Though it defeated the unseasoned Conservatives, the NDP remains out of touch with the concerns of British Columbians
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The B.C. election results are finally in after recounts and mail-in ballots finally concluded Monday. The BC NDP have won a bare majority of 47 seats to hold on to power by a paper-thin margin: the seat that flipped to the NDP after mail-ins were counted was won by only 27 votes. Your vote matters, never forget it.
For Premier David Eby and the NDP, this is a massive relief. They have won and no one who should be taken seriously would say otherwise. Their victory, however, was far smaller than many imagined it could ever be and, in many ways, should ever have been.
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