Vernon-Monashee race will be decided by mail-in ballots

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With 121 of 122 polls reporting, Foster had 35.06 per cent of the vote while Sandhu had 34.13 per cent.

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Keli Westgate of the Green Party was third with 16.22 per cent and Kyle Delfing of the BC Conservatives was fourth with 14.59 per cent, well above the party’s provincial total of 2.35 per cent.

Foster says having four candidates in the race made a big difference with Delfing getting the right wing support he did.

“No question about it. If you add it to the percentage I’m sitting at right now, I’m basically where I was in 2017,” said Foster.

Foster was asked why the Conservative candidate got stronger support than expected.

“The party possibly, the name. I really don’t have an answer for that. But we heard people asking questions about voting conservative, ‘Are we voting for Erin O’Toole? We’d rather vote for Erin O’Toole than Trudeau,’ and you try to explain we have nothing to do with the federal Liberal party. The numbers are there, it’s close and there is no question we’re going to have to wait until the mail-in ballots are counted,”Foster told Vernon Matters.

Elections BC says it will take until Nov. 16 to declare all the election results official, as the mail-in ballots won’t be counted until 13 days after election day and they have to be verified.

A total of 8,747 mail-in vote packages were sent out to residents in Vernon-Monashee by Elections BC.

Vernon Matters also reached out to Harwinder Sandhu for comment.

Click here for all the results from B.C.’s 87 electoral districts.

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Incumbent Liberal Eric Foster talks to Pete McIntyre of Vernon Matters about the tight race in Vernon Monashee:

10:47 p.m.

10:21 p.m.

It’s a dogfight in Vernon Monashee with three term Liberal incumbent Eric Foster and Harwinder Sandhu of the NDP next and neck.

With 105 of 122 polls reporting

Eric Foster 5623

Harwinder Sandhu 5437

Keli Westgate 2698

Kyle Delfing 2387

Check the vote tracker on our BC Election page for the latest.

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9:56 p.m.

100 of 122 polls:

Eric Foster 4,720

Harwinder Sandhu  4,573

Keli Westgate 2,350

Kyle Delfing 2,059

Check the vote tracker on our BC Election 2020 page for the latest results.

Incumbent Liberal candidate in Vernon Monashee Eric Foster watching the results come in. Results being described in the room as very, very, very close. #VernonBC #BCelxn2020 #BCvotes2020 pic.twitter.com/Oy8AH2Qcq3

— Megan Turcato (@meganturcato) October 25, 2020

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9:11 p.m.

With 49 of 122 polls:

1842 Eric Foster

1699 Harwinder Sandhu

942 Keli Westgate

767 Kyle Delfing

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9:04 p.m.

With 37 of 122 polls:

Harwinder Sandhu 1233

Eric Foster 1218

Keli Westgate 691

Kyle Delfing 552

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8:52 p.m.

With 17 of 122 polls reporting:

Eric Foster 544

Harwinder Sandhu 507

Keli Westgate 325

Kyle Delfing 258

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The Vernon-Monashee riding could be in for a tight race.

The poll tracking website Canada 338 listed Vernon-Monashee as a “toss up,” putting both Eric Foster of the Liberals and Harwinder Sandhu of the NDP at 39 per cent and Keli Westgate of the Greens at 17 per cent.

Kyle Delfing of the Conservatives is tracking at around 4 per cent.

If there is indeed a change, it would be a major story as the Vernon-Monashee riding, formerly called Okanagan North, which has been represented by centre right parties, either the Liberals, Social Credit or Reform, for over 30 years.

Three years ago, Foster won his third term with 47 per cent of the vote, defeating Barry Dorval of the NDP by a margin of 18 percentage points.

Keli Westgate of the Green Party was third with 21 per cent of the vote.

Check the vote tracker on our BC Election 2020 page for the latest results.