For a long time, I wondered how the Abbotsford ridings would vote if presented with the worst possible option. This year we found out: Still Conservative. #BCElection2024

It now looks like BC might have just barely avoided sleepwalking into a takeover by an anti-vax, anti-Indigenous, trans-hating, oil-loving, extreme Conservative party. By a few hundred votes. Whatever happens, the BC NDP and the Greens need to sit down together and work out how they are going to make sure we never get that close again. Don't point fingers, just tell us what you're going to do differently next time. #BCpoli #bcelection2024 #bcndp #greens

A B.C. Conservative candidate awaiting the results of a recount that could determine who forms govt used a racist slur to describe Indigenous Peoples during an election-night interview.

Marina Sapozhnikov, who finished only 23 votes behind the NDP’s Dana Lajeunesse in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, said that before Europeans came to North America, First Nations Peoples “didn’t have any sophisticated laws. They were savages. They fought each other all the time.”

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/bc-conservative-candidate-uses-racist-slur-for-indigenous-peoples-in-interview-9714052

"I live in #BC. I have noticed that the constant barrage of Pierre #Poilievre ads on TV has stopped now that the provincial election is over.
Coincidence? I think not."

- @DavidFai

@BCGreens Fursteneau should refuse to negotiate with Eby until he follows his own party's policy and passes mixed member pro rep in the legislature. It will double or triple the greens' seats in the next election, and make a conservative takeover impossible for all time. It would be a brave, cool, democratic thing to do. Bonus: the Vancouver Sun will hate it. #BCpoli #bcgreens #greens #bcelection2024

What should Sonia Fursteneau ask for, when she's bargaining with the NDP or Cons? What should be her red line(s)? Cancel Site C? Cancel LNG? Free transit province-wide? Other stuff?
#BCpoli #bcgreens #bcelection2024

Today is the provincial election in New Brunswick. Susan Holt is poised to be the next Premier of #NB.

Polls close at 8pm. And every vote counts. Right? #BCElection2024

@Richard_hoperestored #Poilievre remains out of sight. It's been over a week since the #ForeignInterference bombshell, and a couple of days since the wild #BCElection2024. Not a peep.

@MaybeMyMonkeys @loran_hayden

Sober second thought regarding the #BCelection2024 : the good news is that about 53% of the people that did vote were still willing to vote for nominally progressive parties, and hopefully the final seat count results in a minority government that reflects that. The bad news is that 43% of the people didn't even bother to vote. Participation rates in Canadian elections are becoming bleak. 20 years ago BC elections regularly had a 70% or better turnout.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli

Oh, BC ... *another* one

Rustad's Conservative candidate, "Dr." Jody Toor, IMD, PhD, has won in Langley-Willowbrook.
Ms. Toor is NOT an accredited medical doctor, she is not a health professional, she is not a naturopath."
Toor's degrees come from an online university which is not accredited to graduate doctors or naturopaths.

#bcpoli #BCElxn2024 #BCElection2024 #vancouver #BC #cdnpoli
https://www.langleyadvancetimes.com/local-news/ndp-slams-langley-conservative-candidate-for-calling-herself-doctor-7590406

In short, the BC NDP ran a "let the professionals handle this" Hilary Clinton-style campaign. And guess what? They got a Hilary result. Surprise surprise. The smartest people in that room were not that smart, after all. I'm sure they're working hard right now on figuring out who to point fingers at. I bet it'll be a mix of the Greens and those darn apathetic voters. Why are they apathetic? It's a mystery, BC NDP. It's a mystery. Very complex. #BCpoli #ndp #bcndp #bcelection2024

The BC Greens are just the shits at tactics and strategy. And they refused to take a moral stand on Gaza. Which was like dropping tens of thousands of youth votes at the dump. That's the Greens for ya. #BCpoli #bcgreens #greens #bcelection2024

11 ridings still not called - NDP slight lead in 6, BC Cons in 5

with automatics recounts and mail-in ballots we might not know the final results for a week

via John Mark Taylor@prairiecentrist #BCElection2024 recap

"A lot of people are mad. They’re mad at the wrong things and the wrong people. Instead of being mad at #COVID, they’re mad at governments who struggled through the pandemic"

"Instead of being mad at Vladimir Putin for destabilizing Europe and the world food system worse than it already was, they’re mad at NATO and Volodymyr Zelenskyy for trying to stop a fascist takeover of a peaceful democratic state"

/1 #cdnpoli #canada

#Conservative candidate Brent Chapman wins Surrey South riding with nearly 60% of the vote.