British Columbia general election · October 24, 2026
B.C. election 2026: live results
From the moment polls close at 8 p.m. Pacific time on Saturday, October 24, this page carries the live count across all 93 ridings: votes, ballot boxes reporting, seats, and our race calls the moment they are safe enough to publish. It updates on its own.
The first results arrive on Saturday, October 24 at 8 p.m. Pacific time, when polls close. Bookmark this page: it will update on its own.
Map of all 93 ridings
Pre-election projection. The map switches to the live count at 8 p.m. Pacific time.
- Conservatives
- NDP
- Greens
Tap a square for details.
Two counts, not one
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Tonight: the initial count
Elections BC counts the vast majority of ballots, box by box: advance voting, election day, mail-in ballots received in time. That is the count this page follows live.
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A week later: the final count
Mail-in ballots that arrived late and absentee ballots — those cast outside the voter’s own riding — are only counted then. In 2024, that second count moved some margins by more than two points and reversed Surrey-Guildford.
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What it means tonight
A riding can have every box counted and still be “too close to call tonight”. We only call a winner when the lead also survives what is left to count the following week.
How the night unfolds
- 8:00 p.m. PT
Polls close
Elections BC begins publishing initial-count results. This page reads the official source roughly every ninety seconds.
- 8:15 p.m. PT
The first boxes
A lead of a few hundred votes means nothing yet: the order boxes report in manufactures mirages.
- Throughout
The calls
The moment a riding clears our certainty threshold, it is called and changes colour on the map. Close races wait, sometimes until the final count.
- Late night
The picture tonight
The count riding by riding, the likely make-up of the Legislative Assembly, and the seats still hanging on the final count.
When do we call a winner?
Being ahead in the count is not enough. We only call a winner when nothing left to count can change the result — including the ballots that will only be counted the following week.
- Called
The lead can no longer be overtaken, neither by the boxes still out nor by the final count: the riding is called and changes colour.
- Too close
When the margin is within what the final count can still move, we wait, even with 100% of boxes in. Better late than wrong.
- Two models
A call goes out only when our two independent models both judge it safe for the same party; otherwise a person decides. When in doubt, we wait.
Our record: 11 correct calls out of 12 in recent elections. See all our calls
Our pre-election forecast
The seats our model gives each party ahead of the vote, to compare with the result above.
Majority: 47 of 93 seats
- Conservative Party of BC 56
- BC NDP 35
- BC Greens 2
Projection of October 24, 2026 · Open the full forecast
The races that will be decided late
The eight ridings with the thinnest projected margin. These are the last to be called — some perhaps only at the final count.
- Burnaby South-Metrotown Conservatives 1.8 pt · projected margin
- Kelowna Centre Conservatives 1.9 pt · projected margin
- Surrey-Newton NDP 1.9 pt · projected margin
- Burnaby North NDP 2.2 pt · projected margin
- Mid Island-Pacific Rim NDP 2.3 pt · projected margin
- Vernon-Lumby Conservatives 2.3 pt · projected margin
- Ladysmith-Oceanside Conservatives 2.5 pt · projected margin
- Port Moody-Burquitlam NDP 2.8 pt · projected margin
In the meantime
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All 93 ridings
Projection, sitting member and 2024 result — one page per riding.
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Every poll
Every B.C. poll of the campaign, with its firm, field dates and weight in the model.
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The forecast
Seats, popular vote and odds for every party, updated up to the eve of the vote.
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The methodology
How the model goes from polls to seats, and what it does not claim to know.
Official count source: Elections BC. Projections, decision thresholds and calls belong to Vote-Scope; Elections BC makes and supplies no calls. Times are Pacific.