NDP's Harwinder Sandhu and Conservative Tara Armstrong (photo's courtesy of the parties)

By Liam Verster

Preliminary Election Results

Preliminary counts have NDP winning Vernon-Lumby riding, Conservative taking Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream seat

Oct 20, 2024 | 12:13 AM

Early counts has the two local ridings split between the two major parties, but the figures haven’t been finalized.

With all 25 ballot boxes counted, Harwinder Sandhu of the B.C. NDP holds a small lead in the Vernon-Lumby riding.

All 24 ballot boxes in the Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream riding have been counted and Conservative Party of B.C. candidate, Tara Armstrong, is projected to be the winner of that seat.

Out-of-district votes have since been counted, and the initial results are as follows:

• Vernon-Lumby
  • Harwinder Sandhu (NDP) – 11,528 / 42.5 per cent of votes
  • Dennis Giesbrecht (Conservative) – 11,144 / 41.08 per cent
  • Kevin Acton (Unaffiliated) – 4,196 / 15.47 per cent
  • Robert Johnson (Libertarian) – 259 / 0.95 per cent
• Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream
  • Tara Armstrong(Conservative) – 13,620 / 54.2 per cent
  • Anna Warwick Sears (NDP) – 8,796 / 35.0 per cent
  • Kevin Kraft (Independent) – 1,635 / 6.51 per cent
  • Andrew Rose (Greens) – 1,080 / 4.3 per cent

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Meanwhile, the B.C. NDP is projected to lead the province.

Initial figures shows the NDP winning 46 seats, with the Conservative Party of B.C. taking 45 seats and the B.C. Greens securing two seats.

ElectionsBC will re-count the ballots and certify the election on the weekend of Oct. 26