UPDATE - Monday, November 9, 2026: The final count is complete, and Elections BC has declared Conservative David Xie the winner in Burnaby South-Metrotown by 64 votes, 6,570 to 6,506.
BURNABY, B.C. - A riding has changed hands in B.C.’s final count, with Conservative candidate David Xie now leading NDP candidate Paul Choi by 64 votes in Burnaby South-Metrotown, according to Elections BC’s results feed.
In the completed final count, Xie held 6,570 votes to Choi’s 6,506 in the riding. At the initial count on election night, Choi led Xie by 66 votes, 5,811 to 5,745. The final count, which ran from November 6 to November 8, added mail-in ballots, absentee ballots and other ballots that could not be counted on election night.
Burnaby South-Metrotown is one of the leads to flip since election night. In Ladysmith-Oceanside, NDP candidate Stephanie Higginson now leads Conservative Kris McNichol by 50 votes, 14,354 to 14,304.
Under the B.C. Election Act, the district electoral officer must apply to the Supreme Court for a judicial recount when the margin between the top two candidates is less than one five-hundredth of the ballots considered. Two ridings fall inside that line: Ladysmith-Oceanside, where the margin is 50 votes against a threshold of about 65, and Kelowna Centre, where the margin is 43 votes against a threshold of about 49. Burnaby South-Metrotown, with a 64-vote margin against a threshold of about 30, sits outside the mandatory judicial-recount line.
The closest Surrey race also moved, but did not flip. In Surrey City Centre, Conservative Zeeshan Wahla now leads NDP incumbent Amna Shah by 384 votes, 6,396 to 6,012, narrowing from a 395-vote margin at the initial count, when the totals were 5,713 to 5,318. In Kelowna Centre, the Conservative lead stands at 43 votes, 11,689 to 11,646.
Across the province, the Conservatives lead in 64 of 93 ridings, the BC NDP in 27 and the BC Green Party in 2. The Conservatives have 928,027 votes, or 47.71 per cent of the vote, ahead of the NDP at 730,952 votes, or 37.58 per cent, and the Greens at 216,808 votes, or 11.15 per cent.
The final count was completed on Nov. 8, 2026. On Nov. 9, Elections BC declared all 93 seats; its results page was current as of 2:37 p.m. PT that day.
Correction, November 11, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the final count was complete ‘as of Nov. 9, 2:37 p.m. PT.’ The final count was completed on Nov. 8; 2:37 p.m. on Nov. 9 was the timestamp on Elections BC’s results page when the declarations were recorded.
(Source: Elections BC final count results, November 8, 2026)
