The polls are closed and early results by Elections BC for the 2024 provincial election has Conservative Ian Paton leading his only challenger in Delta South, the NDP’s Jason McCormick.
With 13,823 votes counted, Paton, the incumbent who decided to accept the Conservative Party of BC’s offer to join them following the sudden folding of BC United, currently has 54.21 per cent of the vote.
McCormick has 45.79 per cent.
Meanwhile, in Delta North, incumbent NDP Ravi Kahlon is ahead of challengers Raj Veauli with the Conservatives, Nick Dickinson-Wilde for the Green Party and Manqoosh Khan with the Freedom Party of BC.
According to Elections BC, with 18,675 votes counted, Kahlon is now at 52.51 per cent of the vote, Veauli has 40.41 per cent, while Dickinson-Wilde is well behind at 6.2 per cent and Khan is in last at under one per cent.
Province-wide, the tight race currently has the NDP barely ahead of Conservatives with Greens trailing.
