{"id":945350,"date":"2026-10-25T05:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945350\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T05:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:36:13","slug":"b-c-conservatives-projected-to-win-1st-majority-in-nearly-a-century-after-ebys-election-gamble-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945350\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Conservatives projected to win 1st majority in nearly a century after Eby&#8217;s election gamble backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tight races in some ridings<\/p>\n<p>While CBC News has projected a Conservative majority, there are still some tight races throughout the province.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the watch party for Conservative incumbent Brennan Day for Courtenay-Comox, the mood is mixed. On the one hand people are feeling good about the Conservative win, but they&#8217;re also hesitant. It&#8217;s been a tight race all night, just like it was two years ago. But in the past hour, the NDP&#8217;s Will Cole-Hamilton has taken the lead.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News spoke with Day earlier, and he said it&#8217;s been a long couple of months for him. He went into this campaign as an Independent after he briefly left the party caucus under Kerry-Lynne Findlay&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in the Interior, the Kelowna Centre riding remains a close race and the lead has changed hands through the night from the NDP\u2019s Loyal Wooldridge to incumbent Kristina Loewen for the Conservatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conservative supporters have been cheering loudly as they\u2019ve watched Loewen increase her lead as results continue to come in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If she succeeds, it will be a map of blue across the Okanagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tight races in some ridings While CBC News has projected a Conservative majority, there are still some tight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-945350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}