The winners in Burnaby's five ridings all saw an increase in votes after Elections BC completed its final count on Monday, Oct. 28.
After all the votes were tallied, Premier David Eby and the BC NDP appear to have won a slim majority government, securing the 47-seat minimum.
The Conservative Party of BC would hold 44 seats under the current results with the BC Green Party winning two.
Elections BC, the province's independent elections administrator, said two seats — Kelowna Centre and Surrey-Guildford — were so close, there would be automatic recounts before the standings of the next legislature are confirmed.
In Kelowna Centre, the Conservatives led the NDP by 38 votes. In Surrey-Guildford, the New Democrats led the Conservatives by 27.
The Conservatives led in both districts before the last batch of votes were counted Monday and the Surrey seat flipped to the NDP.
Localy, the NDP swept all five of Burnaby's available MLA seats, with three incumbents also returning to the legislature.
Both running for the first time, Reah Arora and Paul Choi will represent Burnaby East and Burnaby South-Metrotown respectively.
Janet Routledge, representing Burnaby North, will be serving her fourth term while Anne Kang will be serving her third term representing Burnaby Centre.
Raj Chouhan, elected in Burnaby-New Westminster, will be serving his sixth term.
Final counts in Burnaby are as follows:
Burnaby Centre
- BC NDP - Anne Kang - 9.779 votes (57.28 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 9,406 votes
- Conservative Party of BC - Dharam Kajal - 7,293 votes (42.72 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 7,117 votes
Burnaby East
- BC NDP - Reah Arora - 10,487 votes (51.84 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 10,058 votes
- Conservative Party of BC - Simon Chandler - 8,199 votes (40.53 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 7,975 votes
- BC Green Party - Tara Shushtarian - 1,543 votes
- Previous vote total: 1,489 votes
Burnaby-New Westminster
- BC NDP - Raj Chouhan - 10,644 votes (59.99 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 10,256 votes
- Conservative Party of BC - Deepak Suri - 6,160 votes (34.72 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 5,981 votes
- Independent - Daniel Kofi Ampong - 940 votes (5.30 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 921 votes
Burnaby North
- BC NDP - Janet Routledge - 10,724 votes (53.26 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 10,345 votes
- Conservative Party of BC - Michael Wu - 8,657 votes (42.99 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 8,452 votes
- Independent - Martin Kendell - 754 votes (3.74 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 735 votes
Burnaby South-Metrotown
- BC NDP - Paul Choi - 7,560 votes (49.33 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 7,295 votes
- Conservative Party of BC - Han Lee - 6,372 votes (41.58 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 6,183 votes
- BC Green Party - Carrie McLaren - 960 votes (6.26 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 920 votes
- Unaffiliated - Meiling Chia - 290 votes (1.89 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 274 votes
- Independent - MichaelAngelo Abc RobinHood - 142 votes (0.93 per cent)
- Previous vote total: 140 votes
With files from The Canadian Press
