In an extremely tight race in the Chilliwack riding, it appears incumbent John Martin is heading to defeat against BC NDP challenger Dan Coulter. Tracey O’Hara, NDP, earned 32 per cent of the vote. Premier-elect says majority government will allow him to tackle issues across all of B.C. Martin has tallied 1,666 votes or 30.22 per cent of the electorate. In an extremely tight race in the Chilliwack riding, it appears incumbent John Martin is heading to defeat against BC NDP challenger Dan Coulter. likely won’t know which party – NDP, Liberals or Greens – will be leading the province for weeks, There are more than 43,000 registered voters in the riding, NDP’s Dan Coulter preliminary winner in Chilliwack with Kelli Paddon holding a thin margin in Chilliwack-Kent. News Two new candidates have been announced in the Chilliwack-Kent riding. Janzen is currently a distant third with 1,117 votes or 20.26 per cent of the vote. Two-term BC Liberal incumbent John Martin has an interesting race on his hands in 2020, with two well-known opponents in the riding that covers most of the population of Chilliwack. Former Chilliwack city councillor, school board trustee, and federal Liberal candidate, Diane Janzen was signing up BC Liberal members for nearly a year in a bid to challenge Martin for the BC Liberal nomination. The BC Liberal candidate might look to Diane Janzen as the biggest reason if he goes on to lose. Liberal candidate Laurie Throness, who has served in the riding for the past seven years. Premier calls snap election for Oct. 24 Wayne Froese ran for the Green Party earning 17 per cent, and Ryan McKinnon ran as an independent, earning two per cent. NDP and B.C. B.C. Sonia Furstenau became leader of BC Greens one week before snap election was called, Record number of mail-in ballots may shift results, Nolan Godron left the hospital, located at 2721 Lougheed Highway in Coquitlam, without consent on Saturday, As of Oct. 20, 3.5 million travellers had been deemed essential, and another 1.1 million were considered non-essential, Pay it Forward program supports local businesses in their community giving, Packaging suppliers are still figuring eco-friendly and affordable packaging options that fit the mandates of Cannabis Regulations, Average daily deaths from virus reached 23 over the past seven days, up from six deaths six weeks ago, Saturday games were to be played in Chilliwack. Coulter beat out incumbent BC Liberal candidate … The B.C. VOTES 2020: DEVELOPING: With polls closed, Chilliwack awaits results, B.C. Across B.C., a total of 478,900 mail-in ballots were returned to Election BC, as of Friday, Oct. 22. Coulter was also an uncommonly strong candidate for the BC NDP. Voting by mail with a blank ballot in the BC election on Oct. 24? Greens have chosen Jeff Hammersmark for the riding, and B.C. election coverage in one place. For the Chilliwack riding, Martin won the seat with 48 per cent of the votes in 2017. Laurie Throness was removed as BC Liberal candidate in the Chilliwack-Kent riding after expressing controversial views on free birth-control, and public backlash against the BC Liberals may have spilled over into Martin’s race. Get local stories you won't find anywhere else right to your inbox. There are 37,676 registered voters in Chilliwack and 43,698 in Chilliwack-Kent. But if those right-leaning voters had cast their ballot for Martin, a tight race might look very different. [*Editor’s note: The BC Libertarian candidates for both local ridings, Chilliwack and Chilliwack-Kent, Andrew Coombes and Elig Gagne, submitted identical responses to all four questions.] An estimated 5,809 number of mail-in ballots were requested by Elections BC within the Chilliwack riding, and 7,650 in Chilliwack-Kent. Liberals will be the only two parties to field a full slate of candidates in the 2020 election.