10:14 p.m.:
The last ballot box has been reported, and Ravi Kahlon has won an unprecedented third term as MLA of Delta North.
With all advance and final voting day ballots counted, Kahlon has 10,675 votes (52.53%), 2,475 more than Raj Veauli of the B.C. Conservatives (8,223, 40.42%).
B.C. Green candidate Nick Dickinson-Wilde is in third with 1,258 votes (6.18%) and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of B.C. is in fourth with 176 (0.87%).
With this win, Kahlon becomes the first person ever elected to a third consecutive term in the riding.
Out-of-district ballots have yet to be counted, and election night results are only an initial count. Final counting begins next Saturday (Oct. 26).
As of Oct. 7, 35,553 voters had been registered in the riding, though more could have registered at the polls today.
With 20,307 total valid votes counted, that means voter turnout in the riding is likely at least 57%.
Total voter turnout in Delta North last election was 56.55 per cent.
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8:40 p.m.:
B.C. NDP incumbent Ravi Kahlon has won an unprecedented third term as MLA of Delta North.
With 7 of 7 advance voting and 11 of 12 final voting day ballot boxes reported, Kahlon has 10,498 votes (52.58%), over 2,400 more than Raj Veauli of the B.C. Conservatives (8,060, 40.37%).
B.C. Green candidate Nick Dickinson-Wilde is in third with 1,238 votes (6.2%) and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of B.C. is in fourth with 171 (0.86%).
Out-of-district ballots have yet to be counted, and one final day ballot box has not been reported.
So far 20,081 ballots have been counted in Delta North. As of Oct. 7, 35,553 voters were registered in the riding, though more could have registered at the polls today.
Election night results are only an initial count. Final counting begins next Saturday (Oct. 26).
8:33 p.m.:
With all but two ballot boxes reported, it's looking like B.C. NDP incumbent Ravi Kahlon will be getting a third term as Delta North's MLA.
Kahlon has 52.51% of the vote (10,246), with one advance voting and one final voting day ballot box yet to be counted.
Conservative Raj Veauli is in second with 40.38% of the vote (7,880), while Green Nick Dickinson-Wilde is in third with 6.25% (1,219) and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of B.C. is in fourth with 0.86% (168).
8:23 p.m.:
B.C. NDP incumbent Ravi Kahlon is maintaining his lead with 52.51% of the vote, as 11 of 12 final voting day ballot boxes reported and 5 of 7 advance voting ballot boxes.
Conservative Raj Veauli has 40.43%, Green Nick Dickinson-Wilde has 6.24%, and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of B.C. has 0.81%.
8:20 p.m.:
With 5 of 7 advance voting and 9 of 12 final voting day ballot boxes reporting, incumbent B.C. NDP candidate Ravi Kahlon is in the lead with 52.83% of the vote.
B.C. Conservative candidate Raj Veauli has 40.22%, while Nick Dickinson-Wilde with the B.C. Green Party has 6.13% and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of B.C. has 0.82%.
Original story below...
It's 8 p.m. and the polls have closed. All that's left to do is to tally the votes.
A trio of candidates are challenging BC NDP incumbent Ravi Kahlon with for his seat in the Legislative Assembly: Raj Veauli with the Conservative Party of B.C., Nick Dickinson-Wilde with the B.C. Green Party, and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of B.C.
Stay tuned to this story for live updates as they come in.
Kahlon has been Delta North's MLA since 2017, most recently serving as housing minister under Premier David Eby. Kahlon won his first elected over one-term B.C. Liberal MLA Scott Hamilton by a little over 2,100 votes. In 2020, he defeated B.C. Liberal challenger Jet Sunner by an even wider margin, with more than 5,000 votes separating them.
Since it was created in 1991, Delta North has been something of a swing riding, oscillating between the B.C. NDP and B.C. Liberal Party. Of the eight previous elections held since the riding was created, the NDP has won five (1991, 2005, 2009, 2017 and 2020), while the Liberals have won three (1996, 2001 and 2013). No candidate or party has held the riding for more than two consecutive terms.
A record-breaking number of voters cast their ballots during advanced voting this election 鈥� more than one million people during the six days of advanced voting that ended Wednesday, compared to 671,231 in the 2020 snap election.
In Delta North, 10,513 of 35,553 voters registered by Oct. 7 (just under 30 per cent) turned out for advance voting at five locations in the community 鈥� four of which were only open Oct. 12 and 13.
Last provincial election, just over 19 per cent of voters in the riding took part in advance voting 鈥� 7,362 of 38,311 registered as of general voting on Oct. 24, 2020.
鈥� with a file from Sarah Simpson
