BC Conservatives set for sweep in Kelowna area ridings
BC Conservative Gavin Dew easily won the Kelowna-Mission riding. (Image Credit: BC Legislature)
It appeared to be a clean sweep for the B.C. Conservatives in Kelowna area ridings Saturday night, as the party recorded a crushing and historic win over the governing NDP across the province.
Kelowna-Mission was, again, won convincingly by incumbent Gavin Dew with over 58 per cent of the vote, compared to the NDP’s Miriam Rycroft’s 28 per cent.
Dew had 13,582 votes compared to Rycroft’s 6,425.
BC Conservative in Kelowna-Centre, Kristina Loewen has a slender 132 vote lead on the night over NDP candidate Loyal Wooldridge with mail-in ballots still to count. (Image Credit: BC Legislature)
In Kelowna-Centre it was another nail-biting affair on the night as BC Conservative incumbent Kristina Loewen finished just 132 votes ahead of NDP challenger Loyal Wooldridge on the night.
Mail-in ballots have yet to be counted so that could yet alter the outcome.
Loewen had 48.3 per cent of the vote for a tally of 10,650. Wooldridge had 10,544.
BC Conservative in West Kelowna-Peachland Macklin McCall was the first winner to be declared across BC on an historic night of political change. (Image Credit: BC Legislature)
And in West Kelowna-Peachland, Macklin McCall recorded a big win over the NDP’s George Morgan. McCall had over 62 per cent of the vote or 14,428 votes to Morgan’s 6,871.
The win was the first riding in all of BC to be called on an historic and momentous night for political change in BC.