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October 202625Campaign day 33
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B.C. Election 2026 — Day 33 Brief
Elections BC preliminary results showed BC Conservatives leading in 64 ridings for a projected majority government; David Eby announced his resignation as BC NDP leader.
Final-day polls showed Conservatives 42-44% and NDP 37-40%, party leaders debated the snap-call rationale, and Elections BC prepared for in-person hand counts.
Léger measured Conservatives 44% and NDP 39%, advance voting concluded at 891,348 preliminary ballots, and parties announced health, arts and Surrey platform packages.
Mainstreet showed Conservatives 41.7%, NDP 36.0% and Greens 14.6%, advance turnout reached 710,713, Greens proposed post-secondary and leaseholder pledges, and Vancouver certified municipal results.
INNOVATIVE Research reported a 43%-38% Conservative-NDP split, parties pledged a Surrey SkyTrain extension to Newton, and advance voting reached 571,055.
The Conservatives released their fiscal platform, parties added housing and child-focused promises, and preliminary provincial turnout and municipal results developed.
Local voting closed as provincial advance-turnout figures appeared and parties announced childcare, mental-health, rural emergency-care and regional road commitments.
Provincial advance voting opened as parties made health-care, school and energy pledges, candidate scrutiny continued, and provisional Pollara figures circulated.
A Conservative candidate repudiation, competing transit and Surrey proposals, labour and public-safety pledges, and disputed forestry-tenure plans marked Day 24.
A Mainstreet poll with older fieldwork, the announced leaders debate lineup, health and public-safety proposals, and OneBC’s Chapman update marked Day 15.