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Kelowna Centre Riding Going to a Recount Once Again
The margin narrowed to 43 votes after the final count, and Elections BC said the race meets the threshold for an automatic recount.
- On Sunday, Nov. 8, Elections BC concluded the final ballot count in the Kelowna Centre riding, leaving Conservative incumbent Kristina Loewen with a 43-vote lead over NDP challenger Loyal Wooldridge and triggering a mandatory judicial recount.
- This marks the second consecutive election requiring a judicial recount in this riding; in 2024, Loewen defeated Wooldridge by 40 votes to become the Kelowna Centre MLA.
- Final results confirm 11,689 ballots for Loewen and 11,646 for Wooldridge, with OneBC candidate Bill Desrosiers receiving 937 votes among the 24,272 total valid ballots cast.
- After the count, Loewen posted to social media acknowledging the recount, while Wooldridge stated that regardless of the outcome, "it just shows that local context is really important."
- A judicial recount is required because the margin between the top two candidates is less than 1/500 of the total ballots considered, meaning the Kelowna Centre riding's final seat allocation remains pending.
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