The BC Liberals are keeping the Kelowna West riding, with Ben Stewart re-elected.
Stewart won 2,737 out of 5,856 counted votes (46.74 per cent) with 67 of 113 polls reporting.
Spring Hawes of the NDP won 1,843 votes (31.47 per cent). Peter Truch of the Green party won 978 votes (16.70 per cent). Matt Badura of the Libertarian party won 162 votes (2.77 per cent). Magee Mitchell, an Independent, won 136 votes (2.32 per cent).
As of 10:20 p.m., on Oct. 24, Stewart said he is happy to be re-elected, but was hoping for a better result provincially for the Liberals.
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Stewart said he did not expect an NDP majority government going into tonight.
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As of Oct. 23, 8,968 vote-by-mail packages had been issued to registered voters in the riding. There are a total of 46,852 registered voters in Kelowna West.
Provincewide, 724,279 mail-in ballots have been sent out, and there are 3,485,858 registered voters.
Mail-in ballots will be counted by hand, starting in 13 days.
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