Saturday, October 26, 2024

Will The Orange Stay The New Green?

BC Election Count Update....Early Sat Afternoon, October 26th...

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Saturday at 4pm...Update at bottom of post
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So.

It looks like those mail-in ballots are swinging, hard, toward the NDP.

The two seats they were ahead by a whisker in,  Juan de Luca and Surrey Centre,  are now looking a little more comfortable (the former has gone from 20 ahead to 106 in the lead; the latter has gone from 96 ahead to 162).

That would leave things at Dipper 46, Con 45, Green 2 (you need 47 for a majority, plus you need a speaker which would make commenter Trailblazer's suggestion of one of the two Greeniacs becoming the speaker a realistic possibility).

But...

The gap has closed considerably in Surrey Guildford where the election night Con lead of 102 is now down to 14.

And, get this, Castanet is reporting that the relatively close Kelowna Centre (Con by 148 on election night) has 800+ mail-in & absentees still to count. If that flips orange....Well?

Next Elections BC  update should come soon, maybe even later this afternoon... 


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Elections BC explains the process they are using - which should conclude Monday....Here.
Meanwhile...While we're still looking back at last week's election here in Lotusland, the good Doctor has gone east and is already working on the next one.
And, just in case you thought the 49th parallel was protecting us from such codswallop, Mr. Musk's algorithm is amplifying the braying of the whackaloons re: election rigging.
Update, 4pm Saturday Oct 26th...JDF, Dipper by 106...Surrey Centre, Dipper by 178...Surrey Guildford, Con now only up by 12...Kelowna Centre Con lead shrunk to 72...Elections BC says that mail-in ballot counting is continuing and the next update is scheduled for tomorrow/Sunday at 1pm.


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5 comments:

  1. GarFish5:18 pm, October 26, 2024

    Kewlowna Centre you say! Isn't that the cradle of free enterprise?

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  2. RossK7:50 pm, October 26, 2024

    GarFish--

    It's the 'Centre' that matters there, I reckon, given that density often decreases the delusion of the whackalooniginishesness.

    Or some such thing.

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  3. Chuckstraight7:52 am, October 27, 2024

    Interesting if Kelowna center would go NDP. Kelowna is getting a little less red in the neck.

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  4. RossK9:03 am, October 27, 2024

    Indeed, Chuck. It would appear that the demographics in that part of vine town, they are a changing.

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  5. Evil Eye10:33 am, October 27, 2024

    The Kelowna area from Penticton to Vernon has become a "sort of giant retirement home for those who made millions selling their houses in metro Vancouver and now in retirement in the Okanagon and Mexico/Hawaii.

    Inflation has gripped the land and those bank accounts dwindling, plus the cost of living increasing, have many Conservative types, holding their nose and voting NDP more for the freebies the NDP offer, than anything else.

    Nothing like a frozen Christmas at Predator Ridge instead of sunny Mexico, to change ones politics.

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