Imagine attending your own funeral when suddenly — miraculously and inexplicably — you jolt back upright amongst the living. That’s a bit like being a BC New Democrat these days. The party lost its majority government on election day, faced the prospect of either being out of office entirely or grovelling to the two BC Greens for votes, and then abruptly regained its lifeline in Monday’s final count process to emerge with its majority intact.

From political devastation to resurrection in nine long days, as the closest election in provincial history played right down to the wire.

In the end, it wasn’t the razor-thin margins of Juan de Fuca-Malahat or Surrey City Centre that tilted the race, but the 634 votes in Surrey-Guildford. There, Conservative Honveer Singh Randhawa, who had been leading on election night by 103 votes, saw the results flip to NDP incumbent Garry Begg by 27 votes.

The final result falls within the 38-vote threshold for a judicial recount, which........

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