Premier-elect John Horgan said he will wait for the final count in Saturday香蕉视频直播檚 provincial election before recalling the B.C. Legislature to get back to work in Victoria.
The BC NDP called a press conference Sunday (Oct. 25) morning to speak about the party香蕉视频直播檚 plans for the next four years. While half a million mail-in ballots are yet to be counted, preliminary election night results give the NDP a majority government with 55 seats, a 14-seat gain over 2017. The BC Liberals received 29 seats, a 12-seat drop since 2017, while the BC Greens won three, same as in 2017.
Horgan, whose party won in multiple longtime BC Liberal strongholds such as Richmond and parts of the Fraser Valley, said he credited focusing on issues that mattered to all British Columbians, not just traditional NDP voters.
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Horgan said he wasn香蕉视频直播檛 worried about traditional right of centre voters coming over to the NDP in this election.
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But those values did not always resonate outside of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, where ridings such as Skeena, Fraser-Nicola and Columbia River-Revelstoke went to the BC Liberals.
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Horgan said forestry was among the issues he will tackle for rural B.C. communities.
One key $1.4-billion election promise, the $1,000 direct deposit to households making up to $125,000 (and individuals making up to $62,500), won香蕉视频直播檛 be coming just yet.
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In both 2018 and 2019, the B.C. Legislature did sit in November before breaking for the holiday season. This year, Horgan said there were 香蕉视频直播渁 number of issues,香蕉视频直播� stemming from both pre-election matters and those that came up during the campaign, that had to be tackled as well.
Due to the pandemic, more British Columbians have decided to vote by mail-in ballot than ever before. Election results won香蕉视频直播檛 be finalized until mid-November, after those mail-in ballots are counted beginning Nov. 6.
Across B.C., a total of 497,900 mail-in ballots were returned to Election BC, as of Friday (Oct. 23). There are roughly 3.5 million registered voters in the province.
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