The riding has been flipped after two terms of electing an NDP MLA.

North Vancouver-Seymour has been flipped and won by the B.C. Conservatives.

Lynne Block will serve as the riding’s new MLA having beaten two-term NDP incumbent Susie Chant.

Block shot out to an early lead as the first poll results started coming and maintained a comfortable margin of about 10 per cent as the night went on.

As of 10 p.m., with more than 97 per cent of the ballots counted, Block had 12,103 votes to Chant’s 9,670. The Green Party’s Ben Holt was in a distant third at 2,780. CentreBC’s Lori Climenhaga had 1,272.

Block was spending election night with an intimate group of family and optimistic supporters inside her Lynn Valley campaign office.

Block was not available to comment on her or her party’s big win, Saturday night.

Chant first wrested the riding from the B.C. Liberals in 2020, unseating Jane Thornthwaite with 46.8 per cent of the popular vote. In the 2024 provincial election, Chant pulled in more than 52 per cent.

Block was first elected as West Vancouver-Capilano’s Conservative MLA in 2022 after previously serving on the West Vancouver school board. The party moved her to the North Vancouver-Seymour riding for the 2026 snap election to free up the safe West Vancouver seat for Conservative activist and one-time party leadership hopeful Caroline Elliott.

Reached at home where she was taking in the results, Chant said she was sorry for the way the election results were going.

“I think we’re going to see some pretty severe cuts. I think we’re going to do some backward slides in terms of our recognition of diversity,” she said. “We’ve been rebuilding the services for nine years now and our services are not in any position to be cut without the people of B.C. suffering for it.”

As for David Eby’s decision to call a snap election, which ultimately backfired, Chant said “the circumstances were what they were.”

“The Conservatives were in serious disarray and we needed to make sure that we had a mandate from the province to continue our work. Clearly, we didn’t,” she said.

Chant – a registered nurse – said she was proud of her party’s record on health care, including the opening of the Paul Myers Tower at Lions Gate Hospital. She also listed the new student housing at Capilano University and the partnerships the province has made with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation as her prouder achievements.

As the outgoing MLA, Chant said she wanted to thank her constituents.

“I’ve really valued my time here,” she said. “It’s been an honour to serve.”