More than 60 people are working together to complete the judicial recount for Kelowna Center at Trinity Church on Springfield Road.

After the final count for the 2024 provincial election concluded on Oct. 28, Elections BC called for judicial recounts to be conducted in the ridings of Kelowna Center and Surrey-Guildford due to razor-thin victories.

Under the Elections Act, a judicial recount is warranted if the difference between the top two candidates is less than 1/500 of the total ballots cast, as is the case in Kelowna Centre.

After the counting of the 25,747 ballots cast in the riding of Kelowna Centre, only a narrow margin of 40 votes separated the British Columbia Conservative MP candidate, Kristina Loewen, from the British Columbia NDP candidate, Loyal Wooldridge.

On November 7, the first day of what is expected to be a two-day recount, Elections BC staff, representatives from the BC Conservatives and NDP, poll workers, data collectors, sheriffs and the judge Beames of the Supreme Court of British Columbia worked together. on the second floor of Trinity Church to verify and count each ballot.

A partial recount will also take place in the riding of Prince George-Mackenzie to count votes from an uncounted box that contained approximately 861 votes. The result of the partial recount will not change the outcome of the election since the BC Conservatives have a lead of more than 5,000 votes.

A recount in the The Surrey-Guildford riding is underway in a warehouse in Newton.

A record 2,107,152 voters across the province participated in the 2024 provincial election, which the NDP ultimately won with 47 seats in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly.

With files from Anna Burns