BREAKING: NDP take Courtenay-Comox riding<\/p>\n
Published 11:30 pm Saturday, October 24, 2026<\/p>\n
The results are in and Will Cole-Hamilton is projected be the MLA for the Courtenay-Comox riding. <\/p>\n
At 11:30 p.m. on election night, Cole-Hamilton was ahead with 45 per cent of the vote share. Though 100 per cent of the polls were reported on election night, results are considered preliminary until the final count is determined.<\/p>\n
Asterisk denotes incumbent. <\/p>\n
\u2013 Will Cole-Hamilton, B.C. NDP (45 per cent)<\/p>\n
\u2013 Brennan Day \u2013 Conservative Party* (43 per cent)<\/p>\n
\u2013 Jay Van Oostdam \u2013 BC Green Party (9.7 per cent)<\/p>\n
\u2013 Jason Cook \u2013 CentreBC (2.5 per cent)<\/p>\n
The BC NDP MLA-elect made it clear that he will now take a seat in Victoria\u2019s Legislative Assembly because everyone managed to \u201cbuck a trend that swept the province.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not be more appreciative,\u201d he said. \u201cSomehow this community rose together to support a candidate and to support me and to support a set of values that care about the community, that care about the environment, and that care about each and every one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cole-Hamilton said that winning the election has meant more than he could probably explain. However, he tried, mentioning the solidarity and connection that allowed it to happen.<\/p>\n
He also had kind words for his opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is never an easy thing to do, and each one of them put aside their families, put aside a good deal of sleep \u2026 It\u2019s a difficult thing, but everyone did it because we have a vision of what a better Valley, what a better community and what a better electoral area looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MLA-elect said he was sad to see the results around the province, but he would speak for everyone in the community in Victoria.<\/p>\n
Outgoing Courtenay-Comox MLA Brennan Day faced a bittersweet result on election night, one that lost him his own seat in the legislature but saw his his Conservative party win a majority government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose results speak for themselves, and I am extremely proud of that result, but I\u2019m also very disappointed in the results here,\u201d said Day as he addressed the crowd at his election night party.<\/p>\n
In his concession speech, Day thanked his constituency and his staff, stating that while his team ran a clean campaign, he couldn\u2019t say the same for the NDP. \u201cBut the voters have spoken and and it\u2019s clear tonight that they have demanded an NDP minority in the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n
A projected Conservative majority was solidified shortly after 9 p.m., prompting loud cheers and sustained applause from supporters gathered at the party\u2019s election-night headquarters at Rocky Mountaineer Station in Vancouver. Lorne Doerkson is poised to become British Columbia\u2019s next premier after leading the Conservative Party to a projected majority government Saturday, Oct. 24, barely five weeks after taking over a party struggling with internal divisions.<\/p>\n
The Conservatives received less than two per cent of the vote in the 2020 provincial election but secured 44 seats in the 2024 election. The party went through internal turmoil over the last two years, with multiple defections, MLAs being kicked out and four leaders.<\/p>\n
David Eby called the snap election Sept. 22 while the Conservative Party still appeared to be in turmoil. But Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson has unified the caucus and went into election day with a slight polling edge.<\/p>\n
The projected victory would end nine years of NDP government and make Doerkson the first Conservative premier of British Columbia in nearly a century.<\/p>\n
In the 2024 election, the B.C. NDP had 47 seats, but needed to name one of its own MLAs as speaker. Greens had two seats.<\/p>\n
Results are considered preliminary until the final count is determined.<\/p>\n
MLA-elects are expected to be sworn-in sometime in mid- or late-November. <\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from Black Press provincial team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING: NDP take Courtenay-Comox riding Published 11:30 pm Saturday, October 24, 2026 By Comox Valley Record Staff The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-893924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}