On a night where most of the province turned blue, Kiel Giddens was the last candidate standing in Prince George-Mackenzie.
Giddens secured a second term in the B.C. Legislature after taking 66 percent of the vote during Saturday’s provincial election.
He (9,980) won by a whopping 63-hundred votes over NDP candidate Ian McMahon (3,518).
Running third was Green Party candidate Teri Young (1,515).
Overall, the Conservatives secured a massive majority government supplanting the NDP by leading or elected in 64 ridings.
Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson is the new premier-elect beating NDP leader David Eby who subsequently resigned.
The New Democrats are leading or elected in 27 ridings while the BC Greens are in the driver’s seat in just two ridings.
According to Elections BC, the preliminary voter turnout in the province was 47.3%.
Conservative MLA’s Sheldon Clare (PG-North Cariboo) and Roslyn Bird (Prince George-Valemount) also won handily.
Diane Black replaces John Rustad as the Conservative MLA in that riding claiming 65 percent of the vote beating Jesse Gervais of the NDP and unaffiliated candidate Clint Lambert.
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