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The election agency also says in a statement that screening of uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots has identified 65,000 votes provincewide that will also be tallied from Saturday until Monday, up from the previous estimate of 49,000.
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The NDP was elected or leading in 46 ridings after the initial count, the Conservatives had 45, while the Greens won two.
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The Greens could also support a Conservative-led minority government, but there are wide ideological differences between the two parties.
The recount in Kelowna Centre results from a request lodged by the NDP candidate, Loyal Woodridge.
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A small number of remaining absentee ballots, which Elections BC says represent about one per cent of the total of more than two million ballots cast, will be counted on Monday, with the results updated on its website hourly.
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