According to preliminary numbers from Elections BC, more than 50 percent of registered voters in Surrey and White Rock cast their ballots during the provincial election.
With results still being tallied and some mail-in ballots not yet accounted for, Elections BC hasn't yet released final voter turnout numbers for the Oct. 19 election. Preliminary results, however, show that about 53 per cent of voters cast their ballots in Surrey's 10 ridings.
In total, 187, 405 of the 356,140 voters registered by Oct. 7 cast their ballots during the advance voting and final voting days. (The number of registered voters is still subject to change based on those who registered after Oct. 7.)
Among Surrey's ridings, voter turnout was highest in Surrey-White Rock (61 per cent) and Surrey-Cloverdale (55 per cent), and lowest in Surrey City Centre (44 per cent) and Surrey North (49 per cent).
The final count will take place Oct. 26- 28.
British Columbians hit a new record with one million votes during the six days of advance voting, Elections BC says.
In total, 1,001,331 British Columbians voted Oct. 10 to 16 – the most ever in an advance voting period.
More than 25 per cent (93,152 ) of registered voters in Surrey and White Rock cast their ballots during the advanced voting for the provincial election.
Surrey's 10 ridings made it a key battleground for David Eby's B.C. NDP team and John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives — and the NDP didn't pull out the decisive victory it needed. The NDP claimed just three, one of those by a razor-thin margin, with the Conservatives scoring seven victories.
A handful of seats, however, were close enough to cast even that total into doubt.
Among those is Surrey-City Centre, where New Democrat Amna Shah ended the night with a narrow victory over Conservative candidate Zeeshan Wahla — by 96 votes, under the 100 threshold for a recount.
On the flip side, incumbent NDP Gary Begg lost Surrey Guildford by just 102 votes to Conservative Honveer Singh Randhawa.
-With files from Black Press Media staff
