark have lost by if she had been forced to actually defend her codswallop in a debate with Mr. Eby?

9:41pm...Having fun thinking of what Ms. Clark's speech would have focussed on if she had been forced to concede....Maybe that she was going to return to the Sorbonne to actually finish a degree? After all, even Ms. Palin was able, in the end, to manage that.

9:44pm....Well, glad to see that E-BC has finally caught up to the Twitverse...But here's something weird....They are are reporting 145/134 polls counted.....One more thing about this night that makes you go.....hmmmmmmm....Actually, my guess is that those were the 'advances' and that PK and his High Flyers packed those out to give themselves that cushion....

9:45pm...All done....Thanks for stopping by everyone....Had over a hundred of our own on the line for awhile there, which was fun.

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