NDP incumbent Garry Begg has claimed the Surrey-Guildford riding for the New Democrats by a margin of just 27 votes — but a judicial recount is on the horizon.
Elections BC has just announced, as of 6:49 p.m., that all votes have been counted and results are confirmed in all ridings. Both Surrey-Guildford and Kelowna Centre will now be undergoing judicial recounts because the margin of victory between the top two candidates is less than 1/500th of the total number of votes cast.Begg’s victory gives David Eby and the NDP a majority government, with 47 seats. Begg had initially lost the vote count on Election Night, falling short by 103 votes. But, during mail-in vote counting over the weekend, Begg moved to within 12 votes of Conservative Honveer Singh Randhawa. By the end of Saturday (Oct. 26), Begg had climbed to 8,809 votes, compared to Randhawa’s 8,821 — closing the original 103-vote gap.
That left just absentee ballots to count, a task that began this morning.
By 10 a.m. Monday, Randhawa’s lead shrunk to just nine votes.
At 11 a.m., the lead was down to just four votes — 8,826 for Randhawa and 8,822 for Begg, with around 200 absentee ballots yet to be tallied.
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Sunday, April 26, 2026
