We are normally in the business of finding answers to questions. But last week’s provincial election has left us with fewer of the former and more of the latter.
What will the final provincial seat totals be once the remaining 179,000 absentee ballots are counted?
Who will represent Coquitlam-Burke Mountain residents? The BC Liberals’ Joan Isaacs now holds a lead of 268 votes after 98 were added last Friday after Elections BC discovered what it described as a “transposition error”?
If the overall seat count remains the same, who will form government in the ensuing power struggle?
It will essentially be up to BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver to decide who he will take to the dance.
He will have to strategize not only on what policies he’ll be able to push through the legislature but also what the ramifications of horse-trading with BC Liberals and NDP would be on his own growing base.
Will any of the leaders be able to successfully poach any newly elected rival MLAs to their team, as the parties are most assuredly attempting to do right now?
If we do wind up with a coalition government, how long will it last before a confidence vote fails and we wind up back at the polls? And what will be the issue that inevitably brings down a coalition?
Is this the beginning of the Greens becoming a viable third party or are they a flash in the pan?
The Greens doubled their vote share while the BC Liberals lost a chunk of theirs. Were disaffected BC Liberals staying home or jumping ship to the Greens?
If the BC Liberals continue to govern, will they punish the Lower Mainland for kicking them out of swing ridings or will they attempt to woo back the urban vote?
We’re as confused as you are. But after 16 years of one-party rule, isn’t it a breath of fresh air to have a little uncertainty?
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